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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

Which Founders Edition, the 3080Ti?

Because I doubt those will be the final specs. Look at the increase over the Turing cards:

RTX 2080 - 2944 shaders => RTX 3080 - 4608 shaders # over 56% increase

RTX 2080Ti - 4352 shaders => RTX 3080Ti - 8192 shaders # over 88% increase

And it's not just those two chips that see over 50% increases over last gen. That's a way too much too be true... Unless AMD's RDNA2 is actually competitive and that has forced Nvidia to up their game as well, but that's just pure speculation.

Well, RDNA (Navi) was already rather competitive with NVidia's counterparts apart from the lack of Hardware Raytracing. RDNA2 is supposed to both add the Raytracing and drop the power consumption by about 50% for the same performance. If AMD can manage this (and seeing how it went with Zen and Zen 2, I expect this to be very possible), then NVidia really needs to act, otherwise AMD would blow right past them like they did with Intel.

That said, I don't really believe those leaks either, not only because those specs look more like a geek's dream, even more since Ampere is supposedly the Tesla V100/Titan V successor with full double precision calculation capacity, not any GTX/RTX GPU (yet).

Again, Ampere is the Turing successor, which already was the successor to Volta. There is no split between professional and gaming in architecture. Just like Turing was both used for professional cards and Geforce, so will Ampere. So the GPU they will announce will definitely be a strong indicator as to what we can expect for the gaming side.

The slide of that rumor is probably not correct since the 3080ti would never get the full GA100 chip. It'll get the GA102 most likely which probably features somewhere around 6000 CUDA cores while not getting the full build, which is usually reserved for Titan cards.

Nvidia has acted plenty already in previous years and really has nothing to fear from AMD. They held themselves back on purpose with long drawn out architectures due to a lack of competition.And in the unlikely event that AMDs next gen will rival Ampere there is already Hopper on the horizon.

edit: I just had a look at the professional segment of Turing and I wasn't aware that Nvidia never bothered to produce an actual TU100 card. That means that the best Volta cards are still pretty much comparable with the best Turing cards in performance. Still, doesn't change the fact that Turing is the evolution of Volta(and Pascal).

Last edited by vivster - on 30 April 2020