News Report: Nvidia Confirms Samsung Partnership on Ampere GPUs

[Admin]

Nvidia reportedly confirmed that it's partnered with Samsung to manufacture its Ampere GPU, which is expected to launch in 2020 using its 7nm EUVL process.

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[TCA_ChinChin]

Please give truly next gen price/performace. The Super refresh is a nice holdover to this, but Turing has been and still is slightly disappointing in the value arena. Maybe after the new AMD cards launch, Nvidia will finally give consumer friendly pricing (but I have my doubts).

 

[bit_user]

Oh man. I saw the words "Ampere" and "partnership" and, remembering their recently-announced software support for ARM-based hosts, immediately thought it was referring to this:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/ampere_computing/emag

https://amperecomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ampere-product-brief.pdf

 

[jimmysmitty]

Please give truly next gen price/performace. The Super refresh is a nice holdover to this, but Turing has been and still is slightly disappointing in the value arena. Maybe after the new AMD cards launch, Nvidia will finally give consumer friendly pricing (but I have my doubts).

Considering the information we have I am also doubtful Navi will do anything to force nVidia to lower prices. Navi just doesn't seem to be what it needs to be, a new non-GCN based uArch that can perform equal to or better than their nVidia counterparts.

 

[TCA_ChinChin]

Considering the information we have I am also doubtful Navi will do anything to force nVidia to lower prices. Navi just doesn't seem to be what it needs to be, a new non-GCN based uArch that can perform equal to or better than their nVidia counterparts.

The Super stuff have finally pushed price/performance for Turing to what would be more palatable levels. Navi got price cuts in return. Everything this gen is finally at semi-reasonable levels in my opinion. Maybe another 50$ drop across the midrange market would really put things in the solidly worth it side for me. I'm thinking that Navi has at least pushed Nvidia to release the Super stuff, maybe at least the next Uarch from AMD could keep Nvidia from marking up Ampere even higher up than Turing.

 

[jimmysmitty]

The Super stuff have finally pushed price/performance for Turing to what would be more palatable levels. Navi got price cuts in return. Everything this gen is finally at semi-reasonable levels in my opinion. Maybe another 50$ drop across the midrange market would really put things in the solidly worth it side for me. I'm thinking that Navi has at least pushed Nvidia to release the Super stuff, maybe at least the next Uarch from AMD could keep Nvidia from marking up Ampere even higher up than Turing.

We will never know if Super is a response to Navi or just a logical refresh like they have done in the past, as has AMD done. I like to think this stuff is planned out a few years in advanced as it takes a lot of time to test and qualify these kinds of products, even CPUs.

It is nice but I still miss the days of ATI where they pushed nVidia even harder and would win more often than AMD has done in the past few years. I think having a total lineup that really challenges the other ends up with better price/performance than just barely creeping on their tails.

 

[TCA_ChinChin]

We will never know if Super is a response to Navi or just a logical refresh like they have done in the past, as has AMD done. I like to think this stuff is planned out a few years in advanced as it takes a lot of time to test and qualify these kinds of products, even CPUs.

It is nice but I still miss the days of ATI where they pushed nVidia even harder and would win more often than AMD has done in the past few years. I think having a total lineup that really challenges the other ends up with better price/performance than just barely creeping on their tails.

I wasn't around for the days of ATI, but I can agree with what you mean. More competition means better products and better prices.

 

[hannibal]

Please give truly next gen price/performace. The Super refresh is a nice holdover to this, but Turing has been and still is slightly disappointing in the value arena. Maybe after the new AMD cards launch, Nvidia will finally give consumer friendly pricing (but I have my doubts).

Well 3080 ti 1999$
3080 999$
3070 799$
3060 499$
2660 359$

Easy to predict 😉

 

[kinggremlin]

Well 3080 ti 1999$
3080 999$
3070 799$
3060 499$
2660 359$

Easy to predict 😉

Nvidia's next gen will not be more expensive than turing. Nvidia flat out admitted in one of their quarterly reports that Turing sales were lower than expected with one of the primary reasons being that prices were higher than consumers expected. If you already know your prices are hurting sales volume, you don't raise prices further. Turning was so much more expensive than Pascal, because the dies were significantly larger and because Nvidia was trying to recoup R&D expenses for ray tracing and tensor cores. With the next gen moving to 7nm and no significant architectural changes the prices should remain static to the Super cards at worst.