A few weeks ago, NVIDIA announced the cancellation of its GTC 2020 event. The green team was originally planning to replace it with an online keynote event, however that also changed, with NVIDIA promising to share some news on March 24th. Apparently, though, that also won’t happen.
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang has just revealed that NVIDIA will not be sharing its GTC news on March 24th. Jensen claims that this is due to the Coronavirus. However, this is most likely an indication of a possible Ampere delay. I mean, we’re talking about online news. If such a delay wasn’t the case, then how can it harm people to share news via the Internet? What that has to do with the Coronavirus?
Not only that, but NVIDIA has also deleted its previous teaser tweet for March 19th. So yeah, don’t expect anything important happening on that day too.
We would normally expect NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs to come out around August 2020. Whether that’s still the plan remains to be seen.
Stay tuned for more!
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Well done, wouldn’t be appropriate during this time.
Looks like AMD has them worried. Good news for the consumer as this will lead to better pricing.
RDNA2 raytracing performance just crushed RT cores from Turing
AnandTech – RTX 2080Ti – 10 billion intersections / s
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13346/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-and-2080-founders-edition-review/3
“NVIDIA claims that the fastest Turing parts, based on the TU102 GPU, can handle upwards of 10 billion ray intersections per second (10 GigaRays/second), ten-times what Pascal can do if it follows the same process using its shaders”
Digital Foundry – Xbox Series X – 380 billion intersections / s
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-inside-xbox-series-x-full-specs
“RDNA 2 fully supports the latest DXR Tier 1.1 standard, and similar to the Turing RT core, it accelerates the creation of the so-called BVH structures required to accurately map ray traversal and intersections, tested against geometry. In short, in the same way that light ‘bounces’ in the real world, the hardware acceleration for ray tracing maps traversal and intersection of light at a rate of up to 380 billion intersections per second”
GigaRays/s is only only speed of ray intersecions (raytracing) not whole GPU. It looks like RDNA2 raytracing cores are faster than Nvidia RT cores
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d25dfc7b1c65cc576ad8518a68b5075b7d2824a5a192745554c2818ad1add02.png
Sounds like Convid -19 has slowed production of Ampere, hence why they wont announce it just yet.
Ampere will most likely come 2nd half 2020. There’s really no reason to rush it at this point. A 1660, 1660 Ti, 2060, 2070, 2080 meets just about everyone’s needs at this point.
I’ve got a 2070 Super and run a 1440p monitor and I have very good performance in almost every game at highest settings.
imo Ampere is going to be a considerable boost over Turing and gamers are going to be impressed by the performance but the prices may be even higher than Turings. If the Amperes are in short supply at first then I expect price gouging by retailers as well.