Jaws2002 Posted May 12, 2020 Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) Nvidia is two days away from unveiling the new Ampere and they put together this cheeky teaser. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ampere-release-date-teaser-gtc Edited May 12, 2020 by Jaws2002
Jaws2002 Posted May 13, 2020 Author Posted May 13, 2020 2 hours ago, dburne said: Gonna need a bigger case... And a nuclear reactor for power supply.? 1
LLv34_Flanker Posted May 13, 2020 Posted May 13, 2020 S! Will need a second job and sell one kidney. Price will be astronomical if RTX cards were of any indication. 2
RedKestrel Posted May 13, 2020 Posted May 13, 2020 4 hours ago, LLv34_Flanker said: S! Will need a second job and sell one kidney. Price will be astronomical if RTX cards were of any indication. Clearly, its because they light the ovens they use to bake the new cards with stacks of cash! 1
Dutch2 Posted May 14, 2020 Posted May 14, 2020 Its now the 14th so about a couple hours later we should know, about new releases. I do hope beside the business cards also the announcement of the RTX3000 models, my GTX1080 is for VR complete obsolete.
TheSNAFU Posted May 14, 2020 Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) My interest is in the pricing. If they come in at reasonable prices I will buy in a heartbeat. If they are priced like the 2000 series were they can shove it and I will either look to their competitor or buy used. Edited May 14, 2020 by TheSNAFU
Jaws2002 Posted May 14, 2020 Author Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) They unveiled the A100 data center GPU based on the new 7nm Ampere architecture. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ampere-A100-gpu-7nm The thing is massive! The gaming cards won't be that far behind. Three to five months behind, in my opinion. I hope they release the RTX380TI the same time with RTX380. Here you can watch all nine parts of the Nvidia GTC 2020 Keynote https://www.tomshardware.com/news/watch-all-eight-parts-of-the-nvidia-gtc-2020-keynote Edited May 14, 2020 by Jaws2002
RedKestrel Posted May 15, 2020 Posted May 15, 2020 On 5/14/2020 at 8:02 AM, TheSNAFU said: My interest is in the pricing. If they come in at reasonable prices I will buy in a heartbeat. If they are priced like the 2000 series were they can shove it and I will either look to their competitor or buy used. It seems unlikely they will price the new ones below the 2000 series - all that will do is destroy their ability to move their existing inventory, and I imagine they (and everyone) are having supply chain issues given the COVID-19 situation that will increase costs. And I don't expect the 2000 series to drop much in price at all, since they probably have an expected ROI/profit margin on those cards that they will need to hit to get the profits they want. I think they will roll out the 3000 series with a markup compared to the 2000 series and just expect people to pay it based on hype. Considering that most people don't even really need the capabilities of the new cards, and a lot of enthusiasts will have bought the 2000 series only recently, the only real market for the 3000s are power gamers, and only those guys who didn't buy the 2000 series in the last year will think of upgrading. If they slashed the prices on the 2000 series and came in on the 3000 series at a reasonable price then they would move all kinds of hardware to people who have been holding on to high end 1000 series cards until they get a good deal to upgrade. With the exception of VR a lot of those cards are still beastly at running modern games so why spend $1000-$1500 for marginal gains? But I honestly don't expect companies to make smart decisions when they can continue to screw their customer base. The only thing some businesses understand is wringing every drop from their customers no matter what.
Jaws2002 Posted May 15, 2020 Author Posted May 15, 2020 (edited) It all depends on how the upcoming AMD cards are going to perform. If AMD's RDNA2 can beat the 2080TI, i expect the prices for all the high end cards to come down. The price of 2080Ti was an insult. I got my overclocked 1080Ti, three days after release, with around $750 USD. The 2080Ti version of my card is still selling with $1300, almost two years after release. If Nvidia keeps up with this BS they will not get a penny from me. I'll get the AMD card, even if it's slower. You see, the new cards are made on the TSMC 7nm process. This alone should drop the price dramatically , because the new fabrication method generates a lot less dead chips that have to be discarded, compared to the last generation. This alone should drop the price with as much as 20 percent. If NVIDIA decides to just milk that difference, they won't get my money. Edited May 15, 2020 by Jaws2002 1
LLv34_Flanker Posted May 17, 2020 Posted May 17, 2020 S! Bought the 2080Ti for 1500€ when released. Truly an insult. I could do with an AMD 5700XT totally fine, as I do not use VR. And could use the PCIe 4.0 too for it. The thing though in that "baking" video is that he is using AMD Epyc processors on that build as Intel has nothing to offer to remotely even challenge those chips. Kind of irony, competitors power eachother
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