Nvidia Ampere could be replaced by Hopper 1 year later

[ENTERPRISE]

Apparently, Nvidia underestimated the impact of AMD's 7 nm GPUs and is now looking to phase out the upcoming Ampere GPUs faster, as the green team has already pre-booked an important part of TSMC's 5 nm production capacity for 2021, when the Hopper GPUs are expected to hit the market.

 

 

Source:https://www.notebookcheck.net/DigiTimes-report-suggests-the-Nvidia-Ampere-GPUs-launching-in-late-2020-may-be-replaced-by-5-nm-Hopper-GPUs-one-year-later.464133.0.html

 

If so, that escalated quickly !

[schuck6566]

These new releases of cpus/gpus every year now are getting ridiculous.If they have a significant upgrade in performance than release something new.But don't release a new series for a whopping 10% increase like they have been on some of the gpu's. Same with the cpu's.

[ENTERPRISE]

These new releases of cpus/gpus every year now are getting ridiculous.If they have a significant upgrade in performance than release something new.But don't release a new series for a whopping 10% increase like they have been on some of the gpu's. Same with the cpu's.

 

Completely agree. The thing is I guess it comes down to self restraint. Back in the good old days you did not need as much restraint as most things (even if you wanted to stay at the upper performance levels) were not on such a frequent refresh cycle. I am still getting Ampere and likely ignore Hopper, I cannot see Hopper being a monumental release, not so soon after Ampere and Hopper is only a shrink down by 2nm.

[Alex]

Hmmm, this seriously makes me reconsider getting a 3080 Ti - especially seeing as how I was *really* on the fence about it anyway as my 1080 Ti is more than enough for now and I will have some big upcoming expenditures with hopefully getting one of my dream cars this summer.

[ENTERPRISE]

Hmmm, this seriously makes me reconsider getting a 3080 Ti - especially seeing as how I was *really* on the fence about it anyway as my 1080 Ti is more than enough for now and I will have some big upcoming expenditures with hopefully getting one of my dream cars this summer.

 

I think a lot of decisions will come down to if Nvidia makes the 3080Ti a more reasonably priced top end card as opposed to what the 2080Ti was. RTX is no longer groundbreaking tech, so one would hope Nvidia will bring the cost down, that and they 100% know they have some competition from AMD this round so I am thinking they may also price competitively, here is hoping. I would imagine at the very least it will still bee an £800-900 GPU.

 

Btw, is your dream car the one you have in your avvy ?