NVIDIA will announce Ampere at GTC 2020
It is clearly not the first time it has been talked about the opening of the next generation of NVIDIA graphics cards, which until now were set to see the light during the second half of this year. However, it is the first time that it has been announced that they will arrive at a specific date: in the middle of the GTC 2020 it will happen between March 22 and 26.
With the consent of this information it must be stated that, for some reason, the GTC is usually the company's preferred position making important announcements, such as the new generation of graphics. On the contrary, it must be said that up to now NVIDIA has been able to maintain a high level of confidentiality regarding its release (with the exception of Turing, which is completely rewarding). This means that although the rumors are well established, rumors are still in place and plans to introduce its new graphics in the second half of the year are still in effect.
NVIDIA will leave TSMC out of the equation
A few weeks ago, TSMC published a results report and prediction, in which NVIDIA did not emerge as one of its top clients at 7 nm, something that has had a huge impact on the industry because the manufacturer's changes have currently had very good results. the principal is facing problems with service delivery, and in any case it shows that NVIDIA has decided that with Ampere it will deal with TSMC, using instead Samsung EUV location at 7 nm.
Whether it's TSMC or Samsung, it looks like Ampere is finally going to use the new 7 nm lithograph, which means we can wait great progress in terms of efficiency but especially efficiency. AMD is making things worse for NVIDIA, and switching to lithography is just the green that needs to be returned to the battlefield, because months have passed and they "live on taxpayer money" without showing any major improvement (leaving Ray Following, of course).
What can we expect from NVIDIA Ampere?
There are many rumors and leaks that have been happening with Ampere lately, but there's no solid data unless they have passed it on. ECC Certificate. Although we will have to wait for the company's official announcement, which will come in just two months, we can talk about what we expect from this new generation of branding.
It seems clear that NVIDIA will continue its RTX philosophy, which we hope will reach the next level with Ampere. If test charts are currently able to perform Ray Tracing tasks at 1080p and 30 FPS, we will not ask Ampere unless they do the same 60 FPS, and good, they will be able, in their advanced models, to do so 4K resolution.
So far, NVIDIA has been one of TSMC's top customers, and once they have left them and gone to use Samsung to produce this generation at 7 nm, it will be because they have realized that they will receive benefits. And we're not talking (only) that they are economically better, but that they will have the stock they need and on time. Beyond that, NVIDIA is absolutely convinced that the EUV EUV process at 7 nm is better than that of TSMC, which though they have plans to use EUV, have not yet done so.
Of course, this also comes with better performance and greater efficiency, so we can expect it more powerful graphics and more content use. In short, we can expect much stronger graphics, more efficient, less power, and the ability to take Ray Tracing to the next level.
We'll see what happens. If the company is to make an official announcement during the GTC in late March, we don't have much uncertainty left.
