2020 could not only be an exciting year for console gamers. A hot second half of the year is also emerging for PC graphics cards – both for AMD and NVIDIA.
While console gamers are hoping for significantly more performance with PS5 and Xbox Series X, PC gamers can obviously also exult, because both AMD and NVIDIA seem to be coming up with new graphics cards in the second year.
NVIDIA is coming up with the new generation of amperes, which will replace the current Turing generation and should mean the leap to the 7nm manufacturing process. That should again bring an increase in performance with higher energy efficiency, there are already rumors of increases in performance in the 50 percent range. A significant increase in ray tracing performance can also be expected, especially since AMD also wants to follow suit in the fall. First leaks on possible RTX-3070 and RTX-3080 cards give hope for an increase in performance.
March could be interesting in terms of the topic, when NVIDIA's in-house exhibition GPU Technology Conference takes place. The second half of 2020 as a release period for new cards also appears realistic, on the one hand to counter the new consoles, and on the other hand, because AMD still spoke out in 2020 about high-end graphics cards.
AMD, on the other hand, is apparently working on a refresh of the current navigation graphics cards. This would not come as a surprise and would go with the Polaris card refresh at the time. AMD has repeatedly emphasized in the past that the 1080p and 1440p range would be in focus. Apparently, the high-end area, which NVIDIA has currently leased for itself, is now also being targeted.
Graphics cards from a new, second generation of the RDNA architecture are also expected, which should then also offer hardware-accelerated ray tracing. This also makes sense, since the new consoles PS5 and Xbox Series X should have hardware ray tracing. Here too, new information is expected for March, more specifically at the Financial Analyst Day on March 5.
If all of this is true, we can look forward to a hot graphics card autumn.
