Nvidia Ampere Discussion [2020-05-14]

Very impressive, aside the power consumption.
From the die photo, it looks like 7 GPCs x 12 SMs = 84 SMs
No word on TMUs, but rumors are 8 per SM.
 
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https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3080/
 
I'm quite puzzled that none of the cards come with virtual link by default. Any chance OEMs could launch cards with it? I don't want to dive into PC VR without it :(
AFAIK there were zero headsets coming out with VirtualLink since the standard was published 2 years ago. Several headsets were released in the meantime but none bothered with the new interface.

Maybe they figured the future is wireless so there's little reason to invest in a new wired solution.
 
*Ahem* Can we please keep baseless tweets out of the thread? There should be plenty of solid technical information to keep everyone busy discussing.
 
These specs are confusing. Are the die pictures accurate at nvidia homepage? Then we will see 7 gpc and rasterizer. not much for this sm count.
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