NVidia Ada Speculation, Rumours and Discussion

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  1. Jawed

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    We can see that Ampere versus Turing shows a strong dependence upon triangle intersection rate.

    Scene 3, which mixes triangles and procedural, appears to have the most complex BVH. It's 61% faster on Ampere, which appears to demonstrate that it's triangle acceleration that's the win.

    Scene 4, which admittedly has nearly no triangles and presumably has the smallest BVH of all five of these test scenes, shows a 35% gain. This may be fully procedural?

    Scene 5 shows an 87% gain for Ampere in something that looks to be entirely triangle based (though the Cornell box may be procedural).

    So two scenes that are dominated by triangle-based geometry are scaling strongly with Ampere's triangle acceleration.

    Scene 3 with seemingly the most complex BVH is the same speed on 6900XT and 2080Ti. There's obviously some procedural geometry to "slow down 2080Ti", but the scene is dominated by rough materials (which creates a lot of ray divergence) along with caustics that suck up rays like a sponge. The depth of field in this scene adds to ray divergence, too.

    There's a lot of reasons for ray divergence to be seen as a problem in this scene, but it doesn't seem to be dominant.

    I agree we need better experiments.

    It looks like RDNA 2 is faster at intersecting procedural geometry, but why? It's shader code isn't it? Shouldn't that be "FLOPS-bound"? Maybe it's not FLOPS-bound because it has to do with scheduling and latency-hiding.
     
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    BVH and coherency in hardware.
     
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    Bigger caches, better BVH compression. More concurrency within each RT core.
     
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    So... 5NM Tsmc is the latest rumor...
     
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    With TSMC N5/N5P and a likely 450W target I do wonder a 4090 will be 2x over a 3090/3090 Super or even more than that. I mean Samsung 8nm to TSMC N5 is a huge jump.
     
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    450W good freakin' lord.

    We're two iterations away from a viable hotplate for cooking dinner -- like, searing a steak, not just reheating cold leftover veggies.
     
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    We already have a fair amount of 400 and 450W cards for an entire year already
     
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    It’s inevitable. Transistor size is dropping faster than transistor power. We must be quickly approaching a power wall though unless pc form factors evolve to support more efficient cooling systems.
     
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    Most custom 3080/3090/6800XT/6900XT cards are at 450W for almost a year now. It's non-news really.
     
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    Those are cards with 450W power limit. Not cards consuming 450W at the average during typical gaming load (that would correspond with 450W TDP).
     
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    We've had triple and even double SLI/CF systems consuming a lot more than 450W for many years. No idea why people are so surprised by 450W figure now. It's not like there will be only 450W products now.
     
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    Fuckton of silicon.
    Single die.
    This is just pure cope.
     
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    My point wasn't the uber-overclock cards hitting 450W max, and it wasn't a bunch of cards chained together to aggregate a bunch of wattage either.

    It's a single die, at "typical" power draw, finally getting into the 450W category is getting pretty steep. We could reasonably extrapolate the OC cards of that era are going to be into the 600W range. Which then goes back to my statement: you're about two full iterations away from a "typical" wattage being in the mid to high 600's, with OC cards nearing 800W or more. That's literally a hotplate sufficient for searing steak.
     
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    I wouldn't be suprised if after RTX 40 or 50 series they'll focus on power effiency more. I wonder if Intel Foundry plan is successful we could see Intel 14A GPUs in say 2027? May Nvidia skip a year if possible to bring a RTX 60 in 2027 than 2026 on such a process to get power consumption down?
     
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    That "single die at typical power draw" won't go against single die competition.
    The OC means nothing. Power is decided by what is the expected performance a product must hit to be competitive.
    If you're not okay with that then don't buy products which will consume that much power. Simple.
    And if you're expecting some competitors to do better then you're in for a disappointment. Competition is essentially who is pushing the power up trying to beat Nvidia at the moment.
     
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    Maybe it's about time game developers start optimizing their games again, then we wouldn't need to brute force everything with expensive and wasteful upgrades on a 2 year cadence.
     
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    Oops, nope.
    It's all about them watts and clocks babay.
    :claps:
    They do.
    On consoles.
    ?
    N31 is way less watts for a lot more perf.
    ?
    N21 is less watts cuz wattage is evil.
     
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    I think you doth protest too much.
     
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    TDP is pretty much meaningless with out knowing the amount of chip area the heat is spread over.
     
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