Dec 28, 2020 at 8:41AM
NVIDIA s (NASDAQ:NVDA) GPUs are the core of the chipmaker s accelerated computing products. They bring market-leading performance and energy efficiency to various industries, from graphics and design to data science and artificial intelligence. Recently, the company released its latest GPU architecture, Ampere, which is two to 20 times faster than previous generations. Here s a look at how this new technology could help NVIDIA grow its gaming and data-center businesses.
New graphics cards
In September 2020, NVIDIA announced its Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, which offer twice the performance and power efficiency of its previous Turing-based products. For gamers, these graphics cards bring the super-realistic lighting of ray tracing, plus other enhancements, to popular titles like
4 reasons why you probably shouldn t buy a gaming laptop right now
New CPUs and GPUs are just around the corner. Credit: Gordon Mah Ung
PC enthusiasts looking for the next best thing may want to think twice before jumping on gaming laptop deals right now. With new hardware from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia coming around the corner, we re likely to witness a major performance bump.
To help you decide, we ll run through the four reasons you may not want to buy a new laptop. All are significant reasons, but the first one is a doozy.
1. Nvidia 30-series Ampere GPUs
If you buy a laptop to play games, the most important component is always going to be the GPU. While Nvidia remains tight-lipped, a report from WCCFtech.com s Usman Pirzada indicates that the mobile version of the company s staggeringly powerful RTX 30-series GPUs could appear as soon as January.
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The GA102 GPU is by far NVIDIA s largest Ampere GPU for the gaming & consumer segment. It is used in the top of the line GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards and also has various other products planned which we will see in the months ahead in both GeForce & Quadro segments. So far, we have seen the physical GPU itself but we haven t seen a proper die shot of the chip aside from the renders provided by NVIDIA.
NVIDIA s Flagship Ampere Gaming GPU, The GA102, Gets First Die-Shot - Powers GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 & Upcoming Quadro Line
The first die shots are now presented by none other than Fritzchens Fritz who is well-known for taking high-resolution pictures of various CPUs and GPUs. Fritz s most recent photography gave us better look at the Zen 3 die featured on the Ryzen 5000 CPUs and today, we have the first high-res picture of what lies beneath the hood of the flagship Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs.