NVIDIA Rumored to Launch “Ampere” Based Graphics Cards in April
The latest in the rumor mill is that Nvidia is preparing their next desktop graphics card launch in April. The interesting bit here is that it will not be based on the Volta architecture. You may recall a rumor from last year which claimed that Nvidia will introduce a new architecture called “Ampere” for the consumer market. Where Volta is currently serving the HPC and deep learning market, Ampere will be the direct successor to Pascal for consumer market.
The new rumor from 3DCenter builds on that previous rumor, claiming that next-generation graphics cards are about two months away from reveal. We cannot stress it enough that this is classified as rumor for now, Nvidia is yet to talk about the next GeForce series. But to continue the rumor at hand, it also claims that GP102 transitioned to EOL (End-of-Life) in Autumn last year. That means no new orders for the graphics card have been requested by Nvidia, and subsequently, it will lead to stock shortage in the coming months. Currently, miners are gobbling up any high-end card they can get their hands on, so we may see supply hitting low sooner than expected. GP102 will be replaced by GA104 chip; GTX 2080 and GTX 2070 expectedly.
We can see Nvidia moving to a different architecture for the consumer market. Volta has been a heavily A.I-centric architecture, though that doesn’t mean Nvidia cannot use it for its gaming GeForce lineup, but the fact that Volta’s Tensor Cores, the superstar of the whole architecture, benefits A.I and deep learning by design, it is easy to see another architecture in the pipeline, one that is more tuned to benefit gaming applications.
Nvidia will be hosting its annual GTC keynote in March, it’s a safe bet to expect more information on the latest graphics products to come out of the event.
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