Nvidia's Turing graphics cards have been the talk of gamers, game developers, and hardware enthusiasts since their debut in August 2018 and they will continue to be a major part of Nvidia's GPU lineup throughout the rest of the year and most of next, with teases of new Ti cards and "Super" upgrades. But the next-generation of Nvidia graphics architecture is coming in 2020. It's called Ampere, and it will be based on a 7nm Samsung node.
AMD jumped ahead of Nvidia's process technology with the debut of its Radeon VII Vega GPU based on TSMC's 7nm technology. Considering that didn't compete with Nvidia's 16nm top technology, though, there was no rush for Nvidia to shrink its node. But that's coming soon and when it does, it could give Nvidia cards a big boost in performance.
Samsung heavily undercut and outbid TSMC to secure the Nvidia contract, according to WCCFTech and that means that its 7nm EUV, or extreme ultraviolet lithography, technology will be at the heart of the Ampere GPUs. It should be far more efficient and powerful than anything we've seen before, perhaps being the first generation of cards to offer high frame rates at 4K while ray tracing.
That might be a tall order, considering the 2080 Ti can't even approach that, but when you're talking about a more than 50 percent reduction in node size between generations, there is potential for an enormous increase in overall performance.
This will go head to head with AMD's Navi 20 GPU which is expected in 2020 as well. The full fat RX 5000 card could be super powerful, but do you think it will be competitive with Ampere?
