
Originally Posted by
Bernard
Hear these new cards use Ampere as opposed to Turing in the 20xx cards. Anyone able to explain what that means besides "better performance" while not using big brain IT words?
Ampere vs Turing is basically the architecture. Architecture dictates the design of the processor itself, including it’s strengths and limitations. Usually for consumers architecture is also denounced by NM. XX Nanometer means that the size of transistors is 14nm wide. For example Intel has been stuck on their 14nm architecture for the 10th series, 9th series, and 8th series.
When they say Ampere 8nm Samsung, that means that the size of transistors is 8nm. That means that on a GPU dye, you can fit more transistors. Thus requiring more power, but providing more raw power. The smaller the transistors you have the more transistors you can put on your chip. Also the size of transistors have no effect of performance, smaller transistors perform same as larger transistors. Smaller NM architecture also improves the yield of silicon wafers used to make processors, and therefore reduces the cost of making processors. For example, every silicon wafer will probably have a few defects in it. If a processor was so large that it used a whole silicon wafer, it would be difficult to ever make a processor without defects. Now if you can fit two processors on a single wafer, the odds of one of those processors not having a defect just went up.
This is shown in example of AMD using 7nm architecture for their Ryzen. Intel had supply problems and ryzen is actually cheaper to produce. Ryzen is also cooler than intel and has faster clock speeds. Ryzen is cheaper to make. Ryzen is on 7nm and intel is stuck on 14nm.
So TLDR: Newer architecture = smaller transistors => more transistors => faster clock speeds/better efficiency/less power draw/etc. Basically its faster. Wait for raw performance and benchmarks to truly see if their words are honest.
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Originally Posted by
Shadow
Looks like a fucking vape.
It does. This is going to make me wanna wait for the OEM cards. Founders Edition cards always look ugly to me.