Don’t count on a brand new era of Nvidia graphics playing cards anytime quickly. As a part of his GTC 2021 keynote, CEO Jensen Huang revealed “Grace,” the corporate’s new Arm-based knowledge heart CPU—sure, Nvidia is making CPUs now!—and in a slide displaying Nvidia’s revamped knowledge heart chip stack, the next-gen “Ampere Next” graphics structure was listed as coming in 2022, with “Ampere Next Next” scheduled for 2024.
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Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference largely focuses on developer, enterprise, and knowledge heart bulletins, and the slide displaying a 2022 launch for Ampere Next pertains to that context—not consumer-oriented GeForce graphics playing cards. Nonetheless, Nvidia’s newest and best architectures normally debut within the type of ultra-expensive knowledge heart GPUs earlier than trickling right down to PC players as GeForce merchandise. That occurred for this primary Ampere era, for instance.
So the 2022 arrival of Ampere Next signifies that any further GeForce GPUs launched this yr must be based mostly on the present “Ampere” GPU structure.
The information doesn’t come as a shock contemplating that fashionable GPUs are likely to have a 1.5- to 2-year lifespan earlier than being changed, and the GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs simply launched final September. And it won’t even be a disappointment for a lot of of us since you possibly can’t even purchase a graphics card proper now. But the ferocious GeForce RTX 3090 appears like it can stay the gaming champion for the foreseeable future, even when the hotly rumored RTX 3080 Ti debuts this spring as anticipated. The RTX 4080 won’t be right here for some time.
