Nvidia Ampere In Depth
The design is described in a depth article and according to nvidia it is a remarkable art and science of modern graphics card design.
Nvidia ampere in depth. Like prior nvidia gpus ga102 is composed of graphics processing clust ers gpcs texture processing clusters tpcs streaming multiprocessors sms raster operators rops and memory controllers. Page discussion history articles in depth comparison of nvidia ampere gpu accelerators this article provides in depth details of the nvidia a series gpu accelerators codenamed ampere. A100 gpu nvidia ampere tensor cores. Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit gpu microarchitecture developed by nvidia as the successor to both the volta and turing architectures officially announced on may 14 2020.
The nvidia ampere architecture builds upon these innovations by bringing new precisions tensor float tf32 and floating point 64 fp64 to accelerate and simplify ai. 256 votes 314 comments. Nvidia ampere architecture in depth by ronny krashinsky olivier giroux stephen jones nick stam and sridhar ramaswamy may 14 2020 tags. Nvidia announced the next generation geforce 30 series consumer gpus at a geforce special event on september 1 2020.
Gpc tpc and sm high level architecture. Ampere gpus improve upon the previous generation volta architecture. 547k members in the nvidia community. Nvidia says yields are great for ampere but obviously part of that is being able to use partially enabled gpus.
First introduced in the nvidia volta architecture nvidia tensor core technology has brought dramatic speedups to ai bringing down training times from weeks to hours and providing massive acceleration to inference. Nvidia ampere ga102 gpu architecture. The thing is nvidia went with tsmc n7 for ampere a100 so it s mostly a question of price and capacity i think. Nvidia has just announced or confirmed the design of the rtx 30 series.
Gpc tpc and sm high level architecture. It is named after french mathematician and physicist andré marie ampère. That gives the rtx 3080 a still very impressive 8704 cuda cores. Ampere gpu architecture in depth.
Clearly the a100 is the price doesn t even matter market segment. A place for everything nvidia come talk about news drivers rumors gpus the. Ampere a100 gpus began shipping in may continue reading. Ampere gpu architecture in depth.