Nvidia Ampere Memory
Nvidia announced the next generation geforce 30 series consumer gpus at a geforce special event on september 1 2020.
Nvidia ampere memory. Nvidia is helping professionals address these challenges and tackle enterprise workloads from the desktop to the data center with the new nvidia rtx a6000 and nvidia a40. Built on the nvidia ampere architecture the gpus feature new rt cores tensor cores and cuda cores that accelerate graphics rendering compute and ai significantly faster than previous generations. 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. Like prior nvidia gpus ampere is composed of graphics processing clusters gpcs texture processing clusters tpcs streaming multiprocessors sms raster operators rops and memory controllers.
Nvidia ampere based graphics cards to pack gddr6x memory and have a very high 350w tdp. This improves data transfer speeds from cpu memory for data intensive tasks such as ai and data science. In addition the a100 gpu has significantly more on chip memory including a 40 mb level 2 l2 cache nearly 7x larger than v100 to maximize compute performance. Nvidia ampere architecture based gpus support pci express gen 4 0 pcie gen 4 0 which provides 2x the bandwidth of pcie gen 3 0.
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. 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. Although nvidia hasn t acknowledged or denied anything yet it is quite likely the company has embedded gddr6x memory. Nvidia a100 ampere benchmarked is now the fastest gpu ever recorded nvidia confirms 12 pin pcie connector at strange 45 degree angle this is an even better look at nvidia s new 12 pin power.
It is named after french mathematician and physicist andré marie ampère. In fact the geforce rtx 3090 ti or super could launch with up to 24 gb of gddr6x memory that runs across a 384 bit memory interface.