Nvidia Ampere specs
The Nvidia Ampere GPUs are confirmed to use 7nm architecture, which is already an upgrade on the larger 12nm architecture found with the current Turing graphics cards.
Further specs details are far more uncertain though.
suggests the Ampere GPUs will see more vRAM, higher clock speeds and improved power efficiency.
Other sources, including
and Twitter account
, have been far more specific with the specs, but aren’t as credible a source. If they are to be believed though, the Nvidia Ampere specs could be as follows (with comparisons):
| Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti | Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti |
| Architecture | Ampere | Turing |
| CUDA Cores | 5376 | 4352 |
| Memory size | 12GB | 11GB |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 352-bit |
| Nvidia RTX 3080 | Nvidia RTX 2080 |
| Architecture | Ampere | Turing |
| CUDA Cores | 3840 | 3072 |
| Memory size | 10GB | 8GB |
| Memory Bus | 320-bit | 256-bit |
| Nvidia RTX 3070 | Nvidia RTX 2070 |
| Architecture | Ampere | Turing |
| CUDA Cores | 3072 | 2304 |
| Memory size | 8GB | 8GB |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
GA102 - 84 SMs / 5376 CUDA cores / 12GB GDDR6 / 384-bit bus - 40% faster than RTX 2080 Ti
GA103 - 60 SMs / 3840 CUDA cores / 10GB GDDR6 / 320-bit bus - 10% faster than RTX 2080 Ti
GA104 - 48 SMs / 3072 CUDA cores / 8GB GDDR6 / 256-bit bus - 5% slower than RTX 2080 Ti