Technology Nvidia confirms Samsung 8nm process for RTX 3090 ($1,499), RTX 3080 ($699), and RTX 3070 ($499)

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Nvidia has confirmed that its Ampere second-gen RTX cards are all built using the Samsung 8N node, as opposed to the TSMC 7nm production process used for its initial Ampere GA100 GPU. The rumour mill had been grinding away for months, trying to decide whether Nvidia would be using TSMC or Samsung for its next-gen cards.

Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang reportedly added to the question by stating that, while it was going to use TSMC for the majority of its GPUs, it was going to use Samsung's chip manufacturing facilities for a small subset of its graphics silicon production.

Cut to September 1 and the GeForce Special Event and Jen-Hsun Huang announces that all of the monstrously large Nvidia Ampere RTX GPUs are being built on Samsung's 8N process. How close that ends up being to TSMC's 7nm node we won't really know, maybe even when we've got cards in our hands.

But Nvidia is calling this the "greatest generational leap ever" with close to 2x the performance-per-Watt capabilities of the still pretty damned quick Turing GPUs.

With a smaller Samsung-built process node, and twice the number of CUDA cores in each SM than was even rumoured, there is a huge amount of rasterizing performance on offer with the new generation of GeForce chips.

 
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This launch looks like it is going to be a big one.
 

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Oh man I don't remember my last computer that had a dedicated graphics card, maybe 8 years ago
 

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The GPU market is a complete disaster right now. No supply for even old generation cards and prices are super high even on used GPUs.
 

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Is it all due to proof of work schemes? Or are there other reasons?
 

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Crypto mining is definitely having an impact again, as coin prices are up. But there wouldn't even be enough supply just for gaming right now. Demand is just astronomical.
 
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