The new NVIDIA Ampere graphics cards should offer a huge leap in performance over the current Turing. The main point of performance improvement would have to do with Ray Tracing, managing to significantly improve performance. In addition, these new graphics would integrate NVCache technology that will reduce the loading times of the games.
What this new NVIDIA NVCache technology does is make the RAM, the SSD and the graphics memory work together. The graph would communicate with these components to be able to perform different tasks at the same time. Through this system, efficient and dynamic use of the bandwidth of the components can be achieved in real time.
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A critical element is the VRAM memory of a graphics card, which is where textures and other data are stored. By means of a new technology, all the elements that are stored in the graphic memory are compressed. This would be done through new Tensor Cores that make intelligent compression. Thus, it is possible to reduce memory consumption by between 20-40%.
Thanks to this new technique that compresses the data, higher quality textures could be used without having to over-expand the VRAM. Something very interesting to take advantage of the full potential of future graphics engines. We have already seen the impressive demo of Epic Games Unreal Engine 5 and its impressive textures
Both technologies could be integrated into the NVIDIA Ampere, achieving interesting performance improvements. Possibly NVIDIA NVCache is especially designed for Ray Tracing, a demanding technology at all levels.
It seems that NVIDIA is betting heavily on new graphics cards, whose GPU would finally be manufactured by Samsung. Being manufactured by Samsung would imply a lower performance improvement and higher consumption than expected. Although everything is speculation, for now.
[irp]Source: TT
