NVIDIA announced a new generation of Volta graphics chip architecture in May last year, the architecture will also first appear on the GV100 chip, and used in Tesla V100 graphics card. Tesla V100 is mainly used in the data center market, not for the game product line in.
It is speculated that NVIDIA will release its new graphics card architecture, Ampere, in April of this year. Ampere is expected to replace the existing GeForce GTX 10 series graphics card based on Pascal architecture and will first be used on the GV104 chip in the high-end market. The video card is expected to be sold in April of this year, which is in line with the rhythm that NVIDIA will release a new game card at the GTC.
In addition, the GV104 is also expected to be used on the GeForce GTX 2080/2070, while the GV102 will target high-end enthusiasts such as the GTX 2080 Ti, while the GV106 may target the mid-range and the GV107 / 108 for the low-end.
Here are three symbols: Volta, Ampere, Turing.
What we know now is that the Volta architecture will be used in the Tesla V100. And, NVIDIA does not usually develop different architectures for different markets, and if there is a market differentiation, it will develop a single generation architecture and produce different chips In order to serve different markets.
The latest generation of architecture is undoubtedly Volta, and Ampere and Turing are likely to refer to chips for both markets: gaming and cryptocurrency mining. Previously rumored to be Ampere gaming graphics, Turing refers to mining graphics.
From the name, one can see some clues: Turing is from the British computer scientist Alan Turing, who helped to crack the German password during World War 2. Given the work of Turing in cryptography, the name is used to encrypt currency Mine GPU is also reasonable.
Turing first appeared in NVIDIA earnings conference last week, when Nvidia also said the game business card at historic lows. Meanwhile, the mining industry is in the game to snatch the graphics, that it makes prices rise, in short supply.