NVIDIA Ampere architecture

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NVIDIA Ampere architecture is a GPU microarchitecture from NVIDIA that powers RTX 30-series graphics cards, delivering significant improvements in ray tracing, AI performance, and power efficiency over previous generations.

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NVIDIA Ampere architecture canonical 2
NVIDIA H100 1

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instanceOf GPU microarchitecture
announcementDate 2020-05-14
codename Ampere
developer NVIDIA Corporation
surface form: NVIDIA
fabricationProcess 7 nm
8 nm
firstGamingGPUsAnnounced GeForce 30 Series
surface form: GeForce RTX 3070

RTX
surface form: GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce 30 Series
surface form: GeForce RTX 3090
firstProductAnnounced NVIDIA A100
improvementOver NVIDIA Turing architecture AI performance
NVIDIA Turing architecture power efficiency
NVIDIA Turing architecture ray tracing performance
includes CUDA Cores
second-generation RT Cores
third-generation Tensor Cores
marketedAs NVIDIA Tesla data center GPUs
surface form: NVIDIA A-series for data center

NVIDIA RTX A-series for professional visualization
RTX 30 Series for gaming
namedAfter André-Marie Ampère
notableGPU GeForce 30 Series
surface form: GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce 30 Series
surface form: GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce 30 Series
surface form: GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

RTX
surface form: GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

RTX
surface form: GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

NVIDIA A100
NVIDIA A30
NVIDIA A40
NVIDIA RTX A6000
predecessor NVIDIA Turing architecture
primaryFoundry Samsung
surface form: Samsung Electronics

TSMC
successor NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture
supports NVIDIA CUDA
surface form: CUDA

DirectX
surface form: DirectX 12 Ultimate

DisplayPort
surface form: DisplayPort 1.4a

GDDR6 memory
GDDR6X memory
HDMI 2.1
DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)
surface form: NVIDIA DLSS

RTX
surface form: NVIDIA RTX platform

PCI Express
surface form: PCI Express 4.0

Vulkan
surface form: Vulkan ray tracing

hardware-accelerated ray tracing
targetMarket consumer gaming
enterprise data centers
professional visualization
useCase AI and machine learning workloads
data center accelerators
gaming GPUs
high-performance computing

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RTX basedOn NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Tensor Cores usedInProductLine NVIDIA Ampere architecture
this entity surface form: NVIDIA H100
NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture predecessor NVIDIA Ampere architecture