The point I am making is Ampere is Volta with all the pro stuff taken out. This makes it cheaper to produce and NVidia will be able to sell at their traditional price points for mid range and high end cards. It also allows NVidia the elbow room to continue selling Volta professional cards at a much high price point.
I don't think Ampere is Volta. I think it's a die shrink of Pascal, providing it provides a hefty clock boost. I will explain why I think it is a die shrink of Pascal....
Smaller die = less cost. Also, smaller die = higher success rate due to bad areas of silicon. As such, *if* a die shrunken Pascal can clock higher etc it will handily beat Pascal quite easily and be peanuts to make.
Why on earth would you spend time and money cutting down Volta and making it run on a different memory type and ETC if you could just use something cheap and easy?
Also, even if it were cut down Volta why would you call it something else? why not just use Volta which ATM would make cards sell more because people would know for a fact that it's Nvidia's brand new tech?
Something just isn't sitting right with me Kaap. Like I said before, no mention of Ampere before, it was not on their road map etc etc. Only mention it two weeks after AMD release the FE.
It will be really, really easy to tell what Ampere is when it launches. I am 99% sure Jim @ Adored will simply down clock it and compare it to Pascal like he did with Pascal - Maxwell. And the figures won't lie.
But yes, I am pretty confident it is not Volta in any shape or form.
Edit to add..
Also, don't forget about Ryzen mobile, plus AMD's deal with Intel on Ryzen.. Nvidia need a mobile GPU. Something Volta will never be and can never be. So what are they going to use for that? the more you shrink Pascal the less power it consumes. So yeah, we will see shrunken Pascal either way IMO.
