Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to both the Volta and Turing architectures. It was officially announced on May 14, 2020, and is named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère .

Crafted with 54 billion transistors, the NVIDIA Ampere architecture is the largest 7 nanometer (nm) chip ever built and features six key groundbreaking innovations.

The NVIDIA Ampere architecture builds on the power of RTX to significantly enhance the performance of rendering, graphics, AI, and compute workloads. Engineered to perfection and featuring cutting-edge innovations, NVIDIA Ampere takes RTX to …

May 14, 2020 · Today, during the 2020 NVIDIA GTC keynote address, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new NVIDIA A100 GPU based on the new NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture. This post gives you a look inside the new A100 GPU, and describes important new features of NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs.

The NVIDIA® Ampere Architecture, along with 150+ SDKs and libraries, deliver the next big leap in high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial intelligence (AI) -- while providing unmatched acceleration at every scale.

Powered by t he NVIDIA Ampere architecture- based GA100 GPU, the A100 provides very strong scaling for GPU compute and deep learning applications running in single- and multi -GPU workstations, servers, clusters, cloud data

Compared to the Turing GPU Architecture, the NVIDIA Ampere Architecture is up to 1.7x faster in traditional raster graphics workloads and up to 2x faster in ray tracing. GA102 is the most powerful Ampere architectu re GPU in the GA10x lineup and is used in the

May 14, 2020 · NVIDIA DRIVE will use the new Orin SoC with an embedded NVIDIA Ampere GPU to achieve the energy efficiency and performance to offer a 5-watt ADAS system for the front windshield as well as scale up to a 2,000 TOPS, level-5 robotaxi system.

Oct 13, 2020 · Nvidia's Ampere architecture powers the RTX 30-series graphics cards, bringing a massive boost in performance and capabilities. Here's everything we know about the fundamental changes.

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