GPU
Last Updated: 2022-08-01
3 players: Nvidia Geforce, AMD Radeon, Intel ARC Alchemist.
NVIDIA
Geforce
Generations:
- GEFORCE RTX 40 SERIES (2022H2?): Lovelace architecture.
- GEFORCE RTX 30 SERIES (2020): Ampere architecture.
- GEFORCE RTX 20 SERIES (2018): Turing architecture.
- GEFORCE GTX 16 SERIES (2019):
- 16 series is based on the same Turing architecture used in thes 20 series, but omitting the Tensor (AI) and RT (ray tracing).
- SUPER version: with GDDR6.
(R for Ray tracing)
Suffix:
- (no suffix): standard version.
- SUPER: super version.
- Ti: Titanium version.
Data Center
NVIDIA A100 TENSOR CORE GPU: Powered by the NVIDIA Ampere Architecture, A100 is the engine of the NVIDIA data center platform.
Architecture
| Name | Since | Process |
|---|---|---|
| Ampere | 2020 | TSMC 7 nm N7 |
| Turing | 2018 | TSMC 12 nm FinFET |
| Volta | TSMC 12 nm FFN | |
| Pascal | TSMC 16 nm FinFET+ |
Links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere_(microarchitecture)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(microarchitecture)
- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/turing
AMD - Radeon
- Radeon RX 6000 series, RDNA 2 architecture, since 2020
- Radeon RX 5000 series, RDNA architecturep, since 2019
RDNA = Radeon DNA, the microarchitecture.
Suffix:
- XT: the most powerful
Intel ARC
Graphic solutions: hardware + software + services. (Similar to Geforce Now?)
Naming:
- Alchemist (2022)
- Battlemage
- Celestial
- Druid
Based on the Xe-HPG (high-performance graphics) microarchitecture. Built with Xe-cores featuring 16 vector engines, and 16 matrix engines, with 256 and 1024 bits respectively per engine.
Features: Xe Super Sampling, Deep Link, and Ray Tracing.