Ampere (microarchitecture)
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.
| Launched | May 14, 2020 |
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| Designed by | Nvidia |
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| Fabrication process | TSMC N7 (professional) Samsung 8N (consumer) |
| Codename(s) | GA10x |
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| Specifications | |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB to 6 MB |
| Memory support | |
| PCIe support | PCIe 4.0 |
| Supported Graphics APIs | |
| DirectX | DirectX 12 Ultimate (Feature Level 12_2) |
| Direct3D | Direct3D 12.0 |
| Shader Model | Shader Model 6.8 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
| CUDA | Compute Capability 8.6 |
| Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 |
| Media Engine | |
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| Encoder(s) supported | NVENC |
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| History | |
| Predecessor | Turing (consumer) Volta (professional) |
| Successor | Ada Lovelace (consumer) Hopper (datacenter) |
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Nvidia announced the Ampere architecture GeForce 30 series consumer GPUs at a GeForce Special Event on September 1, 2020. Nvidia announced the A100 80GB GPU at SC20 on November 16, 2020. Mobile RTX graphics cards and the RTX 3060 based on the Ampere architecture were revealed on January 12, 2021.
Nvidia announced Ampere's successor, Hopper, at GTC 2022, and "Ampere Next Next" for a 2024 release at GPU Technology Conference 2021.
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