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[–] raicon@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plan B in case openai breaks this year? Come back to gamers begging on their knees

They don't even have to come back begging on their knees, the gamers will come to them.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

GeForce "Rubin" will be built on some variant of the current TSMC 3 nm FinFET node. They need not be the same N3 node that's in use by Apple, Intel, and others; and NVIDIA might collaborate with TSMC on an exclusive variant just the way it created the NVIDIA 4N node, derived from TSMC N5.

I will speculate power efficiency will be at worst roughly equal to the 5000 series on a SKU class basis (5060 to 6060 and so on), most likely we will see efficiency gains at the SKU class level.

There was a big jump between the 3000 and 4000 series as Nvidia went from Samsung 8 NM to TSMC 4N for the 4000 series.

Both the 4000 and 5000 series were on the same TSMC 4N node.

For the 6000 series we are expecting some sort of new TSMC node (a variant of 3NM), so I would expect efficiency (at the SKU class level) to improve or at worst stay the same.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Starting at $1999 for the 6060.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait 1/3 of the raster performance seems like a massive downgrade, right? Or am I reading that wrong

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am assuming they are saying raster performance will be 30% to 35% higher than the 5000 series.

There is no way raster would be 35% of the performance of the 5000 series.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That makes much more sense haha, I was sure I must have been reading that wrong