NVIDIA announces Tesla A100 specifications

NVIDIA Tesla A100 features 6912 CUDA Cores The card features 7nm Ampere GA100 GPU with 6912 CUDA cores and 432 Tensor cores. This GPU has a die size of 826mm2  and 54-billion transistors.  The GPU is divided into 108 Streaming Multiprocessors. The GPU in Tesla A100 is clearly not the full chip. The card features third-generation NVLINK with bi-directional bandwidth of 4.8 TBNone

NVIDIA confirms Ampere architecture to launch under GeForce series

NVIDIA Ceo Jensen Huang confirmed during a pre-keynote press briefing that the upcoming Ampere architecture will launch for both consumer and datacenter markets. NVIDIA Ampere Gaming NVIDIA GA100 "Ampere" GPU on Tesla A100/DGX-A100 systems This actually confirms most of the rumors that the Ampere-based graphics card would launch for the GeForce series as well. This is a change from the previous generation as Volta and Turing series were split for professional and gaming markets. Jensen Huang confirmed thatNone

NVIDIA DGX-A100 with eight “Ampere” Tesla A100 detailed

NVIDIA Ampere GA100 GPU to feature 54 billion transistors. NVIDIA Tesla A100 This is the world's largest GPU and NVIDIA's first manufactured in the 7nm fabrication process. NVIDIA GA100 features 54 billion transistors, which more than twice of what Volta GV100 had to offer (21B). NVIDIA claims that the GPU will be 20x more powerful than Volta GPU in AI-training (single-precision operations) and AI interferenceNone

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Intel Alder Lake-S rumored to support DDR5 memory

Intel Comet Lake-S has not even launched yet, but details on two generations ahead are already leaking. Skylake to go on retirement Intel Rocket Lake-S Intel's 11th Gen Core is now rumored to offer up to 8-cores, unlike 10th Gen Core which will feature up to 10-cores. This is likely the most confusing part about Rocket Lake-S. Why would Intel launch a next-generation architecture with fewer cores? Is the new core design so power-None

NVIDIA Tesla A100 with GA100 Ampere GPU pictured

Here's the first look at NVIDIA Ampere architecture. NVIDIA Tesla A100 We have received a tip with the picture of the upcoming Tesla A100 SMX module, featuring GA100 GPU with six HBM2(e) stacks. No further details were shared with the picture. Today NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will announce Tesla A100 during his GTC 2020 keynote. He is expected to talk about AI, high-performance computing, data science, robotics, andNone

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AMD Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” Desktop AM4 processors listed

A very interesting and somewhat new kind of leak has just appeared on igor'sLAB website. The datasheet leaked by Igor Wallosek features numerous, yet unannounced, AMD Ryzen 4000 series processors. AMD Ryzen 4000 Renoir for AM4 socket up to 65W The leak covers Ryzen 4000 series processors for AM4 socket, featuring Renoir SoC design. This is the same silicon that is used for Ryzen 4000 H-Series (45W) and Ryzen 4None

DELL G5 15 Special Edition with Ryzen 4900H and Radeon RX 5600M launches May 21st

It took four and a half months for AMD Navi 10 mobile graphics cards to launch. AMD Radeon RX 5600M will finally be available Dell G5 15 SE 5505 Dell today announced three laptops with AMD Radeon RX 5000M series graphics cards. While RX 5500M is already widely available in various OEM systems, the higher SKUs were not. In fact, only Dell announced the G5 15 SE months ago. It was expected to launchNone

Epic Games reveal Unreal Engine 5 demo running on PlayStation 5 (with RDNA2 graphics)

Unreal Engine 5 During the Summer Game Reveal hosted by Geoff Keighley, a demo of Unreal Engine 5 has been showcased for the first time. The demo was running on the next-generation Sony Station 5 gaming console, which is based on AMD RDNA2 architecture. The demo is titled “Lumen in the Land of Nanite”. It will probably take a long time before we see UE5 titles though. Epic Games has committed to port its popular Fortnite game, which was built with UE4, to its nextNone

Intel

Intel announces Xeon W-1200 “Comet Lake” series

Today Intel launches its new entry workstation processor series based on Comet Lake architecture. Intel Xeon W-1200 series to feature up to 10 cores A product refresh is coming to entry-level workstation builds. Intel today launches its Xeon E-2200 successor named Xeon W-1200. Yes, Intel Xeon product naming is indeed very confusing. The fact that Intel frequently changes the naming schema every few years is not helping here either. Either way, Xeon W-1None

AMD announces Radeon Pro VII featuring 16GB HBM2 memory and Infinity Fabric Link

Today AMD launches Radeon Pro VII. AMD Radeon PRO VII for professionals The new Radeon Pro features 16 GB of HBM2 memory, which ist the same capacity as NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, but the bandwidth is much higher (1 TB/s). Unlike the Radeon RX (Radeon VII) model, the Pro variant does not have an HDMI display output. Instead, AMD opted for six mini-DisplayPort connectors which are 8K capable. AMD Radeon Pro VII is a PCIe Gen 4.None