Nvidia's bleeding-edge Ampere GPU architecture revealed: 5 things PC gamers need to know

Nearly a year and a half after the GeForce RTX 20-series launched with Nvidia's Turing architecture inside, and three years after the launch of the data center-focused Volta GPUs, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled graphics cards powered by the new Ampere architecture during a digital GTC 2020 keynote on Thursday morning. It looks like an absolute monster. Ampere debuts in the form of the A100, a humongous data center GPU powering Nvidia's new DGX-A100 systems. Make no mistake: This 6,912 CUDA core-packing beast targets data scientists, with internal hardware optimized around deep learning tasks. You won't be using it to play Cyberpunk 2077.