The company said that its GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 chips will improve video game graphics, delivering twice the performance and nearly twice the power efficiency of previous versions.
Nvidia has worked with a wide variety of chip manufacturers to fabricate its devices, most recently it has relied on TSMC for its most advanced chips. Now Samsung will make the company's new GeForce chips with its 8nm chipmaking process rather than its latest 5nm process.
Nvidia said that they had worked with Samsung to customise the process so that the chips will be about 10% faster than other Samsung-made chips manufactured with the same 8nm process.
“Process technology is a lot more complex than a number. I think people have simplified it down to almost a ridiculous level,” Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang told investors last month, explaining why Nvidia does not always selecting the latest chipmaking technology.
Nvidia’s chips use a number of technologies to boost graphics performance, such as an artificial intelligence processor to make predictions about how light rays should move in a scene rather than manually calculating each ray.
The latest chips also use memory technology that Micron has been developing since 2006 called GDDR6X to double the amount of data that can be processed by Nvidia’s chip.
“Unlike traditional memory, GDDR6X has unparalleled data rates that can keep pace with gaming innovation and data-hungry applications,” said Tom Eby, senior vice president and general manager of the compute and networking business unit at Micron.
