https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rumored-7nm-ampere-gpu-graphics/
 
Nvidia could reportedly match rival AMD by announcing its own graphics processing unit based on a next-generation 7nm manufacturing process as early as next week at its GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. The 7nm architecture, code-named Ampere, follows Nvidia’s highly publicized Turing launch last year, which was based on a 12nm manufacturing process. While news of a 7nm GPU from Nvidia may be exciting, the new architecture might not arrive on a consumer card for a while, so gamers may not be able to immediately benefit from the technology.
 
To corroborate a potential launch at GTC next week, Wccftech reported that Nvidia’s yields with its 7nm chips have been improving, citing reports from reliable sources, and if Nvidia could ramp up volume production, then an announcement could happen soon. It’s unclear if Nvidia will be ready to demo the powers of a 7nm GPU at the technology show, the company could use the venue to talk about the merits of moving from the current 12nm architecture to 7nm. AMD had beat Nvidia to the punch in January by announcing its Radeon Vega VII GPU at the Consumer Electronics Show and Wccftech speculated that AMD could announce its next-generation 7nm Navi GPU later this year.

If so, let's hope for some more impressive reliability.

I'll be looking forward to seeing news on this then!
 
-Jacob B.

I do wonder what we'd see if they did announce a professional level version of Ampere. though I'm guessing we'd get only a ballpark guess at what a consumer level card would do. still, it'd be interesting to see, even if it's still awhile before it'll be something reachable for the consumer.

When they used to name a enterprise line GPU, a gamer equivalent would come soon after (6 months?) but since they didn't follow that route with Volta(?), anyone's guess is as good as mine at this moment.

That's new strategy for selling cards to mega reach people who can afford.
They will ask 3000$ for 35-40% stronger GPU than RTX2080Ti.
 
Damn NVIDIA killed my enjoying in unboxing new fabric sealed EVGA GeForce with foil over card box and forced me on second hand. 
When I remember day when my GTX780Ti K|NGP|N arrived. I never was so happy and they reached great score, I never so such dominance in every benchmark, in every game compare to other models on same frequency. And not only performance, GPU was incredible peace of hardware.
I would continue tradition under different circumstances. I mean price should stay same or 40-50$ more for RTX2080Ti K|NGP|N, that mean 800$ max.
 
Now is twice almost.
 

Xavier Zepherious

Live: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2019 Keynote Monday

https://blogs.nvidia.com/...keynote-monday-at-gtc/
 
https://www.ustream.tv/gpu-technology-conference

The Nvidia blog link is broken. For some reason it shortened the embedded link when it shortened the hotlink.

nothing new really

NVIDIA Investor Day – Analysts Hoping For Answers on Mellanox and 7nm GPUs
 
https://wccftech.com/nvid...mellanox-and-7nm-gpus/
 
 
NVIDIA Enables DXR Real-Time Ray Tracing Support on GeForce 10 and GeForce 16 Series, GeForce GTX 1060 and Above – Drivers Available in April 
 
https://wccftech.com/nvid...ce-pascal-turing-gpus/

And the real question would be, will it have RTX 1.0 or will we still be hardware beta testing? 

Xavier Zepherious
you'll have ray tracing for all 10 series card and 1600 series - albeit with a performance hit

And low quality. Still better then nothing but it’s really not the same as the true hardware support. It will be great though for those who have 1080p monitors who bought a card to support 1440p or 4K in the future.

The more I think about it I think the ray trace support in the April driver update will be mostly for developers. When you consider the FPS people are getting with ray tracing with like a 2080 and figure without hardware it could be cut in half on a 1080Ti so like 30-40fps which isn’t really playable. On the other hand a developer can at least see ray tracing in the game without having to own a 2000 series card.