During the second half of the year, there will be big news in the market for gaming GPUs, with the arrival of RDNA2 from AMD and Ampere from Nvidia, and according to a new report from Digitimes, it seems that both companies are preparing releases on similar dates, specifying September as the month of the arrival of their new GPUs.
On the red side, RDNA2 will bring a 50% increase in energy efficiency, providing 50% more performance for the same power consumption for their new gaming GPUs. They will also be the first Radeon graphics with hardware ray tracing support, a milestone for AMD.
As for Nvidia, which already has ray-tracing in its graphics, it is expected that the new line will not only include the new Tensor cores with up to 7 times more powerful than those used in Turing, but also new RT cores that are 4 times faster than the current ones and have a much smaller impact on enabling ray-tracing in games. In addition, the entire line is expected to be supported with ray tracing, eliminating the GTX line forever in favor of the new RTX line.
It will be interesting to see what new features we have, and if these rumors come true in the end or if we have to wait longer to see the new gaming GPUs on both the red and green sides.