Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy'

An anonymous reader shares a report: Yesterday, AMD announced a new graphics card, the $700 Radeon VII, based on its second-generation Vega architecture. The GPU is the first one available to consumers based on the 7nm process. Smaller processes tend to be faster and more energy efficient, which means it could theoretically be faster than GPUs with larger processes, like the first generation Vega GPU (14nm) or Nvidia's RTX 20-series (12nm). I say 'could,' because so far Nvidia's RTX 20-series has been speedy in our benchmarks. From the $1,000+ 2080 Ti down to $350 2060 announced Sunday, support ray tracing. This complex technology allows you to trace a point of light from a source to a surface in a digital environment. What it means in practice is video games with hyperrealistic reflections and shadows.

It's impressive technology, and Nvidia has touted it as the primary reason to upgrade from previous generation GPUs. AMD's GPUs, notably, do not support it. And at a round table Gizmodo attended with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang he jokingly dismissed AMD's Tuesday announcement, claiming the announcement itself was 'underwhelming' and that his company's 2080 would 'crush' the Radeon VII in benchmarks. 'The performance is lousy,' he said of the rival product. When asked to comment about these slights, AMD CEO Lisa Su told a collection of reporters, 'I would probably suggest he hasn't seen it.' When pressed about his comments, especially his touting of ray tracing she said, 'I'm not gonna get into it tit for tat that's just not my style.'

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