Forget all the rumors about Nvidia's Ampere gaming, and ignore Samsung's 8nm speculation for a moment, if you want to get a GPU based on the next generation graphics card architecture right now, you can. But you'll have to pay close to $12,500 for it. And while it will no doubt slot into the PCIe 4.0 graphics slot on AMD Ryzen motherboards, the chances of getting ray-traced gameplay in "Battlefield V" or "Control" are pretty slim.

Still, if you want to join the next generation of computing on the big green GPU manufacturing machines, the Nvidia A100 PCIe card is available from Server Factory (via Overclocking.com) for the low price of £8,299, excluding VAT.

With taxes currently set at 20% in the UK, the whole thing comes to just under £10,000. Converted at current rates, this equates to about $12,500, not taking into account import duties. However, if the Nvidia Ampere compute cards are available in the UK, there are probably places to buy them in the US. [However, the price difference between the Nvidia A100 PCIe and the Tesla V100 PCIe is actually not that great. Volta-based cards from a few years ago are about the same price, and you get more GPUs this time around.

There has been a lot of speculation lately about how much the new Nvidia Ampere GeForce cards will cost. Especially since the green team has raised the price considerably on the Turing generation of consumer cards.

However, if the professional GPUs don't push the price any higher, despite having much more on board than their Volta brethren, it will be a good sign for the GeForce RTX 3000 series (if that is indeed what they call it), which will be released later this year. if this is indeed what they call it) could bode well for the GeForce RTX 3000 series (if this is indeed what they call it) later this year.

The expectation is that the competition will be much tougher this year, and the Red Team could compete at the highest levels of graphics with the AMD Big Navi GPUs, also coming later this year. If that happens, Nvidia may need to be realistic about the comparative pricing of GeForce Ampere cards against Radeon RX 6000 GPUs.

And if Nvidia is using Samsung's 8nm (10nm or so) manufacturing lithography for its entire consumer Ampere series, which was rumored by one Twitter user and is now accepted as fact by the entire industry This is being accepted as fact by the industry as a whole, but it should not result in a significant increase in manufacturing costs.

Samsung was reportedly selling its production facilities at a deep discount in an effort to distinguish itself from TSMC as the number one contract semiconductor manufacturer on the planet. Jensen may have made a deal with the South Korean giant because it wants it.

For now, Nvidia's next-generation gaming cards are merely rumors until they actually appear. That said, it could be within the next few months, so it may not be long until we know the reality.