Nvidia has finally revealed the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series of graphics cards. Codenamed Ampere, Nvidia says it’s “the greatest-ever generational leap in GeForce history” with performance twice as powerful from the RTX 20 Series.
Note that the RTX 20 Series is the introduction of Tensor Cores– the dedicated processors for ray-tracing. Both it and the GTX 16 Series was a small bump of performance over the previous GTX 10 Series.
Still, the Ampere cards are still impressive nonetheless. Because the new RTX 30 Series are priced similarly to the RTX 20 Series.
The GeForce RTX 3080, the new flagship GPU, is priced at $699 USD- the same as an RTX 2080. But the 3080 offers twice the power- enough to run games at 4K resolution at 60fps.
The cheaper entry (so far), the GeForce RTX 3070, is 60% more powerful than the RTX 2070, and also eclipsed the power of the $1,200 USD RTX 2080Ti. The RTX 3070 should be priced starting at $499 USD.
And then we have the overkill option, the GeForce RTX 3090. This is more akin to the previous GeForce Titan cards. The RTX 3090 can do 8K resolution at 60fps, has 24GB of the new GDDR6X memory and Nvidia says to be 50% faster than the GeForce Titan RTX. The RTX 3090 is priced at $1,499 USD.
All of the new cards also features a new cooling system, the Dual-Axial, Flow-Through Thermal Solution which makes the graphics card look sleek but more importantly, quieter and cooler. The new RTX 30 Series cards are also the first to have HDMI 2.1 support- for 8K HDR TVs and also AV1 Decode- a new codec to handle 8K HDR internet video.
Them jellybean processing is getting a significant upgrade. And most likely, this gen of graphics cards are the ones you might want to have for next-gen games.
Expect to see the GeForce RTX 3080 be available on September 17, the RTX 3090 starting September 24 and RTX 3070 sometime in October.