Nvidia pushes ray-traced gaming ahead with new GeForce RTX 3000 GPUs

[Endymio]

What some PC elitists don't seem to understand is that the bottom half of the PC gaming market drives everything.

Not any longer. NVidia is already getting half its revenues from datacenter sales. That number is only expected to rise. You also have to remember, that there is synergy between that "bottom half" of PC gamers you reference and the bleeding-edge early adopters. Had no one been willing to buy those high-end cards, the low-end would remain stagnant foreever.

 

[Rdmetz]

I just looked it up, I didn’t realise the Titan RTX already had 24GB. I stand corrected, you didn’t need an M6000.

Yeah a lot of bad purchases are showing up now. My mate purchased a 2080 super 2 weeks ago for £650 despite me telling him to wait. Also anyone who started the year with a £700 purchase of a Radeon VII would be crying. I’m hoping Zen 3 can be a big jump like this because I am holding off on buying a needed new CPU right now.

Lol meanwhile I knew what was coming and sold NY 2080ti last month for 88% of what 8 paid in 2018

Not a bad deal for 2 years of the best in gaming you could ask for all for like $150

 

[Rdmetz]

So It looks like water-cooling the 3070 will be a challenge.The power connector is right where the water inputs/out usually run.

Ek will take care of you I'm sure and. There are always aib.

 

[Rdmetz]

2080 Ti owners on suicide watch.

Anyone with half a brain and a 2080ti have already sold it off and ready for the next best thing.

I got 88% ($1000) of my original cost from 2018 back last month when I started smelling big things were coming.

That's been my upgrade strategy for 8 years now and it's done me very very well.

 

[Rdmetz]

As a middle of the road consumer - I think Nvidia stabilizing their prices is good thing - someone buys a RX3060 after awhile for a $50 discount and a couple of AAA games thrown in wouldn't be too unhappy. They could of gone all Apple ( however Nvidia need to sell to every one )
+ our resident whale is happy to pay $2000 for his 3090max or whatever

I'm sorry but some of us 3090 owners will get the card through years of smart planning and reinvested returns on sales of previous cards at the right time.

I'll be paying $250 out of my pocket for mine as I've gotten $1250 returned to my bank from previous gpu sales over the last 2 Gen.

Been doing this for 8 years now and have stayed in the fastest gpu you could get at anytime during and yet my total upgrade costs has only been about $300 a year in average.

This year it will be a bit higher with a 10900k upgrade for $217 (from a 7700k I got $300 for in May) and then the $250 for the 3090 but $467 out of pocket is great I think for this kind of performance and like I said my average is $300 because last year for example I spent $0.

You can be on the cutting edge and not be a so called "whale".... I personally think of myself as more of a shark with how well I've navigated these waters and profited.

 

[Adi6293]

It wasn't very clear from the stream. Is that 2x with or without ray-tracing turned on? I'm going to assume they are comparing with it on because the 2080ti has about 26TFLOPs and the 3080 has 30TFLOPs.
Hopefully the faster memory of the 3080 and other optimizations helps it in games without raytracing turned on to push past 20% better FPS. Compared to the 2080, it does seem to have 50% more TFLOPs which is good.

Watch this RTX3080 destroys the 2080

 

[Adi6293]

I want the 3090 FTW with built in liquid cooling.

Mistake I made last time was getting a regular card without AIO.

Then I upgraded to an FTW3. I like AIO more

If you actually owned these cards you would know that the 2080Ti with the aio is called Hybrid and it has lower out of the box boost that the FTW3

 

[QuantumPhysics]

If you actually owned these cards you would know that the 2080Ti with the aio is called Hybrid and it has lower out of the box boost that the FTW3

I actually made videos of purchase and installation.

If you actually could buy one you'd know that.

 

[christiangeli]

What is ray tracing ? , rayman sequel ?

 

[Faelan]

Anyone with half a brain and a 2080ti have already sold it off and ready for the next best thing.

I got 88% ($1000) of my original cost from 2018 back last month when I started smelling big things were coming.

That's been my upgrade strategy for 8 years now and it's done me very very well.

Strange question. How does this selling your GPU months in advance of the next GPU thing work? I’m not sure the integrated GPU in my Intel CPU is going to handle 5120x1440 very well and the thought of not being able to game during a period where I have all the time in the world thanks to COVID... well... that just sounds like pure torture. No biggie though. I’m sure the 2080ti sitting in my machine will serve my wife well when I upgrade.

 

[Adi6293]

I actually made videos of purchase and installation.

If you actually could buy one you'd know that.

I could/can buy one, you're not the only person on this planet who can afford these cards, I was even looking into getting the FTW3 Ultra but I decided to invest into water cooling instead and wait till next generation to upgrade since I've not long had my Radeon VII

 

[Aryassen]

I for one am happy with the pricing, and personally would be looking forward to buying a 3070 or 3080, depending on test results and availability. I am a happy user of Pascal cards, and wasn't overly excited with Turing, but this time, I'm actually genuinely impressed.
The cooling solution looks especially delicious, finally with some much needed innovation in the area (I know there is a lot of heat to be dissipated, but I am optimistic that this approach will deliver that very effectively, and therefore we don't need to wait for custom boards to get a decent experience).
So, just following the lead of the (sub)title of this article: I AM preparing my vallet

 

[NightAntilli]

No one cares about TDP if there is no competition.

AMD gets laughed at because their RX590 gpu and Vega were consuming more than 1080ti while delivering only the sub 1070gtx or 1080GTX performance. They were hot, loud and slow.

The final recommendation. Stop watching More law is dead and his "leaks". Architecture development takes years, this chip has been in development for years and only now manufactured.

He had today's reveal right about three days ago. So... He's a lot more reliable than people give him credit for. He clearly has sources and doesn't make stuff up like many other leakers. Yes he does speculate based on the information he does have, but he doesn't sell his speculations as leaks.

 

[Squid Surprise]

With the 3090 basically ending the RTX Titan.... I wonder if there will be a Titan this generation.... or will there be a $1000-1200 3080Ti that will perform roughly the same as the 3090 in like 6 months...

I’m still a bit bitter after purchasing triple Titan X GPUs a few months before the 980Ti was released....

 

[Adi6293]

I for one am happy with the pricing, and personally would be looking forward to buying a 3070 or 3080, depending on test results and availability. I am a happy user of Pascal cards, and wasn't overly excited with Turing, but this time, I'm actually genuinely impressed.
The cooling solution looks especially delicious, finally with some much needed innovation in the area (I know there is a lot of heat to be dissipated, but I am optimistic that this approach will deliver that very effectively, and therefore we don't need to wait for custom boards to get a decent experience).
So, just following the lead of the (sub)title of this article: I AM preparing my vallet

I am really happy with the pricing as well, FE RTX3080 it's £649 on nVidia's website, that's a bargain price for that level of performance not sure how much better the 3090 will have to be to be worth more than double the price

 

[Mr Majestyk]

8K TV's are no where near becoming standard.

Thank god. Another total BS marketing stunt to separate sheep from their cash.

 

[pencea]

With the specs & pricing now out in the wilds which one of the three cards in the 3000 series will everyone likely be upgrading to?

Personally would like to get the 3090 but that pricing is just ridiculously steep. Might settle for a 3080 which should make a nice upgrade over my good old 1080 Ti.

 

[tom111]

I'm going to assume they are comparing with it on because the 2080ti has about 26TFLOPs and the 3080 has 30TFLOPs.

The RTX 2080Ti has 13.45 TFLOPS.

 

[Axiarus]

Thank god. Another total BS marketing stunt to separate sheep from their cash.

I mean, they are supposedly really pretty. Just not worth it right now.

 

[Endymio]

How does this selling your GPU months in advance of the next GPU thing work? I’m not sure the integrated GPU in my Intel CPU is going to handle 5120x1440 very well...

According to Intel it will.

 

[NightAntilli]

I am wary with these prices. nVidia doesn't normally price things so aggressively. They've repetitively shown that they are more than willing to charge excess values for their cards. Look at Turing! And yet people are mindlessly boggling up these cards... So there is a reason things are suddenly so cheap.

To me, the cards have these prices because either they know AMD has something good that they have to compete with, or, there is something seriously wrong with their cards (might be power consumption).

Temper the excitement a bit.

 

[DonquixoteIII]

The AMD launch(es) are a few months away. Since I have no money that can burn holes in my pockets I think a waitnsee approach might behoove me. (Funny, I've never really liked hooves...)

As I am building a new PC as we speak, I am VERY interested.. Wonder how many slots a 3090 takes water-cooled? My case has the length and height covered, my chosen PSU has the 350 watts covered...

 

[jpuroila]

Disregarding the 3090, the prices aren't that bad. Still, it hasn't been that long since the flagship GPUs were less than the 3070 is now.

 

[DonquixoteIII]

Just got done reading Igor's Lab's take on this new GPUs. One tech spec caught my eye - Igor calculates that the total bandwidth of the 3090 will be almost iTbs. Doesn't that saturate a gen 4 PCIe x16 slot?

 

[Puiu]

The RTX 2080Ti has 13.45 TFLOPS.

was it confirmed that Nvidia is talking about FP32 TLFOPs?