Introducing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards

GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs also feature several world firsts: they’re the first gaming-class graphics cards with up to 24GB of new, blazing-fast GDDR6X VRAM; they’re the first GPUs with HDMI 2.1, for 4K high refresh rate and 8K gaming; they’re the first discrete GPUs with support for the AV1 codec, enabling you to watch high-resolution streams using significantly less bandwidth; and our Founders Edition cards are the first with innovative dual axial flow through cooling solutions.

[Doge]

tbh I expected this to cost upwards of $1000. $700 is actually pretty flippin' good??

[Adexus]

The 3070 performs better than the 2080Ti and it's 499, it's actually insane, never expected prices to be this low but I'm so hyped.

[ABizzel1]

NVIDIA marketing at it's best, if you look at the slides they're comparing the RTX 3000 to the RTX 2000 specially when both GPUs are using Ray Tracing and DLSS. I suspect a different story if we're talking RAW performance excluding those 2 features as most games still don't have support for both especially DLSS. But it makes sense to compare them since those 2 huge improvements between the 3000 series and the 2000 series are the main selling points.

That being said these cards are still an amazing value compared to the RTX 2000. Looking at the RAW specs the 3070 is basically an overclocked 2080s that cost $200 less with better memory and a lower TDP, the 3080 is basically an overclocked 2080 ti that cost $300 - $500 less with faster memory, but 1GB less and a higher TDP. So in RAW performance, we're only getting a stair-step boost in these GPUs, but as more games start to use Ray Tracing and DLSS, these cards will really start to shine.

[airshiraz]

i exepected this totally.first gen of new revolutionary techs are always crap.as happened to first gen of ray tracing cards .like first gen of led tv first gen of oled tvs ..... its just a prototype that they demand money for .

[ProjectVulcan]

"If you look at the slides they're comparing the RTX 3000 to the RTX 2000 specially when both GPUs are using Ray Tracing and DLSS"

Well ABizzel1 you need to get yourself over to Digital Foundry that provide comparable numbers with other games.

Borderlands 3 and Doom Eternal don't have ray tracing. Control numbers shown were both with ray tracing/DLSS and without. Still showed massive gains in excess of 80 percent @ native 4K for the former.

Besides the fact that ray tracing performance MATTERS significantly at this point, if the consoles are using it on the majority of titles lightly it'll be plastered with much higher quality all over the PC versions.

The dawn of industry wide real time ray tracing is upon us, the benchmarks with it enabled are the entire point frankly, so I don't see it as a valid complaint. You can't separate raw raster performance from ray tracing anymore when it comes to next gen games, it'll be too prevalent.

[Aeery]

Prices sounds pretty decent (at least are not crazy like the 20x series).
I can't wait to have a 3090 inside my case!

[CaptainHenry916]

They had to lower the price because of AMD. I always go with Nvidia for the GPU

"our Founders Edition cards are the first with innovative dual axial flow through cooling solutions."

Does that mean MSI and other versions won't have the dual axial flow?

[LordoftheCritics]

Yess finally time to build a new pc.

The power jump is sweet.

[UltraNova]

Oh man if Nvidia is to believed on the performance jump in combination with the, dare I say, consumer-friendly(ier) pricing then AMD's big Navi better be their biggest performance leap ever and even then I doubt they'll be able to even come close to Nvidia's 3000 series top dogs.

It will be a very interesting fall, to say the least!

[vTuro24]

To be fair the 2080ti was overpriced to begin with, which makes the 3070 look like a bargain. 10/10 marketing.

Not that I think the 3070 is a bad deal by any means mind you, I'm actually considering getting one myself for Cyberpunk.

[bouzebbal]

My problem with pc gaming is, the power goes exclusively in the graphics.. I wish there is an improvement of the AI and immersion aspects in general.. RDR2 is the same super stiff game regardless of the platform you're gaming on.. Doesn't justify the investment for me.. Maybe due to my long consume gaming history..

[KTF26]

What's insane?
we should stop thinking like that
2080 Ti is 2 years old

[Jin_Sakai]

Those are some powerful GPUs. That 3090 price though!

RTX 3070 ($499) 20TF - 40RT TF - 8GB G6X
RTX 3080 ($699) 30TF - 58RT TF - 10GB G6X
RTX 3090 ($1,499) 36TF - 69RT TF - 24GB G6X

[Mr Logic]

3070 is G6 not G6X

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I know that 3070 20 TFLOPs it's crazy. Double PS5 and almost double series x, the 3080 & 3090 are beyond another level of performance.

[ProjectVulcan]

3080 is crushingly fast though.

It'll obliterate either next gen console, especially with ray tracing enabled. Which is kind of the point.

It costs that much because it's that much faster.

[CaptainHenry916]

It makes the consoles gpu specs sound weak. 30TF is insane. 4K 120fps is coming

[Unspoken]

8K 60 fps appeared to be a target for the 3090.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

@ProjectVulcan,

That's still good pricing for what it is though, finally something I can replace the 1080 ti with.

[anonymousfan]

It's crazy! A 500 graphics card destroys PS5 and XSX (at least on paper) before they are even released.

I know consoles are in a different market but with that new bit of info from NVIDIA I dont want to pay more than 500 for a next gen console...

[Father__Merrin]

That 500 is for a gpu only....

[Thatgrammar]

@anonymousfan

It doesn’t seem crazy. It makes sense to me. The graphics card is $500 alone. The PS5 is rumored to be $400(w/o disc slot)-$500 (w/ disc slot). The Xbox Series X is rumored to be $500-$600. The Nvidia gpu is not including all of the other features in the PS5/XboxSX. If you were to build a pc with this gpu and then came close to matching the other specs it would be over $1,000. Also, pc’s have been more powerful than consoles for a while now. PS4 and Xbox One were not more powerful than the most powerful pc you could build at the time.

Here is a link to the comparable parts and their prices (subtract $100 from his overall estimate since you could use the RTX3070 in place of his chosen gpu):
https://pcpartpicker.com/li...

Here is the link to the youtube video:
https://youtu.be/JC7YlA3ANz...

[Sophisticated_Chap]

Yes, these graphics cards will kill the PS5 and Series X, but for what the consoles will cost, they represent great value and performance for the money. The next gen consoles, are after all, top of the line when compared to the top GPUs out on the market right now, and that's pretty damn good.

[anubusgold]

@Thatgrammar I already have a computer you on some nonsense im just buying the card. And a whole lot of people already have a computer . My sister has a computer as well just needs a graphics card i may just buy her a 3070 her cpu is still good people are still gaming on quad cores fine from 8 years ago . A 7700k is still not a bottleneck to this day and some people are still getting great fps on 2000 series cpus with their overclocks i wouldnt do that but plenty of videos on youtube show they still work well. Intel held everyone back for 10 years and it still shows with games not really maxing out more than 4 cores still.

[Sophisticated_Chap]

Looks like I received some disagrees from the comment I made, saying that next gen consoles are top of the line when compared to the top tier GPUs on the market today. Those disagrees are justified, as some people have pointed out, the PS5 is about as powerful as an RX 5700XT, which isn't great, but it should still be a descent console none the less.

[ProjectVulcan]

The RTX3070 alone has theoretically triple the ray tracing performance of xbox series X

Nvidia dropped the mic on ray tracing against the consoles.

[Giblet_Head]

@Father__Merrin And? People investing early in these typically aren't building entire new systems for them.

[MadLad]

@merrin

Yes, Merrin. When you want higher end things you pay higher end prices. I don't pay for a Civic, expecting the thing to run like a Ferrari.

All the same, you were running your mouth on the state of the PC market, as you always do, claiming you'll need a three thousand dollar gaming machine to run the upcoming cards, and this happened.

Now it's just you backpedaling with "but, but, but a gaming PC will still cost you more than a console!!!"

Duh, Merrin. Duh. Excellent observation.

[outsider1624]

500$ is just for the gpu alone. Factor in the the parts of a PC. And you can't even skim on other parts too. A mobo, ssd, ram, processor. And we haven't included the kbm, cabinet, smps.

[RazzerRedux]

@outsider1624

"Factor in the the parts of a PC."

No need. As @Giblet_Head said, PC gamers can upgrade their PC and not have to rebuild every single time. That's the beauty of PC gaming.

[Rainbowcookie]

For $499 you can take that powerful card...put it on the table and dream about the games you wanna play. No ram not even a mouse. The whole point of consoles are ease of use, power on a budget and game franchises to bring in the dough. Pc always was powerful and will be going foward, but it makes some developers lazy. The just add more hardware mentality costs consumers. Developers also sell less since piracy takes a cut of their hard earned work. If Microsoft and Sony cared about the best hardware im sure they could achieve it, but the catch is to keep the price down on a unit that has the same specs for everyone. I wont buy a $1200 console and they know it. Getting a rumoured $500 price is already an achievement

[VivaLaManual]

You realize it takes more than a GPU to build a PC, right? Your comparison makes no sense.

[FlyingFoxy]

The 3080 looks very powerful and a good price/performance, the step up to a 3090 is just not worth it IMO unless they have purposefully gimped the lower cards with not enough VRAM. 10GB might be enough but I'm not sure yet.. However I'll be using one at 1440p for those high frame rates.

[CaptainHenry916]

Hmm PCIe Gen4 graphics cards. Intel doesn't even support that feature yet but AMD does

[RazzerRedux]

The RTX 3070 is as powerful as the 2080ti and costs $500.

[RaidenBlack]

RTX 3070 is now the de facto "sweet-spot"

[RazzerRedux]

Incredible value. But I'm definitely going to put in the extra $200 for 3080.

I would love to be a fly on the wall at AMD HQ right now.

[RaidenBlack]

Yeah the 3080 looks so tempting now ... 😋

[ABizzel1]

@RazzerRedux

I think AMD will be okay if the rumors are to be believed, well at least in Raw performance.

We know AMD has a 40CU and 56CU RDNA 2 GPU (basically the PS5 and Series X GPUs), and AMD also likely has much higher clock speeds than NVIDIA since the RTX 3000 series is around 1.7 GHz across the board on boost clock, but the Series X is 1.85 and PS5 up to 2.23, and the current RX 5700 XT is just under 2 GHz.

So let's say all the AMD GPUs are around 2GHz. That puts the 40CU GPU at just over 10TFs, and the 56CU card at 14.336TFs. Which makes them great competitors against NVIDIA's RTX 3070.

The big question is if Big Navi is only 64CU or the rumored 80CU. At 64CU it puts them in the ballpark of the RTX 3080, however, an 80CU card puts them in the ballpark of the RTX 3090.

IMO I think we'll see a 40CU, 56CU, 64CU, and 80CU card from them, to compete on all fronts.

The problem with AMD will be 2 things.

1. They simply won't be able to compete neck and neck when RayTracing is involved. AMD's solution has been consistently rumored to be on par with Turing and slightly better in some aspects where the RTX 3000s series is easily showing to be 2x as good as Turing. Add DLSS to that equation and in those games and NVIDIA takes a commanding lead.

2. When will AMD be able to get the competing cards to market. NVIDIA will have all 3 GPUs out by mid-October, and possibly a RTX 3060 before November. AMD has to prove they can get all 4 of those GPUs out before the holiday season kicks off, or else they lose any ground they could have made.

So in RAW performance and probably price AMD should be okay if the rumors are true, but in features and added benefits AMD is a step behind NVIDIA.

[ABizzel1]

Almost, it's NVIDIA marketing they are specifically comparing the RTX 3000 series with the RTX 2000 series when games are using Ray Tracing and DLSS. In that situation, the 3070 is faster than the 2080 ti, but in raw specs, the 3070 is nearly identical to the 2080s with a higher clock speed, which makes it almost as powerful as the 2080ti.

Still an amazing value for this card and the 3080 for that matter, when this level of performance was literally around 2x the cost of the 3070 just months ago.

[TheOptimist]

If you have a simple look at the CUDA core increase between Turing and Ampere, you'll know what you are saying is false. It might not be a 100% increase, but it is far more than a stair step increase.

[Sophisticated_Chap]

The 3070 (20 TFLOPS with 5888 Cores @1730Mhz) is more powerful than the 2080TI (13.5 TFLOPs with 4352 Cores @1545Mhz). I think the RTX 3060 should be in around the performance of the 2080TI, but will cost $399 USD. The 3060 will be the deal of the decade, so long as it ships with 8GB of VRAM.

[FreeFallFrenzy]

It's unfortunate it only has 8GB VRAM, especially since it's only GDDR6. You need lots of RAM to run all that stuff these days! And $200 more for the 3080 with all its extras is a great upgrade for the price too. The 3090 not so much (other than the added VRAM)

[Marquinho]

3080 is about 30% more powerful than the 2080ti, for USD700.

I'm absolutely buying one...

And I'm also happy both Microsoft and Sony are releasing their exclusives on PC Woohooo!

[Atticus_finch]

Idk about Sony there. I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Marquinho]

https://www.pcgamer.com/son...

A 3080 should guarantee any PS5 game to be ran @60fps/4k at Ultra settings as it has ~2.5x more power. Heck... at this pace I'll probably run Horizon Zero Down at Max settings (4k/60) out of horse power with a 3080 before they patch the damn game.

[Unspoken]

Sony already claimed they will look at more 1st party moving to PC to increase profit. Win-win for everyone.

[Atticus_finch]

Don't get me wrong I don't have a problem with with PC getting some of the best games ever made from Ps4, infact it's a great idea $$$. But don't hold your breath on those Ps5 exclusives. I wouldn't.

[MikePWV]

Sony said they plan to release first-party games on PC in the FUTURE. It took them 3 years to half ass port Horizon over. I highly doubt Sony will be releasing PC games as quickly as Microsoft does. Who cares about a game 3 years down the road anyways.

[Marquinho]

That's not going to be the case anymore. Horizon was to test the waters and it did just fine. Titles should release quicker and probably will have PC in mind from the groun in the future. Don't expect PS5 games to land on PC later than 1 year after release.

[MadLad]

You seem salty that Sony is bringing games to PC.

You do realize it's going to happen faster, and more often, right? You don't test the waters, and then run away after you find another giant market that wants your product.

"Who cares about a game 3 years down the road anways". The PC market; and Sony is noticing, and that window of PC release will slowly shorten and shorten.

You'll learn to accept that.

[galmi]

Warriors never stop fighting for their land and emperor

[RememberThe357]

@TheRealRafael
You do when you want those people buying more than just your game and still getting paid for it. Sony wants people buying all their games on Playstations, that makes them far and away more money than their first party games. But I also think PC releases will be more for the major hits they want to turn into broader IPs. I expect to see Sony eventually making God of War tv series and Horizon movies. PC helps massively with that kind of exposure.

[StoneyYoshi]

"I'm absolutely buying one..."

I'm doing the same thing. I currently have a Radeon VII GPU and it currently averages 800+ on eBay. So I'm putting mine up for sale to hopefully make a small profit and get a 3080 basically for free.

[anubusgold]

I got my money waiting for a 3080 its the best value for me guess ill pass down my 1080 to my Nephew i got lots of spare parts to build him a new pc. Its not the best gaming pc but on a 1080P monitor it will still do over 100fps he will be good for his fortnight games thats all he plays oh and pub G.

[Thundercat77]

You are very wrong. Sony is not going to release any new exclusive game on PC. If you have an official confirmation for that. Post it. What Sony is doing is putting 4 to 5 years old exclusive games on PC that are no longer generating any money and already pushed Playstation sales.

Is ridiculous to think that Sony is going to shoot themselves by putting their new exclusive games on PC.

[WeOwnTheNight]

Hmmm so where do I go from here?

I currently have an i7-9700k (not overclocked yet), 750 watt PSU and I game at 1080p. Thinking to go from my 2070 Super to the 3090 (mainly for Microsoft Flight Sim). Wondering if the 3090 might be overkill even when I factor in heavy mods. nVidia says a 750 watt PSU should be the minimum sufficient required, so the only upgrade I am really looking at is my GPU. Trying to figure if the PSU might be too limited if I do choose to overclock over time

[RazzerRedux]

I'd wait and see some comparison benchmarks between 3080 and 3090 before I laid down $1400. Especially considering FS 2020 is slated to be upgraded from DX12 from DX11 at some which will hopefully mitigate some of the CPU scaling issues the game has.

[Vits]

You should wait for more in-deep analysis. Because as you are rocking a Intel based system the RTX 3090 would be forced to run in a PCI 3.0 slot and we are yet to find out how much of a performance impact that will cause as it was designed for PCI 4.0.

It's unlikely that it would run poorly though. But depending on how big of a impact it is, it might also not be worth the upgrade.

[KRUSSIDULL]

Have 9990KS and waiting to see if PCI 3.0 vs 4.0 will limit performance of the 3090 and also if it will fit in my case if its all good I think I will upgrade my RTX 2080ti.

[Edgelordsupreme]

There will be zero impact.

[anubusgold]

@Edgelordsupreme Thats not true the 2080 Ti was being bottlenecked by pcie3.0 x8 that has never happened so we dont know how this will effect the numbers on pcie 4.0 at much higher speeds and Nvidias new I/O im looking at my motherboard now that doesnt support Pcie 4.0 and thinking you maybe have to go.

[ABizzel1]

The 3080 is the better value hands down. You can spend 2x the money for 30% - 40% more performance, or you can simply drop settings to High, and spend the $700 elsewhere on your rig or take an actual flight somewhere or co-pilot ride.

[KRUSSIDULL]

Yeah 3080 is more value but some people just want the best no matter the price.

[Unspoken]

Nv Link SLI? 2 RTX 3080s

[anonymousfan]

At 1080p your 2070 must handling pretty much anything very well no? You want higher FPS yet?

[WeOwnTheNight]

@anonymousfan - MFS2020 is definitely testing the system in heavier areas.

@Abizzel1 - Yea you are right, the 3080 is looking like a good middle ground tbh. I'll be waiting for some benchmarks to see how it plays out. Not like I'm in a rush because proper aircraft mods won't be out for MFS till later in the year. As for flying, I wish I could fly but Corona has the borders locked shut till the end of the year at least.

@everyone else - thank you for the comments! will definitely look out for the benchmarks.

[1nsomniac]

You game at 1080p why on earth would you need to replace your 2070 super. Your current card is overkill. Why would you waste even more money.

I’m gutted because I’ve not long had my 2070 super but I game at higher resolutions. You’re wasting your 2070 super at that resolution. You must be running max settings at easily 200+ FPS. You can’t physically feel/see anything past 120fps so anything more is just a waste.

Buy a better monitor you’ll appreciate it so much more and it’ll be money better spent.

[WeOwnTheNight]

200+ fps? A bit exaggerated much? I'm not buying a 3080 to play CSGO. As mentioned above, looking at it for MFS2020 and future games.

Anyway, I have a 144hz. 1ms response time IPS monitor. Not mentioned above, I may add in a second monitor as well to add to the flight sim experience.

[1nsomniac]

No not exaggerating, as I said I have the same card but with an i5 cpu. I game with maxed out settings @1440p if RT is off it’ll max out at my monitors 144hz limit (I have it locked so it doesn’t waste resources creating extra frames) if I’ve got RT on it’ll run my games at 100+FPS.

So I have a lower end cpu than you but am pushing twice as many pixels. If your system is struggling at 1080p then there’s something wrong with your system.

As a disclaimer, I’ve never played MSFS so cant comment on that but I know it’s the new Crysis but that game is a one off.

Also my system is overclocked, nothing too extreme but a simple overclock. The 2070super is overkill for 1080p either way.

And honestly 1080p looks like crap, get a better monitor and you’ll wonder how you ever played at that resolution before. Even at 1440p on a monitor It will look staggeringly better. I thought 1080p looked crisp until I upgraded and then couldn’t believe how bad looked after. I couldn’t ever go back.

[anubusgold]

Its all about the response time man ask all the pro gamers the more frames the less latency.

[anubusgold]

@1nsomniac Crysis hated amd/Ati hardware they did no optimizations for it. It took me 3 Ati 4870 cards to get 40FPs on the highest settings at 1080P

[anubusgold]

@WeOwnTheNight

Yeah i got a New asus tuf monitor 1440P 1ms IPS HDR 165hrz monitor for this day. My poor 1080 is worked to death it can get to 120 fps on ultra but thats where it maxes out unless im playing wow or overwatch BF5 can get to 115 on max settings but still a great card because all 1080 cards overclock to atleast 2101 but its time to retire it. I knew 1st gen RTX was Bs glad i waited and my 1080 was a trooper it kept me near 100 fps in all my games and got me to this point where i get a real upgrade just like when i bought my 1080.

[Espangerish]

I have a 2080ti with a 3950x and I can’t hit 144fps at 1080p in ultra on a great many games.

At 1080p the cpu bottle necks you and expect this will become the case with a 3090 if paired with current cpus even at 4k.

[WeOwnTheNight]

@Espangerish @anubusgold - And i'm not even aiming for +100 frames because MSF2020 seems to be a resource hog in heavier areas. Hoping they optimize it in the future. I get 100-120 frames on max settings with games like COD and BF5 but that's not really where I'm aiming anymore. The aim later this year is to overclock to 5Ghz and add a second 1080p monitor to expand my "cockpit"

[I_am_Batman]

I'll wait for independent benchmarks and I advise everyone to do the same. I've just rewatched the Turing presentation yesterday and many of the performance claims made there were quite shady. If the 60-70% RTX performance increase in AAA games turns out to be accurate these cards would actually be justified in staying at those Turing MSRPs in my opinion, but for now we have to take Nvidias word for it. If they would've shown more practical gameplay demos I'd be more willing to trust in those claims, but even then we won't get the full picture until reviewers get their hands on those cards.

[Fishy Fingers]

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Digital Foundry is quite interesting, 3080 vs 2080 in their machine averaged 70-80% increases. Of course they're nvidia approved games being tested, but they cover a lot of different engines and recent AAA's.

[I_am_Batman]

Awesome. Even though those are cherrypicked examples it's clear that the 3080 is a big upgrade over the 2080. I'd consider everything above 50% increase very good, 70-80% is quite insane to be honest.

[fdkenzo]

Is 40%-45%. 100 Vs 180 is not 80%.

80:180=44
44% diference in Performance.

[Fishy Fingers]

Watch the video, thats exactly how they are wording it because they talking >>increases<<.

1 (baseline) vs 1.8 is a 80% performance >>increase<< not difference.

[I_am_Batman]

@fdkenzo: You're taking the 3080 as a point of reference, so you calculated the RTX 2080 is 44% less performant compared to the 3080. That's just a weird way of looking at it, but it's accurate. That also means that the 3080 s 80% more performant in this example though. Since we're interested in finding out how much 'more' performance the 3080 has it makes sense to look at it by setting the 2080 as a baseline to compare it to, which is what DF did here by putting it at 100%.

Edit: Just to make it clear in case anyone is confused by percentages, if 'fastcar' is twice as fast as 'slowcar', it means that the speed of 'fastcar' is 200% of the speed of 'slowcar'. That also means that the speed of 'slowcar' is half of 'fastcar' or 50%.

[Mr Logic]

Stay in school fdkenzo

[Farmer_Mike]

What's even more significant in this instance is the performance per $. Assuming $1.2k for a 2080Ti until recently and $700 for a 3080. Taking a game where I get 100fps with the 2080 ti and 150fps with the 3080 (to be conservative based on announced figures), that's $12/fps for the 2080ti and $4.7/fps for the 3080... you're 2.5x better off with the 3080, not just 1.8x.

[anubusgold]

Man im so glad i skipped the 1st gen RTX my 1080 was keeping up with ray tracing off few games supported it now its time to upgrade 120 fps at 1440P couldnt max my 165hrz monitor the 3080 will.

[IRetrouk]

Beastly

[BioShockGX]

Feels good to be a peasant gamer

[GoodGuy09]

3070 at $500?? Looks like I'm getting that card.

[Killa78]

Will wait for 3rd party testing but the 3070 looks like decent value!

I say decent because it's still £450... Lol

[MrVux000]

Will be keeping my eye on 3070 when i decide to upgrade my PC, that is some great value.

[Father__Merrin]

why does it have a 12 pin power supply connection?

[Fishy Fingers]

Size (have you seen where its located? 2x8 wouldnt of worked) and convenience (cable management), its actually around the same size as a single 8 pin. Its only on founders cards (currently) and comes with an adaptor.

AIB boards will still ship with the usual 2x8.

[Mr Logic]

Some AIBs are showing 3x8. I can't find a source, but the 12pin actually can deliver more wattage than 3x8 which I believe is 450w.

[anubusgold]

@Father__Merrin and Fishy Fingers

When i think about it has to be the amps on power supplies when i had two cards in crossfire i was at the rated power supply at 850 gold but the amps per connector wasnt high enough and it caused shut downs. This is the reason i got a 1000 watt power supply for that reason and i had no problem since. It was like 7 years ago but i think my power supply needed 6 amps per connection anything less than that wasn't working im not sure on the numbers but i know my power supply at the time wasnt doing that and that was causing the shutdowns.

[Father__Merrin]

Wow 1000w psu u have....

[FlyingFoxy]

3080 is the sweet spot IMO, best specs before the insane price jump to the 3090 which honestly does not look significantly better, except for the VRAM.

Man this thing is gonna fly on my 1440p screen, looks like I might need a PSU upgrade possibly from my 650W though.

[Tsar4ever01]

NVIDIA is "Putting in that Work!!" I find it pretty interesting that hardly nobody caught on with nVidia showcased the "RTX 3090" card they called it their 'BFGPU" ie (BFG-GPU) in reference to the DOOM game BFG-9000 Super weapon. Get it? That "Green Plasma of Power & Destruction!!" LOL! Cute marketing nVidia.😁😁

[FlyingFoxy]

The marketing is a bit BS on the 8k 60fps claims though, it's obvious they only tested much less demanding games to make that claim, the 3090 doesn't have a ton more grunt than the 3080 specs wise except amount of VRAM.

[FlyingFoxy]

People disagreeing might want to check the technical specifications on the 3080 and 3090, how does a bit more power but lots of VRAM suddenly = great 8k performance? You think Cyberpunk is going to run at 8k 60? Flight Simulator?

[Bladesfist]

@FlyingFoxy Not saying those claims are true but it's not just more VRAM, the 3090 has over 10K cuda cores, in comparison the 2080Ti has a little over 4K which gives it a ridiculous theoretical performance of 36 tflops vs the 13.6 of the 2080Ti. It has a shit load of FP32 performance.

[FlyingFoxy]

@Bladesfist yeah i know it's not just more VRAM, it does have more power but i already said that in a roundabout way "the 3090 doesn't have a ton more grunt than the 3080 specs wise" which it doesn't.

Certainly not that much more to warrant the huge price difference, and i don't see how it can make 8k 60 a standard which they seem to imply. There isn't a massive difference between the 2 cards bar VRAM and price. You can say it's faster but what is the difference? Maybe 20% or so? With a huge price difference

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Next gen really begins now :D RTX 3090 can do 8K and 60FPS nice but who the hell has 8K panels lol. Yeah that's a waste but at least the 3090 will break the 4K 60FPS barrier and most likely stay above 60fps all the time. Even the RTX 3070 has 20 tflops, damn I didn't expect it to have that much. I know I'm buying an RTX 3070 or possible 3080. Still game at 1080p @240hz but if I want FPS to always be above 200fps all the time with max settings then I will need a 3070 or 3080, just have to wait for the benchmarks. Going to sell my 2070 Super :D

[FlyingFoxy]

Good luck selling, you should have done that a month or 2 back like others with their 2080 Ti, it already tanked in value hard.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I have no problem selling the GPU, I use this site: https://sellgpu.com/
I have used them 3 times before. It's just that you won't get the price you want. They will only offer $228 for my evga 2070 super. Put that $$ towards a 3070 doesn't seem so bad. The 2080 ti they will only offer $452, yes that's a big loss.

[GameZenith]

Why not game at 1440p?

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Because I just bought this Alienware 1080p 240hz GSYNC panel on Xmas day 2019 :D

[Mithan]

Need to see benchmarks before we can determine quality/performance.

[Magatsuhi]

Where's that guy that was saying this card wouldn't be called the 3000 series? Bet he feels stupid now.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

This also sums up my reaction: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
:D

[Farmer_Mike]

Wow, we're going to get some interesting waterblock designs with that ultra-compact PCB.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

https://www.youtube.com/wat... Cyberpunk 2077 | Official GeForce RTX 30 Series Gameplay Trailer
Real next gen and no subpar performance. I assume this will be running above 60fps @ 4k at all times with settings maxed. Not sure about the GPU probably a 3090/3080.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

And yes I always watch youtube in 4k if available. This is the best extension to use for any browser: Enhancer for YouTube. You can set the res at whatever you want to be 1st, then if that's not available it will fall back on your next preset 1440p or 1080p you have 4 presets. Also the best option of all, there are no ads with this extension. Check box: Automatically remove ads. So F U youtube haha. I also use 4k video downloader to download youtube vids in up to 8k and of course no ads at all when you download the videos.

[Nismo458]

Next gen??

[RevXM]

Very impressive. Ampere is not messing around.
Nvidia set the bar pretty high, but lets see how RDNA 2 stacks up.

Anyways, why do Jensen have like 40 spatulas? lol
And almost fell of my chair when he brought out the "BFGPU".

[tagzskie]

yeah it's good 20 tflops from 3070 but i want to see a benchmark first with these cards, after all it's just a numbers.

[ocelot07]

Going to see what AMD have. But that 3070 is tempting.

[MadLad]

Welp, I'm officially upgrading from my sli 1660ti lol

[Anomander]

Hello 3090 and now to wait for for Zen 3 to drop. Oh Tech is good this year!!

[Limitedtimestruggle]

It is time to let my 1080TI go, it has served me very well =) Nvidia did good this time around, or so it seems!

[anubusgold]

I bought the cheapest 1080 like 4 years ago i think for 489 but it like all 1080's overclock like a champ it saved me from the overpriced RTX 1st gen 2159 Oc for years +480 on ram. Still been gaming at 1440P even in BF5 120 fps in multiplayer, Modern warfare is 90+ fps. The other shooters i play like overwatch are about 144fps maxed out. Division 2 is like 90 fps ultra. This old card is still working hard its time to put it to rest. When world of warcraft is hitting your card at 165 fps at 98 percent usage its time to upgrade.

[Limitedtimestruggle]

Pascal really was the best! The 2080 generation was a joke, but I'm glad the guinea pigs lined up, cash in hand happily go robbed for the sake of the first baby steps of RTX and DLSS. Something we will benefit greatly from now, at a much, much more reasonable price <3

The used marked for 2080 cards...it's total mayhem now lol.

[Father__Merrin]

I'd hang fire till the AMD cards drop will drop the prices of the other cards. Tbh I'd be happy with a 5700xt or a 2070s if they come down sub 300 il get one

[GOULDYBOBS]

Wish I had held out and not bought a 2070 super

[LoveSpuds]

My PC is 4 years old now and pretty long in the tooth, although it plays everything I want it to really well still (Football Manager, Kerbal and a host of strategy/RTS games).

Regardless, I have been looking at buying a new PC, I think I will wait till these cards are available now, they seem to be offering real bang for you buck.

[khasabtours]

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[khasabtours]

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[kayoss]

Holy cow, thats amazing. I should start playing on PC.

[Parasyte]

3070 looks to be the choice when I’m able to do my new build. 3080 if I can squeeze in the extra $$$

[Bnet343]

I'm still running wild with the GTX1080Ti but man this card sure looks tempting :DDD Oh baby!