NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[One Vision]

Is the amount of memory really gonna be a issue though?

I've been running a 2080 at 1440p for the last two years and never had any issues with the 8GB it has.

Resident evil 7 takes the Vram up to 9.5Gb. Not sure how this affects cards with less.

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Was it not supposed to be 3-4x RTX performance going by the rumours though?

That was mooreslawisdead... the bloke is an idiot who keeps drivelling tripe to the masses... who then believe it.

 

[Jacky60]

The 2080Ti fire sale is on that famous auction site

Lol, yep sure is...

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Cool thanks. I'm interested in a 3090, but only for the price the 2080ti's retailed for.

If they paper launch or actually launch today how does that work with overclockers being closed on bank holiday?

Obviously the 3090 will be much more expensive than the 2080ti because it's a higher tier. I predict the 3080ti will replace the 2080ti and will be priced accordingly. Traditionally, the Ti variants have been released six months to a year later (unlike Turing) which is why the Ti isn't mentioned in the leaks.

 

[willhub]

Hope my 650W evga PSU will be ok for the 3080.

 

[DarrenM343]

Was it not supposed to be 3-4x RTX performance going by the rumours though?

Maybe it is but no game or benchmark is pure RTX only .
Looks good to me but of course would be interesting to see the performance in legacy games too, vs the 2080 Ti. It's to be expected that the largest performance games will be in RT/DLSS based games tho, taking the implementions of the 20 series forward. Probably the GPU's(performance) will get better over time too as the 20 series have (DLSS notably)

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It's a shovel full of MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! is what it is. Skewing the hype by using the extra Tensor cores. *slow clap* yes we knew that already Jen. Turing was crap at RT so we didn't expect any different.

I will be very interested to see RWP, however I suspect that reviewers will be told to use DLSS, then add that to the result. Which will mess up the results entirely.

*sigh*.

Well the reviewers which don't test both DLSS on and off,are ones more easily pressured by Nvidia. Also look at the Nvidia reviewers guide and see what games they test. This way you can tell which ones are less independent.

But can't the PC use RAM like an old RAMdisk?

FS2020 Ideal Spec (top) is 8GB VRAM & 32GB RAM which seems lopsided. Is that the way things may go?

DDR4 is much slower than GDDR6,and PCs on average are stuck with SATA SSDs,or PCI-E 3.0 SSDs. The consoles have very fast RAM,and very fast SSDs,so the need to store large things in the memory is somewhat negated.

RAMdisks might help on PC,but even data transfers from system RAM to GPU VRAM,etc are going to have a giant bottleneck too. The PC will just have to brute force things.

So does that mean we can get 58FPS in Quake 2

 

[Poneros]

I will be able to recover those funds by 13/9/20 so with that in mind.. Do we have any idea that indicates when pre orders will be up for the 3090 and secondly how little shelf stock will there be after those pre orders are put in. Am i going to need to wait a couple of months now to get my hands on one or should i still be able to get one relatively quickly?

Pre-orders will go up with the announcement, stock is supposed to be limited, so if you don't get in early..

 

[five8five]

Probably around 10GB. Hence why the XSX has split memory 10GB and 6GB. Consoles have more refined, optimised OS but its still going to be in the multiple gigabytes as well as what is required for CPU etc.

A fast ssd will help somewhat if developers can utilise it properly. But it won't be much/anything meaningful in terms of reducing vram usage. More for other other benefits.

I'm thinking the same that it'll be a lot closer to 10GB than 16GB.

 

[danlightbulb]

This is really annoying for me. I had been wanting to do a full upgrade two years ago, and for the first time in my life buy the best components - 1440p 144hz monitor, i7 9700k, 32gb DDR4, all SD drives etc. (I don't consider 9900k, Titan, 4k monitors to be worth it 2 years ago). I bought all of this and it's still a great system.

The component was the GPU. I knew the 2000 series was coming and was ready to buy what would become the 2080 Ti - only I didn't once I seen the poor performance increase, unsupported RTX, and a stupid price tag.

I have therefore been waiting 2 years to fully complete my dream upgrade, and it seems I am again going to be left wanting again; either I buy a gimped 3080 or I pay way more money than I want for a 3090. I'm happy to pay up to £800 maybe £900 for what I want (seemingly a 3080 non-gimped), but Nvidia aren't selling it.

Old man rant over.

It is very likely a 3080 will be an excellent 1440p card for years to come. I think this term being banded about 'gimped' seriously needs reigning in because it is really an exageration.

 

[rIcK]

I’m currently running a custom air cooled 2080TI with a Rajintek cooler I’m wanting one of these next generation cards but I’m hesitant to sell my current card because it’s so quiet... I guess I’ll wait and see what options are available before I flog my current card.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is really annoying for me. I had been wanting to do a full upgrade two years ago, and for the first time in my life buy the best components - 1440p 144hz monitor, i7 9700k, 32gb DDR4, all SD drives etc. (I don't consider 9900k, Titan, 4k monitors to be worth it 2 years ago). I bought all of this and it's still a great system.

The component was the GPU. I knew the 2000 series was coming and was ready to buy what would become the 2080 Ti - only I didn't once I seen the poor performance increase, unsupported RTX, and a stupid price tag.

I have therefore been waiting 2 years to fully complete my dream upgrade, and it seems I am again going to be left wanting again; either I buy a gimped 3080 or I pay way more money than I want for a 3090. I'm happy to pay up to £800 maybe £900 for what I want (seemingly a 3080 non-gimped), but Nvidia aren't selling it.

Old man rant over.

Wait for RDNA2 based GPUs to launch and see how the market looks then?? Even Turing got somewhat better price/performance after Navi launched. Until then Nvidia will feel free to price the GPUs as high as they can!

 

[ALXAndy]

Maybe it is but no game or benchmark is pure RTX only .
Looks good to me but of course would be interesting to see the performance in legacy games too, vs the 2080 Ti

It doesn't look good to me. I don't play Minecraft. Youngblood was pathetic and annoying and Control needed more save points. Why would I want 2x performance in games I don't play?

And you can bet they are best case scenarios. Where is Metro Exodus?

RT and DLSS mean squat when the game doesn't support them. So the only thing it could potentially be very useful for is Cyberpunk, or you could just turn RT off of course.

 

[wookiee87]

Hope my 650W evga PSU will be ok for the 3080.

for the 3080 you should be ok on a 650w unit could be pushing it for the 3090 though, next couple of weeks we'll know what thease things pull and what reviews recommend to run them

 

[beany_bot]

Obviously the 3090 will be much more expensive than the 2080ti because it's a higher tier.

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Pre-orders will go up with the announcement, stock is supposed to be limited, so if you don't get in early..

That is what i thought

Pre-orders will likely go up tomorrow if it's announced or shortly there after. But as usual its chaos, stocks will be sold out in seconds pre-order wise. Hopefully 3090 turns out to be cheaper than we expect .

Hopefully, but doubtful. If they planned to sell it for £1200 but everyone rumoured £1400... they will of course just throw the £200 on top.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Nvidia marketing working its tricks. Lets make the new iPhone an "X" and its higher tier although realistically it just replaced the previous top model at a higher price!

 

[One Vision]

It is very likely a 3080 will be an excellent 1440p card for years to come. I think this term being banded about 'gimped' seriously needs reigning in because it is really an exageration.

Not really, i say in next 12-18 months the next gen of games will use more than 10Gb. Res 7 already uses 9.5 Gb maxxed out.

 

[3t3P]

Think you'd be ok actually with the EVGA 620W

 

[five8five]

Was it not supposed to be 3-4x RTX performance going by the rumours though?

There was a rumour of 4x but there was also one of 2x.

Hopefully the same happens with the pricing