NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[Satchfanuk]

Who cares about the prices, look at the potential size of the cards. HUUUUUGE!!

That's true, I mean if you are paying purely for the size of the thing then one could argue you're getting your monies worth compared to the pathetic minnows of previous gen cards

 

[Jacky60]

this, i said this earlier on, my cheapest gpu purchase over the last 10 years has been my 1080ti, sli being dead there was no point buying two. Before that all my builds were x2 or x4 builds which were F expensive..

+1 although I bought 2 x 1080ti. Been SLI/Crossfire for a decade but will be single GPU this time I think. Also the gains especially where SLI/Crossfire were supported were substantial for the money. Skipped Turing so I really will be 'saving' money (apart from I won't ).

 

[Kirby Wurm]

That's a big one!
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-graphics-card-pictured

Nvidia must have watched Jaws and decided they were going to need a bigger boat. That thing's humongous!

 

[Vertigo]

I'm interested to see what happens with regards to "reference PCBs".

In the past, the founders edition has usually served to provide the "reference PCB" design. Whilst some third parties then design their own boards, the reference provides a baseline which will have the most support for things like waterblocks.

This time round, it looks like the founders edition is going to have a weird shaped PCB (with the 'chevron' cutout at the end) and the new 12-pin power connectors, whereas most aftermarket cards are far more likely to stick with a rectangular PCB and 8-pin power connectors for ease of manufacture and maximum compatibility.

This raises the question of what will the "reference PCB" be? It can't really be the founders one as hardly any other manufacturer will use it. Are NVidia going to provide a separate "reference" PCB to third-parties to function as the standard?

 

[FoxEye]

AMD have a real chance to make a killing if the performance is there and the price hits the mark.

Imagine something like this:

6500 = 299 (~2060)
6600 = 399
6700 = 549
6800 = 749
6900 = 999 (~3090)

Still too rich for me. The cheapest, worst card in the stack being £300 is already a red flag. The mid-range card being £500+ Yeah, I wouldn't consider that a win for gamers, it's just a differently coloured bottled of lube

 

[kazuya1337]

Its almost as big as mine that

Also looks a bit fake

 

[IT Troll]

3090 = 3080 Ti.

With the rumoured memory configurations the 3090 = Titan, which has no where to go as a naming scheme.
I can't believe they have just dropped Ti. The Ti often came out 6-8 months after the initial models.

 

[Journey]

Be interesting to see a GPU like the 3080/90 pulling 400w+ for AIB models, I hope that re-sellers will have plenty of PSU's in stock, or people have good home insurance when their PSU obliterates the rest of the machine when it fails.

EDIT: This launch is kind of reminding me of the Fermi GTX 480, but this time they made a cooler that might stop it getting to 97c under load, although if they aren't throwing a free case/PSU voucher to accommodate the size/power draw that will be a shame.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

With the rumoured memory configurations the 3090 = Titan, which has no where to go as a naming scheme.
I can't believe they have just dropped Ti. The Ti often came out 6-8 months after the initial models.

Have they actually confirmed there wont be a Ti? We've only seen a list of the initial models. Later cards aren't normally in the initial list.

 

[Grim5]

With the rumoured memory configurations the 3090 = Titan, which has no where to go as a naming scheme.
I can't believe they have just dropped Ti. The Ti often came out 6-8 months after the initial models.

It's called Super now

with RTX2000 it was super confusing to have Super and Ti models of the same card. So Ti is gone and it's now Super and the Super models come 6-8 months after the base model

 

[Grim5]

Be interesting to see a GPU like the 3080/90 pulling 400w+ for AIB models, I hope that re-sellers will have plenty of PSU's in stock, or people have good home insurance when their PSU obliterates the rest of the machine when it fails.

EDIT: This launch is kind of reminding me of the Fermi GTX 480, but this time they made a cooler that might stop it getting to 97c under load, although if they aren't throwing a free case/PSU voucher to accommodate the size/power draw that will be a shame.

2080ti kingpin pulls 500w and no ones house burnt down. 240mm AIO cooler is enough to keep it cool.

 

[RUN4Y0URL1F3]

I have an ASUS Rampage VI Apex and a 900D.

Have I got space to slot 2 3090s in SLI?

 

[FloppyPoppy]

I have an ASUS Rampage VI Apex and a 900D.

Have I got space to slot 2 3090s in SLI?

We don't know.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I still suspect the RTX3090 is a dual GPU or has another chip which needs cooling. The size increase over the leaked RTX3080 cards is noticeable.

 

[Journey]

2080ti kingpin pulls 500w and no ones house burnt down. 240mm AIO cooler is enough to keep it cool.

Is that a joke/sarcasm?

You can't compare a basic run-of the-mill part to a highly customised version, also it is more like 350w not 500w unless under LN2.

 

[Grim5]

Is that a joke/sarcasm?

You can't compare a basic run-of the-mill part to a highly customised version, also it is more like 350w not 500w unless under LN2.

The point is that cooling these days is better

Cooling is much easier than fermi days

even overclocked my 2080ti that draw 350w doesn't go over 70c in games, I have no concerns about Ampere

 

[Jacky60]

Only if you have to use AMD drivers then getting one working deserves an achievement

I used to be exclusive to AMD bout 10 years back, but oh boy once I got my first Nvidia GPU I did not look back. The stability and lack of bugs made it such a nicer experience than my AMD cards.

It's happened to Nvidia too more recently. A lot of new games are unsupported e.g. MS FS 2020 which really should have been DX12 with multi GPU support built in. Nvidia haven't bothered releasing SLI profiles for quite a few games which is an irritant.

Only if you have to use AMD drivers then getting one working deserves an achievement

I used to be exclusive to AMD bout 10 years back, but oh boy once I got my first Nvidia GPU I did not look back. The stability and lack of bugs made it such a nicer experience than my AMD cards.

That just shows how limited your experience is. I've owned about 50% red 50% green and there simply isn't/wasn't the difference you're describing. Admittedly my last AMD cards were a couple of 295x2s
so three generations ago but aside from the 5700XT driver problems I'm not aware of any long term differences in drivers/stability.

 

[Jacky60]

Exactly, once Grim reports back to dear leader that OCUK forums aren't happy about the 'leaked' prices, he will adjust them last minute to around 50 quid less

 

[labbby]

I have an ASUS Rampage VI Apex and a 900D.

Have I got space to slot 2 3090s in SLI?

not sure on the spacing on the mobo but if the 900D can’t take the physical size of the 3090 then pretty much everyone will be needing a new case

 

[burtie]

Yes it will be faster, no it's not going to be £700.

This is obvious. All the performance rumours/leaks point to the 3080Ti being twice the speed of a 1080Ti. The 3080 is going to be far more than half the speed of the 3080Ti so significantly faster than a 1080Ti.

The rumours are also pointing at the 3080Ti being at least £1400 and again, the 3080 won't be half the price as it's far too big a gap.

Well that's me out, unless the 3070 is a good price and performance. Just looks like they want pc enthusiasm to disappear.