NVIDIA’s new gaming monster reveals: Performance far surpasses RTX 2080 Ti, surprising price makes AMD shiver

After a long wait, the launch event of Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 3000 Series graphics card has officially took place. At the event, the three names named by CEO Jensen Huang include RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. Compared with graphics cards using Turing architecture, graphics cards using Ampere architecture bring about significantly superior in terms of performance and specifications, well enough for users to pay for the upgrade.

The specifications of the generation RTX 30 Series have officially revealed. NVIDIA has been very confident in calling it a “huge leap forward” in terms of performance.

RTX 3080: twice as powerful as RTX 2080, surprisingly low price

True to the previous leaked information, the RTX 3080 will be the latest representative of Nvidia in the high-end segment, inheriting two previous names, the RTX 2080/2080 Ti. According to information released by Nvidia, the RTX 3080 will deliver 2 times the performance compared to the RTX 2080, and at the same time outstrips the RTX 2080 Ti – the name for the past two years has always been the ‘king’ in the chart of models. most powerful graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia.

The next generation of RTX 30 Series performance leaps and bounds

In terms of parameters, RTX 3080 equipped with 10 GB GDDR6X standard, which has the largest bandwidth and fastest data transfer speed available today. Along with that, RTX 3080 equipped with 8704 CUDA cores, compared to 4,352 CUDA cores of GTX 2080 Ti.

Notably, the reference version of the RTX 3080 owns a unique cooling design, completely different from the previous type of squirrel-cage heatsink. Specifically, this graphics card model uses a 2 heatsink design, with each fan located at the front and rear of the card, promising to reduce noise and improve heat dissipation performance.

RTX 3080 has a rather ‘weird’ cooling design

However, the most notable point of this graphics card model does not come from the performance, but from the surprising price. Specifically, the RTX 3080 will launch on September 17 at a price of $ 699, a lot cheaper than the $ 1299 selling price that the RTX 2080 Ti had 2 years ago. This is of course only the recommended retail price (the manufacturer’s MSRP), which may be lower than the actual selling price. However, it is undeniable that this price is too attractive for a new flagship graphics card model released with completely superior performance compared to the previous flagship generation.

In other words, this price can be considered as a declaration of war sent by Nvidia to AMD, showing that the company is willing to ‘dry blood’ with the Red Team, which is expected to launch a series of graphics cards code-named Big. Navi next November.

RTX 3070: The powerful “weapon” that makes AMD shiver

Along with the RTX 3080, Nvidia also launched the cheaper RTX 3070, which is only around $ 499 on September 17. Although dedicated to the mid-range segment, the performance of this graphics card model is not ‘mid-range’ at all, when Nvidia claims the RTX 3070 is even faster than the RTX 2080 Ti.

With a price tag of 499 USD, the RTX 3070 could make the price of the RTX 2080 Ti plummet in the near future.

Accordingly, the RTX 3070 is equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, with a CUDA multiplier of 5888. Many users, after watching the Nvidia launch event, have said that it is the RTX 3070 that is the ‘weapon’ of Nvidia’s benefits. To match AMD, which offers faster performance than previous-generation flagships but has a mid-range price tag.Not only that, the RTX 3070 promises to make the price of a wide range of RTX 20 Series graphics cards including RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 Super or RTX 2070 Super plummet in the coming time, according to many Vietnamese technology users.

RTX 3090: Nvidia’s most powerful monster is born

Also at the event, RTX 3090 – Nvidia’s newest and most powerful monster was officially revealed. In fact, this graphics card can be considered as the latest representative of Nvidia’s Titan line of graphics cards, which is exclusively for professional users.

Priced at $ 1499, the RTX 3090 will allow users to perform tasks related to AI technology, machine learning, and content creation. It can be seen that this price of RTX 3090 is up to 1000 USD cheaper than the suggested price of up to 2499 USD by Titan RTX 2 years ago, but offers 50% higher performance than its predecessor.

Close-up of the ‘monster’ RTX 3090

Specifically, the RTX 3090 is equipped with a ‘super’ memory capacity, up to 24GB GDDR6X standard, along with 10496 CUDA cores. Notably, according to Nvidia, this September 24 graphics card model is so powerful that it can smoothly play a lot of blockbuster titles at ‘unbelievable’ resolution of 8K with a frame rate of 60 FPS.

The Ray Tracing cores built into the RTX 3000 Series GPU have all been upgraded to the 2nd generation, providing a better level of performance when enabled with Ray-Tracing graphics effects, which were first introduced. the first 2 years ago. Meanwhile, the Tensor Core cores for AI-related tasks have also come to the 3rd generation, with much better processing capabilities than the previous generation.

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