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Just two years after introducing its RTX series with Turing architecture, Nvidia today announced its successors, the
RTX 3000 series
with
Ampere
architecture
and with the
RTX 3090
leading the way as the most powerful model of all.
Next to it are the
Nvidia RTX 3080
, with twice the power of its direct predecessor, the RTX 2080Ti;
And right after that, the
cheapest
RTX 3070
of the pack would also be more powerful than the RTX 2080Ti, but by a small margin.
The
Nvidia RTX 3090 will cost 1,549 euros
and will be launched on September 24, while the
RTX 3080 will cost 719 euros
and will be available on September 17.
Finally, the
RTX 3070 will cost 519 euros
and will be available in October.
Among the games that will make the best use of its technologies are two highly anticipated releases, such as
Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War
and
Cyberpunk 2077
.
Both will integrate improvements thanks to RTX technology.
And in the same way, Fortnite, the most popular video game of the moment, will also receive graphic improvements from the hand of Nvidia.
Other titles like Watch Dogs: Legion and Dying Light 2 will also feature improvements by RTX.
Nvidia has also announced new software tools, such as
Nvidia Reflex
, to enhance the capabilities of professional gamers;
or
Nvidia Broadcast,
aimed at streamers and capable of blocking background noise on the microphone or even erasing the background of a room without the need for a 'chroma'.
Play 8K on the RTX 3090
The
8K
still falls far short and hardly no TVs capable of reproducing content to such a
resolution, but the
Nvidia RTX 3090
is compatible with this large format thanks to its power and using the standard
HDMI 2.1
.
It has 36 Shader-Teraflops, 69 RT-Teraflops, 285
Tera
-Teraflops and
24GB of GDDR6X VRAM
, which translated into Christian means that it is the most powerful graphics card on the market and more than twice as powerful, on paper, as a RTX 2080Ti and
50% more powerful than the RTX Titan
.
Its price, very high: 1,549 euros.
All of this requires extra effort on the part of the computer.
The rumors about the RTX 3090 in the end have been true: it
will occupy three rear slots
in the computer case, although it only needs a PCI-E input to function.
It will also need quite a bit of power to run (it is anticipated that it may require up to 350W on its own), so it is necessary to power it with two power connectors with four pins each, which in turn require a
special 12-pin adapter from Nvidia
(comes included with the graphs) to better manage its consumption.
In this way, Nvidia promises that
with the RTX 3090 it will be possible to play games without problem in 4K, at more than 60fps
and with the lighting by RTX activated, something that until now was impossible with a single graphics card.
RTX 3080, the graph for the rest of mortals
One step below, but not much more, is the
Nvidia RTX 3080
, which will be the graph that most players decide for tomorrow.
It will be launched on September
17
, so it will reach the market very soon, and it will make a good difference: for
719 euros
it has 150% power compared to the previous generation of graphics.
Its key features are: 30 Shader-Teraflops, 58 RT-Teraflops and 238 Teraflops along with
10GB of GDDR6X memory at a speed of 19Gbps
.
It also has
HDMI 2.1
and also requires the 12-pin connector, which is included.
The jump, in the words of Nvidia itself, is the largest they have made among a single generation of graphics cards.
With the RTX 3080, you can play at 4K, at 60fps and with the RTX active
in most games without problem.
The company also promises
better energy management and less noise
thanks to a different cooling system that has two fans: one that introduces cold air through the lower part of the graph and another in the upper part that expels it already hot. upward, creating an airflow of its own within the metal heat sink that is part of the design of the card itself.
This new mix of larger heatsinks and fans running in parallel is common to all RTX series designs, at least on the Nvidia versions.
Then each manufacturer will be able to adapt their own refrigeration formula, but on paper, there should be
a 30% improvement in refrigeration and soundproofing
.
RTX 3070, the most affordable
Below this model, there is the
RTX 3070
, because at the moment they have not announced an RTX 3060, which will surely arrive in 2021. It has less gross power, but that does not prevent it from being
slightly above the RTX 2080Ti in theoretical capacity
.
It is launched in
October at a price of 519 euros
, very affordable for what it gives in return: the 2080Ti costs more than double.
It includes the new cooling technologies of the RTX 3000 range as well as
HDMI 2.1
connectivity
.
It also requires
a 12-pin connector
, like its older sisters, but is also included in the box.
Its advances are somewhat more modest, as it has
8GB of GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6x
, so it is a graphics more
designed to play at 1440p
and, modestly, at 4K.
However, for its price, it is surely the most popular of the whole set.
Ampere, the new architecture of Nvidia
These three new graphics cards work on
a new processor architecture called 'Ampere'
that includes a more powerful and efficient GPU capable of doing twice the calculations than its predecessors and comfortably reaching the
traditional 30 teraflops
, a unit that is often used to calculate the power of game consoles.
Ampere also integrates a new generation of '
RT Cores
', of cores dedicated to ray tracing, with which it is possible to carry out '
raytracing
'
tasks
with greater solvency and less impact on equipment performance.
To these we must add the third generation of 'tensor cores', those dedicated to the management of artificial intelligence algorithms, fundamental for
Nvidia's DLSS 2.0
;
and that can give a theoretical performance up to two times higher than the previous architecture.
Finally,
advances in data management between computer components and the graphics card also stand out
.
If in the new PS5 and Xbox Series X game consoles, the speed of transmission of this information is the great advance that both introduce, Nvidia does not want to be left far and for this it has developed '
Nvidia IO
'.
In conjunction with the upcoming DirectX storage API, the library that Windows games run on, Nvidia IO will accelerate all these data transmission processes in video games
without the need for an investment in new hard drives
.
For now, this is something that will come in the future, but it promises speeds typical of the fastest SSDs on the market.
More advancements in software
Although Nvidia's main product is its graphics cards, they also have a lot of research in artificial intelligence and have been able to use their advances in this field to improve the graphics of video games.
Its
DLSS 2.0
technology
offers better performance and better image in games that run at high resolutions, allowing you to take some of the effort out of getting details.
For example, Death Stranding has
more detail using DLSS 2.0 in 4K resolution
than in native 4K resolution with a more traditional antialiasing system.
And then there is its light ray tracing technology, which we have already talked about at length in the past.
Leaving aside the memes about the 'RTX On' label, Nvidia has increased its commitment to ray tracing, that is, the technology of light ray tracing that uses the lighting points in a more realistic way to throw results a lot. most impressive graphics in computer video games.
The cost of activating the RTX
is high on any graphics card, but the RTX 3000 range has much more power to make it more viable and so that the performance of the games is not reduced so much.
In its previous most powerful model, the RTX 2080Ti, maintaining the typical 60fps of computer games was somewhat complicated, but
the new range of graphics should do it with solvency
.
In conclusion, highlight the new tools for streamers and advanced players that Envy has developed in conjunction with its new graphics.
Nvidia Broadcast allows you to erase room backgrounds
and eliminate microphone noise using artificial intelligence, while
Nvidia Reflex allows you to optimize the latency
of a system to improve competitive performance in video games.
Finally,
Nvidia Omniverse Machinima
, more aimed at artists, allows you to use video games to create video scenes, or cinematics, in which the entire game engine can be manipulated to create various situations, including also capturing people to create animations with just the use of a traditional webcam.
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