Nvidia Announces New RTX GPUs with Up to 24GB GDDR6X Memory
Sep. 1, 2020Nvidia has today unveiled its latest consumer gaming graphics cards. The second generation of Nvidia’s ray tracing enabled GPUs are powered by theAmpere architecturethe company unveiled earlier this year.
The new RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 offer up to 2x the performance of the last generation Turing based RTX cards. Moreover, they also offer a 1.9x improvement in power efficiency in comparison to their older brethren.
Improvements in RTX 30 Series GPUs
The new GPUs offer massive improvements across the board. Nvidia claims a 2x FP32 throughput as compared to RTX 20 series GPUs, and 30 Shader-TFLOPS of processing power in the new RTX series of cards. As for ray tracing,the new RT cores offer 2x the throughput of previous generation along with features like concurrent ray tracing, shading and compute, with 58 RT-TFLOPS of processing power.
Nvidia’s RTX 30 series GPUs will also make use of the DLSS technology that last year’s RTX cards used for improved performance in RTX enabled games. However, theRTX 30 series uses third generation Tensor cores, which means they are faster and more efficient for AI powered technologies, including Nvidia DLSS.
TheRTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 use the new GDDR6X memory. Developed in partnership with Micron, Nvidia claims that this is the fastest discrete graphics memory in the market withspeeds close to 1TB/s for graphics card applications. Basically, you can expect much better game and app performance with the new GPUs.
The RTX 3070 is at the bottom of the stack.Priced at ₹51,000 for the Founders Edition, this GPU offersfaster performance than the RTX 2080Ti, and is almost 60% faster than the RTX 2070.The RTX 3070 comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. Note that this isn’t the new GDDR6X memory that is present in the other two RTX GPUs announced today.
The RTX 3080, on the other hand is up to 2x faster than the RTX 2080. Coming in at₹71,000 for the Founders Edition, the GPU packs in 10GB of GDDR6X memoryand is claimed to consistently deliver60 frames per second in 4K gaming.
At the very top is the RTX 3090. Nvidia is calling this the BFGPU (Big Ferocious GPU). It comes with awhopping 24GB GDDR6X memory, is up to50% faster than even the Titan RTX GPU, and can consistently deliver60 frames per second for 8K gaming.It has a price to match those insane specs, too, coming in at₹1,52,000 for the Founders Edition.
Along with the new graphics cards, Nvidia also announced three new technologies for gamers.
Also announced at the event were a bunch of games that will be coming with ray tracing enabled graphics soon. Fortnite is going to add ray tracing to the game, and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will support ray tracing as well. These games will join the likes of Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2, and Watch Dogs: Legion.
