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Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the amp-up-the-volume-(of-pixels) dept.

takyon writes:

Nvidia has announced its latest generation of gaming-oriented GPUs, based on the "Ampere" microarchitecture on a customized Samsung "8nm" process node.

The GeForce RTX 3080 ($700) has 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM and will be released on September 17. TDP is up significantly, at 320 Watts compared to 215 Watts for the RTX 2080. The GeForce RTX 3070 ($500) has 8 GB of GDDR6 and a TDP of 220 Watts. The GeForce RTX 3090 ($1500) is the top card so far with a whopping 24 GB of GDDR6X VRAM. The GPU is physically much larger than the other two models and it has a 350 Watt TDP.

Nvidia's performance benchmarks should be treated with caution, since the company is often using ray-tracing and/or DLSS upscaling in its comparisons. But the RTX 3070 will outperform the RTX 2080 Ti at less than half the launch price, as it has 35% more CUDA cores at higher clock speeds.

Nvidia also announced some new features such as Nvidia Reflex (4m53s video), Broadcast, Omniverse Machinima, and RTX IO. Nvidia Broadcast includes AI-derived tools intended for live streamers. RTX Voice can filter out background noises, greenscreen effects can be applied without the need for a real greenscreen, and an autoframing feature can keep the streamer centered in frame while they are moving. Nvidia RTX IO appears to be Nvidia's response to the next-generation consoles' use of fast SSDs and dedicated data decompression.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series | Official Launch Event (39m29s video)

Previously: Micron Accidentally Confirms GDDR6X Memory, and Nvidia's RTX 3090 GPU

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:37AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:37AM (#1045212)

    Because that is what you will be feeding them.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:10AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:10AM (#1045219) Journal

    Note that custom and highly overclocked versions of the RTX 3090 could use more like 400 Watts.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday September 02 2020, @08:35AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 02 2020, @08:35AM (#1045304) Journal

    At 3.3V, 350W means about 110 of them Amperes.
    At 12V, only 30.

    As a heuristic, a MIG welder needs about 1A for each 0.025mm metal thickness.

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    • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:11PM

      by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:11PM (#1045599)
      At 3.5mV, that means 100,000 Amperes. That's gonna need one thick trickle dick of a wire!