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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Nvidia has announced its latest generation of gaming-oriented GPUs [anandtech.com], based on the "Ampere" [wikipedia.org] 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 numbers should be treated with caution, since the company is often using ray-tracing or DLSS upscaling in its comparisons. But it looks like the RTX 3070 will outperform the RTX 2080 Ti, at less than half the launch price.

Nvidia also announced some new features such as Nvidia Reflex, Broadcast, Omniverse Machinima, and RTX IO. Nvidia Broadcast includes AI-derived tools intended for live streamers. RTX Voice [guru3d.com] 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.

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