Nvidia GeForce Special Event recap: All the big RTX 3080, 3090 and 3070 news

Nvidia GeForce Special Consequence recap: All the large RTX 3080, 3090 and 3070 news

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is a $1,499 monster graphics carte able to run games at a ridiculous 8K at 60 frames per second.
The GeForce RTX 3080 is the top-end Ampere graphics carte du jour for people on more than realistic budgets, starting at $699 and offering up to two times the operation of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
For $499, the new GeForce RTX 3070 will offer more than performance than an RTX 2080 Ti, notwithstanding volition exist half the price potentially making it a bargain graphics carte.

Today is a new affiliate for Nvidia'south GeForce graphics, as the GeForce RTX 3000-series has been revealed.

At nine a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET, and v p.g. BST, Nvidia hosted its GeForce Special Event, where it showed-off three new high-end GeForce graphics cards: the GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070. Built on the Ampere architecture, these new GPUs offer up to 2x the performance of the GeForce RTX 2000-series, just besides bring in improved ray-tracing capabilities. With the PS5 and Xbox Series X both coming with ray-tracing support, we tin can wait the slick light rendering technique to come up in a lot more games as 2020 comes to a close.

Take a await below for our crush-for-beat coverage of the Nvidia GeForce Special Event and how it's an heady time to exist a PC gamer.

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12:xl pm: Jensen is summing upwards now. In brusque, Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000-series graphics cards are going to deliver a "boost like never earlier." Huang paints a motion-picture show of us having "holodecks" in our homes simply while nosotros don't quite buy into that, the RTX 3000-series looks set to be a serious upgrade for PC gamers wanting the best in graphics this fall.

12:37 pm: Jensen has just revealed the RTX 3090. And its vast. It has a huge 24GB of GDDR6X. This is basically the new RTX Titan, only it'southward l percent faster. And information technology can run games at 60fps at 8K; that'due south basically insane. As is the $1,499 price tag.

12:34 pm: Here's the RTX 3070 starting at $499, it's more powerful than the RTX 2080 Ti, even though it uses 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM non GDDR6X. It'southward besides sixty percent faster than the original RTX 2070, and will patently hit the sweetness spot of gaming betwixt 4K and 1440p resolutions.

12:31 pm: And is twice the power of the GeForce RTX 2080, able to run games at 4K, 60 frames per second with RTX on. Pricing starts at $699 and information technology's available on September 17.

12:29 pm: And here's the first adjacent-gen GeForce graphics menu, the GeForce RTX 3080 powered by Ampere GPU architecture. It has GDDR6X retentivity, 19Gbps retention buffer, and a whole lot more than to brand it a pretty powerful graphics menu. It's looks pretty neat likewise with a load of heatsinks and big fans.

12:26 pm: Jensen is now talking most the new RTX IO - it's technical as heck, but it basically translated to how massive games tin be loaded very quickly from PCIe iv.0 SSDs with ray-tracing enabled.

12:22 pm: We now have a "marbles at dark" ray-tracing demo. Information technology'due south look very shiny, with lighting that basically looks real. Don't await this in games anytime before long, just await super-realistic animated movies and special effects.

12:20 pm: Ampere GPU architecture volition deliver a major hike in ray-tracing performance, thanks to more than Tensor cores and a big performance jump over the Turing GPUs. Information technology's likewise more efficient.

12:17 pm: And Nvidia deep learning supersampling (DLSS) 2.0 is coming to ameliorate how AI tech can exist used to deliver high-resolution gaming without taking a performance hitting. RTX gets a 2x performance boost which is pretty impressive.

12:13 pm: Jensen is now discussing the technical side of ray-tracing and AI tech, courtesy of deep learning. This is all seriously complex stuff; come on GeForce GPUs!

12:12: pm: Nvidia Omniverse Machinima is an RTX-powered app to create video game movies, likewise as scan in real-earth movement using a webcam. RTX tech and so renders the video to expect a lot more cinematic. It's in beta in October.

12:09 pm: 360Hz Chiliad-Sync displays are coming this autumn from the likes of Alienware, Acer and Asus. And the Nvidia Broadcast app is coming September to boost streaming abilities, including filtering out annoying background noise and mistiness the groundwork of a streamer'south feed.

12:05 pm: Hey Fortnite fans, we've got adept news for you if you have an RTX graphics cards as the game is getting ray-tracing.

12:04 pm: Nvidia graphics have helped the states understand our world, according to Huang, with Nvidia graphics tech being used to model the spread of COVID-nineteen. And of course there's a mention of streaming and e-sport: And here's Jensen Huang, Nvidia founder and CEO from his kitchen.

12:01 pm: And we're off! Nvidia is giving us a snapshot of games gone by. OVerwatch, Skyrim, Call of DUty....

eleven:48 am: Nvidia's GeForce UK Twitter account has been tweeting a lot virtually its past 21 years in gaming graphics, highlighting stand-out games such as Ruby-red Dead Redemption 2 as graphical marvels. Wait the GeForce event to include a graphics history lesson.

xi:11 am: Even though the GeForce RTX 3000-series is set to launch today, it hasn't stopped the specs for the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 from leaking courtesy of graphics carte du jour maker Gainward.

11:06 am: We're getting ready for the Nvidia GeForce Special Event livestream to kicking off at midday Eastern Time. If you desire to sentry the stream as well, then head on over to our breakdown of how to watch the Nvidia GeForce Special Outcome alive.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.Yard. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He oftentimes writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he'southward as well got an interest in cars. When not at his desk-bound Roland can be found wandering around London, oftentimes with a look of curiosity on his face.