The launch of Nvidia’s next-generation graphics card in the “Ampere” family, or the Geforce RTX 3000 series, is as long-awaited as it is shrouded in obscurity. As usual, the company is silent about exact specifications and dates, but now reports are emerging from Chinese Mydrivers that mark September 17 as the launch date. Where the…
On August 20, 2018, Nvidia introduced the graphics architecture “Turing”, where dedicated hardware for ray tracing in real time, the Geforce RTX 2000 unveiling was the most noticed feature. For almost two years, the architecture has been the latest in the consumer market, but for data centers, the graphics giant has lifted the veil for…
Nvidia has traditionally been extremely tight-lipped in the run-up to the launch of the next generation of graphics cards in the Geforce 3000 series, based on the “Ampere” architecture. The latest bids regarding the launch of the cards place the launch date in September, but already now the company is taking to Twitter in an…
Nvidia’s countdown has now reached the terminus and, as expected, it was the “Ampere” and Geforce RTX 3000 series that waited on the platform, where a trio of cards will make a sharp entrance in the coming months. In addition to node shrinkage and new architecture, the cards will take real steps up the performance…
During Nvidia’s major Geforce event, the Geforce RTX 3000 series was unveiled and the performance gains the company believes the Ampere architecture brings. The company did not mention specific specifications during the video stream itself, but when details were published on the series’ product page, many dropped their chin over the number of specified CUDA…
When graphics card makers compete to present news about Nvidia’s or AMD’s new graphics card series, the space to stand out in terms of specifications and performance is often quite limited. Companies may instead use their own engineering innovations to stand out in the myriad of product launches. This is exactly what MSI focuses on…
With the launch of the Geforce RTX 3000 series, the occasional eyebrow was raised over the graphics card’s ample capacity, with 24 GB of GDDR6X memory and over 10,000 CUDA cores in the RTX 3090. However, there is a large gap between the memory capacity of the RTX 3090 performance card and the series’ “normal”…
One area that typically does not get as much attention as other features in new graphics architectures is their ability to encode and decode video efficiently. Although it may not be as exciting as the number of stream processors, the amount of graphics memory and special features, the ability of media devices to handle video…
Yesterday, the embargo for reviews on the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 was released, which is now a day later followed up with cards from partner manufacturers. A number of different graphics cards have already appeared from a number of manufacturers, ranging from simple two-slot solutions to mammoth performance cards that take up as many as…
Earlier this week, Nvidia unveiled the Geforce RTX 3000 series graphics card after months of rumors and leaks about everything from specifications to performance levels. With a trio of models unveiled, the general reception was a positive one, regarding both stated performance and price tags. A feature of the second most advanced member Geforce RTX…
