Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 could make 4K gaming the norm!

The huge buzz of rumors also points to a performance boost in ray tracing.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 family should be something really special as graphics cards could usher in a new era of 4K gaming for PCs, at least if the rumors around the card are right.

The information comes from the YouTube channel “Moore’s Law is Dead” which, it should be noted, is not an information icon. However, the channel has been gaining traction lately and we have been receiving some interesting signals from it lately.

Hence, don’t forget a pinch of salt – the channel claims to have had the opportunity to speak with internal sources from Nvidia, who went out of their way to come out and share a lot of details about the next generation graphics cards. (Another big caveat is the fact that the information is based on engineering boards, so this may change before release, but in a broad sense, everything is fairly accurate).

The most interesting part concerns the GA102 GPU, which will theoretically become Nvidia’s Ampere flagship consumer offering and will most likely be called the RTX 3080 Ti (assuming Nvidia retains the generation naming logic).

Be that as it may, in the end the video card is called “unbeatable”, presumably, it will operate at very high clock speeds up to 2.2 GHz, capable of offering 21 TFlops of raw performance with a memory bandwidth of 18 GB / s and a total of 864 GB / s, which is about 40% more than the 2080 Ti (at 616 GB / s). It will also support PCIe 4.0.

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Other low-end RTX 3000 series graphics cards (GA103 and GA104) may bump clock speeds up to 2.5GHz, although this particular specification has yet to be confirmed, but the Nvidia engineer behind the leak expects these to be acceptable numbers for off-the-shelf graphics cards.

The general observation is that these 7nm RTX 3000 graphics cards will overcome tough CPU bottlenecks at 1080p and 1440p, and Moore’s Law is Dead suggests 4K graphics will become the main standard with the new Ampere graphics cards. Yes, they will obviously serve as an important leap in performance for PC gaming.

In addition, the source cites some 4K performance figures, claiming that the RTX 3080 Ti will outperform its predecessor 2080 Ti with at least 40% higher frame rates in unfavorable (unoptimized) games – but in most cases, the increase will be at least 50%, and sometimes and 70% with certain games. Of course, this is a serious statement, and we must point out that this is about the performance of traditional rasterization (which, of course, is still used in most games), not ray tracing.

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Speaking of ray tracing, the mass of information revealed in this leak also covers the main aspect of Nvidia’s next generation graphics cards. With Ampere, Nvidia is reportedly not going to increase the number of RT cores (which handle ray tracing) on ​​cards, instead making them perform better – much better. In fact, it is claimed that the RT cores in Ampere will be able to run at speeds up to four times the current RTX Turing performance.

In general terms, even budget RTX 3000 series graphics cards (presumably referring to the RTX 3060) will be able to outplay the flagship models of the Turing generation by talking about ray tracing (we heard something similar in previous rumors about Nvidia next generation graphics cards).

To highlight this, the channel notes that the RTX 3080 Ti is approximately 4-5 times faster than the current Titan RTX in Minecraft RTX. So again, we see a huge step forward, although the source is slow to make it clear that we are still far from fully implementing ray tracing – Ampere will simply be able to better handle ray tracing effects while improving performance to maintain a “reasonable” frame rate.

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As far as the looks of Nvidia’s next generation Ampere graphics cards, at least based on current design configurations, they will get a cooler similar to the existing Founder RTX 2000, except for three fans (instead of two), which should obviously offer better cooling (and seem to be quieter).

Channel then notes that the featured graphics cards currently only use two 8-pin power connectors, while the Turing models used three at the same stage of development – which could be a hint of a significant step forward in terms of energy efficiency.

The source also mentions DLSS 3.0, which will be “much better” than version 2.0, which in itself increases the potential of video cards, and therefore is very interesting. Until DLSS serves as a silver bullet for all games – they must be specifically coded to take advantage of DLSS, the latter becomes easier for game developers with the new 3.0.

Nvidia’s next-gen Ampere graphics cards are expected to arrive in the third quarter of 2020, possibly similar to the launch of Turing, postponing budget RTX options (3060) to a later date, according to other video card market rumors.

That said, even if new graphics cards are slated to launch in the third quarter of 2020, there is a possibility that the delays caused by the coronavirus could make adjustments. We just have to wait and see if the manufacturer will release some kind of promotional teaser for the Ampere consumer graphics cards at the Nvidia GTC software event, which airs on YouTube tomorrow (May 14).

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