Saturday, September 12th 2020
NVIDIA: GeForce RTX 3080 Reviews Delayed, RTX 3070 Availability Confirmed
NVIDIA in a GeForce community forums post by staff member, announced that reviews of the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition have been delayed to September 16, with the review NDA lifting at 6:00 AM Pacific Time. This NDA was originally slated to be lifted on September 14. According to a Reddit post by an NVIDIA representative "NV-Tim," the delay was in response to certain reviewers requesting more time from NVIDIA as COVID-19 impacted their sampling logistics.
In other news, NVIDIA announced that its $499 (starting) GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card will be available on October 15, 2020. The performance segment graphics card is hotly anticipated by the gaming community as the other two products in the series—RTX 3080 and RTX 3090—are enthusiast segment products. NVIDIA claims that the RTX 3070 beats the RTX 2080 Ti in performance, which means the card should be capable of 1440p high refresh-rate gaming, and 4K UHD gaming at 60 Hz.
Sources:
NVIDIA GeForce Community, NV-Tim (Reddit)
In other news, NVIDIA announced that its $499 (starting) GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card will be available on October 15, 2020. The performance segment graphics card is hotly anticipated by the gaming community as the other two products in the series—RTX 3080 and RTX 3090—are enthusiast segment products. NVIDIA claims that the RTX 3070 beats the RTX 2080 Ti in performance, which means the card should be capable of 1440p high refresh-rate gaming, and 4K UHD gaming at 60 Hz.
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SM: 46 vs 68(+48%)
Shaders: 5888(+35%) vs 4352
TMUs: 184 vs 272(+48%)
ROPs: 64 vs 88(+38%)
Bandwidth: 448GB/s vs 616GB/s (+38%)
Edit: If It really is as fast or faster than RTX2080Ti in standard rasterization, then good job Nvidia. The only downside is 8GB vs 11GB Vram and relatively high TDP for a smaller process.
Only If the amount of Vram will be doubled to 16GB I will find It much more interesting, but then the question will be the price.
Flight simulators for one even 3070ti would be better seeing it has 16gb vmem instead of piddly 8gb if reports are correct.
Even 3080 with 10gb is anticlimactic maybe 3080ti will be with 20gb.
If the 3080 had at least 12gb's nobody would care :-)
They told me I can pick up a Kingpin3090 on September 24th.
I have seen Doom Eternal (Vulkan), Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Partial RTX DX12) and Control (Full RTX DX12) tested at YT Digital Foundry channel, all showing consistent scaling of frame rate increase