How time flies…only seems like yesterday I was spending about double what I should have been on the 2080!
*Nvidia RTX 3080 release date *
If rumors are to be believed, the RTX 3080 could be revealed as soon as March, with a release to follow in summer 2020. According to Wccftech, Nvidia may reveal the RTX 3080 line at the GTC AI conference in March, and then release the new GPUs in June around the time of Computex 2020.
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*The KittyCorgi tweet calls out two models: A GA103 (likely the 3080), which would have an 3,840 cores, 10/20GB of graphics RAM and a 320-bit memory bus. The GA104 model (likely the 3070) would sport 3072 cores, 8/16GB of graphics RAM and a 256-bit memory bus. *
For reference, the RTX 2080 Super features 3,072 cores, 8GB of VRAM and a 256-bit memory bus. If the 3080’s rumored specs are true, Nvidia’s new cards would get a huge boost in video memory, making them ideal for both gamers as well as content creators and professional designers.
Ha, well, I think I will probably have to wait a bit before I upgrade again. It would have to be a significant performance upgrade before I would consider it.
I am skipping the 2000’s for this, they better be good. Already saving up to drop some major cash on one. New box is gonna be worth more than our family car. See the what are you driving thread for an indication, it’s not new lol.
Depending on what AMD can deliver with Big Navi, nVidia might come a bit under pressure in the low high end range. I don’t think they can go much further on prices, there was already considerable backlash on the 2xxx series.
Intel will supposedly enter the market as well mid 2020, but it is unlikely that they will manage to get into the high end segment with their first shot.
I don’t think intel necessarily would want to aim up to the likes of the 2080TI anyways. GPU’s have been under 14nm for a while - they are still having issues with 10nm for CPUs.
In that regard I am intrigued, but unlike the hold I allow them on my CPU purchasing - they will have to work to pull me from Nvidia, who have given me an excellent level of performance-reliability.
Intel has been quite good with drivers thus far from my experience, so I am not too concerned with that.
Intel’s performance per dollar will be the big issue, if they can’t deliver they’ll be left aside as irrelevant. They may do well to enter in with the lower end workstation graphics for hardware accelerating things like AutoCAD and compete for the Radeon WX’s and low end Quadros.
Their press statements indicate otherwise. But in all likelihood that is just the usual hot air to generate some hype. Everything points to scaled up versions of their existing integrated GPUs which would put them in the midrange segment (which is where most units are sold anyway). We’ll see,
Nvidia had put out an announcement that they expected the supply chain to fix the prices and put limits on sales to prevent people bulk-buying out the stock to “keep the product in the hands of our real fans, the gamers” roughly said.
Of course that didn’t do anything other than give them something to fall back on to save face.
Then RTX-2XXX came and the prices were…the same.
Thankfully the power-efficiency of bitcoin mining when combined with requisite air conditioning is a net loss financially!
