Nvidia Ampere livestream event

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Nvidia website

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/special-event/

Twitch and YouTube

https://www.twitch.tv/nvidia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCxV...ture=emb_title

Once it starts,please add any relevant information to the thread.

Liveblogs

AT liveblog:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16060...2020-live-blog

Slides

https://imgur.com/a/9H3paRZ

DF hands-on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWD0...ture=emb_title

[Euphonium]

Claims so far:

GTX3070 - $500, 8GB GDDR6
GTX3080 - $700, Twice the performance of GTX2080
GTX3090 - $1499, 24GB

[kalniel]

Ha, it's Samsung 8N process. Bad luck.

Comparing RTX cards with DLSS upscaling to Pascal at native res is poor form, like they don't believe the performance increase like for like is enough.

And they've copied a bunch of MS/AMD features like DirectStorage acceleration.

Even the 3070 looks like it has the new connector (on the founders edition).

Funny they didn't show the terrible graphics artefacts with DLSS in Death Stranding


And the 3080 is the flagship.. the 3090 is just.. big?!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have uploaded all the relevant slides here:
https://imgur.com/a/9H3paRZ

[Phage]

Well - I correctly picked 1,500 for the 3090 but the 3080 is cheaper than I thought. Waiting for the AMD response now

[Euphonium]

I was expecting prices around 700,1,000,& 1,500 so it's less bad than I feared. Maybe I'll upgrade from my £500 980Ti this genertion

[Ttaskmaster]

They used a "world's first" in the marketing blurb.....?

I'm out.

[Terbinator]

Pricing seems to be where expected, maybe slightly higher for the 3090.

Its interesting as whilst these supplant all of the existing Nvidia lineup we're basically 2 months away from getting any games come through that stretch these and also inching towards Navi in that time.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

https://twitter.com/CryptoKnight6/st...44535078027264


https://twitter.com/kopite7kimi/stat...45839003205633

Kopite was correct with almost all their Ampere leaks.

[Jonj1611]

If that pricing is right then RTX3070 is where I am at, faster than a 2080ti for a lower price? Can't see it myself, I mean the pricing, can see some hefty mark ups

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

If that pricing is right then RTX3070 is where I am at, faster than a 2080ti for a lower price? Can't see it myself, I mean the pricing, can see some hefty mark ups

I would wait for reviews first?? Also,if Nvidia is being more aggressive it hints they are concerned. So I would suspect AMD is up to something,and the RDNA2 cards should launch before November(I think an AMD person said before the consoles).

[Jonj1611]

I am not in a rush, my 1080 does ok for Blender but if those prices are correct that could be good news for me, gaming and rendering! Will see what AMD comes up with, though primarily I use cuda so not sure if amd has something equivalent

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

DF hands-on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWD0...ture=emb_title



https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1300844870307917824

"RTX 3090 is 50% faster than the Titan RTX at 4K".

I am not in a rush, my 1080 does ok for Blender but if those prices are correct that could be good news for me, gaming and rendering! Will see what AMD comes up with, though primarily I use cuda so not sure if amd has something equivalent

VRAM is still at 8GB though,so maybe worth seeing if 16GB VRAM models are released IMHO.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

What is interesting is Nvidia has only increased transistors by around 50% over the last generation!



The Samsung 8NM node must be worse than TSMC 7NM,even if you take into consideration the TU102 looks to be 20% larger in surface area than the GA102.

[Spud1]

we're basically 2 months away from getting any games come through that stretch these.

Probably yeah.

That all depends on your resolution. At 1080p, sure...but at 1440, or 3440x1440...current gen cards are stretched, and the next gen likely will be at 4k with newer games. As an example, I cannot consistently get over 100fps in warzone on high settings, and its 80-100 on medium (RTX off..). A flagship card should be pushing 150+ in a year old game imo. (this is with an overclocked 2080).

I think we'll see the same leap within a few months, probably Cyberpunk actually, which will let the 3080 run it at around the same..100fps. Personally, I don't think 60fps is a high enough target anymore. It may be pure marketing jargon, but "Frames wins games" is true for online gaming, and it makes a huge difference if you can maintain a stable high framerate with G-sync or freesync turned off.

But yes, interesting.

[Iota]

What's interesting is the 3080 FE is cheaper than the 2080 FE was at launch. It's £100 cheaper. For a card that looks to be much faster (going by the video info above).

There's a massive gap between the 3080 and 3090 in terms of pricing though, which makes me wonder how much that stack will get filled out, as well as at which price points.