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Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 leaked specs: up to 20GB GDDR6 RAM
- Thread starter Earvin Infinity
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I think timing of next gen is a factor for price too.
RTX came out with a few years of headroom, but now the ~$500 consoles will have raytracing.
I'm hoping but they might just price their lower cards more competitively and leave the high-end pretty much where they are. Which would be a bit short-sighted as having a much more powerful GPU than the consoles at a somewhat reasonable cost could be incentive for people to upgrade or take up PC gaming instead of investing in a next-gen console for less than half the price. Especially with all the talks about porting to PC.
Maybe that will just happen in the years that follow as the cards get better.
Are we expecting there to be limited supply? There usually is, isn't there :/
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The Pascal series was truly an anomaly in pricing and performance - the 10 series were great. I doubt we'll ever see a 1080 Ti situation ever again.
3080 Ti + my C9 OLED is going to be absolute insanity.
That sweet 4k 120hz VRR goodness. Oh yes.
That sweet 4k 120hz VRR goodness. Oh yes.
Next-gen consoles will probably follow PS4's design, merging RAM and GDDR memory in one combined memory pool, thus achieving massive transfer speed between CPU and GPU - far greater than current PC architecture.
Maybe a massive increase of GDDR6 memory is NVidia's answer, enabling developers to avoid using the RAM to feed data to GPUs...
Maybe a massive increase of GDDR6 memory is NVidia's answer, enabling developers to avoid using the RAM to feed data to GPUs...
I really hope the 3070 is well priced or at the very least the 20xx cards receive a large price drop.
you guys do realize you don't have to have the latest and greatest.
To NVlink together and have 40gb vram for a much lower cost/higher performance than the quadro8000.
I wonder if people are more hesitant because of the next gen consoles and the games that are coming with those.
Also possible but i kinda expect Nvidia to charge less in the lower and mid price segment to challenge AMD and keep the higher price tag for highend GPUs since AMD has no real answer to those.
GPU rendering & large scale real-time/interactive art installations. you can NVlink a pair of quadros and hit 96gb, and without careful optimization still hit the limits. they're not for games.
thats a big market for nvidia, their consumer cards are a trickle down of the tech they develop for the ultra-high end cards. Interestingly AMD doesnt have any foothold in that market so it's had to work up to it instead of down from it, which is why they've seemed to have a harder time hitting the same price/performance until recently.
I think RE2 is completely broken, because I use an alleged 12gb on my 1070 and there's nothing affecting my performance at all.
RE2 doesn't actually need 12GB.
Even if it says so there it's never actually using any more than 6GB of VRAM at 1080P (add in about another gigabyte or so for 4K).
Additionally, all it does is cache the textures so that it doesn't have to stream from storage. The actual texture quality between lowest i.e. 0.5GB version of "High" and highest i..e. 8GB ver of "High" is exactly the same. Games these days probably have like 20-30GB of total asset data, doesn't mean you require that much VRAM because you never use all those assets at once and you are bound to swap out models and textures at distance for lower quality ones because it's a waste and it also introduces additional high frequency noise when there's too much detail in a small number of pixels (which is what happens when those assets are at a distance).
By the time we actually need more than 16GB of VRAM in PC games we'd have far faster cards. So in effect this card having 20GB of RAM now is only going to inflate the price of the card unnecessarily for something that is not going to be used until the card is outdated (in PC space). Especially considering RAM prices are going to be higher this year.
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Same. Got my 1070 for $375, can we get the xx70 cards back down in price too please.
I wonder what the 3060 will be like, I don't have much money or expect massive power so I wonder what that will cost and have.
With you. I just rebuilt but kept the 1070. Looking forward to the 3070.
A man of good taste.
Quite happy with my PG27UQ. My OLED is a B6, but could definitely use a upgrade to a CX...
Most games don't use as much VRAM as their often flawed counters might report. The games that can use all the VRAM you have will usually use a significant portion of it as a cache for minor performance improvements. Meanwhile older GPUs with far less VRAM are not going away all of a sudden and the required spec for games does not shift to 30xx series overnight. Even something as massively detailed as Red Dead Redemption 2 has a minimum requirement of GTX 770 2 GB VRAM and a recommendation of GTX 1060 / RX 480 with 4-6 GB.
Unacceptable? What were your expectations? It's the first time ray tracing has been available to the mass market. I was able to play Control with all RT settings at max, and with DLSS enabled, got great performance. Metro Exodus with its GI, you still get 30fps+. Wolfenstein Youngblood, the latest to get a RTX patch, from DFs video, has pretty good RT performance.
I'd say given the scope of ray tracing, and for a first attempt, it's gone pretty damn well.
I'm sure the prices this next integration will be equally staggering. Going to wait for 3rd party cards to stabilize before I go in on one of these probably early next year.
The 20 GB model is definitely going to be a quadro card. 10GB is much more likely as 20GB is too excessive even at ridiculous resolutions. I could see the 2080 ti version having 16GB at most.
lol the 3080 Ti is probably going to actually cost $3080
you are aware of the 2080 Ti's current price, are you not?
I think it's definitely how games used the technology. BF5 was a terrible example of using ray tracing. But several games have come out since then that showed good performance. Also DLSS has been showing very impressive results with recent titles.
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I wonder if anybody actually played RDR2 on 2gb of VRAM, it seems a dreadful experience lol
16GB and 20GB seem like amounts for the Qudaro cards, as the article points out.
Maybe I'm not following things closely enough but RAM needs for gaming don't seem to climbing at a fast enough rate for 20GB to be of much use, particularly for the period of time a lot of people with 3080s would have them before upgrading?
Maybe I'm not following things closely enough but RAM needs for gaming don't seem to climbing at a fast enough rate for 20GB to be of much use, particularly for the period of time a lot of people with 3080s would have them before upgrading?
