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Talking RTX 3000! New Cooler, Ampere Architecture, Performance and More…

Nvidia's RTX 3000 series was officially unveiled on Tuesday, with Jensen Huang delivering a live-streamed keynote from his kitchen. Yesterday, Nvidia hosted a few online media sessions, where we were told a little bit more about these new GPUs and Ampere as a whole. In this video, Dominic highlights a few key points that piqued his interest, as well as having some general discussions around the cards themselves.

Timestamps:

00:00 video start
00:13 video introduction
01:24 explaining the new cooler design
06:03 CUDA Cores and Ampere SM
09:09 RTX improvements with Ampere
11:16 RTX 3070 for 1440p or 4K gaming?
12:12 will PCIe Gen4 make a difference?
13:19 Talking VRAM allocation for 3070 and 3080
14:21 3080 Ti to arrive in 2021?
14:58 wrapping up – and wait for reviews!

GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3070
CUDA Cores 10,496 8,704 5,888
VRAM 24 GB GDDR6X 10 GB GDDR6X 8 GB GDDR6
Prices Starting At $1499/£1399 $699/£649 $499/£469
Release Date September 24 September 17 Available October

KitGuru says: Stay tuned for more RTX 3000 coverage coming soon – and, of course, our reviews!

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