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The next NVIDIA livestream is set to take place today. With fans clamouring for news on the RTX 3080, and the desire to see what else NVIDIA has been up to, today’s livestream is bound to be a good one. You can watch the excitement of the NVIDIA RTX 3080 livestream right here on Shacknews.

NVIDIA RTX 3080 livestream

The NVIDIA RTX 3080 livestream is set to begin on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET. Would-be viewers can check out the stream below or navigate to the NVIDIA site to watch it over there.

NVIDIA announced in a press release on August 11, 2020, that the special livestream event would be taking place in September. The livestream, as always, will feature an address by founder and CEO Jensen Huang.

While no one knows what this livestream will be about, there, there are plenty of rumors running amuck on the internet. The main rumor is that the RTX 3080 will be announced. This would certainly be a huge reveal, as it would usher in a new age of graphical computing. Though, it does feel as if the RTX 2080 series were only just hurting our wallets.

Though not much is known, what NVIDIA is willing to share about the livestream is that it will celebrate the biggest breakthroughs in PC gaming. This is emblazoned across NVIDIA’s homepage, where a massive countdown timer has been running. The celebration will look to cover the previous 21 years of gaming advancements, from 1999 to now. We will also be streaming our live reactions on the Shacknews Twitch channel.

Be sure to keep it locked to Shacknews as we cover the latest topics and announcements from NVIDIA’s September 1st livestream. You can peruse our NVIDIA page to see everything that’s revealed today, and well into the future.

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    September 1, 2020 5:00 AM

    Sam Chandler posted a new article, Watch the NVIDIA GeForce Special Event livestream here

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      September 1, 2020 5:18 AM

      Prediction, new video cards! Which will be expensive, in high demand and hard to find initially!!!

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        September 1, 2020 6:06 AM

        Will the 3090 be scarce. I want to do a prebuilt rig but wondering if I order one now and swap card. I can’t tell though what it’ll fit into versus a 2080

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          September 1, 2020 6:14 AM

          The 3090 will be scarce, and probably along the lines of the 3000 series version of a Titan.

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            September 1, 2020 6:18 AM

            Haven’t gamed in years don’t know what that means. Do I just have to buy one individual and just figure out rest of components afterwards?

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              September 1, 2020 6:28 AM

              The 3090 is going to be a card that's aimed at people who will spend any money to have the absolute fastest, most powerful card possible, or who need insane desktop GPU power for purposes unrelated to gaming. It will be scarce because producing them in quantity will be hard.

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          September 1, 2020 6:26 AM

          Sometimes system builders have the new stuff in sooner. Either because they get priority access or there is less demand I don't know but you may be able to get the new stuff with them sooner than you think.

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            September 1, 2020 6:29 AM

            This is true. They may also have an easier time getting the hardware even after it's theoretically available for us plebeians.

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      September 1, 2020 6:32 AM

      Chances of 3080 available to purchase today?

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      September 1, 2020 7:20 AM

      PCB photo - https://imgur.com/a/2Sqc4kE

      I added the rumors to that so we can reference it. Crazy how small that thing is. The rumor of "very compact" is true, it seems.

      Also big question seems to be whether it's 7nmm TSMC or 8nm Samsung.

      This guy says it's both - 7nm for the 3090/3080, Samsung for the lower end cards due to yields and Nvidia asking TSMC to lower their price and TSMC told them to fuck off.

      https://youtu.be/qMMm9nHFe0Y?t=180

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      September 1, 2020 7:43 AM

      I love reading the tech forums when new releases are imminent. It's like Days of Our Lives for super nerds.

      But at the we time I look forward to new GPU releases.

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      September 1, 2020 8:15 AM

      Had anyone here ever managed to consume more than 8gb of vram in a game?

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        September 1, 2020 8:22 AM

        It's like the amount of games that would utilize all 8 cores or more, there are very few games that do. Certainly will start seeing more of them though in these next several years.

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        September 1, 2020 8:27 AM

        I consume 8gb of vram every morning for breakfast!

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        September 1, 2020 8:30 AM

        yes.. Flight Simulator 2020 chewed up about 9.6GB of vram for me running at 2560x1440 on Ultra settings

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        September 1, 2020 8:46 AM

        10gb for the 3080 is a no go. i'll either wait for the 20gb super version or get the 3090. AMD, hurry up!

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          September 1, 2020 8:47 AM

          I can't beleive I'm considering paying $1400cad for a gpu that has less vram (albeit faster) than my several year old much cheaper 1080ti

          Bla

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            September 1, 2020 12:16 PM

            VRAM is basically the least important spec. I wouldn't give it a second thought.

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          September 1, 2020 9:09 AM

          Do you have a 4k monitor? If not, you don't need to be running highest texture settings in any game really, which means it shouldn't be hard to keep VRAM usage under 10GB

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            September 1, 2020 11:52 AM

            if i'm spending $1k+ CAD for a new videocard, i don't want to turn things down a bit. i'm at 1440p ultrawide. FS2020 has already maxed out 8gb on my 1070.

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              September 1, 2020 12:15 PM

              The point is, you can't see the detail max textures on a 1440p monitor. Max textures are usually for 4k displays.

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        September 1, 2020 9:03 AM

        Here's some benchmarks - https://youtu.be/mKfGz6-Gzw0?t=113

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        September 1, 2020 9:08 AM

        Apex Legends will consume more than 8gb if you tell it to

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        September 1, 2020 9:38 AM

        Dunno about 8, but 6 in my 2060 is a real problem in Control. I have to turn down a bunch of settings so that the textures don't look like mush.

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      September 1, 2020 8:59 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:01 AM

      Starting now - https://www.twitch.tv/nvidia

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      September 1, 2020 9:02 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:03 AM

      Jensen's stove costs more than my house...

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        September 1, 2020 9:15 AM

        why does he have to so many spatulas?

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          September 1, 2020 9:22 AM

          I have like 8 different ones. Sometimes you need a big one, sometimes a small one, sometimes a slotted one, metal, wood, rubber, sometimes you have one for foods that stain super easily, lots of times you need to use two at the same time.

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      September 1, 2020 9:09 AM

      Broadcast looks pretty cool. As someone who's been doing a ton of Teams meetings, I bought a green screen to hide a lot of my office, but something like this could be great to try.

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      September 1, 2020 9:16 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:18 AM

      Here we go.

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      September 1, 2020 9:18 AM

      TIPPLE DOUBLE DOUBLE REDSHAK

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      September 1, 2020 9:19 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:20 AM

      Ladies and gentleman, enjoy marbles at night.

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      September 1, 2020 9:21 AM

      30fps is the new 60fps. suck it.

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      September 1, 2020 9:21 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:22 AM

      Goddamn it's going to be expensive...

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      September 1, 2020 9:23 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:23 AM

      BUILDING UP TO THE GIANT PRICE TAG

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      September 1, 2020 9:24 AM

      Guess this explains the 24GB rumors...

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      September 1, 2020 9:24 AM

      Going from 1 instruction per clock per shader core to 2 instructions per clock per core sounds like a big deal.

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        September 1, 2020 9:25 AM

        yah that could basically almost double performance with the same number of CUDA cores.

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          September 1, 2020 9:28 AM

          Assuming you can feed them data quickly enough.

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      September 1, 2020 9:28 AM

      LOL so the flagship is the 3080... not the 3090???

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      September 1, 2020 9:29 AM

      It'll look beautiful in my PC! Where I'll never see it!

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      September 1, 2020 9:29 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:29 AM

      Seems like the cooler is going to throw hot air into my CPU cooler?

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      September 1, 2020 9:30 AM

      man, i hope AMD has got something cookin' because nvidia is just running laps over here.

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      September 1, 2020 9:30 AM

      I've lost a lot of love for nvidia over the decades, but I'm gonna hand it to them on the presentation. I really liked that transformation from the original Geforce 256 to the new hotness, while showing off their industrial design.

      Looking forward to buying one of these next year sometime.

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      September 1, 2020 9:30 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:31 AM

      SAME PRICE

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      September 1, 2020 9:31 AM

      WHOA

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      September 1, 2020 9:31 AM

      17th? Not RIGHT NOW??

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      September 1, 2020 9:31 AM

      uh.... you're shitting me.... $700!>?:

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      September 1, 2020 9:31 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:31 AM

      HOLY FUCK

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      September 1, 2020 9:32 AM

      $499 3070 O_O

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      September 1, 2020 9:32 AM

      3080. take my money now.

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      September 1, 2020 9:32 AM

      GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      September 1, 2020 9:32 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:32 AM

      Well, guessing all the people price crying just got shut up.

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        September 1, 2020 9:34 AM

        Depends on what the real performance is. These numbers are based on gamed ray tracing performance numbers. It is looking very promising though.

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        September 1, 2020 9:36 AM

        Still not "cheap". $500 is still the same price as a full console and only gets you a midrange GPU.

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          September 1, 2020 9:38 AM

          yeah, what happened to the 300-400 sweetspot :/ I miss the xx70 at that price.

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            September 1, 2020 10:04 AM

            This is why I'm holding out to see what AMD is going to announce.

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            September 1, 2020 10:14 AM

            These are the "founders edition" prices. Aren't the 3rd party manufacturer cards usually $50-$100 less?

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          September 1, 2020 9:51 AM

          Yeah but from a company that has to profit off of the hardware and doesn't take 30% per game oh dear I've done it now

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          September 1, 2020 1:36 PM

          This midrange gpu gets you 4k 60fps. the 2070 super was already a tad under. The 3070 will get you over.

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        September 1, 2020 9:42 AM

        Shot across AMD's bow there.

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      September 1, 2020 9:32 AM

      I think that 3070 maybe in my future

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      September 1, 2020 9:33 AM

      you guys notice that the x axis price topped out at $1400? that's the 3090 he's revealing at the end right?

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      September 1, 2020 9:33 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:34 AM

      Holy fuyck yes I am totally stoked! It's under what my top of budget was! HELL TO THE YISSSSSSS! 3080 for me!

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      September 1, 2020 9:34 AM

      Great prices. But the prices being so low does make me think that AMD might actually have a competitive product with 'Big Navi" that is causing the low prices

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        September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

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        September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

        Don't forget console launches.

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        September 1, 2020 9:45 AM

        Could be. Could simply be a matter of preemptively undermining whatever AMD might reveal.

        If AMD reveals something awesome, Nvidia got a head start in sales. If AMD reveals something less than awesome, this makes them look especially behind.

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          September 1, 2020 9:49 AM

          Yeah pretty much. Now we just need AMD to announce something. The 3070 isn't out until October.

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      September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

      One more thing!

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      September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

      Shiiit. I was figuring $600/$800 for the 3070/3080, and that I'd get the 3070. These prices give me real decision to make.

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      September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

      Where do I order?

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      September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

      LMAO BFGPU....

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      September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:35 AM

      JFC the 3090 is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!

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      September 1, 2020 9:36 AM

      lololololololololol I thought he was gonna need a forklift! Holy shit lolololol is this real!?

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      September 1, 2020 9:36 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:37 AM

      That thing is mammoth. Hah. And expensive. Why even buy a computer? Just hook everything up to the video card

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      September 1, 2020 9:37 AM

      im guessing Im supposed to know who these people are

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      September 1, 2020 9:37 AM

      We realized we just revealed the 3090, but here is some B-roll of streamers reacting to things while playing PC games with a controller.

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      September 1, 2020 9:37 AM

      damn dat 3090. crazy

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      September 1, 2020 9:38 AM

      was there a release date listed for the 3090?

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      September 1, 2020 9:40 AM

      how do you preorder

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      September 1, 2020 9:40 AM

      So when will these be available to pre order

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      September 1, 2020 9:40 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:41 AM

      3090 LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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        September 1, 2020 9:41 AM

        I'll be the poor 3070 guy. lol

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          September 1, 2020 9:43 AM

          Who care if the 3070 is faster than a 2080Ti. LOL

          The amount of power they put in this thing is NUTS

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          September 1, 2020 9:44 AM

          Man, the 3070 is pretty amazing though! 2080Ti performance for 500? Crazy.

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            September 1, 2020 9:50 AM

            Why is that crazy? The 1070 was as fast as the 980Ti. The 2070 should have been as fast as the 1080Ti if trends held. This is the pricing normalizing again albeit $100 more than the 1070 cost on release.

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              September 1, 2020 9:54 AM

              I think everyone was expecting pricing to go the opposite direction. Normalizing doesn't seem like a thing that's happening nowadays with price/performance.

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                September 1, 2020 10:01 AM

                I do wonder why the pricing is back to sane levels. Can't help but feel like AMD has something competitive at the high end. By that I mean that big navi is probably pretty close to a 3080. I can't see them having anything to touch a 3090 though/

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                  September 1, 2020 10:05 AM

                  Maybe the chips are smaller due to the node, less silicon makes it cheaper? Not sure how big these are compared to 20xx

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                    September 1, 2020 10:24 AM

                    That is probably part of it although it didn't stop AMD from pricing the 5700XT at $400 with a tiny die (251mm). Plus the new is probably a fait bit more expensive too.
                    Ok AMD. Your turn. Please don't disappoint.

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                      September 1, 2020 10:45 AM

                      Problem is AMD are around November I think

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        September 1, 2020 9:45 AM

        Yeah I’ll get one too I guess. :P

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      September 1, 2020 9:42 AM

      When do we get the benchmarks??

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      September 1, 2020 9:42 AM

      Did he give a date for the 3090?

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      September 1, 2020 9:42 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:43 AM

      Come on eVGA show me what you got and lets see if its time to replace my 1080Ti

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        September 1, 2020 9:47 AM

        no shit right??? ANANDTECH I SUMMON YOU!!!! proper benchmarks plz

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      September 1, 2020 9:45 AM

      MAXIMUM CYBERPUNK

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      September 1, 2020 9:47 AM

      So 4k120fps is gonna need a 3090 right?

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      September 1, 2020 9:52 AM

      That 3090 is massive, holy shit.

      Interesting that he basically said the 3090 is their Titan renamed and referred to their 3080 as their flagship consumer card. I think there is a 3080Ti coming and (conjecture mode) it could come sooner than expected depending on what AMD's big Navi is. $1099-$1199 for a 20-24 gig 3080Ti on TMSC's 7nm process (vs the 8nm that these things are on) slides into the stack reaaaaaally smoothly. There is zero chance that nvidia leaves that gap unfilled.

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        September 1, 2020 9:55 AM

        I was thinking the same thing when I read someone calling the 3090 the new 'Ti' of this gen. The performance gap between the 90 and 80 is just begging to be filled.

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      September 1, 2020 9:54 AM

      https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1300833403357597699

      Jeez, you'd think some people hammering that the 2000 series was a feature update while the 3000 series would be the performance update would have gotten people to relax over the last couple months.

      This always happens!

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      September 1, 2020 9:57 AM

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      September 1, 2020 9:59 AM

      I hope the 3090 fits in my current case. It looked a little bit thicc and longg.

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      September 1, 2020 10:00 AM

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        September 1, 2020 10:02 AM

        You can run that at 1080 and let DLSS upscale

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          September 1, 2020 10:05 AM

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            September 1, 2020 10:16 AM

            I think the 3090 is aimed at a target so high that it's not reasonable for the average gamer. I think the 3080 is going to be the sweetest spot this go around. I was all down for a 3090 until I witnessed it's size and what I will assume will be the price tag.

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              September 1, 2020 10:19 AM

              Yeah, the 3090 isn't really a rational gaming card.

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                September 1, 2020 10:28 AM

                If I had a leftover stimulus check then it wouldn't be outside my comfort zone. Then again, it might be nice to future proof your video card for 5+ or more years by taking the plunge now..I can't see that card being underpowered any time soon..

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              September 1, 2020 10:46 AM

              Agreed, value performance is best at the 3080 downwards, I mean it's double a 2080Ti for the same price as the 2080 super? It's great

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              September 1, 2020 10:53 AM

              3090 was never intended to be a mainstream or even mainstream enthusiast card

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      September 1, 2020 10:08 AM

      Fuck. In CDN funds, the 3080 will be ~999$ and the 3090 ~1999$. Not sure if twice the price is worth it.

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        September 1, 2020 10:23 AM

        That's actually not bad, 2080's are going for around $1100, price drop soon I imagine

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        September 1, 2020 11:59 AM

        tbh, $1.8k CAD was about the price of the 2080ti when it launched in canada from what i remember.

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      September 1, 2020 10:09 AM

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      September 1, 2020 10:11 AM

      Where can we preorder these cards?!

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        September 1, 2020 10:47 AM

        You can sign up for notification on nVidia. They're saying Sept 17th is the release so orders will probably be up before then.

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      September 1, 2020 10:13 AM

      Great prices

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        September 1, 2020 10:24 AM

        These are priced the same as last generation, where everyone was bitching about the price hike. I don't know what makes these great prices.
        https://i.imgur.com/cCVqHor.png

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          September 1, 2020 10:43 AM

          I was saying this the whole time. Their new price points would be easier to maintain and let's them get ahead of inflation.

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      September 1, 2020 10:17 AM

      INJECT DAT 3080 INTO MY VEINS

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      September 1, 2020 10:19 AM

      Wonder what power and plug configuration is required for that 3090 behemoth?

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      September 1, 2020 10:22 AM

      You know, for a company that everyone thinks of in terms of hardware, it's pretty interesting how much of a software company Nvidia is.

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        September 1, 2020 10:25 AM

        They were smart enough some time ago to make sure there were plenty of juicy software things that can promote and utilize the power of their GPU's. That broadcasting stuff looked pretty interesting.

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        September 1, 2020 10:30 AM

        Yeah even if AMD comes close performance wise Nvidia's software is a big selling point .

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          September 1, 2020 10:34 AM

          Especially since AMD's software has always sucked IMO.

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          September 1, 2020 10:36 AM

          Yup. And in the case of DLSS, people look at it as a hardware thing, but the hard bits are all software on Nvidia's end. DLSS exists because of fancy software in Nvidia's datacenters.

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        September 1, 2020 12:16 PM

        Yah over the past 5-6 years they've really broadened their software stack considerably.. Previously outside of just the drivers they really didn't have anything.

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      September 1, 2020 10:27 AM

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      September 1, 2020 10:39 AM

      How on earth is AMD going to compete with the 3070 or the 3080? Even in the mid low end, Nvidia will respond with a 3060 for cheap.

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        September 1, 2020 10:51 AM

        They won't be able to compete at all.. with Nvidia doubling up the number of Cuda cores that likely puts that card at something like 4096 Cuda Cores which is nuts. It would be faster than the 2080.

        Unless Big Navi pulls a similar thing like this but I got the impression the Big Navi architecture uses the same design as what's in the Xbox Series X which has the same 64 shaders per Compute Unit. Nvidia jumped up to 128 shaders (Cuda Cores) per Compute Unit on Ampere for the gaming GPUs which wasn't expected. Considering that big Ampere for HPC still had 64 FP32 units on it per Compute Unit.

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          September 1, 2020 11:24 AM

          5888 CUDA cores for the 3070. 8704 for the 3080.

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        September 1, 2020 2:34 PM

        Definitely a wait and see scenario.

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      September 1, 2020 10:48 AM

      DF vid about the 3080

      https://youtu.be/cWD01yUQdVA

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      September 1, 2020 11:14 AM

      So whats the 3070 performance over the 1070?

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        September 1, 2020 11:17 AM

        All of them.

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        September 1, 2020 11:21 AM

        Lots. 3x the CUDA cores, and faster CUDA cores. Doubling or more would not surprise me.

        The 3080 is looks, conservatively, like a 60% performance boost over a 2080 in real-world benchmarks based on the Digital Foundry testing. You can extrapolate from there as you like.

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        September 1, 2020 11:22 AM

        yes

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        September 1, 2020 11:30 AM

        3070's supposed to be more powerful than 2080 ti, 2080 ti is a pret-ty big jump over 1070 already, so yeah... I'd guess "a lot"

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        September 1, 2020 1:25 PM

        yuge

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        September 1, 2020 1:33 PM

        2000 more

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        September 1, 2020 1:44 PM

        https://youtu.be/E98hC9e__Xs?t=1850

        Base on those slides, Maybe a 40% increase over 2070 super and probably > 2x over 1070.

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      September 1, 2020 11:33 AM

      Ughhh, where can buy!? But show it to meeee

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      September 1, 2020 12:08 PM

      Is DLSS comparable to the AI upscaling on an Nvidia Shield TV?

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        September 1, 2020 1:27 PM

        DLSS 2.0 upscaling can even resolve detail that isn't visible on native 4K TAA, it's like black magic

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        September 1, 2020 2:05 PM

        not even in the same league.. DLSS uses deep-learning algorithms to fill in missing pixels even to the point where it adds detail that isn't even present in the Native Resolution image. AI Upscaling is just a fancy resizing filter that cleans up aliasing and sharpens the image.

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      September 1, 2020 2:05 PM

      Wait... in the DF video, it is a single 12 pin? Shit, do I need a new power supply? Mine is just 2 x 6+2 pins ...

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