Nvidia 30 Series unveiled - RTX 3080 2x faster than 2080 for $699

[Alex Ushigome]

Me before video - eh I should be fine to list my 2080 Ti on gumtree after launch

 

Me now - fuck fuck fuck list now, sell now, resale value fuck

[u4ea]

6 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

The renders don't appear to have any SLI or NVlink connectors at the top of the cards.

The website confirms NVlink for the 3090.

matrix is 3090 - 3080 - 3070

 

[Exprima]

Tfw my 2070 Super step up expires right before launch 

 

Guess I'll wait for the 4080

[AnonymousGuy]

Give it a few hours and that's the time to buy a used 2080 / 2080 Ti.  They're already listing for 10% lower than yesterday.  2080 Super used to be around $650 now listing $550.

[SeraphicWings]

11 minutes ago, Deli said:

My guess is Nvidia probably has some idea how the NAVI 2 and the upcoming AMD GPUs will perform. They have to keep their RTX 3000 price in check. It's a good sign.

PS5 and XBX helps with the competition too, NVIDIA knows they can't fuck around like the 2000 series anymore

[AlfaProto]

5 minutes ago, Gimli said:

Of course but over time VRAM size used to pretty much double every generation. Now it's two generations later and it's shrinking. It's just unusual is my point. A testament that better graphics no longer require bigger textures/assets but rather more horsepower to process existing textures/assets.

Maybe Nvidia has improved its memory compression--though not by much? Last seen on Kepler and Pascal.

 

Thus, lower memory bus and less memory chips, Nvidia can keep the card price down.

 

Perhaps the improvement wasn't that much to warrant on the livestream.

[Mountainman]

For those wondering about NVLink/SLI from the NVIDIA website:

3090/3080/3070

[BobVonBob]

1 minute ago, u4ea said:

The website confirms NVlink for the 3090.

matrix is 3090 - 3080 - 3070

 

Oh very interesting. I wonder why the connector isn't in the renders? That's going to be some monster benchmark numbers.

[SpookyCitrus]

9 minutes ago, Gimli said:

Getting more for less is a good thing, always. You're delusional if you're making yourself feel bad about it. If you were happy with your purchase yesterday there's absolutely no logical reason not to still be happy about it.

I understand how it works, lol. I'm not necessarily mad about, it just sucks, I even said it's a good thing for those that didn't invest, and I know these things happen with investments into 1st generations of new technologies. My post was more of an in the moment vent when they announced the price. I didn't even pay full price for my 2080ti knowing this may happen, I just didn't think it would be that much less.

[jones177]

42 minutes ago, COTG said:

yea... not sure why Nvidia only put 8GB on the 3070 and 10GB on the 3080, because otherwise I would have probably gotten either one ASAP. looks like im waiting for the 3080ti now...

If it had 16gbs it would have been perfect. Hopefully the ti version has at least that much. 

[AnonymousGuy]

We have a problem boys...

 

 

No DP 2.0 support means these cards still won't natively suppport 120/144Hz 4K gaming with 4:4:4 color.

[SpookyCitrus]

16 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Welcome to the world of computer hardware.

You shouldn't be salty about someone buying something later than you getting better value.

I've been in the world of computer hardware for 10 years, the last 5 as a full time technician. I know these things happen, that comment was more of vent in the heat of the moment because I didn't expect it to be that big of a price drop. Like I said "stings a little".

[SpookyCitrus]

17 minutes ago, ShinRamen said:

Oh wow, interesting. Has this been confirmed at some point? I though there was a picture of a new pin design for the NVLink bridge on one of the leaked Ampere images. I could be wrong though. 

They literally just showed the actual cards, as for the Founders Edition cards they showed today they do not have NVLink. Multi GPU has been going away for the last couple years, most of us expected it to be gone when 1st Gen RTX dropped, it's not really a surprise.

[zOlid]

How can the partner slides been off by 50% on cuda cores?
Are the nvidia product page wrong?

Over 10k cuda cores, and the partners are listing just over 5k on their 3090.

Some one have to be wrong here.

[Exty]

1 minute ago, SpookyCitrus said:

They literally just showed the actual cards, at least for Founders Edititon they do not have NVLink. Multi GPU has been going away for the last couple years, most of us expected it to be gone when 1st Gen RTX dropped, it's not really a surprise.

NVIDIA NVLink™ (SLI-Ready)

Yes thats for 3090

[Anarchyz11]

9 minutes ago, Exprima said:

Tfw my 2070 Super step up expires right before launch 

 

Guess I'll wait for the 4080

Might try and ask EVGA for an extension.  They have amazing support.

[Gimli]

8 minutes ago, Escanor said:

 

Yeah 3 8 pin which technically better but 3 cables on gpu looks bit to bulky for me i personally wanna score a rtx 3080 with 2x 8 pin from evga unless i can get a matching cable for 12 pin

Looks like they abandoned the 12-pin connectors for these three models. The advanced card comaprison at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/ shows 2x 8-pin for the 3090 and 3080 and 1x 8-pin for the 3070.

[Gimli]

7 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

We have a problem boys...

 

 

No DP 2.0 support means these cards still won't natively suppport 120/144Hz 4K gaming with 4:4:4 color.

They have a note on the advanced card comparison at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/ that says:

1 - Up to 4k 12-bit HDR at 240Hz with DP1.4a+DSC. Up to 8k 12-bit HDR at 60Hz with DP 1.4a+DSC or HDMI2.1+DSC. With dual DP1.4a+DSC, up to 8K HDR at 120Hz

[LAwLz]

5 minutes ago, zOlid said:

How can the partner slides been off by 50% on cuda cores?
Are the nvidia product page wrong?

Over 10k cuda cores, and the partners are listing just over 5k on their 3090.

Some one have to be wrong here.

Which partner slides?

[SpookyCitrus]

3 minutes ago, Exty said:

NVIDIA NVLink™ (SLI-Ready)

Yes thats for 3090

Yeah for the 3090, but the 3070 and 3080 don't. At least as of right now. It's something that would be pointless to get anyway if you're just gaming as most games no longer have Multi GPU support.

[Exty]

looks like the 12 pin connector is going to be on the outside

[Dregur]

3 minutes ago, Gimli said:

Looks like they abandoned the 12-pin connectors for these three models. The advanced card comaprison at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/ shows 2x 8-pin for the 3090 and 3080 and 1x 8-pin for the 3070.

I think that's for the PSU. I definitely saw the 12 pin when they showed on the stream.

[Sorenson]

33 minutes ago, Techicolors said:

also RIP value for my 2070 super 

I sold mine earlier last month when I saw the performance rumors of the 3070 

[Gimli]

Just now, Escanor said:

 

Perhaps its thru adapter which i sure wanna see now if there is one unless 8 pin can connect to 12 pin directly

 

If that was the case I would expect them to state so. I'm thinking they're keeping the 12-pin connectors either for the next gen or the cards released in the second half of this gen lifecycle in order to give PSU suppliers time to adjust product lines.

[Shreyas1]

I'm still going to wait till AMD's offers before I make a decision, but dang