Two years after they introduced real-time ray tracing to video games with its RTX 2000 series of PC graphics cards, Nvidia has this morning unveiled the next generation of that technology with the RTX 3000 series – including the first consumer available card that can support 8K/60fps gaming.
The top of the line card is dubbed the Nvidia RTX 3090 and is the successor to the TITAN RTX, claiming to be 50% more powerful than that. Specifically it boasts 10,496 CUDA cores, 24GB of GDDR6X memory, a 1.7MHz boost clock, a 19.5Gbps memory clock, 8K HDR ShadowPlay support, AV1 accelerated video decoding and HDMI 2.1 support. TFlops? Its got ’em – 36 Shader TFlops, 69 RT-TFlops and 286 Tensor-TFlops.
The mid-range RTX 3080 boasts 8,704 CUDA cores and 10GB of GDDR6X memory and will see games like “Red Dead Redemption 2” running around 1.7x better and “Control” 2x better than compared to a 2080 Super.
The RTX 3090 launches September 24th priced at USD $1499, the RTX 3080 launches September 17th priced at USD $699, and the RTX 3070 launches in October priced at USD $499.
Check out ray-tracing filled trailers for “Cyberpunk 2077,” “Watch Dogs Legion,” “Minecraft with RTX” and “Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War” below: