RTX 3080
- Pure Shader Performance: 30 TFLOPS
- VRAM: 10GB GDDR6X
- Gaming Performance: 2 times that of the 2080
- Price: $699 (same as the launch price of the 2080)
- Available for purchase from September 17th
RTX 3070
- Pure Shader Performance: 20 TFLOPS
- VRAM: 8GB GDDR6
- Gaming Performance: Greater than the 2080 Ti (2080 Ti’s performance is 11 TFLOPS)
- Price: $499 (same as the launch price of the 2070 SUPER)
- Available for purchase after October
This is likely to be the most popular model.
RTX 3090
- Successor to the Titan
- Pure Shader Performance: 36 TFLOPS
- VRAM: 24GB GDDR6X
- The performance of this graphics card is so high that the CPU can’t keep up
- Capable of 8K 60fps with RTX ON
- Price: $1499
There were rumors before the launch suggesting a price of $1999, but it’s significantly lower than that. Considering its performance, which surpasses any consumer-grade graphics card, I think the price is very reasonable.
Honestly, with this level of performance, it would have sold even at $1999. Those who complain about the price are just whining.
Here is a rough performance graph:
Compared to the previous 2000 series, the performance improvement is significantly higher than that of any other manufacturer’s enhancements.
Honestly, with the 2000 series, turning on RTX (ray tracing) meant that games weren’t really playable due to the performance hit. However, with the 3000 series, you can enable RTX and still achieve smooth frame rates. In fact, the 3090, in some games, with DLSS (a technology that upscales resolution with such high quality that it is hard to distinguish from native resolution) enabled, has shown frame rates at 8K resolution with RTX on, hovering around 60 frames per second or even higher. Impressive!
As always, we are amazed by CEO Jensen Huang’s class.
NVIDIA consistently delivers with new product development and tangible performance improvements in their new releases. They stand in stark contrast to “that” other manufacturer, which often resorts to heavy marketing hype and exaggerated specs, claiming to be consumer-friendly but failing to deliver on performance.
Rather than using products that don’t perform well but boast the “consumer-friendly” title as a form of self-consolation, it’s far better to opt for NVIDIA products. Even though they sometimes undercut existing users during the price stabilization phase (this “undercutting” isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as the improved versions that come out are significantly better), the solid performance of NVIDIA products makes them a much better choice by far.