Published 16:29 IST, September 5th 2020
NVIDIA RTX 3090 to be the world's first 8k gaming graphics card
NVIDIA RTX 3090 to be the world's first 8k gaming graphics card. Pricing is on the same level as of TITAN GPUs and boasts a 50% plus performance from Titan RTX.
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GeForce RTX 3090 is world’s first graphics card that lets you play, capture and watch in 8K HDR. 4X as many pixels as 4K, and 16X as many pixels as 1080p. Read on for more details.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 details
Nvidia recently anunced its RTX 3080 which is successor to RTX 2080, but company also had a surprise giant GPU ready: RTX 3090. RTX 3080 will start with 10GB of GDDR6X memory, while RTX 3090 ships with a huge 24GB of GDDR6X memory. Nvidia promises that RTX 3090 will be capable of 60fps gaming at 8K resolutions and that this is world's first 8k gaming GPU.
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RTX 3090 is based on Nvidia’s Ampere GPU architecture, which promises some impressive performance gains for PC gaming and ray tracing. Nvidia claims RTX 3090 is “world’s first 8K gaming GPU,” with 8K HDR ShadowPlay support, HDMI 2.1, and a whole lot more. Nvidia is using 10,496 CUDA cores on RTX 3090, combined with a boost clock of 1.70GHz and 24GB of GDDR6X memory.
Nvidia is labelling RTX 3090 a “big ferocious GPU” (BFGPU). card will occupy three slots and include a silencer to make it up to 10 times quieter than existing Titan RTX graphics card. Nvidia says RTX 3090 will also be up to 50 per cent faster than Titan RTX and will require a 750-watt power supply. card itself is expected to utilize around 350 watts of power.
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World's First 8k Gaming GPU
GeForce RTX 3090 is world’s first graphics card that lets you play, capture and watch in 8K HDR. That’s 4X as many pixels as 4K, and 16X as many pixels as 1080p, for incredible levels of detail. With stunning contrast of HDR, gamers can have a whole new level of gaming brilliance.
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Gamers would also be able to stream and playback videos at 8K HDR using new AV1 decoder on GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs, which would enable more efficient playback of 8K HDR YouTube videos. With much more efficient compression than H.265, AV1 dramatically lowers internet bandwidth requirements gamers need to stream high-resolution video.
NVIDIA RTX 3090 Release Date
This high-end card, RTX 3090, is said to be capable of 8K resolution at 60 FPS performance-- RTX 3090 will launch on September 24 and RTX 3090 price starts at $1500. RTX 3000 series pre-orders are t yet available. Nvidia's website has a "tify me" button which will tify interested users on its release.
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16:29 IST, September 5th 2020