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Upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti & GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs confirmed by ASUS

The Taiwan OEM giant ASUS has recently confirmed that NVIDIA’s two upcoming GPUs are not very far away from launch, scheduled coming in early 2021. This is because the brand has listed both of the cards in their supports and services page.

Now, recently spotted by HXL (@9550pro), in the GeForce RTX 30 series ROG STRIX variants, you have both GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards. It is not unusual as NVIDIA is rumored to launch the RTX 3060 next month followed by RTX 3080 Ti soon.

Asus does make a lot of wild variants of these GPUs including overclocked and non-overclocked variants. However, with these listings, they have seemingly confirmed the fact that the RTX 3080 Ti will feature 20 GB of GDDR6X memory whereas the GeForce RTX 3060 will feature 12 GB of GDDR6 memory.

Apart from the VRAM, as per the leaked specs, the RTX 3080 Ti will have memory speeds of 19 Gbps, and it will be using a 320-bit bus interface equaling to a bandwidth of 760 GB/s. On the other hand, the total power consumed by the GPU will be 320 Watts and its also rumoured that the pricing of this GPU could match the pricing of the new RX 6900 XT at $999.

Coming to the mid-range RTX 3060, it is said to feature 3840 FP32 cores in a total of 30 SM units. The total VRAM is still in doubt as leaks of both 6 GB (14 Gbps), and 12 GB (16 Gbps) have come out, but most likely NVIDIA could end up using the former memory.

The GeForce RTX 3060 should come with 192-bit bus interface and if it has 16 Gbps memory speed, the total memory bandwidth sums up to 384 GB/s. The GPU could end up being priced at $299 and it will not be long enough to know what actually the pricing or specs will be as NVIDIA will be hosting an event on January 12th.

via Wccftech

December 26, 2020
Upcoming Acer Nitro 5 with Ryzen 7 5800H and RTX 3080 spotted retailing for 1950 EUR

AMD is all set to launch its Ryzen 5000H processors based on its revolutionary Zen 3 architecture next month at CES 2021. We expect a bunch of OEMs inclining to AMD more this time as their overall performance seems much better than what Intel has to offer.

Before that we have spotted a number of laptops powered by these new AMD processors, mostly by ASUS and now we have Acer’s much loved Nitro 5 laptop as well. This is a 17.3-inch gaming laptop (AN517-41-R9S5 Nitro 5) listed by a German retailer with a pricing of 1950 EUR. For performance, the gaming laptop features the unannounced AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor based on Zen 3 architecture.

It has got tremendous horsepower with 8 cores and 16 threads, coupled with 32GB of 3200MHz DDR4 memory, 1TB of SSD drive, and a beefy NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 8GB graphics. Well, this might be the first gaming laptop powered by AMD that supports and NVIDIA flagship GPU.

This could indeed be the upcoming flagship Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop but the budget variant of the laptop has also been spotted:

It comes with the same AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, which is confirmed to come with 3.2GHz base clock speed along with 16MB L3 cache, paired with 8GB 3200MHz DDR4 RAM. This variant features 512GB M.2 SSD along with 4GB GDDR6 GeForce GTX 1650 graphics, also much like last-gen Acer seems to equip the same FHD display with 144Hz refresh rate.

We will not have to wait much longer because these new AMD Ryzen 5000H will be launched next month and we will see new laptops as well paired with upcoming RTX 30-series mobile GPUs.

via Videocardz

December 23, 2020
NVIDIA’s latest drivers bring Vulkan Ray Tracing Support, ‘Quake II RTX’ becomes the first game to support it

NVIDIA has finally brought Vulkan Ray Tracing Support with the help of their latest Game Ready drivers. The company has updated the Quake II RTX game demo to support the new industry standard.

NVIDIA says that bringing ray tracing into Vulkan has been a multi-year effort by many companies while NVIDIA has taken an active leadership position in each stage of its evolution. It was elected to chair Vulkan ray tracing subgroup at Khronos, we contributed the design of our vendor extension to Khronos to help the Vulkan working group make rapid progress, and we shipped drivers for the provisional version of the Vulkan ray-tracing extension to enable developer feedback for the subgroup. Also, NVIDIA has become the first to adopt those extensions in a game.

Quake II RTX: Ray Tracing for Everyone!

Vulkan Ray Tracing is not just for GeForce RTX anymore. Enter Quake II RTX and its new update. By being the first game to support the recently released, platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions, Quake II RTX should play on any compatible GPU. Quake II RTX no longer relies on vendor-specific extensions and should play on any compatible GPU. Go here for more information.

Quake II RTX was the world’s first game that is fully path-traced, a ray-tracing technique that unifies all lighting effects such as shadows, reflections, refractions and more into a single ray-tracing algorithm. The result is a stunning new look for one of the world’s most popular games, originally launched in 1997.

Grab the New Game Ready Driver, Test Vulkan Ray Tracing!

Quake II RTX also has a built-in benchmark so you can see how different GPUs stack-up for ray tracing–the world’s first benchmark for Vulkan Ray Tracing.

To check it out, grab the latest Game Ready Driver and download Quake II RTX from Steam. The first three levels are still free. And the whole game gets the ray tracing treatment if you own it.

via NVIDIA Press Release

December 15, 2020
40 containers of RTX 3090 has been stolen from a factory in China

Can you get an RTX 3090 this holiday season?

It has been reported that, from a Chinese MSI factory, 40 containers of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 have been stolen, which costs the company a mammoth amount. The thieves are going to cash in with the next-gen expensive graphics card.

The GeForce RTX 3090 is a fine GPU with TITAN class performance. The card is based on NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture. This GPU is not made for average gamers; it basically has been targeted at 8K gaming, professionals, and researchers.

It is estimated that the loss is around $330,000 (nearly £255,000 or AU$460,000). MSI has informed the police and declared a 100,000 Yuan ($15,000) reward for anyone who can give useful information about the theft. The incident took place on the 7th of December. In those boxes, there was around 220 total number of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090s. The graphics card costs around $1,500, but due to less stock availability and high demand, many auction sites have sold the card for $2,000.

MSI Chinese mainland factory was stolen, stolen 40 boxes RTX3090, the total value of 2200000RMB ……😓
MSI has been officially announced and informed to the police ,Reward of 100000 RMB for reporting effective information. pic.twitter.com/JWw8hOMioG
— 夕惕若厲 (@GoFlying8) December 7, 2020

MSI suspects that the job is done by or with any insider because the whole shipping area of the factory is covered by video surveillance, and all the delivery trucks are routinely checked. After posting the reward regarding the missing cards, now MSI has promised leniency with anyone who will be found involved in the theft that comes forward with the missing stock.

This incident should not affect the market of RTX 3090. Anyone who wants to have an RTX 3090 can buy it but, you might have to wait because of its low initial stock.

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December 9, 2020
NVIDIA to add 4 new games to the DLSS Nice List
The holiday season is coming and so NVIDIA has brought some surprise for you in terms of games. No NVIDIA is not making games, but brining DLSS support to four new games and are seeing substantial boosts in frame rates while generating beautiful, crisp game images.

Do not worry, these games are in addition to Minecraft with RTX which moved out of beta today, and Cyberpunk 2077 which launches this week. The new DLSS Games for December are:

December finds CRSED: F.O.AD. (formerly Cuisine Royale, Dec. 3), Moonlight Blade (Dec 7), Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (coming in Dec), and Scavengers (available in ‘tech tests’ today ) all joining the roster of DLSS games, taking the tally of DLSS games to 30 titles.

Turning on DLSS will see performance boosted in each of these games:
- DLSS increases performance by up to 40% in CRSED: F.O.A.D., which means every GeForce RTX GPU can play the game at 4K in excess of 90 FPS.
- DLSS can more than double your frame rate in Moonlight Blade, which means every GeForce RTX GPU can play the game at 4K in excess of 60FPS.
- DLSS increases performance by up to 50% in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, which means every GeForce RTX GPU can play the game at 4K in excess of 60FPS.
- DLSS increases performance by up to 40% in Scavengers, which means every GeForce RTX 30 Series GPU can play the game at 4K in excess of 60FPS.
Indeed, DLSS gives significant improvements while playing games, increasing frame rates and the quality of the gameplay. Enjoy these new games this month on NVIDIA RTX graphics cards!

via NVIDIA press release
December 8, 2020
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 mobile lineup to be launched in January 2021

We know that Nvidia is planning to introduce its RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 GPUs. The cards are expected to replace its SUPER lineup and the RTX 2060. And according to sources, the GPUs will be launched in January 2021. But they will initially only be available in ASUS and MSI custom flavors. HP, Dell, and Lenovo users will have to wait until April for the new GPUs. Because of this, RTX 2080 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER mobility GPUs are expected to be EOL-ed in January 2021.

On the other hand, the source claim that the RTX 30 mobility series will have a very short life cycle. It is dues to NVIDIA planning to shift to 7nm TSMC process node for its SUPER variants of the RTX 30 lineup.

The company claims that notebooks around $699 will have the GTX 1650, with the GTX 1650 Ti and GTX 1660 Ti coming in models priced at $799-$899 and the RTX 3060 will have a mark above the $999. But the RTX 3070 will cross $1299 and the RTX 3080 will be seen in units priced at $1999. But the prices are not decided by Nvidia, it is decided by the OEM’s thus the actual prices will vary from the suggested prices.

NVIDIA has also recommended specifications for laptops to host its mobility GPUs. And according to sources, the GPUs will support for the next generation of AMD Ryzen with its high-end GPU lineup. With the launch of the AMD 5000 series (Cezzane-H) lands the NVIDIA high-end GPUs will be freely available equally on AMD and Intel parts (TigerLake H). It will tremendously boost the sales for both NVIDIA and AMD as people who want an AMD CPU coupled with an NVIDIA GPU can finally get it.

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November 26, 2020
Nvidia will fail to meet the supply-demand of RTX 3000 GPUs for the next few months

Nvidia’s RTX 3000 GPUs have been launched in the market, and the demand for these cards seems to be increasing day by day. But for those looking to purchase these cards have been hit with sad news. Unfortunately, the GPU supply from Nvidia will continue to be extremely low. Sources claim that it will not be able to meet the demand for the coming months.

The news was brought during the Quarter three financial report conference call by Nvidia’s CFO Colette Kress. While blaming it on the constraints in the supply chains, he stated, “Given industry-wide capacity constraints and long cycle times, it may take a few more months for product availability to catch up with demand.”

Earlier, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that the supply would surely not meet demand by the end of 2020. But now, it appears that the problems could persist well into 2021. The shortages will most likely linger until the end of 2021 if any medicine didn’t subside the infection rates. Analyst claims that authorities across the world are expecting a third infection wave in early 2021. So, the demand for the cards might only catch up by Q2 2021.

Nvidia earlier reported 37% Year on Year and QoQ growth amounting to $2.27 billion from the gaming segment. But the figures do not include RTX 3000 sales, and AIB cards only started trickling in early October. However, it seems that Nvidia is not only the only industry struggling with this problem. AMD is also suffering from fewer supply problems.

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November 21, 2020
Nvidia to launch RTX 3080 Ti in January 2021

We already know that Nvidia’s next-generation RTX 3080 Ti will be launched soon. But there has been no official confirmation regarding the launch date of the graphics card. According to sources, HKEPC claims that Nvidia plans to release its RTX 3080 Ti card in January 2021. The news, however, is not confirmed by Nvidia.

The graphics maker has already released the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 for US$699 and US$1,499, respectively. The RTX 3080 Ti is expected to be between the two cards and will come at a price of around US$999. The card’s price is just right and will Nvidia a chance to combat AMD in the price segment. AMD unveiled its latest entry into the graphics market, the RX 6900 XT, for US$999. The company even claims that the 6900 XT can easily compete with the RTX 3900.

According to sources, Nvidia’s information launching the new card in January 20201 comes from a Taiwanese board factory. Sources also confirmed that an RTX 3080 Ti SKU (PG133 SKU 15) exists and has been included on NVIDIA’s most-recent roadmap. These roadmaps seemingly change regularly, and we have already seen this with the cancellation of RTX 3080 20 GB, and RTX 3070 16 GB SKUs suggests.

Further information claims that NVIDIA will base the RTX 3080 Ti on the GA102-250-KD-A1 GPU. The GPU contains 10,496 CUDA cores, the same as the RTX 3090. However, sources claim that the card will operate on 20 GB of GDDR6X VRAM with a 320-bit memory bus.

The RTX 3080 Ti will also have a 320 W TGP, making it 30 W less power-hungry than the RTX 3090. Sources also claim that NVIDIA will not include its NVLINK connector on the RTX 3080 Ti. However, all of these are rumours and should be taken with a pinch of salt. As to whether Nvidia will release its GPU in January 2021 remains to be seen.

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https://technosports.co.in/2020/11/11/sonys-playstation-5-might-get-support-for-1440p-resolution-if-enough-users-demand-it/

November 12, 2020
Nvidia’s RTX 3050 to come with GA107 GPU

There are a lot of leaks and rumors going on around about Nvidia’s upcoming graphics card lineups. We now know a lot of details regarding the new cards. However, many things pop up on the internet that can surprise us by a lot.

According to sources, both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti will use the GA106 GPU. But its upcoming video card for budget users, namely the non-Ti RTX 3050, will use a different core. However, it is all rumours and leaks, and it should be taken with a pinch of salt. Nvidia has still neither confirmed nor denied these rumours.

The RTX 3050 is expected to be the slowest and the most affordable video card to join the RTX 30 lineup. According to sources, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is expected to feature the GA107-300 GPU with 2,304 CUDA cores and a TGP value of 90 Watt. Sources also claim that the card will probably feature 4 GB of 128-bit GDDR6 memory. We already know that cards based on the XX107 GPUs usually come with a 128-bit memory bus.

NVIDIA’s new RTX 30 series products have a lot of processors waiting for in the lineup. According to sources, the GPUs to soon enter the market includes the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which will be launched in early December. Also, the RTX 3050 Ti and non-Ti RTX 3060 are expected to show up in January 2021, while the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti might be launched in February 2021.

AMD, the company’s biggest competitor, is expected to launch the Navi 21 and Navi 22 product lineups. The first ones being the Navi 22-based Radeon RX 6700 series, which will hit the market in early 2021. It seems that the first quarter of 2021 will bring out the ugly side of the semiconductor wars.

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https://technosports.co.in/2020/11/11/mediatek-mt689x-is-expected-to-hit-600k-on-antutu-chipset-details-are-revealed/

November 12, 2020
Nvidia plans to resurrect its RTX 3080 Ti SKU

Amidst several leaks and rumors regarding Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series. But no other leaker is as active as Kopite when it comes to Nvidia. The leaker has now reported that Nvidia has plans to revive its GeForce RTX 3080 Ti card.

The rumor comes as a surprise because the company earlier stated that it had canceled the development of the RTX 3080 Ti SKU. It was announced almost two months ago, and the company indicated that it would move ahead with its plan of launching the RTX 3090. Since then, everyone believed that there was absolutely no reason for the graphics maker to continue with the RTX 3080 SKU, but the recent leak says otherwise.

According to sources, the recent rise in the company’s efforts comes due to its competitor. Advanced Micro Devices has recently showcased its Radeon RX 6000 series, and it is mind-blowing. The RX 6000 matches Nvidia’s high-end cards in performance.

All this has made Nvidia tackle its competitor. Hence the rumors might very well be true. According to the leaker’s tweet, the RTX 3080 Ti would feature the same CUDA core count as RTX 3090, which is reported to be 10496 cores. It means that the card will certainly not be on the cheap side.

RTX 3080 Ti FE:
PG133-SKU15,
GA102-250-KD-A1,
20GB GD6X,
the same FP32 count as 3090, 10496FP32,
the same MEM speed and TGP as 3080,
no NVLINK.
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) November 4, 2020

The leaker has provided very detailed specs of the rumored SKU. The specs include the board and SKU numbers that are the PG133 SKU 15. The GPU that the graphics card will sport is codenamed the GA102-250.

With AMD soaring high with its graphics line-up, Nvidia needs to up its game to establish its dominance in the market. We already know that AMD’s ray-tracing feature is inching closer towards Nvidia’s very own in terms of 4K gaming performance. As to whether Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series be its homecoming remains to be seen.

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Do check out:

https://technosports.co.in/2020/11/05/new-amd-ryzen-5000-series-processors-post-the-highest-single-core-scores-on-geekbench-5-database/

November 6, 2020