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I put this together to help compare, this is a 1080Ti

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These new cards are going to be a combo GPU/Fireplace or maybe not?

5194

48 GB or go home /s

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You know, my brand new mother board has PCIe 3.0 slots. Does that mean I’m losing a lot of bandwidth if I plug a 3000 series card into it? It’s a very new motherboard, so that’s confounding.

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I seriously doubt it unless it’s a 3090, and even then it’s likely not a huge difference. Still, I expect a lot of tests will be run right out the gate answering that exact question.

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Nah, PCIe version won’t matter, except possibly in Horizon Zero Dawn which for whatever reason is really sensitive to it.

Nvidia is asking all the reviewers to test on AMD for PCIe 4.0, so I would expect it to make a difference in benchmarks, to be clear. Just not more than a frame or four in actual games.

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I don’t know why PC Gamer is saying it’s ‘…wild, at least when it comes to memory’. Current Titan RTX cards also have 24GB…

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Something just seems weird there :)

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Games might be able to leverage 24GB in new ways (not just textures) but only when the 70 and 80 series cards are around 20GB too. Nobody is going to put in the work just for one card, except for NVIDIA.

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lol - yeah. Intel really screwed themselves over and it makes for an awkward moment for Nvidia.

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Also of note:

Gainward’s cards are also listed to use dual 8-pin power connectors, confirming my suspicions that custom cards will still be using the old PCIe power connectors rather than Nvidia’s new 12-pin connector.

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These numbers mean nothing to me. I need to know how many more X it is on the chart!

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That’s why I provided 1080Ti specs for comparison! :)

5205

Today is just the announcement, right? Actual release day is sometime later? Or will I be able to pay someone for a 3080 today?

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They’ll be answering that today, presumably, though in practice it’s likely to be effectively a pre-order regardless of when the formal release date is.

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I imagine we could expect First Looks from the tech review sites. Some of them could have just gotten boards. Don’t expect reviews, though.

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I sure hope so. I can’t wait for specs and then some benchmarks. And then AMD’s response. It’s extremely unlikely I’ll get an AMD card, but if they’re positioned well this generation it should hopefully affect prices.

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In 2018, the RTX series was announced on August 20th, and I have Nvidia order confirmations in my email from the same day for my 2080 Ti pre-order. It took a month before they started shipping if I recall.

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Asus w the big oops dropping a press release prematurely.

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A larger heatsink that fills most of the card’s 2.9-slot footprint was designed to leverage the increased airflow. To get heat up off the die and into the heatsink array, the surface of the heat spreader is polished with MaxContact technology, which improves smoothness at the microscopic level. The extra flatness allows for better contact with the die for enhanced thermal transfer.