Anybody catch the Nvidia live stream earlier today?

Hey all. Just wondering if anybody saw the introduction of the Nvidia RTX 3000 series earlier today. I watched pretty much all of it — some of it bored me, but most of it looked like a really interesting peek at a promising future, and the new cards seem very powerful. But I also got frustrated at how much technical info I had trouble understanding.

Anyway, I don’t know if I’m upgrading to one of those new cards anytime soon (I wouldn’t mind a 3070), but the future looks bright IMO. If that new “marbles” demo is anything to go by, we are at the start of something really big, because that was all done in real time, not rasterized.

Conversation 6 comments

  • Usman

    Premium Member
    01 September, 2020 - 2:02 pm

    <p>With Flight Simulator being very intensive on my 1080ti at 32:9 1440p resolution, I'm keen on seeing how it will perform on a 3080 since it's claimed to be more powerful than a 2080ti.</p><p><br></p>

    • erichk

      Premium Member
      01 September, 2020 - 3:40 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#566203">In reply to Usman:</a></em></blockquote><p>I'm just wondering if the 600 watt PSU in my system (which I purchased a few months ago) can handle the 3070.</p>

      • SWCetacean

        Premium Member
        01 September, 2020 - 4:46 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#566260">In reply to ErichK:</a></em></blockquote><p>What's the rest of your system? The manufacturer recommended power supply rating are always overstated. A highly-regarded tech site (GamersNexus IIRC) recently found that unless you're using a high-end desktop CPU (like Core i9 or Threadripper CPUs), most systems don't need more than a 400W PSU. </p>

        • erichk

          Premium Member
          01 September, 2020 - 5:21 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#566297">In reply to SWCetacean:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yes you are probably correct. I have a Core i7 9700K with an RTX 2060 Super, so maybe I'm okay in the PSU department.</p>

  • SWCetacean

    Premium Member
    01 September, 2020 - 3:05 pm

    <p>I didn't watch the stream, but I read AnandTech's live blog on it, mainly since AnandTech provides more technical info than many other tech review sites. The 3080 seems like a nice upgrade from my 1080 Ti. There was some "first look" benchmarks done by a reviewer on YouTube (found that via the r/hardware subreddit) [EDIT: that reviewer was Eurogamer's Digital Foundry] that showed a 65-90% increase in rasterization (non-raytracing) performance on the 3080 vs the 2080, so the claim of 2x performance is credible.</p><p>A bunch of people are claiming that AMD's upcoming RDNA2 GPUs will give Nvidia a run for their money, so I'll hold off until they get announced and compared with each other since I'm in no rush to upgrade. But given that AMD's GPUs have failed to live up to their hype in the last few years, I still expect to go with Nvidia for this round.</p>

    • martinusv2

      Premium Member
      01 September, 2020 - 9:45 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#566256">In reply to SWCetacean:</a></em></blockquote><p>I watched the presentation and I am very impressed. And that come from an AMD camp guy. nVidia is very clever in the pricing. $700 is a lot more affordable than the 2080ti at $1,200.00. Now it's on AMD turn and I think they will need a miracle to have a card as good. </p><p><br></p><p>If the rumors are true, RDNA2 is about the speed of the 2080ti. If it's the case, AMD will have to be more aggressive on price than nVidia. But we will have to wait on benchmarks to have a good picture of how well nVidia and AMD will fare in real world games.</p><p><br></p><p>But I do think this time I will go nVidia. Their tech looks more advanced than what AMD can do.</p>

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