Nvidia today announced its new and the most powerful GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards based on Ampere architecture that is NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture. The new GeForce RTX 30 Series consists of the new GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080, and the most affordable GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards.
New GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards Specifications and Features
All the three GPUs comes with dual side fans and features a revolutionary thermal design that is said to provide 55 per cent more airflow, and 33 per cent more power-efficient. The new GPUs are also said to be 3x quieter than any other previous-generation graphics cards.
The new GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards also feature faster 2nd gen Ray Tracing Cores, faster 3rd gen Tensor Cores, and new streaming multiprocessors that is said to bring stunning visuals, faster frame rates, and AI acceleration for gamers and creators.
The most powerful, GeForce RTX 3090 is the world’s first graphics card that comes with up to 24GB of new blazing-fast GDDR6X VRAM and CUDA Cores 10,496. While the GeForce RTX 3080 comes with 10GB GDDR6X VRAM and 8,704 CUDA Cores and the most affordable GeForce RTX 3070 comes with 8GB GDDR6 and 5,888 CUDA Cores.
GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics are also the worlds first graphics cards that come with HDMI 2.1, that brings 4K high refresh rate and 8K gaming to your PC. You can read on to the full specs and feature details of the new GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics here.
GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards Price and Availability
The new GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards will be available through various partners globally including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 will be available starting September 24 priced at $1499, the GeForce RTX 3080 will be available starting September 17 for $699, while the GeForce RTX 3070 will be available starting October priced at $499 with no exact release date yet.
Select GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards will also be available bundled with Watch Dogs: Legion along with GeForce NOW Founder’s Subscription for a 1-year period.