NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series | Official Launch Event

[Fulcrum29]

I see older generation games are starting to get the ray tracing treatment. CDPR made a well-received announcement today that The Witcher 3 will get Ray Tracing, HDR and other optimisations.

They announced it as coming to the next generation. Other titles will follow, especially with some devs moving their content in bulk to Steam, they need to refresh it for sales.

Obviously, to be on-topic, Nvidia is liking this. No word of AMD's Ray Tracing or method of tracing to date.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Via Amazon, what would the price be for these cards be in your hand in SA?

 

[Fulcrum29]

Rumour mill

NVIDIA's cheap Ampere cards force AMD Big Navi with 16GB price to $549

NVIDIA pricing its new GeForce RTX 3070 at $499 and RTX 3080 at $699 is causing some headaches for AMD's Big Navi graphics cards.

www.tweaktown.com

NVIDIA's cheap Ampere cards force AMD Big Navi with 16GB price to $549

NVIDIA pricing its new GeForce RTX 3070 at $499 and RTX 3080 at $699 is causing some headaches for AMD's Big Navi graphics cards.

According to @coreteks on Twitter, "They (AMD) want to release the 16GB at $599 and the 8GB at $499 but after the Ampere announcement I'm expecting $549 for the 16GB and $499 for the 8GB. We're receiving the ASIC (GPU+MEM) this month (September)".

So, NVIDIA's surprise jebaited price of $499 for the new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3070 and $699 for the even-better GeForce RTX 3080 -- has really affected AMD. I'm sure they didn't expect the pricing to be so damn unlike the RTX 20 series, that AMD could be shaking at their knees a little bit.

Now for just $499 you're getting performance that beats the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti -- a card that had a launch price of $1199. Now if you remember back to January this year, I wrote a story headlined "AMD Big Navi GPU: RTX 2080 Ti killer, but will lose to RTX 3080" and it seems I was right on the money.

In that article, I said that the new Big Navi graphics card would have hardware ray tracing, and a "massive kick in performance over the Radeon RX 5700 XT. It will compete and beat NVIDIA's now flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti... a graphics card released in September 2018".

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1301839482287796224

I am unsure about this rumour, something in my tummy tells me that Big Navi is going to be like Vega 54/64. AMD should have something positioned between the 3070 and 3080, otherwise nothing above the $499 will make sense.

So... Big Navi which was supposedly to be priced at $549, rumoured to be a true Nvidia rival at the high-end competing against a RTX 3080 at $699... rattle, I think AMD will be competing against the 3070 at best. My speculation.

 

[Fulcrum29]

For a 4K comparison that is quite a phenomenal increase,

I would have liked a 1080p and 1440p comparison.

 

[ponder]

For a 4K comparison that is quite a phenomenal increase,

I would have liked a 1080p and 1440p comparison.

If you're getting a 80% boost at 4K I would not worry about 1080/1440p, at 1080p the gpu will probably be cpu throttled.

 

[InternetSwag]

interesting
i was gonna get a ps5 but now...

 

[Neoprod]

 

[UndercoverCode]

If you were to buy an RTX 3080 from the US, would you buy it from Amazon where duties and shipping are included or buy it with the use of Amarex Global Shopper?

Thanks in advance

 

[Moosedrool]

 

[Fulcrum29]

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Early adopters will be crazy. As it stands it is best to wait on AMD to release, and countries like our needs to wait on relaxed pandemic responses. Unless you really want one at the soonest I would suggest waiting until March next year. Just my humble opinion. At around that time we may even hear about Super announcements...

Also, ordering through Amazon as an early adopter may be the wiser decision. As I know, Amazon has superb vendor support. To date, Amazon return hasn't cost me a penny as long as Amazon is the seller.

Mine will be picked up in the US or Canada, somewhere. Expectancy, either November or December. Still, undecided whether to go with the 3070 or 3080, but the 3070 seems to be the easier choice on the pocket.

 

[Bryn]

As much as I wanted to have my next video card be an AMD, I think I'll be investing in an RTX 3070 or 3080. The chance of AMD matching the performance, especially considering how amazing DLSS is, seems vanishingly remote.

 

[stefan9]

Want 3090 but not at R40k... Will either have settle for a 2080 or wait for pricing to settle.

 

[Prawnapple]

 

[Fulcrum29]

Don't discount big Navi yet.

You are right, but it depends on by how much it will be discounted.

 

[cerebus]

3080: +46% over 2080ti

Erster Geekbench-Wert zur GeForce RTX 3080 aufgetaucht | 3DCenter.org

In unserem Forum wurde der erste Eintrag einer GeForce RTX 3080 Grafikkarte unter dem Geekbench 5 bzw. dem dortigen OpenCL-Test erspäht (Update: CUDA-Werte hinzugefügt). Wie bei den bereits vorliegenden Benchmark-Werten einer GeForce RTX 3080 unter dem

www.3dcenter.org

 

[Comrade Alex]

$1499 x 17 x 1.15 = R29 300

Lets assume shipping and handling is 10% of the price - R3 000. So the total price is R32 300.

So Evetech (and others) are applying a (25% - 40%) markup?? That sounds a bit steep...

Minor correction. Remember for VAT purposes the "value" (actually called "customs value" for import purposes) of the product you are importing is increased with 10% before applying 15% VAT - E.g. VAT = $1499 x 17 x 1.1 x 0.15 = R4205. So the total value is a little bit more.

But I agree with you, the Evetech markup is silly.

PS: As far as I'm aware there are no additional customs or excise taxes applicable to GPUs, only to TV screens and big monitors.

 

[Fox1]

GPU's in general have shot up in price. I have a 550ti in a machine that's giving up the ghost and its not so simple getting a replacement card at a decent price.

 

[cerebus]

GPU's in general have shot up in price. I have a 550ti in a machine that's giving up the ghost and its not so simple getting a replacement card at a decent price.

Maybe in South Africa because of the rand drop. Otherwise it's been quite consistent.

The 1650 Super is the same price as the 550ti was.

Palit GeForce GTX 1650 StormX OC 4 GB GDDR5 grafische kaart, HDMI, Dual-Link DVI-D : Amazon.nl: Elektronica

Palit GeForce GTX 1650 StormX OC 4 GB GDDR5 grafische kaart, HDMI, Dual-Link DVI-D : Amazon.nl: Elektronica

www.amazon.nl

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

So seems RDNA 2 will be announced 28 October.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

So seems RDNA 2 will be announced 28 October.

I see Zen 3 announcement is due on the 10th October. I guess my new PC will be a reality in Jan or Feb, I was hoping sooner.