ASUS has announced the release of two NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, they are the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and the GeForce RTX 3060. Both of the graphics cards are scheduled to be on the market in the first half of 2021.
People are now anticipating the release of both, but which one is better?
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti specifications
According to Kopite7kimi, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card is based on the graphics architecture of the new Nvidia Ampere. It brings massive improvements to both power efficiency and raw performance.
Nvidia has increased the power budget over the RTX 2080 and it boosted the power efficiency, this means that the performance profile of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is above what any Nvidia graphics card was capable of.
There have also been improvements to the RT and Tensor cores, but the most notable improvement has been to the rasterization engine.
Nvidia was able to double the amount of CUDA cores, thanks to optimization. The CUDA cores are on each Streaming Multiprocessor and it made both data paths able to handle Floating Point 32 workloads.
So what does this mean? While the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 only has 46% more Streaming Multiprocessors than the RTX 2080, which is at 68%, it doubles the CUDA core count and increases from 2,944 to 8,704. This translates to three times the FP32 throughput from 10 TFLOPs to 29.7 TFLOPs.
When you pair up the CUDA cores, with boosts to Texture Units, Cache and Memory Bandwidth, the gaming performance gets one of the biggest generational jumps in a long time, even if it falls short of than performance target which was 2x the speed.
The Nvidia RT are also back and they also have massive improvements. Nvidia Ampere graphics cars include second-generation RT cores and it functions the same as the first generation RT cores, but is twice as efficient.
Meanwhile, the video section is still in beta and it is better than other solution on the market for blocking out the background without a green screen.
One of the features that you should look out for is the Nvidia RTX I/O, which is an API that will work together with Microsoft's DirectStorage API, to move data from the SSD to the graphics card.
In next-generation games, this improvement can help reduce the loading time and it could also mirror the I/O performance that has been teased with the next-generation game consoles such as the Xbox Series X and the PS5. This technology is very significant for future gaming tech.
Price
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti costs $699. Now that tech companies are switching their graphic cards, expect to see more from Asus, MSI, Zotac and more.
Take note that the card designs may see steep price increases over the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, based on numerous aspects like cooling solutions and the factory-tuned overclocks. However, every RTX 3080 graphics card would have up to date performances like Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Needless to day, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a massive improvement from Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and it is the perfect match to the latest game consoles today.
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Written by Sieeka Khan
