Nvidia RTX 3050, 3060 (Ti), 3070 (Ti), 3080 (Ti) & 3090 (Ti) HAVE ARRIVED (INFO AND BENCHMARKS)

[RuneSR2]

It seems like we'll get:

The new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000 series cards will reportedly offer more VRAM on all cards, so we could see: 

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 12GB 
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - 12GB 
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti - 16GB.

Maybe reduced power consumption due to 7nm. And maybe the best - if it's true:

NVIDIA is reportedly set to offer its next-gen GeForce RTX 3000 serieds at cheaper prices than the current-gen GeForce RTX 2000 series, which would be interesting. NVIDIA faced considerable backlash with the pricing on its GeForce RTX 2000 series, even though they still sold like hotcakes a price reduction is always welcome.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/68455/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-more-vram-way-faster-cheaper/index.h...

Expected - maybe - in the first half of 2020:

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-next-generation-ampere-7nm-graphics-cards-landing-1h-2020/ 

Some shots of RTX 3090s:

[RuneSR2]

In Death was supposed to get an update enabling certain RTX features - but did that ever happen? Any one knows of VR games supporting RTX features like ray-tracing or DLSS?

Personally I don't care for the advanced RTX features, I just want the raw speed - unless I can get advanced RTX features with no discernible performance hit B)

https://youtu.be/mH0dRnTsTvQ

[Techy111]

Just checked recently that my 6700k is bottle necking my 2080ti by 36.5 percent. If I pop a 9900k in my pc it'll bottleneck my ti by 0.01 percent. Go figure 😞 i wonder if the new 3080ti's will need the next gen cpu?

[Techy111]

Bottleneck checker here = https://pc-builds.com/calculator/

[RuneSR2]

RuneSR2 said:

In Death was supposed to get an update enabling certain RTX features - but did that ever happen? Any one knows of VR games supporting RTX features like ray-tracing or DLSS?

Personally I don't care for the advanced RTX features, I just want the raw speed - unless I can get advanced RTX features with no discernible performance hit B)

https://youtu.be/mH0dRnTsTvQ

Just found this:

"We are working on an update that will implement Variable Rate Shading for Nvidia RTX series GPUs. When this update goes out, you'll see a new graphic setting that allows you switch this setting on/off. That update is coming soon and we'll post on Reddit when it goes live."

https://www.reddit.com/r/InDeath/comments/9kyrk8/rtx_features/

But seems that the trail went cold 1 year ago, can't see the RTX update ever happened. Then again, it seems very few can see the difference comparing Medium and Epic in Asgard's Wrath, it may take a big jump in graphics quality with next to no performance hit before RTX-specific content is worthwhile...

According to this thread there're no VR games or apps supporting RTX specific features:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamVR/comments/apnts4/any_vr_games_that_use_nvidia_rtx_ray_tracing/

It does make sense - VR is for a very limited audience, same goes for RTX, investing time and money in RTX feature for VR games may not be relevant yet.

Thus don't buy RTX for VR specific image quality enhancements, but only for the speed... And beware of the hype 😉

[RattyUK]

Techy111 said:

Bottleneck checker here = https://pc-builds.com/calculator/

My build comes out at 2.15%...  curious as it doesn't appear to tell me where! (I think it may still be CPU on a second reading)

Nice to know though 🙂

ETA: Yes, CPU - I did another run with changed CPU and it told me my GPU was too weak!

[RuneSR2]

Techy111 said:

Just checked recently that my 6700k is bottle necking my 2080ti by 36.5 percent. If I pop a 9900k in my pc it'll bottleneck my ti by 0.01 percent. Go figure 😞 i wonder if the new 3080ti's will need the next gen cpu?

It'll depend much on the game and app - I got 22-23 fps in Xing with max eye candy ss 2.0, my cpu can easily deliver 90 fps - maybe I can get 45 fps with 3080 Ti, lol.

Asgard's Wrath seems to require much more gpu than cpu too.

Sims may be more cpu dependent than normal games and apps though - still driving Reverb I'd think that 3080 Ti in your case may be more important than a new processor - but again, it'll depend on the sim.

And easy test is to lower super sampling. If that doesn't change your fps, then you need a new processor. If it increases your fps, you're likely to benefit from a gpu upgrade. That's how I know I'm likely to benefit greatly from a gpu upgrade 😉

And a gpu upgrade will always provide the ability to increase super sampling without decreasing your current performance.

[RuneSR2]

Deleted, sorry - no idea what went wrong - I blame my dumb office pc, lol.

BTW, here're some go go dancers until I find some better content!

[Techy111]

This is a proper gogo dancer!!! Lol

[OmegaM4N]

snowdog said:

Oh bugger. Just when I was planning to pay around a grand off my credit card debt.

Oh well, it's only money 😄

Please send me a grand. o:)

[MowTin]

Techy111 said:

Just checked recently that my 6700k is bottle necking my 2080ti by 36.5 percent. If I pop a 9900k in my pc it'll bottleneck my ti by 0.01 percent. Go figure 😞 i wonder if the new 3080ti's will need the next gen cpu?

We have the same CPU / GPU combination. I'm aware of my bottleneck in CPU intensive flight sims. I've been looking at the i9 9900KS but I can't find any real comparisons that indicate it's worth the upgrade. Almost everything runs really well. And I hear i9 9900k owners complaining about Asgard's Wrath not running well. 

So not sure if it's worth it for a few games when the I suspect the i9 prices are going to have to drop to compete with the Ryzen 9. 

They're asking $613 for i9 9900ks
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YP3J7ZM?pf_rd_p=183f5289-9dc0-416f-942e-e8f213ef368b&pf_rd_r=BV...