If you’re a regular gamer, professional esports competitor, live streamer, or creator, NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards have all the features you crave and then some.
Besides 2nd gen Ray Tracing Cores, 3rd gen Tensor Cores, and new streaming multiprocessors that, together, bring stunning visuals, faster frame rates, and AI acceleration for an improved experience, whatever you’re up to, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards feature a number of world firsts:
- Up to 24GB of new, blazing-fast GDDR6X VRAM
- GPUs with HDMI 2.1 for 4K high refresh rate and 8K gaming
- Discrete GPUs with support for the AV1 codec, so you can watch high-resolution streams using significantly less bandwidth
- Founders Edition cards with innovative dual axial flow through cooling solutions
Then there’s NVIDIA Reflex, for reduced latency and improved responsiveness; NVIDIA Broadcast for AI-enhanced video and voice comms; updated NVIDIA DLSS, for 8K HDR gaming; and an enhanced NVIDIA Studio that makes creative applications run faster than ever before.
The GeForce RTX 30 series comes in three flavours with varying specs:
EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 – available 24 September
- Resolution: 8K
- CUDA cores: 10,496
- VRAM: 24 GB GDDR6X
- Price: $1499 (about R25,165)
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 – available 17 September
- Resolution: 4K
- CUDA cores: 8,704
- VRAM: 10 GB GDDR6X
- Price: $699 (about R11,735)
EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 – available in October
- Resolution: 1440p
- CUDA cores: 5,888
- VRAM: 8 GB GDDR6
- Price: $499 (about R8,377)
To see all this beastly hardware in action, check out the launch event below:
For those of you that like your hardware pimped out, there’s also a COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 30 range that is sure to satisfy your RGB needs. The Vulcan model comes with an LCD display and triple-fan cooler, the Neptune delivers silent liquid cooling and RGB lighting, the Advanced Series features a Silver Shark 3.0 cooling engine for aggressive heat reduction, and the Ultra features synchronised lighting affects and efficient, three-fan cooling.
If you were wondering why you’d even need any of this, plenty of existing and upcoming games are already planning optimisations for GeForce RTX 30 users, including Fortnite, Apex Legends, Cyberpunk 2077, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, Watchdogs: Legion, Valorant, and even Minecraft.