NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3080 Flagship GPU Pictured For The First Time

Usman Pirzada of Wccftech writes, "NVIDIA's RTX 3080 graphics card features bold new design with bi-directional fans, irregular PCB and curved heatsink"

[Fishy Fingers]

*drools*

If its fake, its one hell of a fake and while I'm more likely to buy a 3rd party variant (Nvidia or AMD) that would make for one good looking founders addition. Fingers crossed for the GA102 core too.

[HardcoreHDGamer]

Why would you drool over a £1000 piece GPU when you can half of this on a PS5 when it drops and literally be rocking the same if not better fidelity in games. You guys drooling over, over price hardware to keep upgrading every year is so old fashioned and boring its just borderline retarded.

[remixx116]

I'm a console gamer but you sound literally stupid

[Edgelordsupreme]

Huh, that's a rather silly thing to say let's take a look at your comment history it can't be entirely terrible misinformed, childish takes.... Oh they all are!? Wow, that is quite the feat. Maybe you should refrain from talking about things you know nothing about? It might make you look like less of a "borderline retard" whatever that is.

[Neonridr]

you must be new. A PS5 is equivalent to what.. a 2070. Why would you drool over better, faster hardware? Gee.. I dunno..

[FlyingFoxy]

It's usually every 2 years, and even then a card like this could easily last you 3 or more depending what you play, especially at 1440p.

It's about what framerates and graphics settings you want, that's why PC gamers like upgrading every few years. Keeps you on top performance wise.

[anubusgold]

@HardcoreHDGamer 60 fps vs 250 fps enough said. 60 fps in games yuck that was bad in 2009 lol

[Matology]

Because some people like myself enjoy building PCs... Gaming on PC is something that is hard to explain to console people... When you boot up that first PC you built yourself and it works to a tee, that is the buzz.

Plugging in a HDMI lead and a power cord and loading up a game on console... Not for everyone.

[Shane Kim]

Flying fox

Marginally better gfx doesn't justify such a high price. I have the 1080Ti and play most games at max settings 1440p and they look marginally better. Not worth the 990 dollars (converted from swedish) I payed for marginally better gfx. It was stupid and something I'll never do again.

[FlyingFoxy]

Shane Kim that's up to you if you think it's worth it, if you prefer console then just go console. I prefer having higher framerates on PC and having the keyboard & mouse for certain games especially shooters.

Plus i use my PC for things other than gaming

[ossyc]

When the next gen consoles release they will already be 1 generation behind; the GPUs are the equivalent to a 2070(not even close to a 2080ti). The 3000 series will be out before the consoles. Also the consoles have a life span of 6-8 years. By year 4 the consoles will be 4- 5 generations of cards behind - I think you get the picture? The consoles great are value don't get me wrong, but you get what you pay for.

[starchild]

Because I enjoy what the PC offers as a gaming platform (and general computing device): better graphics, much higher framerates, higher resolutions, backwards and forwards compatibility, the ability to mod my games to suit my preferences, freedom and customization in hardware, and the best overall library of games IMO.

[anubusgold]

@ossyc Plus if you are smart you will part out your pc in 2 or 3 years before the value of your parts drop and ebay them and get most of your money back then use that money for your next upgrade. Sometimes you can get a good deal on a gpu or cpu then turn around and sell it for almost what it cost new i have done that several times. I sold a used 4870x2 for 400 dollars like 4 years after it launched. Ive sold cheap budget ram for 100 bucks because it was no longer being made.

When the 3000 series cards come out im thinking 600 to 500 bucks for the 3060 thats 2080Ti performance with twice the ray tracing cores if what Nvidia is saying is accurate . My current card is going for $250 dollars on ebay. So thats $350 to upgrade my pc for the next 3 years at the most.

[Neonridr]

you never buy the first edition of these cards. You always wait for a variant to come out by ASUS, MSI, etc

[FanboysKiller]

Looks cheap, I expect cheaper prices like the 10 series, I guess they wanna stay competitive against upcoming consoles .

[MWH]

That's the common sense, which nvidia completely lack for quite a while.

[Fishy Fingers]

The GTX1080 launched at $600-700 (3rd party vs founders), at the same time you could buy a PS4 with 3 games for $250 (in sales).

Dont think they've ever concerned themselves with being competitive against consoles.

[RazzerRedux]

Not sure why. Nvidia is more concerned with competition from AMD and Intel than PS or Xbox. PC gaming is a larger market than console gaming.

[Vits]

If they are going to pitch something against the new consoles will either be their notebook lineup or the RTX 3060. Unless AMD manage to surprise everybody with actually competitive card, the RTX 3080 will be alone at the top without competition and therefore will be expensive.

[CaptainHenry916]

Waiting for the RTX 3070

[Gridknac]

Waiting for the RTX 3080ti

[MrDead]

Waiting for my pizza.

[ocelot07]

Going to wait and see what AMD have to show.

[blanka4545]

Amd lol the ones with driver problems and said 4gb vram can do 4k haha!

[badz149]

again with "driver problems" argument? for how many years more will you be using that? it's 2020, buddy and while it's true that AMD has no offering for the equivalent of the 2080S and 2080Ti, they are definitely competing with nVidia at a notch or 2 lower tier and provides great value GPUs still. with nVidia unopposed at the highest end market, good luck paying overprice for those 3080 and 3080Ti later

[ocelot07]

I honestly believe GPU fanboys are worse than CPU and console fanboys I really do lol.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Next gen tech coming soon, will def upgrade my 2070 Super, just because :D

[AuraAbjure]

2070 Super a great card tho nice.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Thanks, I'm just excited to see what nvidia has and want next gen :D
I usually sell my old tech here: https://sellgpu.com/?gclid=...

I rather go there than ebay.

[blanka4545]

over priced and outphased after 3 series comes out. doesn't change anything. I still have a 980ti and still strong

[blanka4545]

yeah in 3 months most likely 2 series is so sorry haha lol!

[Anomander]

I am curious what the 3070 will have. My plan is to keep the 2070 Super longer and upgrade the CPU and Mobo/Ram to something more current (I Have an aging i5). Really eyeing the Ryzen 9 3900X right now, but who knows when I'll get to upgrade. Always something coming up Home wise that needs to be fixed!

[RaidenBlack]

Then wait a bit longer for the AMD Ryzen 4000 Vermeer chips to release.

[Neonridr]

my 1080ti is starting to show its age. Looking forward to a 3080/3080ti

[SprigganN4G]

ill go RDNA2, still rocking my 2013's R9 290X and it's still capable of 1080P Ultra with settings 60+ FPS. Its black magic.

[AuraAbjure]

RDNA 2 gunna rock the world!

[Hayter456]

Will this gpu be more powerful than next gen consoles? And will the GPU alone be price of the console lol

[ocelot07]

Most deffinetly for the first question.

[Kdoge]

The 2080ti is already more powerful so the 3000 series will definitely be better, at least the better cards. AMD is releasing the cards they use for the consoles this year too so if you are fine with cheaper but weaker than the 3000 u will be good. The new AMD cards are targeting the high end 2000 series

[Neonridr]

@uRaDecepticon - the PS5 is said to be around a 2070 (Super maybe). So that would put the XSX around a 2080 (Super maybe). The 2080ti is still more powerful but these 3xxx cards are going to blow the consoles out of the water.

[ossyc]

@uRaDecepticon When the next gen consoles release they will already be 1 generation behind; the GPUs are the equivalent to a 2070(not even close to a 2080ti). The 3000 series will be out before the consoles. Also the consoles have a life span of 6-8 years. By year 4 the consoles will be 4- 5 generations of cards behind - I think you get the picture? The consoles great value don't get me wrong, but you get what you pay for.

[Kdoge]

Hope it comes out before cyberpunk 2077 cause I wanna play that with rtx though of not I have a 1080ti so if it doesn't look much different I'll be fine lol.

[pereira2227]

Finally a worthy candidate to upgrade my GTX1080...

[anubusgold]

im with you buddy my 1080 overclocks well 2159 on core clock +450 on memory most games still run 90+ fps on ultra at 1440P but i want more lol cant help it lol.

[Morbid Bulldozer]

Making new graphics cards is pointless. According to N4G experts, the games will be 'held back' by cheaper cards anyway.

[ocelot07]

What? Where on earth have you seen users say that 🙄???? That's why devs out a min and recommended component list out before release.

If anything is holding games back on pc. Is people using slow hard drives and slow SSD. The only game on PC that I know of that requires a certain speed SSD is Star Citizen.

[Nitrox]

Kind of an ignorant comment.

Graphics scale (resolution, effects, etc), so GPUs are not the thing “holding back”. CPU and I/O output however, yes, do prevent certain things from even being possible that could otherwise be achieved on new hardware.

But nice try

[Bladesfist]

I'm going to wait until the 3080Ti releases and if that is a significant jump (40% performance or so) I will sell my 2080Ti and buy one and maybe finally move from 1440p to 4K

[FlyingFoxy]

Look forward to more info on these cards, there's a few games I will want to play with a new GPU, Half Life Alyx, Back 4 Blood (maybe, it's supposedly being shown soon) and whatever other games Valve release.

[RaidenBlack]

Yea, I really want to know what's Turtle Rock Studios on about.
Honestly, I want to what the whole of WB's studios are on about? Rocksteady, Monolith, etc ....
They should have a separate Summer Game Fest show of their own.

[FlyingFoxy]

Supposedly Turtle Rock are working on at least 1 or 2 trailers for the game and have been for a little while now. I'm not sure when the game will release or if it will even release this year, but at least we'll know if it turns out anything like L4D quite soon which I'm most interested to know about.

[Powerhug]

It makes more sense to name the new GPUs 2180, rather than jumping straight to a 30 series. This leads me to think this is fake.

[nismo370]

????
Nonsense.

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

Lol what? Why does that make more sense when they went from 1080 to a 2080 and not 1180?

[Powerhug]

Because RTX is a new technology? GTX ended with 1080. Then it's RTX 2080. And they'll continue the RTX series. Whatever.

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

Even with the GTX line they went up the same way 680, 780, 980, etc. I still don't see how this seems fake

[nismo370]

Day 1 purchase for me

[ASSASSYN]

As I always do. Waiting on the ti version.