Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080

Nikola Tesla , Enrico Fermi, Johannes Kepler, James Clerk Maxwell, Blaise Pascal, Alan Turing, all are part of the pantheon of scientists who have left their mark on the development of humanity, the contributions made in various fields, from mathematics or physics to astronomy, directly affecting the way we live and communicate today. Not coincidentally, Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal and Turing are code names of Nvidia microarchitectures launched since 1080 and to this day, they find- is in legendary products such as 8800 GTX, GTX 1080 or RTX 2080 Ti.

With a small exception, this is how I started the series dedicated to Ampere architecture, two years ago. Until then, days had passed 825 since the launch of the Pascal architecture, and gamers were waiting for something new, which materialized in the Nvidia RTX series, codenamed Turing , ie exactly the exception in the first paragraph of this article. Well, today are 742 days from that moment… 64108800 seconds, 1068480 minutes, or 17808 hours, anyway we look at the problem, I think one thing is for sure. From then until now, RTX 2080 has been your absolute king of performance, and Nvidia has dominated the high-end segment without the right to appeal.

Of course, the strategy has changed a bit, the RTX SUPER series seeing the light of day last year, in July. Obviously, AMD has offered solutions worth considering in the mainstream segment, and the number of those who use an AMD video card in their home PC is noteworthy. But, when we are talking about high-end, RTX 2080 You were (and still is) a real colossus, relentless, impossible to counter or fought, comfortably positioned on top of Mount Olympus, looking down with indulgence at his subjects. Because yes, for 742 days, RTX 2080 You were exactly this is the king of performance.

As it happens once in a while in our field, there comes a time when a new beast rises from the hot crucible of the foundry, blowing fire and brimstone, accompanied by a mad roar, and the howl of wild animals. No, I did not confuse the… textual domains, foundry is translated into Romanian by foundry. It is true, not one in which the hot iron is beaten with a hammer, but one in which the silicon molecules are carefully positioned on the waffer, not by hefaistosis with forearms like rags, covered in soot and sweat, but by engineers dressed in robes. white and protective suits, and the howl of wild animals is just a metaphor for the roar that has engulfed social media for several weeks, making new and new details

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