Sapphire Technology has posted a teaser of its upcoming custom Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. The board is equipped with a rather remarkable cooling system that promises to enable higher-than-AMD-recommended frequencies out-of-box as well as some additional overclocking potential.
Since AMD designed a rather compelling triple-fan cooling system for its Big Navi-based family, many graphics card vendors — Sapphire included — decided to go with reference coolers and cards with their initial Radeon RX 6800/6900 offerings. But custom coolers with better performance enable makers to build factory-overclocked graphics cards that are sold at a premium, so Sapphire and its rivals are eager to bring them to market.
The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card comes with a rather interesting 2.5-wide or even 3-wide cooler that that has three fans of different sizes. One of the fans looks particularly larger than two others. The powerful custom cooling system almost certainly means a custom PCB with an enhanced VRM too, so expect Sapphire’s Nitro+ RX 6800 XT to offer increased stock clocks along with some additional overclocking potential.
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Unfortunately, Sapphire did not disclose when it plans to release its Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT as well as its out-of-box frequencies. Though, it is reasonable to expect this card to arrive in the coming weeks.
The Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT certainly looks impressive and could easily feature one of the most advanced air-cooling solutions around. In the meantime, it remains to be seen what Sapphire has for its top-of-the-range Radeon RX 6900 XT offering up its sleeve.
Back in the day Sapphire was one of ATI’s (and then AMD’s) key graphics cards partners and had a very special treatment, so the company experimented with off-the-shelf cooling solutions quite often. It was first with a ‘liquid metal’-based cooler in 2005, then it was first to offer a stock liquid cooling system with a graphics card in 2006, and then it was first to offer a vapor chamber cooler in 2008. I
AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 line of desktop processors are available now. These are the first chips from the company that include its next-gen Zen 3 architecture.
Replacing last year’s Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 desktop chips the new 5000 series still uses AMD’s 7nm process but offers a 19 percent increase in instructions per cycle. The Ryzen 5000’s flagship chipset includes four different processors: Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X, and its flagship the Ryzen 9 5950X.
If you are waiting for the new graphics cards AMD recently announced, you’ll have to wait a bit longer before you can order one. The Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 will go on sale on November 18th for $649 and $579, respectively. While the Radeon RX 6900 XT will go on sale on December 8th for $999.
If you’re looking to upgrade your current PC, this might be a CPU worth researching. Here are a few places where you can buy a new Ryzen 5000 line.
We have seen how an upcoming release is planned for the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti with the filtration of their specifications, but today we have been able to know, according to the Tweet of kopite7kimi, as some new cards NVIDIA RTX 3060 (3840 FP 32) and RTX 3050 Ti (3584 FP 32) would be released in January of next year the RTX 3060 and between January and February the RTX 3050 Ti.
Based on the GPU GA 192 , the RTX 3060 have 3840 CUDA cores and RTX 3050 Ti 3584 CUDA cores , they will use a 192 bits and may have 6 or 12 GB of GDDR6 memory . This would be the first time that NVIDIA brings ray tracing to the x series 050 from its range. Kopite7kimi has also commented that will be launched an RTX 3050 but nothing is known about her yet.
If so, NVIDIA would have a full gamut with a total of 6 graphics of Generation RTX 30 of which we marked in bold those announced and available and some models that are rumored are yet to come
RTX 3090
RTX 3080
RTX 3070
RTX 3070 Ti
RTX 3060
RTX 3050 Ti
These models that are rumored to be released are the RTX 3050 and the Ti versions of the 3080 Y 3070 , although from the 3080 You have already leaked some more data, as you will have 20 GB GDDR6x and will not have NVLINK .
NVIDIA wants to speed up the output of its cards to start competing strongly with the newly released AMD Radeon RX 6000.
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Today the new AMD Ryzen desktop processors go on sale 5000 series , based on the Zen 3 architecture and offering a 24% more performance than the previous generation, these AMD processors were announced on October 8 and today you can buy them at the usual distributors in Spain. Starting at 15: 11 hours in Spain we can buy the announced models which are:
Ryzen 9 5950 X
Ryzen 9 5900 X
Ryzen 7 5900 X
Ryzen 5 5000 X
Data has recently been leaked performance of some of these processors, so we can see how the 5600 X has an excellent performance in single core tests as it was in first position in the PassMark test, in addition to co rroborate this, it also got 1st position in the Cinebench R single core test 15. A processor that is released by 299 $ and it looks like a successful sales given its excellent quality / price ratio.
Range / Model
Cores / Threads
Base frequency
Boost Frequency
Cache L2 + Cache L3
TDP
Price
Ryzen 9
5950 X
16 N
29 H
3.4GHz
4.9GHz
90 MB
105 W
$ 799
Ryzen 9
5900 X
15 N
24 H
3.7GHz
4.8GHz
72 MB
105 W
$ 549
Ryzen 7
5600 X
8N
20 H
3.8GHz
4.7GHz
35 MB
105 W
$ 449
Ryzen 5
5600 X
6N
12 H
3.7GHz
4.6GHz
36 MB
65 W
$ 299
We have also seen some performance data of the most powerful gaming processor, the Ryzen 9 5950 X. This processor gets up to a 29% more performance compared to the previous Ryzen 9 3950 X, in addition to this extra performance in games, is an excellent option when creating content , in some CAD applications you get up to a 27 Extra% performance.
Today from 15: 11 you can get your new Ryzen processor from the series 5000 based on Zen 3 and a few days later you will be able to acquire the new AMD Radeon RX cards 6000 that AMD announced last 28 October.
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After the announcement of the manufacturer of the year 2020 At the end of last week, the European Hardware Community Awards will be announced for the year 2020. These no longer only contain the voices of the Hardwareluxx community, but are made up of nine European hardware sites.
These include Hardwareluxx from Germany, KitGuru from Great Britain, iO-Tech from Finland , PurePC from Poland, Lab 477 from Romania, Geeknetic from Spain, Hardware Upgrade from Italy and Tweakers from the Netherlands and CowCotland from France. Just as with Hardwareluxx, the readers of the other eight pages cast their votes – together they could 16. 00 0 individual votes can be booked.
The results do not only represent our readership , but offer a European overview. Brands that are particularly strong in Germany do not necessarily have to have a prominent position in the whole of Europe.
We want to go into some highlights in more detail: As expected, AMD wins the choice of processors. The best GPUs apparently come from NVIDIA and with the GeForce RTX 3080 this is also the product of the year – AMD comes with the Radeon RX – 5151 – Series a little late for this election. All other winners can be found in the overview. Otherwise there are many overlaps between our manufacturers of the year 2020 and the European Hardware Community Awards.
In a current video, the colleagues from LinusTechTips are building the “ fastest gaming PC in the world “. In addition, an Intel Core i9 – 9866 K is used, but also an ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090 OC as we already had it in the test. With regard to the imminent start of the Ryzen – 5000 – processors and Radeon RX – 6000 – graphics cards can only be called the fastest gaming PC with reservation, which is also what the authors of the video do
The video is particularly interesting with regard to the cooling of the processor. A custom water cooling from EKWB is used and the water cooler is apparently a prototype for which one does not want to give all the details yet. The components of the water cooler are partially pixelated in order not to reveal what it is. The parts that can be seen initially look like a standard water cooler, but it should be significantly heavier than is usually the case.
Additional cables, especially the The idle temperatures shown in the range from 0 to 4 ° C indicate that a kind of Peltier element or similar technology is used here. This is an electrothermal transducer that generates a temperature difference by flowing a current through the element.
Such an element becomes cool on the one hand, on the other for it warm. The low temperatures just above 0 ° C are achieved. However, waste heat must still be dissipated – here from the warm side of the Peltier element.
A Core i9 – 10900 K naturally reaches its Thermal Velocity Boost of 5.3 GHz without any problems at these temperatures. LinusTechTips even overclocked the selected processor to 5.4 GHz. Under load, the temperatures of the individual cores are 50 to 60 ° C.
The approach of using a Peltier element in a cooler has already been tried by many manufacturers. Ultimately, there are two factors that usually speak against it: First, such an element naturally produces a certain amount of waste heat, which then also has to be dissipated. If in doubt, this is even higher than the waste heat from the processor. Secondly, temperatures in the range of 0 ° C and slightly above are always problematic, since moisture can condense on the cold surfaces here. Correspondingly, good ventilation must be provided, or a shutdown must take place if such low temperatures are reached.
EKWB will probably soon reveal the secret of the cooler. Then we know all the details.
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Earlier this week, we learned that AMD would be sharing more on its ray-tracing support for RX 6000 series GPUs. Now, those details have started to surface. It’s not much, but at least we can get a glimpse at which games will be supported.
AdoredTV got in contact with AMD to clarify if the currently available games using DirectX ray tracing (DXR) will be supported on the upcoming Radeon RX graphics cards.
To this question, AMD answered that the new Radeon RX 6000 series will support “all ray tracing titles using industry-based standards”, such as Microsoft DXR API and the upcoming Vulkan raytracing API. On the other hand, games that use “proprietary raytracing APIs and extensions”, like the Nvidia DirectX RTX and Nvidia Vulkan RTX, won’t be supported.
AMD’s answer means that games such as Control (uses DXR) will probably be supported at launch, but Quake RTX and Wolfenstein: Youngblood, which uses Nvidia’s proprietary ray tracing technology, won’t.
With Intel and the next-gen consoles expected to support the likes of Microsoft DXR and Vulkan ray tracing APIs, developers will probably invest their resources in the larger, open ray tracing ecosystem.
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While you can buy one of the best gaming PCs and resolve your dilemma about whether to buy or build a PC that way, putting together your own system is less expensive and more rewarding. When you build a system yourself, you get total control of everything from the exact make and model of motherboard to aesthetics of the chassis and how many RGB fans you want.
Depending on what type of computer you create, you may also be saving a few hundred dollars over the cost of buying a prebuilt system. To help you assemble the best PC build for gaming or productivity on your budget, we’ve created a set of recommended parts lists below, organized by total price.
Getting High-End GPUs for Best PC Builds
However, before we get to our recommendations, we have to talk about the state of the market right now and why this is a terrible time to buy a high-end graphics card and a very difficult time to build a high-end gaming PC. At the moment, Nvidia’s new RTX 3080, 3070 and 3090 cards are top-of-the-line, but nearly impossible to get (see how and where to buy an RTX 3080, 3090 or 3070 card for your best chance). And AMD’s new Radeon RX 6000 series cards won’t be out until later this month and, at that time, could also sell out quickly.
So, while we will be recommending RTX 3000 series cards in our $1,500+ builds, know that you may have a difficult time finding one in stock right now. Your options are either to wait and keep trying, buy a prebuilt PC with the card inside or substitute in a cheaper, mid-range card, which we’ll offer some suggestions for. However, if you’re building a PC that’s about $1,250 or less, this is a perfectly good time to build as sub-$300 CPU and graphics cards aren’t getting replaced or lowering in price anytime soon.
Best PC Build Caveats
We will update this best PC builds page on a regular basis to keep pace with the changing hardware marketplace. Because availability and price of components changes so frequently, we will not have tested every single component. Nor, unless otherwise stated, are we able to gather all the parts for each suggested build together and test for clearance issues or other potential compatibility issues.
Note also that hardware prices change daily and vary by country, so the total cost for any given build may be slightly higher or lower when you read this than it was at publication time. We don’t include the cost of an operating system, because you can get Windows 10 for Free or Cheap. Nor do we include the price of peripherals such as the best gaming monitors, best gaming keyboards or best gaming mouse.
Best $500 PC Build for Gaming
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For around $500, you can build a brand new gaming PC that has a recent-generation Intel Core i3 processor, Nvidia’s entry-level GTX 1650 graphics and 512GB of speedy solid-state storage. At this price point, you can expect AAA games to run at low to mid settings at 1080p resolution, but you will be able to at least play them. Dropping down to 720p will allow you to turn on some more eye candy.
For the best $500 PC build for gaming, we recommend a Core i3-9100F processor from Intel, which has a reasonable four cores and a max rated turbo boost of 4.2 GHz. The 9100F comes with a usable stock cooler in the box and, with a TDP of 65W, it’s not going to require a high-end power supply.
Our graphics card is the GTX 1650, because it’s the most powerful card we could fit into this budget, though you’d be better off stretching another $30 or so and getting a 1650 Super Card of some kind. This card should allow you to play games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Borderlands 3 at around an 80 fps average at 1080p and normal settings.
If you’re looking to save money on your $500 PC build, you can find chassis that are $10 to $20 cheaper than the Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L, but we’ve built in this case and found it has excellent build quality and an attractive clear side panel for the price. You can also find other B365M motherboards for around $10 less, but we went with the Gigabyte B365M DS3H because it is highly rated.
Best $800 PC Build for Gaming and Productivity
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If you can stretch your budget up to $800, you can build a very strong PC with the ability to play games, broadcast your gaming to Twitch (see how to stream PC games to Twitch) and even do some serious photo editing. We actually made the best $800 PC Build for Gaming a just a few weeks ago and were able to pack in a 6-core, 12-thread AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, an Nvidia GTX 1660 Super graphics card and 1TB of speedy PCIe storage, all in a case with an attractive RGB front panel.
For the best $800 PC build for gaming and productivity, we chose AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 as our processor. For just $175 (at pub time), this CPU offers 6 cores and 12 threads with a maximum boost clock of 4.2 GHz and a competent Spectre Stealth cooler in the box. With that many threads, streaming games via OBS with x264 compression was really smooth, with a degradation of only about 10 percent in frame rates over playing the games alone.
At pub time, cards based on the Nvidia GTX 1660 Super graphics card were the best we could fit into our budget for the best $800 PC build. With this card, we were able to play games like Borderlands 3 at Badass settings and Shadow of the Tomb Raider at its highest settings while getting average frame rates in the high 40s and 50s at 1080p. Less demanding games such as Grand Theft Auto V pulled over 60 fps at very high settings.
We picked the WD Blue SN550 SSD because it’s a speedy NVMe SSD for the money. Priced at $105 at pub time and often on sale for less, the 1TB capacity of this drive provides plenty of room for games and media files while offering sequential read and write speeds of 2,400 and 1,750 MBps, respectively.
The Antec Dapper Dark Phantom DP301M case is a great value. While it’s not full-featured enough to make our list of the best PC cases, it is easy to build in and has excellent cable management, along with a tempered-glass side panel for under $60. It also has an attractive RGB light panel on its front, though you can only control it using a button and not via software.
Best $1000 PC Build for Gaming
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With a $1,000 budget, our best PC build for gaming keeps the same solid Ryzen 5 3600 CPU but provides a much faster graphics card in the Nvidia RTX 2060, which is the cheapest card to support hardware ray tracing. It can also take advantage of Nvidia’s Broadcast software for filtering out unwanted background noise and blurring the messy home office behind you during video calls.
In addition to upgrading the graphics card from what we had on our $800 PC build, we doubled our RAM to 32GB, went with the speedy XPG SX8200 Pro drive, which tops our list of the best SSDs, and chose the very attractive NZXT H510 as our case.
We also got a Bronze 80+ rated power supply, which should be more efficient and reliable over the long haul than some cheaper models that don’t make the Bronze designation. At this price point, you wont’ get one of the best power supplies, but the Cooler Master MWE 600 should be more than competent.
The MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus is a nice upgrade over the Gigabyte B550M DS3H we chose for the $800 Build. MSI’s board has USB 3.1 Gen 2 on the board and some RGB lighting to boot. If any of these components are sold out or have gone up in price, you can cut costs by going with a cheaper SSD, a non-Bronze PSU or a lower-cost B550 motherboard.
Best $1500 PC Build for Gaming
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Jumping up to a $1,500 budget, our best PC build for gaming incorporates a 6-core, 12-thread Intel Core i5-10600K, the best CPU overall right now, and a speedy Nvidia RTX 3070 card. Now, as we stated above and elsewhere, you may have a hard time getting an RTX 3070 card at this time. The card listed above is just one of many that third-party RTX 3070s that’s out of stock; grab whatever one you can.
If you can’t get an RTX 3070 right away, your options are to delay your purchase, buy one of the best prebuilt gaming PCs, or settle for a lower-end card like the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or, if you can find one, an RTX 2060 Super. If you need to build right now, your best bet might be to stick with integrated graphics for a few weeks or pop in an old video card you have on hand from a prior build.
We also have adequate cooling and power to do some overclocking (see how to overclock Intel processors) and push our CPU past its stock boost speed of 4.8 GHz. In our tests, we were able to get the Core i5-10600K up to 5-GHz and you should be able to do the same with the CoolerMaster MasterLiquid ML240L V2 240mm AIO cooler on board. However, spending another $50 on the Corsair H100i, our pick for best CPU cooler, might yield even better results.
To accommodate the 10th Gen processor, we went with the MSI Pro Z490-A motherboard, which promises excellent passive cooling, including a built-in heatsink for the M.2 slot, great cable management for the SATA ports and support for both 2.5 Gbps Ethernet and USB 3.2.
We’ve stuck with the same RAM and SSD from our $1000 Build, simply because they offer the best combination of performance and value here. Available in black or white, the Lian Li Liancool II has plenty of room for our 240mm radiator and any extra case fans you’d like to add. We love the sleek DRGB lights on the front panel and the in-depth cable management options. This is one sleek looking case.
Best $2000 PC Build for Gaming
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For the best $2000 PC build for gaming, there’s an elephant in the room that we can’t ignore. We’re recommending Nvidia’s brand new RTX 3080 (see our RTX 3080 review) as the GPU, because you can fit it into the $2,000 budget, if you can actually find one selling for the MSRP of $799. However, RTX 3080 cards are nearly impossible to buy right now (see where to buy an RTX 3080).
However, if you can’t get an RTX 3080 card today, you have the same choices that we mentioned with our $1,500 build. You can delay your build entirely, waiting for either more 3080 stock or a Radeon RX 6800 XT, you can buy a prebuilt PC with RTX 3080 inside or you can temporarily live with either integrated graphics or whatever old graphics card you have lying around from a prior build.
To go along with the graphics card, we’ve chosen an Intel Core i7-10700K CPU. This unlocked chip has 8 cores, 16 threads and the ability to overclock up to 5 or 5.1 GHz when paired with an adequate AIO cooler like the NZXT Kraken X63. That makes the 10700K a much better value than the Core i9-10900K which currently costs $100 more.
Even though this is a $2,000 PC build, we still have to make some compromises to hit our price point. That means that we’re sticking with 32GB of RAM rather than 64GB and, instead of getting a speedy 2TB SSD, we’re using the fast XPG SX8200 Pro as our boot drive and pairing it with a cheap Team Group GX2 SATA drive for additional storage.
If we had a higher budget, we could put some money into purchasing a more glamorous case, but instead we’ll go with the classy but affordable NZXT H510i, which provides plenty of space for fans in an elegant black or white design. You may, however, want to add a few dollars to buy your own front case fans.
In recent days, there have been various rumors and leaks related to more Nvidia cards. We just mentioned the likely GeForce RTX specification 3080 Ti, which would compete with the Radeon RX scheduled for December 6900 XT, approaching its price, unlike the absurdly expensive GeForce RTX 3090, and they are already reaching to us news about cheaper models. Of course, I’m talking about GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti, which would be based on the Ampere GA core 106. The source of this information is once again the insider kopite7nymi, whose reports were repeatedly covered in reality. However, given the latest news from the Nvdii camp, a lot could still change by the time these cards are released, both in the specs and the release date.
We got to know new, unofficial information about Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti, which would be based on the GA core 106. The premiere was initially set for the first quarter 2021 of the year.
GeForce RTX graphics card test 3070 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
About Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX graphics cards 3050 These, which have not yet been officially confirmed by the Greens, have not been heard for a long time. According to insider, kopite7kimi should boast of 3840 CUDA cores and 3584 CUDA cores. Both models are expected to offer 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on the 192 bit bus. GeForce RTX 3050 would be Nvidia’s first card with xx ending 50, which will bring ray tracing support. Last year’s GeForce GTX 1650, similarly to the more powerful versions of this chip released later, was devoid of RT and Tensor cores.
Ah, the desktop cards based on GA 106 will be called RTX 3060 (3840 FP 32) and RTX 3050 Ti (3584 FP 32). I don’t know if it will change in the future.
– kopite7kimi4virgil (@ kopite7kimi) November 4, 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti – new information about the card specification
According to the source of VideoCardz, the premiere of GeForce RTX 3060 is to be held in January 2021 of the year, while GeForce RTX 3050 Ti – at the turn of January and February next year. Nvidia also plans to release a regular GeForce RTX 3050, but too early for details. Kopite7kimi also reminded that the next generation of Nvidia accelerators and consumer GPUs, which will be based on the Hooper architecture, will be created in the 5-nanometer TSMC technological process, but this is basically nihil novi. Meanwhile, we are waiting for the official confirmation by the Greens of the GeForce RTX graphics card 3060 Ti, which is to be released according to the latest rumors on December 2 this year.
Rumor has it that RTX 3080 Ti would have as many CUDA cores as RTX 3090, but RTX 3080 – 320 – bit memory bus.
NVIDIA released the GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards based on the Ampere architecture in early September. However, the rumor mill around the additional models started immediately after the release.
Immediately after the release, NVIDIA was rumored to be preparing, among other things, a 16 gigabyte version of GeForce RTX 3070 and 20 A GB version of the RTX 3080 models for release later this fall. RTX 3080 20 GB was seen on a slide from one video card manufacturer, among others. Since then, several independent rumors have reported that NVIDIA has canceled not only RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 20 GB, including other designed models.
Kopite7Kimi, one leaker who polished his spurs this year, has amassed most of the leaks on his Twitter account. If his information is correct, NVIDIA has indeed canceled, for example, RTX 3080 20 GB, but instead the company would prepare a new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti model 20 with GB of memory. According to Kopite7Kim, it would be based on the GA 102 – 320 – KD-A1 graphics circuit with RTX 3090 10496 CUDDA kernel, but the memory bus would have been throttled to the level of RTX 3080, i.e. 19 with Gbps GDDR6X memory chips and 320 bit memory bus. The TDP value for the entire video card is said to be the same as for the RTX 3080 model.
Rumors have also circulated recently of the 9984 and 8704 CUDA kernel model, so it is possible that NVIDIA has not yet locked in the final configuration when weighing its response to AMD’s new Radeon. RX 6000 series and the pressure it creates on the market.
The development of an RTX 3080 You seem increasingly in the shoes of Nvidia, even if the company has not yet defined the technical specifications: the new rumors lead to think of a hybrid solution between the 3090 and the 3080.
by Manolo De Agostini published 04 November 2020 , at 10: 41 in the Video Cards channel GeForce Ampere NVIDIA
A few days ago the indiscretion on the intention of Nvidia to create a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to be fielded against the new high-end proposals from AMD. There was also talk of technical specifications, 9984 CUDA core and 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on bus a 12.
The new specifications reported by a well-known leaker report that the GeForce RTX 3080 You might be more similar to the RTX 3090 than we think : we speak in fact of 10496 CUDA core like the GeForce RTX 3090, but with the same memory configuration of the RTX 3080 , i.e. 20 GB of GDDR6X memory on bus a 320 bit and the same TGP as the 3080.
The same leaker also reports that the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, whose design seemed to be resumed, would have been deleted again (for the second time). As a summer song says, “there is no two without three”, so it cannot be ruled out that development will restart, perhaps after seeing the actual capabilities of the Radeon RX on the field 6800.
Recently the launch of the new high-end graphics cards from AMD took place under the RDNA2 architecture, but this has not prevented AMD from having another release up its sleeve, and it is that under the CDNA architecture we will find the AMD Instinct MI 100 , a card designed to accelerate specific workloads.
As we can see in a leak by Aroged in information that, although the publication says that it is publicly available by AMD, we have not been able to access it as it is protected by access accounts, in the October edition of the AMD corporate identity book it is specified how the different accelerator cards of the company should be called.
We can see three models in this information under embargo until day 16 November, which would be the AMD Instinct MI 100, Instinct V 640 and Instinct V 553 , eliminating the Radeon brand from these cards which, having the CDNA architecture, see a good part of the dedicated hardware video output removed, so it is logical that AMD wanted to remove the name of these cards from that of its gaming products.
Regarding the specifications of these cards, nothing is known, but it is known that up to 8 cards can be mounted Instinct MI 100 in the same system , of So for data centers it will be a very effective solution that promises to outperform NVIDIA A GPUs 100 under the Ampere architecture.
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There is new information on the internet about the NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card 3080 Ti, which has been around for several weeks. The new card is to be a direct response to the most powerful, competitive AMD Radeon RX chips 6000, but we still do not know when GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be available for sale. According to the new information, the mentioned card from NVIDIA will have the same core as the GeForce RTX 3090. So I’m talking about the Ampere GA 102 with 10496 CUDA cores. The difference, however, will be in the amount of memory and bus, and thus in the amount of bandwidth. Unfortunately, along with the information about GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, there was also a report about GeForce RTX 3070 Ti whose version with GA core 102 has been quietly canceled by the manufacturer.
According to the latest reports, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be equipped with GA core 102 with 10496 CUDA cores and 20 GB of memory GDDR6X on 320 – bit bus.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, according to the latest reports, will be equipped with 20 GB of GDDR6X VRAM on the bus 320 – bitwise. These will be memory timing identical to the GeForce RTX 3080, and therefore effective 19 000 MHz, which will translate into 760 GB / s. TGP will also remain at the same level as RTX 3080. So it will be 320 W. Looking at the specification, we can get the impression that the differences between RTX 3080 Ti a RTX 3090 will be very small, however the upcoming RTX 3080 The Ti should be noticeably cheaper as long as the availability of the new Ampere chips improves, of course.
RTX 3080 Ti FE: PG 133 – SKU 15, GA 102 – 250 – KD-A1, 20 GB GD6X, the same FP 32 count as 3090, 10496 FP 32, the same MEM speed and TGP as 3080, no NVLINK.
– kopite7kimi4virgil (@kopit e7kimi) November 4, 2020
There is also new information about the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. It seems that for now the manufacturer has completely abandoned the GPU project, which was supposed to be based on the GA core 102 with 7424 CUDA cores and 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM. Therefore, we expect only the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti as a cheaper alternative and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, for those who need very high performance in 4K but with a lower price compared to RTX 3090.
AMD has confirmed that Radeon GPUs RX 6000 support titles that rely on common APIs such as Microsoft DXR and Vulkan for ray tracing. This means that it will be possible, for example, to activate ray tracing in Control with the new AMD GPUs, but not in Wolfenstein Youngblood which uses a Vulkan extension created by Nvidia.
by Manolo De Agostini published 04 November 2020 , at 08: 00 in the Video Cards channel AMD Radeon Ships RDNA
The 28 October AMD pitted a lot of details on video cards Radeon RX 6000 , from the main technical specifications to performance in “traditional” games, ie based on rasterization. The company has kept the confidentiality on the ray tracing and on the one it has renamed Super Resolution , a technology that should respond to Nvidia’s DLSS. We know that AMD’s new RDNA 2 GPUs have specific units to handle the calculations related to ray tracing, called Ray Accelerator, more specifically a unit per Compute Unit. In the hours after the conference, a first brief indication of the capabilities of the Ray Accelerators was leaked, but it is too little to draw definitive conclusions.
There are about a fortnight left before the debut of the new cards – Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT, the RX 6900 XT will arrive on December 8th ?? and AMD plans to reveal more information ahead of launch. The company intends to create some hype, but something has leaked in the meantime: in a brief statement to AdoredTV, AMD confirmed that will support ” all ray tracing titles that use industry standards, including the Microsoft DXR API and future Vulkan API dedicated to ray tracing. Games that use the ray tracing and proprietary extensions will not be supported “.
In the past few days we have sensed that this path will probably also be followed by Intel for future gaming GPUs. AMD’s statement means for example that in games that support DirectX Raytracing (DXR), like Control, it will be possible to activate ray tracing, while in the case of Nvidia RTX implementations – such Quake II RTX or Wolfenstein Youngblood – will not be possible.
It is clear that in the future we will increasingly move towards an implementation based on industrial rather than proprietary standards, on the other hand, Nvidia pushed the concept of ray tracing before the industry moved in that direction. As for the response to DLSS, a fundamental technology for high performance by activating ray tracing, we know that AMD is working on “ Super Resolution “: at the moment it seems that the technology will not be available at launch, but based on Microsoft’s DirectML it will be” open “and” cross platform “, unlike DLSS which necessarily requires an Nvidia GPU.
The Aroged site has made little reference to non-disclosure agreements and has published information on the new counting cards behind the NDA.
AMD previously announced that it will differentiate the development of its graphics cards from RDNA architectures designed for gaming and CDNA architectures designed for computing. In addition, the company has previously confirmed that the first new generation scorecard will be issued during the current year.
Now the familiar leak momomo_us has found an interesting article on the Aroged site with little regard for confidentiality agreements. An article published by Aroged reveals information about the latest edition of AMD Corporate Identity for AMD Partners, which can be found in the password-protected section of the company’s website
. According to Aroged, AMD will drop the Radeon branding from graphics cards. Instead of Radeon Instinct counting cards, the new generation of CDNA counting cards will simply be known as AMD Instinct. The obligation of confidentiality for the new branding of billing cards ends according to the screenshot taken by the site 16. November, which is probably the release date of the new architecture.
AMD will release MI 100, V 640 and V 2020 in the Instinct series models. So far, there is no more detailed information on the differences between the MI and V series. However, they are all expected to be based on the first CDNA codenamed Arcturus, which, based on the leaked data, is built as high as 128 from the Compute Unit. According to AMD’s Linux updates, the calculation cards have been dropped with full support for the 3D side, which means that they would not be suitable for use as graphics cards, even in theory.
Source: momomo_us @ Twitter, Aroged
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