The world’s first 8K game card!
Editor’s note: This article from the micro-channel public number “Big Data Digest” (ID: BigDataDigest) , of: Liu Junhuan and Wei Zimin.
Huang Renxun, still in the kitchen, still wearing a leather jacket.
Just now, Nvidia released the new GeForce RTX 30 series GPU, which has twice the performance and power efficiency of 1.9 times that of the previous generation GPU. Nvidia calls it the largest chip leap in history.
It was 21 years ago that NVIDIA released the world’s first GPU and the first display core named Geforce-Geforce 256. Therefore, Nvidia’s official website also issued a new slogan “21 days, 21 years” to commemorate this moment.
21 years have passed, and the GeForce series has also had a comprehensive performance improvement. At this special conference, Huang Renxun brought the first three models of GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs: GeForce RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090.
“Squeeze the performance of GPU at all levels (architecture, custom process design, circuit, logic, packaging, series IO, memory, power supply, heat dissipation, software and algorithm), and finally achieve the world level, … is’towards A big step in the future.'”
RTX 3090: Double the performance, 24G large memory, half the speed than Titan RTX
“If the past 20 years are amazing, then the next 20 years seem to be sci-fi novels.” Huang Renxun said at the press conference that the release of Nvidia’s Ampere-based GPU is “a big step into the future.” .
The GeForce RTX 30 series do occupies many firsts of GPU: the first game graphics card with 24GB GDDR6X video memory; the first batch to support HDMI 2.1 GPU, a graphics card can achieve 4K high refresh rate or 8K games; the first batch of independent GPUs that support AV1 codec, to achieve higher resolution video streaming with less bandwidth.
Among the three models that Huang Renxun brought, the most exciting is the RTX 3090 chip.
RTX 3090 is the first 8K gaming GPU. Do you think that the 10GB GDDR6X memory of the RTX 3080 is enough? The teacher Huang told you with actual behavior that it is of course not enough. The RTX 3090 is equipped with 24GB of large memory.
It’s a pity that such a large amount of memory is not used to play games. Nvidia promised that RTX 3090 can support barrier-free games at 8K and 60fps.
This RTX 3090 is more similar to the Titan series. Huang Jiaozhu also announced that the RTX 3090 will be available on September 24 and will cost $1,499.
RTX 3090 is based on Nvidia’s Ampere GPU architecture. In addition to supporting 8K HDR ShadowPlay, HDMI 2.1, etc., Nvidia also installed 10,496 CUDA cores on the RTX 3090, combined with an acceleration clock of 1.70GHz, and a large 24GB memory.
Nvidia calls RTX 3090 a “Big Ferocious GPU” (BFGPU). Due to its high performance and concerns about noise and heating problems, Nvidia also thoughtfully equipped RTX 3090 with a silencer (three-slot dual-axis flow design) and cooling In this way, the noise will be 10 times “quieter” than the existing Titan series. In terms of speed, RTX 3090 is also one timeWith a new upgrade, RTX 3090 will be 50% faster than Titan RTX.
Although the function of RTX 3090 is very powerful, it is also huge in physical dimensions. It is understood that the length of RTX 3090 is 313 mm and requires 750 watts of power supply. The card itself is expected to consume 350 watts of power, and , RTX 3090 will occupy three card slots, which also brings a lot of problems to PC manufacturers.
“The era of solely relying on transistor performance expansion is over.”
Nvidia claims that the flagship GeForce RTX 3080 is built using a custom 8N manufacturing process and has 28 billion transistors. It can be connected to Micron’s new GDDR6X memory-the fastest graphics memory ever.
RTX 3090 is the “Big Mac” of GPU. 24GB GDDR6X large-capacity memory, which can run at a rate of 19.5Gbps, can provide massive data workloads for real 8K games. In 4K, it is 50% faster than the previous TITAN RTX.
Huang Renxun called RTX 3090 a beast, a huge GPU-“BFGPU.”
Master Huang sighed: “3090 is too big. For the first time we can play games at 60 frames per second in 8K.” “This is crazy.”
Gospel for gamers! The world’s first 8k gaming GPU
How is the effect of playing games with such a good graphics card?
In addition to the three new GPUs (the flagship product GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070 and Big Mac GeForce RTX 3090), at the press conference last night, Huang Renxun also launched a series of new tools for GeForce gamers.
Including NVIDIA Reflex (to make competing gamers faster), NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima (for the use of real-time computer graphicsNVIDIA Broadcast (using AI to build a virtual broadcast studio for streaming media).
Nvidia demonstrated the amazing effects of these game tools through a video.
The reflections, textures and light sources in the video are basically the effects of movies. When the marble is rolled in a delicate workshop full of different materials and textures, real-time rendering is achieved, forming a very realistic environment.
GeForce RTX 3090 is the first GPU in the world that can play amazing games at 60 fps at 8K resolution, which is 4 times 4K pixels and 16 times 1080p pixels.
In the kitchen conference in May of this year, Nvidia also demonstrated the running speed of Marbles on the Turing-based Quadro RTX 8000 graphics card at 25 frames per second and a resolution of 720p. The enhanced version of the demo “Night Marble Game” runs on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture and runs 30 fps at 1440p.
What’s more telling is that the demo cannot be displayed remotely-running the game at 60 fps on an 8K LG OLED TV-because the video streaming service does not support this quality level.
Today, it has been 21 years since NVIDIA released the world’s first GPU and the first display core under the name of Geforce-Geforce 256. At the end of the conference, Huang Renxun said that in the past 21 years, GPU has completely changed modern computer graphics.
“I can’t wait to go forward 20 years and see what kind of world RTX has opened up.”