Nvidia Taps Samsung, Micron for GeForce RTX 3XXX Series of GPUs

Nvidia on Tuesday announced a series of powerful gaming chips it designed using new memory tech from Micron Technology and that it is having manufactured by Samsung Electronics.

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The Xbox Series S has leaked yet again and Microsoft isnt even trying to hide it anymore

One of the worst kept secrets in the world of video games has to be the Xbox Series S. The console has appeared in official Microsoft leaked documents to controller packaging and more. Now the Series S name has leaked once again and in broad daylight. Twitter user Brendan took to Twitter to say, “I got a new controller for my Xbox since mine was broken. Interestingly enough, the Game Pass Ultimate trial code sheet mentions the unannounced @Xbox Series S. It’s definitely a thing”.

I got a new controller for my Xbox since mine was broken. Interestingly enough, the Game Pass Ultimate trial code sheet mentions the unannounced @Xbox Series S. It’s definitely a thing. pic.twitter.com/GX1rOYG5g7

— Brendan (@BraviaryBrendan) August 31, 2020

As you can see from the tweet above, the trial code that one gets with the controller for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has very clear mentions of Series S. The leaflet reads, “Includes Xbox Live Gold and unlimited access to over 100 high-quality games on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, And Windows 10”.

Interestingly enough, the controller is not the new Series X controller we saw a little while ago. It is the Xbox One Controller. It is easy to know this as the controller in the image lacks the “share” button which is present on the Xbox Series X controller. 

Since Xbox One accessories like the controller are forward compatible with the Series X, it is obvious that the packaging and information material would highlight this. But the fact that it also highlights the Series S makes the upcoming consoles one of Microsoft's worst kept secrets. As per leaked information, the Series S is expected to have a 4 TFLOP GPU and the same CPU and storage capabilities as the Series X.  

Microsoft and Sony have both revealed the specifications of the Xbox Series X and PS5 respectively and you can see how the 2 consoles compare here. You can also check out our design comparison of the two consoles here. 

If you are a PC gamer, then you should know that NVIDIA’s 30 series GPU has launched, namely, the 3070, 3080 and 3090. You can read more about them here.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3090 'Ampere' GPUs Launched, India Prices Revealed

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, and GeForce RTX 3090 'Ampere' GPUs promise the biggest generational performance leap yet, with second-gen RTX ray tracing.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 launched for Rs 15 lakhs in India starting Sept 24, 2020

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the GeForce RTX 30 series of graphics cards including the RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 at a virtual event today. The RTX 30 series is based on the NVIDIA Ampere microarchitecture and boasts of 2x performance and 1.9x the power efficiency over the previous NVIDIA Turing based RTX 20 series of GPUs. Ampere cards will use a Samsung 8nm process specifically designed for NVIDIA. The founders edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card will be priced at INR 1,52,000 in India. The RTX 3080 and the RTX 3070 will be priced at Rs 71,000 and Rs 51,000, respectively.

“Today’s launch of NVIDIA Ampere GPUs is a giant step into the future,” said Huang. “The work of thousands of engineering years, the GeForce RTX 30 Series delivers our greatest generational leap ever. NVIDIA RTX fuses programmable shading, ray tracing and AI for developers to create entirely new worlds. Twenty years from now, we’ll look back and realize that the future of gaming started here.”

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Specifications

The GeForce RTX 3090 is powered by the GA102-300 GPU which has 5248 CUDA cores which have a Boost Clock of 1695 MHz. The card features 24 GB of GDDR6X memory which is clocked at about 2500 MHz and uses a 384-bit wide memory bus. The cumulative bandwidth is 936 GB/s and the card has a TGP (Total Graphics Power) of 350 watts. The NVIDIA RTX 3090 card also utilises a 12-Pin custom power connector for which an adaptor will be provided with the card. The NVIDIA 12-pin PCIe Molex Micro-Fit 3.0 connector will be on one end of the adaptor and the other end will take two 8-pin PCIe connectors from your computer’s power supply unit.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Pricing and availability

The Founder’s Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 will be priced at Rs 1,52,000 (One lakh fifty two thousand Rupees) and will be available starting September 24th. NVIDIA sells the Founder’s Edition cards on their own website in India.

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Everything about the NVIDIA RTX 30 graphics cards - India price, performance, availability and specs

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the GeForce RTX 30 series of graphics cards including the RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 at a virtual event today. The RTX 30 series is based on the NVIDIA Ampere microarchitecture and boasts of 2x performance and 1.9x the power efficiency over the previous NVIDIA Turing based RTX 20 series of GPUs. Ampere cards will use a Samsung 8nm process specifically designed for NVIDIA. The founders edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card will be priced at INR 1,52,000 in India. The RTX 3080 and the RTX 3070 will be priced at Rs 71,000 and Rs 51,000, respectively.

“Today’s launch of NVIDIA Ampere GPUs is a giant step into the future,” said Huang. “The work of thousands of engineering years, the GeForce RTX 30 Series delivers our greatest generational leap ever. NVIDIA RTX fuses programmable shading, ray tracing and AI for developers to create entirely new worlds. Twenty years from now, we’ll look back and realize that the future of gaming started here.”

NVIDIA Ampere Streaming Multiprocessors

Compared to the older Turing Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), the new Ampere SMs boast of 2x FP32 throughput. Ampere also uses 3rd Gen Tensor Cores which reportedly provide up to 2x the throughput of the Turing cores. The high-end Ampere cards use an 18-phase power supply and sport new 12-Pin MicroFit power connectors. All Ampere cards also support PCIe 4.0 although current gen graphics cards can’t even saturate the full potential of PCIe 3.0. Overall, Ampere claims to have 1.9x performance-per-watt improvement over Turing.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 Specifications

The specifications for the three RTX 30 cards when compared to their RTX 20 counterparts let you know exactly how they are positioned. With 24 GB of memory, the RTX 3090 is akin to the RTX TITAN and would be targeted at workstations and multitasking machines which require a lot of CUDA cores. Whereas, the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 are very much similar to the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 in terms of positioning. Which bears the question, what's the equivalent for the RTX 2080 Ti? It would appear that NVIDIA is holding back till AMD's RDNA2 "Big Navi" cards are released in November 2020. We should hopefully see RTX 3080 Ti or Super cards that equal or beat the RDNA cards as a reaction to AMD's cards.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 Pricing

The Founder’s Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 will be priced at Rs 1,52,000 (One lakh fifty two thousand Rupees), the GeForce RTX 3080 will be priced at Rs 71,000, and lastly, the GeForce RTX 3070 will be priced at Rs 51,000 in India. Compared to the older RTX 20 series, this is a significant increase for the RTX 3090 and the kidney and liver jokes can start anew. However, the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 pricing seem to be similar to the launch prices for their RTX 20 counterparts. Launch price for the RTX 2080 Ti Founder’s Edition was Rs 1,02,500 and the RTX 2080 started off for Rs 68,500 and lastly, the RTX 2070 was priced at Rs 51,200.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 Availability

The RTX 3080 will be the first card to be available and it will go on sale on Sept 17, 2020. It will be followed by the RTX 3080 on Sept. 24, 2020 and all we know about the RTX 3070 is that it will go on sale in October 2020. NVIDIA sells the Founder’s Edition cards on their own website in India but partner cards are sold in all specialist computer stores offline and on popular ecommerce outlets such as Amazon.in and Flipkart.com.

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Fortnite is now RTX On Real-time Ray Tracing announced for Epic Games popular battle royale

Epic Game's and NVIDIA today announced that Fortnite will be adding real-time ray tracing, AI-powered NVIDIA DLSS and more to the game.

The reveal was done by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who also unveiled the new GeForce RTX 30 Series of GPUs at the same virtual event.

Matt Wuebbling, VP of Global GeForce Marketing at NVIDIA said, “Fortnite players are about to experience the stunning visuals of next-level ray tracing, AI-accelerated frame rates powered by NVIDIA DLSS, and our new low-latency esports technology suite, NVIDIA Reflex.”

Gamers will be able to experience everything that ray tracing has to offer in all of Fortnite's modes, as well as a special new Creative mode map, named RTX Treasure Run. This map has been designed specifically to highlight ray tracing in the game. 

Other ray tracing features coming to Fornite include: Ray-traced reflections – Recreates the way light reflects on glossy and metal surfaces, including smooth natural mirrors like window glass and rougher surfaces like brushed metal. Ray-traced shadows – Accurately models shadowing on many surfaces while enhancing surface and contact detail, and fixes problems associated with traditional shadow techniques. Ray-traced global illumination – Calculates world lighting with massively increased precision, illuminating Fortnite’s environments, players and characters with unprecedented detail, fidelity and clarity. Ray-traced ambient occlusion – Where objects or surfaces meet, light is occluded, creating subtle shadows that can highlight the slightest of surface details. Boosting performance and quality with AI

Fortnite will be using NVIDIA DLSS, which uses AI powered by RTX Tensor Cores to boost frame rates and generate sharp images. It uses deep learning neural networks to provide gamers with more headroom to maximise quality and output resolution.

NVIDIA Relfex on Fornite

Fortnite will be one of the first games to support NVIDIA Reflex, which helps measure and reduce system latency. Improved latency means better performance overall, with improved resposiveness and precision in game. Low latency is especially useful in competitive games, such as battle royales like Fortnite.

Fortnite RTX Treasure Run Map

The new RTX Fortnite map which showcases ray-tracing has players drop into a museum, on a treasure hunt, highlighted with different ray-traced effects. The museum has plenty of different environments to explore, such as a  hall of mirrors, medieval castle and jungle, climb a giant statue and explore a shrunken science lab in their search for treasure. These features will be coming to Fortnite in Chapter 2 – Season 4 for PC players.

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Nokia 24 renders leaked online ahead of expected launch at IFA 2020

Nokia 2.4 renders have been posted online, giving us a glimpse at the upcoming successor to the Nokia 2.3 from 2019. The Nokia 2.3 was launched in India at Rs 8,199 and so we expect the Nokia 2.4 to retail around the same price range. 

The alleged press render of the Nokia 2.4 has been posted online by noted leakster Evan Blass that gives us a glimpse of the phone, its design and confirms certain features. 

As per the renders, the Nokia 2.4 looks likely to come with dual cameras on the back accompanied by the LED flash. There’s a fingerprint sensor on the back panel that is slightly recessed. The rear panel has a textured design with the Nokia logo placed in the centre. 

On the front, one will notice the waterdrop notch cutout that houses the selfie camera and the relatively thick bottom bezel. Going by the picture, one can also see the dedicated button for Google Assistant along with power button and volume control buttons.

Going by the Nokia 2.3, we can expect the 2.4 to feature an HD+ display, an octa-core processor that is paired with decent RAM and storage options to choose from. The phone is expected to run on stock Android 10 out-of-the-box and likely comes with a high capacity battery.

The Nokia 2.3 features dual cameras just as we can see in the leaked renders of the Nokia 2.4 above. On the 2.3, the dual cameras consist of a primary 13MP camera along with 2MP depth sensor for portrait mode and bokeh effects.

The Nokia 2.4 is rumoured to be powered by the MediaTek Helio P22 processor that could be paired with 2GB/3GB RAM and 32GB/64GB storage options to choose from. The phone could feature a 6.5-inch HD+ display with a 19:9 aspect ratio. 

There are rumours that the Nokia 2.4 will launch alongside the Nokia 6.3 and Nokia 7.3 at IFA 2020 that begins on September 3 in Berlin.

 

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