Graphics Card Chaos at NVIDIA: Hardware

Nvidia GeForce RTX (Ray Tracing TeXes extreme) is a high-end professional visual computer platform produced by Nvidia, largely used for creating complex big scale designs in style as well as item design, scientific visualization, energy exploration, as well as movie as well as video clip production. Nvidia RTX enables real-time ray mapping. Historically, ray mapping had been reserved to non-real time applications (like CGI in visual effects for films and also in photorealistic makings), with video clip games having to count on straight illumination and precalculated indirect payment for their making. RTX facilitates a new advancement in computer graphics of producing interactive pictures that respond to lights, darkness and reflections. RTX works on Nvidia Volta-, Turing- as well as Ampere-based GPUs, especially utilizing the Tensor cores (as well as brand-new RT cores on Turing as well as successors) on the designs for ray-tracing acceleration. In March 2019, Nvidia introduced that selected GTX 10 series (Pascal) and GTX 16 series (Turing) cards would certainly get assistance for subsets of RTX innovation in upcoming chauffeurs, although features and efficiency will certainly be affected by their absence of devoted hardware cores for ray tracing. In October 2020, Nvidia announced Nvidia RTX A6000 as the first Ampere-architecture-based graphics card for use in expert workstations in the Nvidia RTX item line. Nvidia functioned with Microsoft to integrate RTX assistance with Microsoft's DirectX Ray tracing API (DR). RTX is currently readily available with Nvidia Optic and for DirectX. For the Turing and Ampere architectures, it is also readily available for Vulcan.

Although Nvidia recently published another graphics card with the new edition of RTX 2060, but the manufacturer had planned much more for this year. Hardware expert Igor Wallows reveals that many plans of industry prime have moved. Another bad news for PC players.

Improved RTX 3070 TI & RTX 3080 once again postponed?

The graphics card market is currently in a disastrous state. Current GPU models are in short supply and are therefore sold to utopian prices. Many players had hoped that the new edition of the RTX 2060 could again provide for some movement on the market, but currently the new old GPU is nowhere to be found.

But that's not the last ass that Nvidia wanted to shake out of the sleeve this year. According to the rumor kitchen, Nvidia planned on 17 December 2021 the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with 16 GB VRAM and the RTX 3080 with 12 GB VRAM present. According to new reports, this is nothing.

The starting signal of the improved RTX 3070 Ti is now only after the Chinese New Year (01 February 2021), from a release date of the RTX 3080, however, there is no talk (Source: Igor'slab).

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The potential reasons for the shift

Industry insider and hardware expert Igor Wallows assumes that Nvidia has placed the new edition of the RTX 3080 for the time being, as the current model continues to sell very well thanks to the hardware crisis. To shift the RTX 3070 Ti, however, there are different theories. So, Nvidia could first wait to start the start of the Intel graphics cards in the spring of 2021 in order to adapt the specifications of their own model accordingly at short notice.

But it could also be that Nvidia thinks that Intel needs a few months of start-up time after starting its own graphics cards until the graphics accelerator is available in the same amount in the market.

But there is also a positive message. According to the sources of Wallows, NVIDIA plans for the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti have not changed so far. The new flagship should be presented at CES in January, the availability of Custom models should be guaranteed at the end of January. Which, on the other hand remains open, is the price of the new top graphics card. For comparison: The RTX 3090 cost 1,499 euros for the market launch and is currently traded for about 2,800 euros (as of 16 December 2021).

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