The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 will be coming at some point and now the rumors are starting to go wild. Here’s everything we know.
Leaks and speculations about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 and the RTX 3000 series in general, have been piling up, with the line rumored to get its highly anticipated release this year. Even though there’s no mention of PC gaming or GeForce GPUs when Nvidia announced Ampere for Data Center – much in the same way it did when Nvidia Volta preceded the Nvidia Turinggraphics cards – but that doesn’t mean we won’t still see the GeForce RTX 3080 this year.
That’s why leaks regarding Nvidia Ampere haven’t died down, many of them speculating that it might be the graphics architecture for this upcoming slate of consumer GPUs. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has already indicated as much, announcing that the 7nm Ampere microarchitecture will be used for all of its next-generation graphics cards, which could very well include the next GeForce cards.
Among those leaks is one of a benchmark that sees an unknown GPU destroying the RTX 2080 Ti, and it could be the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. Prior to that, however, we may have already had our first look at the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. Rumor has it that the RTX 3080 could also be the AMD Big Navi killer. Other rumors point at a surprise new GPU, the RTX 3090, but that’s highly unlikely.
In any case, AIB partners said to be clearing out their stock to prepare for an Nvidia Ampere launch so we could be seeing these GPUs very soon. A report has both AMD and Nvidia releasing their next generation graphics cards in September. This goes in line with the new rumor, which speculates that Nvidia will be starting mass production of the GPUs in August, with a reveal and media event in September 2020.
We’re only months away now from the RTX 3000’s rumored release date, so we thought we’d gather everything we know and have heard so far about these next generation RTX GPUs from AMD. Keep this page bookmarked to learn what’s in store for Nvidia’s upcoming line of GPUs, as we’re keeping abreast of all the rumors, leaks, speculation and gossip, and will continue to update it.
For a while, the rumor mill was suggesting that we’re going to see the next GeForce lineup make an appearance at GTC, or the GPU Technology Conference in March. But, Nvidia has since canceled its ‘exciting’ GTC graphics card revelations. Since then, Nvidia has officially announced the Nvidia Ampere for Data Center. And, as expected, it did so before the RTX 3000 lineup, just like when it launched Volta in May 2017 more than a year before Turing.
Luckily, it doesn’t seem like we have to wait until 2021 to get a glimpse of the next generation RTX cards. In the past, Nvidia GeForce lineups have been about two years apart. For instance, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 dropped back in May 2016, with the GeForce RTX 2080 succeeding it in August 2018. The time between the GTX 980 and GTX 1080 was a bit shorter, with the former arriving in September 2014. Still as a general rule, we’ve been able to historically count on there being a new lineup of graphics cards every couple of years.
Tweaktown has reported that Nvidia plans to unveil the Ampere GPU architecture in August this year and launch it in September at Computex 2020.
