The Greatest Generational Jump Ever - RTX 3090/80/70 Revealed!

Finally, finally, finally - the next generation of Nvidia Geforce graphics cards are finally here. Revealed through the Nvidia GeForce Special Event live stream, the PC gaming community was shown a piece of the future. Upon checking YouTube this morning, my phone was bursting wth coverage of the reveal. Apparently, Nvidia has reworked their production line to offer the greatest generation jump ever. Let's go over a small recap. 

If you're into PC tech anyways, you've probably seen one of the many content creators already cover the topic as I have. Here are some takeaways from the event which I've recovered through YouTube and TechRadar's article on the matter: 

• Nvidia Reflex - a new feature which looks to lower graphics latency especially for esports which will make the most of the new 360Hz monitors we've been seeing
• Nvidia Broadcast - another new feature for their GPUs, now dedicated to streaming which supports RTX voice and allows for features such as a virtual green screen.  
• Nvidia Omniverse Machinima - cool name, apparently supports content creators in recording games
• Nvidia Ampere Tensor cores are 3x more powerful than Turing Tensor cores and almost twice RTX. Ampere RTX will have 28 billion transistors and 8nm architecture. 
• Nvidia RTX IO - new way of moving information from SSD to GPU without affecting CPU
• GDDR6X is twice as fast as GDDR6

Then, of course, the graphics cards themselves: 

• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 - GDDR6X memory, 3rd, Gen Tensor Cores, 2nd Gen RT Cores. Twice as fast as RTX 2080 and at the same price of $699. 
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 - the lower option, still faster than 2080 Ti and at $499. Could be awesome for those on a tight budget. 
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 - the BFGPU, triple slot card and can play games at 8K HDR!

I'm not gonna pretend that I'm a tech wizard and fully understand the function of transistors and all the other technical specifications listed. What I do know, however, is that Nvidia is bringing its A-game and responding to everyone thinking they're dead in the water. Available from the 17th September, everyone is anxious to see benchmarks for the cards and see if Nvidia is really back on top. 

For a list of full specifications, I'd recommend visiting Nvidia's site or viewing a YouTube video like that of Hardware Canucks.