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GeForce RTX:Game On Special Event Megathread

xshane — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:39:37 +0800

GeForce RTX:Game On Special Event Megathread

NVIDIA GeForce RTX: Game On Launch Event Keynote Link

Powered by Ampere architecture GeForce RTX 30-Series laptops is finally upon us. The goal of this megathread is to provide everyone with the best information possible and consolidate any questions, feedback, and discussion to make it easier for NVIDIA’s community team to review them and bring them to appropriate people at NVIDIA.

GeForce RTX 30-Series Laptops GPU information:
| | RTX 3080 Laptop| RTX 3070 Laptop | RTX 3060 Laptop |
| GPU | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA104 | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA104 | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA106 |
| Performance Claims | 100+ FPS Ultra 1440p | 90 FPS Ultra 1440p | 90 FPS Ultra 1080p |
| VRAM Size | 8GB or 16GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 |
| Price | Laptops Starting at US$1999 | Laptops Starting at US$1299 | Laptops Starting at US$999|
| Release Date | January 26th | January 26th | February 2nd |

Launch of GeForce RTX 30-series Laptop GPUs with the NVIDIA Ampere architecture.
•Increased energy efficiency up to 2x, accelerated performance and 3rd generation Max-Q technologies for thin and lightweight designs.
•Laptop GPUs deliver Ray-traced gaming experience in top titles.
•New tools for gamers and creators, including NVIDIA Broadcast, NVIDIA Reflex, GeForce Experience and NVIDIA Studio.
•GeForce RTX 3060 delivers 90 frames per second on the latest games with ultra settings at 1080p. RTX 3060 laptops start at $999 and are faster than laptops featuring NVIDIA’s previous flagship GPU, GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which typically sell for $2,500.
•GeForce RTX 3070 is a 1440p gaming beast, delivering 90 frames per second with ultra settings at 1440p. RTX 3070 laptops start at $1,299 and are 50 percent faster than those equipped with the RTX 2070.
•GeForce RTX 3080 is NVIDIA’s new flagship laptop GPU. With up to 16GB of G6 memory, it powers the world’s fastest laptops for gamers and creators. It delivers 100+ frames per second with ultra settings at 1440p. Systems featuring the RTX 3080 start at $1,999.

GeForce RTX 3060 GPU information:
| | RTX 3060 |
| GPU | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA106 |
| Boost Clock | 1.78 GHz |
| CUDA Cores | 3584 |
| Shader FLOPS | 13 Shader TFLOPS |
| RT Cores | 28 2nd Gen RT Cores |
| RT FLOPS | 25 RT TFLOPS|
| Tensor Cores | 112 3rd Gen Tensor Cores|
| Tensor FLOPS | 101 Tensor TFLOPS |
| Memory Interface | 192-bit |
| Memory Speed | 15 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 360 GB/s |
| VRAM Size | 12GB GDDR6 |
| Max TGP | 170W |
| PSU Requirement| 550W |
| Price | Starting at US$329 |
| Release Date | Late February 2021|

GeForce RTX 3060 Desktop GPU
•Priced at $329
•It has twice the raster performance and 10x the ray-tracing performance of the GTX 1060.
•Excellent upgrade for gamers still on a GTX GPU.

Other Features and Technologies:
New Games with DLSS
Call of Duty: Warzone
Edge of Eternity
Iron Conflict
Outriders

New Games with Ray Tracing and DLSS
F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
The Medium

Games adding NVIDIA Reflex low latency technology
Overwatch
Rainbow Six: Siege

NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer support has been added to 5 new G-Sync gaming monitor and 7 new mice
New Fortnite RTX Map - RTX Morbid Madhaus

Links and References
| Topic | Article Link | Video Link |
| GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptops | https://www.nvidia.com/en-my/geforce/gaming-laptops/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQMWEVJOCQA / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VecOrRiRR3A |
| GeForce RTX 3060 | https://www.nvidia.com/en-my/geforce/graphi...tx-3060-3060ti/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Ix2LKDjYg |
| GeForce RTX 30 Series Resizeable Bar | https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/g...le-bar-support/ | |
| G-Sync 2021 Innovations | https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/g...21-innovations/ | |
| January 2021 RTX & DLSS Game Update | https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/j...ss-game-update/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWpHPGnUo9c |
| NVIDIA Reflex - Rainbow Six: Siege, Overwatch, Mice, and Monitors | https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/n...nbow-six-siege/ | |

RTX Games
| Games | Video Link |
| Outriders | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BMYRD6eA9E |
| Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Ycz6Yo5AY |
| F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eRV-Hm2tRU |
| The Medium | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPGZ_gOr5K4 |

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Megathread

xshane — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:00:52 +0800

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti MEGATHREAD

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU Information Link

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Specifications
| GPU | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA104 |
| Transistor | 17.4 billion |
| SMs | 38 |
| NVIDIA CUDA Cores | 4864 |
| Boost Clock | 1.67 GHz |
| Base Clock | 1.41 GHz |
| VRAM Size | 8 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface | 256-bit |
| Memory Speed | 14 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 448 GB/s |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 38 |
| Tensor Cores | 152 |
| L2 Cache | 4096 KB |
| NVIDIA Architecture | Ampere |
| Microsoft DirectX® 12 Ultimate | Yes |
| NVIDIA DLSS | Yes |
| PCI Express Gen 4 | Yes |
| NVIDIA® GeForce Experience™ | Yes |
| NVIDIA Ansel | Yes |
| NVIDIA FreeStyle | Yes |
| NVIDIA ShadowPlay | Yes |
| NVIDIA Highlights | Yes |
| NVIDIA G-SYNC® | Yes |
| Game Ready Drivers | Yes |
| NVIDIA Studio Drivers | Yes |
| NVIDIA GPU Boost™ | Yes |
| NVIDIA NVLink™ (SLI-Ready) | No |
| Vulkan RT API, OpenGL 4.6 | Yes |
| HDMI 2.1 | Yes |
| DisplayPort 1.4a | Yes |
| NVIDIA Encoder | 7th Generation |
| NVIDIA Decoder | 5th Generation |
| VR Ready | Yes |
| Maximum Digital Resolution* | 7680x4320 |
| Standard Display Connectors | HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Multi Monitor | 4 |
| HDCP | 2.3 |
| Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) | 93 |
| Graphics Card Power | 200W |
| Required System Power** | 600W |
| Supplementary Power Connectors | 1x PCIe 8-pin (adapter to 1x 12-pin included) |
| Price $399 | MSRP |
| Release Date | 2 December 2020 |
*Up to 4k 12-bit HDR at 240Hz with DP1.4a+DSC. Up to 8k 12-bit HDR at 60Hz with DP 1.4a+DSC or HDMI2.1+DSC. With dual DP1.4a+DSC, up to 8K HDR at 120Hz
**Requirement is made based on PC configured with an Intel Core i9-10900K processor. A lower power rating may work depending on system configuration.

RTX 3060 Ti Review Roundup
Malaysia Reviews:
Lowyat.NET
Pokde.net
International Reviews:
WCCFTech
PC Mag
IGN
PC World
Forbes
Linus Tech Tips
Gamers Nexus
Hardware Canucks
Hardware Unboxed
JayzTwoCents
Legit Reviews
Tom's Hardware
ArsTechnica
The FPS Review
Digital Foundry

Other Features and Technologies:

NVIDIA Reflex
NVIDIA Reflex is a new suite of technologies that optimize and measure system latency in competitive games. It includes:
NVIDIA Reflex Low-Latency Mode, a new technology to reduce game and rendering latency by up to 50 percent. Reflex is being integrated in top competitive games including Apex Legends, Fortnite, Valorant, Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Destiny 2, and more.
NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer, which detects clicks coming from the mouse and then measures the time it takes for the resulting pixels (for example, a gun muzzle flash) to change on screen. Reflex Latency Analyzer is integrated in new 360Hz NVIDIA G-SYNC Esports displays and supported by top esports peripherals from ASUS, Logitech, and Razer, and SteelSeries.
Measuring system latency has previously been extremely difficult to do, requiring over $7,000 in specialized high-speed cameras and equipment.

NVIDIA Broadcast
New AI-powered Broadcast app
Three key features:
Noise Removal: remove background noise from your microphone feed – be it a dog barking or the doorbell ringing. The AI network can even be used on incoming audio feeds to mute that one keyboard-mashing friend who won’t turn on push-to-talk.
Virtual Background: remove the background of your webcam feed and replace it with game footage, a replacement image, or even a subtle blur.
Auto Frame: zooms in on you and uses AI to track your head movements, keeping you at the center of the action even as you shift from side to side. It’s like having your own cameraperson.

RTX I/O
A suite of technologies that enable rapid GPU-based loading and game asset decompression, accelerating I/O performance by up to 100x compared to hard drives and traditional storage APIs.
When used with Microsoft’s new DirectStorage for Windows API, RTX IO offloads up to dozens of CPU cores’ worth of work to your RTX GPU, improving frame rates, enabling near-instantaneous game loading, and opening the door to a new era of large, incredibly detailed open world games.

NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima
Easy to use cloud-based app provides tools to enable gamers’ creativity, for a new generation of high-quality machinima.
Users can take assets from supported games, and use their web camera and AI to create characters, add high-fidelity physics and face and voice animation, and publish film-quality cinematics using the rendering power of their RTX 30 Series GPU.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 MEGATHREAD

xshane — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:08:45 +0800

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 is now available! The goal of this megathread is to provide everyone with the best information possible and consolidate any questions, feedback, and discussion to make it easier for NVIDIA’s community team to review them and bring them to appropriate people at NVIDIA.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-Series Keynote Video Link

GeForce RTX 3070 GPU information:
| GPU | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA104 |
| Transistor | 17 billion |
| SMs | 46 |
| CUDA Cores | 5888 CUDA Cores |
| Boost Clock | 1.73 Ghz |
| Shader FLOPS | 20 Shader TFLOPS |
| RT FLOPS | 40 RT TFLOPS |
| Tensor FLOPS | 163 Tensor TFLOPS |
| Tensor Cores | 184 3rd Gen Tensor Cores |
| Memory Interface | 256-bit |
| Memory Speed | 14 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 512 GB/s |
| VRAM Size | 8GB GDDR6 |
| L2 Cache | 4096 KB |
| Max TGP | 220W |
| PSU Requirement | 650W |
| Price | $499 MSRP |
| Release Date | 29 October 2020 |

Performance Shown:
RTX 3070
Same performance as RTX 2080 Ti.

RTX 3080
Up to 2x performance vs previous generation (RT Scenario).
New dual axial flow through thermal design, the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is up to 3x quieter and keeps the GPU up to 20 degrees Celsius cooler than the RTX 2080.

RTX 3090
Most powerful GPU in the world.
New dual axial flow through thermal design, the GeForce RTX 3090 is up to 10 times quieter and keeps the GPU up to 30 degrees Celsius cooler than the TITAN RTX design.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Review Roundup

Malaysian Reviews:
Lowyat.NET
Tech-Critter
Pokde.net

International Reviews:
Digital Foundry
Gamers Nexus
Hardware Canucks
Linus Tech Tips
Hardware Unboxed
Paul's Hardware
Bitwits
JayzTwoCents
Arstechnica
BabelTechReviews
Guru3D
Legit Reviews
PC World
Tom's Hardware
The FPS Review

Other Features and Technologies:
NVIDIA Reflex
NVIDIA Reflex is a new suite of technologies that optimize and measure system latency in competitive games.
It includes:
NVIDIA Reflex Low-Latency Mode, a new technology to reduce game and rendering latency by up to 50 percent. Reflex is being integrated in top competitive games including Apex Legends, Fortnite, Valorant, Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Destiny 2, and more.
NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer, which detects clicks coming from the mouse and then measures the time it takes for the resulting pixels (for example, a gun muzzle flash) to change on screen. Reflex Latency Analyzer is integrated in new 360Hz NVIDIA G-SYNC Esports displays and supported by top esports peripherals from ASUS, Logitech, and Razer, and SteelSeries.
Measuring system latency has previously been extremely difficult to do, requiring over $7,000 in specialized high-speed cameras and equipment.

NVIDIA Broadcast
New AI-powered Broadcast app
Three key features:
Noise Removal: remove background noise from your microphone feed – be it a dog barking or the doorbell ringing. The AI network can even be used on incoming audio feeds to mute that one keyboard-mashing friend who won’t turn on push-to-talk.
Virtual Background: remove the background of your webcam feed and replace it with game footage, a replacement image, or even a subtle blur.
Auto Frame: zooms in on you and uses AI to track your head movements, keeping you at the center of the action even as you shift from side to side. It’s like having your own cameraperson.

RTX I/O
A suite of technologies that enable rapid GPU-based loading and game asset decompression, accelerating I/O performance by up to 100x compared to hard drives and traditional storage APIs.
When used with Microsoft’s new DirectStorage for Windows API, RTX IO offloads up to dozens of CPU cores’ worth of work to your RTX GPU, improving frame rates, enabling near-instantaneous game loading, and opening the door to a new era of large, incredibly detailed open world games.

NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima
Easy to use cloud-based app provides tools to enable gamers’ creativity, for a new generation of high-quality machinima.
Users can take assets from supported games, and use their web camera and AI to create characters, add high-fidelity physics and face and voice animation, and publish film-quality cinematics using the rendering power of their RTX 30 Series GPU

Follow NVIDIA GeForce Malaysia Facebook for all the latest information about Ampere!

GeForce RTX 30-Series Ampere Megathread

xshane — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 19:04:07 +0800

Powered by the Ampere architecture, GeForce RTX 30-Series is finally upon us. The goal of this megathread is to provide everyone with the best information possible and consolidate any questions, feedback, and discussion to make it easier for NVIDIA’s community team to review them and bring them to appropriate people at NVIDIA.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-Series Keynote Video Link

GeForce RTX 30-Series GPU information:
| [center]Card[/center] | [center]RTX 3090[/center] | [center]RTX 3080[/center] | [center]RTX 3070[/center] |
| GPU | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA102 | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA102 | Samsung 8N NVIDIA Custom Process GA104 |
| Transistor | 28 billion | 28 billion | 17 billion |
| SMs | 82 | 64 | 46 |
| CUDA Cores | 10496 CUDA Cores | 8704 CUDA Cores | 5888 CUDA Cores |
| Boost Clock | 1.7 Ghz | 1.71 Ghz | 1.73 Ghz |
| Shader FLOPS | 36 Shader TFLOPS | 30 Shader TFLOPS | 20 Shader TFLOPS |
| RT FLOPS | 69 RT TFLOPS | 58 RT TFLOPS | 40 RT TFLOPS |
| Tensor FLOPS | 285 Tensor TFLOPS | 238 Tensor TFLOPS | 163 Tensor TFLOPS |
| Tensor Cores | 328 3rd Gen Tensor Cores | 272 3rd Gen Tensor Cores | 184 3rd Gen Tensor Cores |
| Memory Interface | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Speed | 19.5 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 14 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 936 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 512 GB/s |
| VRAM Size | 24GB GDDR6X | 10GB GDDR6X | 8GB GDDR6 |
| L2 Cache | 6144 KB | 5120 KB | 4096 KB |
| Max TGP | 350W | 320W | 220W |
| PSU Requirement | 750W | 750W | 650W |
| Price | $1499 MSRP | $699 MSRP | $499 MSRP |
| Release Date | September 24th | September 17th | October |

Performance Shown:
RTX 3070
Same performance as RTX 2080 Ti.

RTX 3080
Up to 2x performance vs previous generation (RT Scenario).
New dual axial flow through thermal design, the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is up to 3x quieter and keeps the GPU up to 20 degrees Celsius cooler than the RTX 2080.

RTX 3090
Most powerful GPU in the world.
New dual axial flow through thermal design, the GeForce RTX 3090 is up to 10 times quieter and keeps the GPU up to 30 degrees Celsius cooler than the TITAN RTX design.

PSU Requirements:
A lower power rating PSU may work depending on system configuration. Please check with PSU vendor.
RTX 3090 and 3080 Founders Edition requires a new type of 12-pin connector (adapter included).
DO NOT attempt to use a single cable to plug in the PSU to the RTX 30-Series. Need to use two separate modular cables and the adapter shipped with Founders Edition cards.
See Diagram below

Other Features and Technologies:
NVIDIA Reflex
NVIDIA Reflex is a new suite of technologies that optimize and measure system latency in competitive games.
It includes:
NVIDIA Reflex Low-Latency Mode, a new technology to reduce game and rendering latency by up to 50 percent. Reflex is being integrated in top competitive games including Apex Legends, Fortnite, Valorant, Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Destiny 2, and more.
NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer, which detects clicks coming from the mouse and then measures the time it takes for the resulting pixels (for example, a gun muzzle flash) to change on screen. Reflex Latency Analyzer is integrated in new 360Hz NVIDIA G-SYNC Esports displays and supported by top esports peripherals from ASUS, Logitech, and Razer, and SteelSeries.
Measuring system latency has previously been extremely difficult to do, requiring over $7,000 in specialized high-speed cameras and equipment.

NVIDIA Broadcast
New AI-powered Broadcast app
Three key features:
Noise Removal: remove background noise from your microphone feed – be it a dog barking or the doorbell ringing. The AI network can even be used on incoming audio feeds to mute that one keyboard-mashing friend who won’t turn on push-to-talk.
Virtual Background: remove the background of your webcam feed and replace it with game footage, a replacement image, or even a subtle blur.
Auto Frame: zooms in on you and uses AI to track your head movements, keeping you at the center of the action even as you shift from side to side. It’s like having your own cameraperson.

RTX I/O
A suite of technologies that enable rapid GPU-based loading and game asset decompression, accelerating I/O performance by up to 100x compared to hard drives and traditional storage APIs.
When used with Microsoft’s new DirectStorage for Windows API, RTX IO offloads up to dozens of CPU cores’ worth of work to your RTX GPU, improving frame rates, enabling near-instantaneous game loading, and opening the door to a new era of large, incredibly detailed open world games.

NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima
Easy to use cloud-based app provides tools to enable gamers’ creativity, for a new generation of high-quality machinima.
Users can take assets from supported games, and use their web camera and AI to create characters, add high-fidelity physics and face and voice animation, and publish film-quality cinematics using the rendering power of their RTX 30 Series GPU

G-Sync Monitors
Announcing G-Sync 360 Hz Monitors

RTX Games
Cyberpunk 2077
New 4K Ultra Trailer with RTX
Fortnite
Now adding Ray Tracing, DLSS, and Reflex
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Now adding Ray Tracing, DLSS, and Reflex
Minecraft RTX
New Ray Traced World and Beta Update
Watch Dogs: Legion
Now adding DLSS in addition to previously announced Ray Tracing

Links and References
| GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards: The Ultimate Play | Link |
| The New Pinnacle: 8K HDR Gaming Is Here With The GeForce RTX 3090 | Link |
| Introducing NVIDIA Reflex: A Suite of Technologies to Optimize and Measure Latency in Competitive Games | Link |
| Turn Any Room Into a Home Studio with the New AI-Powered NVIDIA Broadcast App | Link |
| 360Hz Monitors | Link |
| Digital Foundry RTX 3080 Early Look | Link |

RTX Games
| Cyberpunk 2077 with Ray Tracing and DLSS | Link |
| Fortnite with Ray Tracing, DLSS, and Reflex | Link |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with Ray Tracing, DLSS, and Reflex | Link |
| Minecraft RTX New Ray Traced World and Beta Update | Link |
| Watch Dogs: Legion with Ray Tracing and DLSS | Link |

Follow NVIDIA GeForce Malaysia Facebook for all the latest information about Ampere!