Here's Everyting Nvidia Announced at Its 30-Series GeForce Event

Nvidia just wrapped up its big GeForce reveal and what a show it was. Not only was there a new GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070, but also the introduction of the RTX 3090, a big honking triple-slot graphics card with more than 10,000 CUDA cores and 24GB of video memory. Beyond that, there were also a few reveals of new and old games getting the ray tracing treatment. In case you missed the show or just wanted to relive all the highlights, we’ve got you covered here.

Fortnite Gets Its RTX On

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/01/fortnite-rtx-on-reveal-trailer"] The Nvidia showcase started off with a bit of surprise announcement that Fortnite would be getting the RTX treatment. Hopefully, it'll be a big graphical upgrade to the three-year-old game that makes Fortnite pop as much as Minecraft with ray tracing. This will also make Fortnite the first Battle Royale-style game to feature ray tracing.

Another Look at Cyberpunk 2077 with Ray Tracing

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/01/cyberpunk-2077-rtx-showcase-trailer"] With Cyberpunk 2077 releasing on November 17, it's easily going to be the biggest and newest game you'll be able to enjoy on Nvidia's new graphics cards, and so it makes sense to show just one more sizzle reel of how the game will look with the latest ray-traced effects and hardware. There isn't anything shockingly new revealed in the footage itself, but we can't say it isn't pretty to look at.

Marbles Never Looked Better with Ray Tracing

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/01/nvidias-newest-rtx-demo-looks-like-real-life"] There's probably a joke somewhere that Nvidia has lost its marbles, but honestly there's really no better object to show off the latest real-time ray tracing technology than this. Through the use of virtual marbles, Nvidia was able to present the improved reflections, illumination, shadows, and all the other effects RTX can now produce with Nvidia's new Ampere architecture. At the end of the demo Nvidia showed how Turing could only display this environment at 720p and 30 fps with just 1 dome light and indirect light, meanwhile, Ampere is capable of rendering the same space at 1440p and 30 fps while also simulating 130 area lights and depth of field effects.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Revealed

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/01/nvidia-rtx-3080-reveal-trailer"] Okay now we're getting to the actual meat of the show with the first GPU revealed as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. The new card comes equipped with 8,704 CUDA cores and 10GB of GDDR6X memory, that latter of which operates at the fastest 19Gbps memory clock we've ever seen on a GPU. Nvidia rates the card with 30 shader-tflops, 58 RT-tflops, and 238 Tensor-tflops that will all make it twice as powerful as the RTX 2080. The RTX 3080 starts at $699 and will be available on September 17.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Goes RTX Too

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/01/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-rtx-on-trailer"] Nvidia gave us a quick breather between all the new graphics cards with a quick look at what Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will look like with ray tracing. There isn't too much new revealed in the trailer, but you can see plenty of realistic reflections off of glasses and metal. Interestingly it appears as if the game will be globally illuminated by ray-traced effects, including everything from room lights to flashlights and flames. This is a big step over early RTX-enabled games that only featured ray traced shadows or reflections.

And Here's the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070

Nvidia also revealed its high-to-mid-range graphics card, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070. It comes with a high CUDA core count of 5,888 but still last generation video memory with only 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM. That said, this graphics card is still more powerful than the $1,200 RTX 2080 Ti with 20 shader-tflops, 40 RT-tflops, and 163 Tensor-tflops of power while costing less than half as much at $499. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 will be available sometime in October.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090: The "BFGPU"

Of course, Nvidia would save its biggest, baddest GPU for last, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090. Lovingly titled the "BFGPU," it's literally huge as a triple slot GPU. With this monster you're looking at 10,496 CUDA cores paired with 24GB of GDDR6X video memory. The card can push 36 shader-tflops, 69 RT-tflops, and 285 Tensor-tflops of graphical power, which theoretically should allow for 8K resolution games at 60 frames per second. This whopper of a graphics card is expensive with a starting price of $1,499 and it'll be available on September 24th. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com Kevin Lee is IGN's Hardware and Roundups Editor. Follow him on Twitter @baggingspam

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