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Via Nvidia's official announcement of their RTX 3000 Series graphics cards, we have been made aware of a paradigm shift in video-game graphics hardware. Whereas the RTX 2000 Series maxes out at 14.2 teraflops in the form of the 2080Ti, the RTX 3000 Series boasts whopping 20, 30, and 36 teraflops of power via the 3070, 3080, and 3090, respectively - the last of which is enough to render games in 8K (via Deep Learning Super Sampling) at 60 frames per second.
To put this into perspective, recall that rumors created the expectation that the fastest card in the 3000 Series, the 3090, would wield 21 teraflops of power, which would have still been mind-blowing and would have made it roughly 2 times as powerful as the PlayStation 5 and 1.7 times as powerful as the Xbox Series X. However, it has turned out that it is the 3070 that (approximately) possesses this level of power: 20 teraflops, which is surprising because the 3070 is the weakest card in the lineup of the RTX 3000 Series that has been revealed.
As for the previously highly rumored 3090, its actual power of 36 teraflops makes it about 3.5 times more powerful than the PlayStation 5 and about 3 times more powerful than the Xbox Series X.
Keep in mind that these figures are in regard to only the most foundational aspect of graphics rendering: rasterization; there's also the novel aspects that are ray tracing and AI upscaling.
In regard to ray tracing, even the 3070 is faster than the King of the 2000 Series, the 2080Ti; it sports 40 RT (ray tracing) terfalops relative to the 2080Ti's 34. Its superiors, the 3080 and 3090, sport 58 and 69 RT teraflops, respectively. Though the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X cannot be defined in terms of RT teraflops due to the mystery surrounding their ray tracing capabilities, it's safe to assume that they are paltry relative to even the RTX 2000 Series, which is utterly outclassed by the 3000 Series.
As for AI upscaling, the 3070, 3080, and 3090 feature 163, 238, and 285 Tensor teraflops, respectively, whereas the 2080Ti features only about 110 Tensor teraflops.
So, with all of this in mind, has Nvidia's official announcement of its RTX 3000 Series changed your decision in regard to which next-generation gaming platform(s) that you're going to buy? Are you buying Ampere, a PlayStation 5, or an Xbox One X? Or are you waiting for AMD to reveal Big Navi before making your final decision?
To put this into perspective, recall that rumors created the expectation that the fastest card in the 3000 Series, the 3090, would wield 21 teraflops of power, which would have still been mind-blowing and would have made it roughly 2 times as powerful as the PlayStation 5 and 1.7 times as powerful as the Xbox Series X. However, it has turned out that it is the 3070 that (approximately) possesses this level of power: 20 teraflops, which is surprising because the 3070 is the weakest card in the lineup of the RTX 3000 Series that has been revealed.
As for the previously highly rumored 3090, its actual power of 36 teraflops makes it about 3.5 times more powerful than the PlayStation 5 and about 3 times more powerful than the Xbox Series X.
Keep in mind that these figures are in regard to only the most foundational aspect of graphics rendering: rasterization; there's also the novel aspects that are ray tracing and AI upscaling.
In regard to ray tracing, even the 3070 is faster than the King of the 2000 Series, the 2080Ti; it sports 40 RT (ray tracing) terfalops relative to the 2080Ti's 34. Its superiors, the 3080 and 3090, sport 58 and 69 RT teraflops, respectively. Though the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X cannot be defined in terms of RT teraflops due to the mystery surrounding their ray tracing capabilities, it's safe to assume that they are paltry relative to even the RTX 2000 Series, which is utterly outclassed by the 3000 Series.
As for AI upscaling, the 3070, 3080, and 3090 feature 163, 238, and 285 Tensor teraflops, respectively, whereas the 2080Ti features only about 110 Tensor teraflops.
So, with all of this in mind, has Nvidia's official announcement of its RTX 3000 Series changed your decision in regard to which next-generation gaming platform(s) that you're going to buy? Are you buying Ampere, a PlayStation 5, or an Xbox One X? Or are you waiting for AMD to reveal Big Navi before making your final decision?