News NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 Refresh May Launch This Winter

This is one of the reasons I prefer AMD just sticking to normal ram sizes in multiples of 4. Nv is always doing this with their video cards ie 970's 3.5Gb of ram.

Will be curious to see how the 3080 10GB card will age in the future. One can always overclock a video card to gain more performance but once you are out of vram you are out.

Lets hope these refresh models don't come with a huge price increase.
 
If Nvidia can replace all three SKUs with these new refreshed models and offer them at the same prices as the current models (not counting scalpers), these cards might be a nice little upgrade for the relatively few customers who will acquire these graphics cards in the face of the ongoing graphics card shortage. Unfortunately, there's no reason the newcomers would end up priced any better than the existing models, and adding more VRAM would likely just increase the prices.

Yes the price will go up and thinking anything else is just dreams.
 
Can anyone explain to me why tech sites are treating "hongxing2020" as a reliable source? (A lot of sites did the same with their October "leak"). Their Twitter account has very little history and very few followers, and doing a web search to exclude the last month or two, there's very little about them. Is this known to be a new identity of a previously reliable source, or is there anything else that genuinely suggests they have any credibility? Their rumours are just very incomplete specs in text form - near zero effort to post, unlike if we were getting slightly out of focus pictures of internal presentations or something that would actually take some time and skill to fake.
 
Rumors have it that higher VRAM capacity Turing and Ampere graphics cards might be arriving in December and January.

NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 Refresh May Launch This Winter : Read more

Rumors have it that higher VRAM capacity Turing and Ampere graphics cards might be arriving in December and January.

NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 Refresh May Launch This Winter : Read more

Since I stopped looking for a graphics card because of the crazy prices I didn't know Nvidia had a 3000 series graphics card.
 
Nowadays when I see "new" or refresh graphic cards, I actually don't find it exciting news anymore. Chances are that you are not going to get one, or even if it is available, will be scalped by Nvidia/ AMD, their AIB, by the distributors, the resellers/ stores, and then scalpers. So every one gets some juicy profit, except the one buying to use.
 
Nowadays when I see "new" or refresh graphic cards, I actually don't find it exciting news anymore. Chances are that you are not going to get one, or even if it is available, will be scalped by Nvidia/ AMD, their AIB, by the distributors, the resellers/ stores, and then scalpers. So every one gets some juicy profit, except the one buying to use.

Yup, I'm about to just only play indie and visual novels only because why even bother with anything else?
 
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It was only a year ago when people were insisting that 8GB or 10GB was enough VRAM. Games won't be able to fill all that memory they said. You're good for several more years they said. Now most new release AAA games are running up against VRAM limitations. I've always maintained that your VRAM should match or exceed the RAM in the latest consoles so this very memory problem doesn't become an issue.

All the VRAM in the world means nothing when you can't get a new GPU. A year later and I'm still in the EVGA queue for a 3080. Securing a PS5 was a complete walk in the park by comparison. I expect this Nvidia refresh to continue the status quo of vendors happily funneling GPUs to scalpers and miners while gamers get screwed.
 
These GPU news(?) stories have kind of lost any appeal. I know TH has to report industry happenings.
I expect the average consumer has given up long ago and just went out and bought a last or current gen console(an easier path to gaming now) if they didn't already have one.
The trend is not going to change for many months at best, there might not be any difference in the market by Christmas 2022.
 
Something like that. I don't follow much to GPU news anymore because nothing really changes. Good video cards like RTX3080 and similar AMD cards still cost 500+ euros more than I'm willing to pay for them. I doubt that Intel Arc will change something about that. For entertainment purposes I still have my freestyle flying hobby - at least RC equipment prices are still affordable for most of my kind.
 
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I predict the future of PC gaming will be chromebooks.
Kids have the time to play games, and they have a chromebook for school. Not very many people are out there buying $1500 GPUs for their 14 year old.

Some small developer will make an ugly-but-addictive multiplayer game, and we can all just take a break from the overpriced underdelivering xXxmegagamerzXhyperbubblexXx.
 
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Refresh or not (though I think it's fake news), I wish they'd focus on sorting out their supply chain issues to actually get the cards into the hands of their consumers at something close to MSRP instead of releasing new SKUs. I have a 2080ti that I'm itching to upgrade and yet there's been 0 supply available at anywhere close to MSRP. If anything, it's been 50-100% above MSRP and I refuse to pay that.