Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 3050, 3070 Ti, 3080 Ti and 3090 Ti graphics cards

Nvidia is expanding its RTX technology more widely with the unveiling of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti and 3090 Ti graphics cards.

The 3080 Ti is for laptops, while the 3050 is for desktops. Details are scarce for the 3090 Ti, but you can expect it to fill Nvidia’s high-end graphics.

Nvidia made the announcement during a virtual event at the CES 2022 tech show in Las Vegas. The company said more than 160 gaming laptops and Nvidia Studio were unveiled at the show.

The company also announced new RTX-accelerated games, the expansion of cloud-based games GeForce Now, and the launch of a free version of Nvidia Omniverse for creators and artists.

“GeForce RTX transforms the game and opens up vast digital worlds. Today’s announcements make GeForce the ultimate platform for gamers and creators, ”Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of consumer products at Nvidia, said at a media briefing. “And GeForce Now continues to grow as a platform to reach billions of players. “

160 laptops

Fisher said gaming laptops are getting thinner and cheaper than ever before with the launch of the new, energy-efficient graphics chips.

Based on the latest generation of processors, these laptops offer a wide range of form factors, such as dual displays, easels, convertibles and 14 inch displays, plenty of sports G-Syn and 1440p displays.

Nvidia’s Launch of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU Brings Flagship 80 Ti GPU Class to
laptops for the first time. Equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, the RTX 3080 Ti offers superior performance compared to the Nvidia Titan RTX desktop. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti laptops start at $ 2,500.

The new GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is up to 70% faster than RTX 2070 Super laptops and can deliver 100 frames per second at 1440p resolution. RTX 3070 Ti laptops start at $ 1,500.

Laptops powered by these two new GPUs will be available from February 1, 2022.

The RTX 3090 Ti will pack 24GB of GDDR6X running at 21Gbps, the fastest memory ever. The GPU will run at 40 teraflops for shaders, 78 teraflops for ray tracing, and 320 teraflops for AI. More details will come later this month.

Nvidia also introduced the fourth generation of Max-Q technologies, which optimize the number of cores dedicated to certain tasks with the aim of preserving battery life or increasing performance as needed.

Tech giant further expands its Studio platform with proprietary hardware, software and apps
that helps creators move faster from concept to realization. This includes a major update to Nvidia Canvas, a painting app that uses AI to generate landscape images from simple brush strokes.

Built from Nvidia’s GauGAN2 research, the app produces images that are four times the resolution of the past, with five additional elements like flowers and bushes. The new Canvas app is free to download.

The Studio platform also includes a wide range of Nvidia Studio laptops, with designs from Asus, MSI and Razer, powered by the new graphics processing units (GPUs) for GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti laptops. With the latest RTX GPUs, these laptops are on average seven times faster at 3D rendering than the latest Apple MacBook Pro 16.

Above: Nvidia’s GeForce Now has 15 million subscribers.

Image Credit: Nvidia

These laptops support over 200 creative apps, as well as RTX accelerated ray tracing, AI, and Nvidia’s high-performance video processor, making them ideal for creators.

The GeForce RTX 3050 balances performance and efficiency, and its mission is to play the latest ray tracing games at over 60 frames per second while remaining affordable and accessible.

With 75% of gamers still playing on older GTX GPUs, the 3050, which also includes second-gen RT cores as well as third-gen Tensor cores for DLSS and AI, is a way for these gamers to level up. .

The RTX 3050, which comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, starts at just $ 250 and will be
available January 27 from Nvidia partners.

New RTX titles

Above: Rainbow Six: Extraction.

Image Credit: Ubisoft

Nvidia also said 10 new games will use RTX technology, including GPU-accelerated ray tracing, Nvidia DLSS, and Nvidia Reflex (anti-lag) gaming technologies. New titles include The Day Before, Escape from Tarkov, and the highly anticipated Ubisoft Rainbow Six Extraction title.

Nvidia also announced seven new integrations of Nvidia Reflex, its low-latency gaming platform, which better connects the gamer to the game. New Reflex games include iRacing, an online racing simulator, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Extraction, and Sony’s action-adventure game God of War.

1440p monitors for esports

While esports events have been hit hard by the pandemic, online esports continues to grow. And the demand for eSports displays has doubled every year.

Older 1080p displays dominated esports for over a decade, as the lower resolution enabled higher frame rates and faster refresh rates in esports games. But today’s best GeForce RTX GPUs render esports games well above 360fps at 1440p, the industry is set to change.

Nvidia’s own research found that 27-inch 1440p displays can improve aiming by up to 3% over traditional 24-inch 1080 displays when aimed at small targets. For competitive games where every millisecond counts, 3% can be the difference between winning and losing, Fisher said.

Nvidia has announced four new displays in the 1440p esports category. The Asus ROG Swift 360Hz PG27AQN has a refresh rate of 360Hz. AOC mini LEDs AG274QGM – AGON PRO, MSI MEG 271Q Mini and ViewSonic XG272G-2K Mini LEDs all feature a mini LED with refresh rates of 300Hz.

Fisher said 20 million GeForce gamers compete with Reflex every month. As the popularity of the Reflex platform increases, so does the Reflex hardware ecosystem. Nvidia announced five new Reflex monitors and six new Reflex mice.

There are now over 50 Reflex mice and monitors from 16 partners, all using the Reflex Latency Analyzer, which allows gamers to easily measure system latency with the click of a mouse.

GeForce now

Above: A tank in Battlefield V.

Image Credit: EA

Finally, Nvidia mentioned GeForce Now, its cloud gaming platform. The company said there are over 1,100 games on GeForce Now. GeForce now has 15 million subscribers.

Nvidia has also extended its partnership with Electronic Arts, adding Battlefield 4 and Battlefield V to GeForce Now, streaming today.

And Nvidia has announced a partnership with Samsung to integrate GeForce Now into its smart TVs, starting in the second quarter of this year. This follows last month’s beta of the GeForce Now app for LG 2021 WebOS smart TVs. And GeForce Now will bring PC games to mobile devices in partnership with AT&T on 5G technology. Starting in January, AT&T customers with a 5G device with an unlimited 5G plan or a qualifying unlimited plan will be able to get a six-month GeForce Now Priority subscription at no cost.