NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphic cards have been announced. Based on the NVIDIA Ampere Architecture, the cards will offer more CUDA cores, increased performance, and the RTX 3080 Ti will have more VRAM – 12GB GDDR6X. What will their true price and availability look like? The California-based tech company NVIDIA Corporation now releases new graphic cards (GPUs) for PCs that are first and foremost geared towards gamers. As usual with the GeForce GPU line, it is not only gamers who will benefit from the increased performance. High-end gaming GPUs have also been popular among filmmakers (editors) and other creators as they provide a significant performance boost in certain applications, such as DaVinci Resolve. Before taking a short look at the two new cards, however, let’s briefly talk about a different problem – the (very limited) availability of GPUs. Can you actually buy a GPU nowadays? For the past 6+ months, the situation in the GPU market has not been good. In fact, ever since NVIDIA launched the RTX 30 series in 2020, there has been limited supply available at the stores worldwide. I was building my new editing PC in November 2020 and I quickly learned that getting a decent GPU for a reasonable price (that means not too much over NVIDIA’s MSRP) will be quite a challenge. In December 2020, I finally managed to buy an RTX 3090 for reasonable money. Although I initially wanted the more affordable RTX 3080, I refused to pay...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 1 June, 2021