NVIDIA GeForce are teasing something for August 31, likely RTX 3000

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they aren't going to announce that they're open sourcing their Linux driver and/or co-operating fully with the nouveau developers to make the open source driver feature complete.

Would be nice to be surprised....

Looking forward to an upgrade, but not to Nvidia. Waiting for RDNA 2 cards from AMD.


Last edited by Shmerl on 10 August 2020 at 3:33 pm UTC

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they aren't going to announce that they're open sourcing their Linux driver and/or co-operating fully with the nouveau developers to make the open source driver feature complete.

I'd say it's very unlikely. But that would be great of course if they did. Their previous announcement about it didn't result in anything.


Last edited by Shmerl on 10 August 2020 at 3:35 pm UTC

Seems that Nvidia got inspired by Fortnite black hole.

The leaked specs of these new cards appear to have lots of vram and memory bandwidth. Interesting to see how they will market that. Since there is no competition at that level, I expect some extremely high prices.

Looking forward to an upgrade, but not to Nvidia. Waiting for RDNA 2 cards from AMD.

Always waiting for the next card that is several years behind the times, right? Why are you even reading the nvidia related posts?

Always waiting for the next card that is several years behind the times, right?

Nvidia's dropping Linux market share is surely not going to start rising until they'll open their drivers. So if you want to complain about something being behind the times, start with Nvidia ;)

Nouveau is there of course for them to support, but they didn't show any interest. Not only that, they still hinder it by not allowing it to work properly.


Last edited by Shmerl on 10 August 2020 at 3:56 pm UTC

At this point, the only announcement that would make me happy from Nvidia is their bankruptcy I'm the lucky owner of several optimus-enabled laptops. So much wasted time because of them...

Anyway, wasn't Nvidia teasing just last week with an ARM acquisition? Could it be something on that front?


Last edited by setzer22 on 10 August 2020 at 4:26 pm UTC

I repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Both, Nvidia and AMd are using consumers as betatesters....

They should calm down and release new GPUs every three years and not every year.

I will wait how they compete with Rdna2, then I decide which one I will buy. I had Nvidia right after my Voodoos2 and was never disappointed by their drivers. A thing I cannot say about AMD.

Not interested atm. I've geforce 1080 in my rig and that's enough for me.The next GPU will be AMD's for me unless NVIDIA open up their driver. It seems that's not gonna happen for a long time.Maybe then when evil scientists discover how to travel back in time to change history so that there will be no Microsoft and windows. And most importantly Linus Torvalds will be the overlord of the world. In addition to that, Linux Market share will be 99% in computers!Then NVIDIA open up their drivers.Oh what a fantastic world awaits us!Did I went too far with my story? Maybe. But honestly speaking, I suspect that It's only the new GeForce RXT 3000 card, nothing more. But there will be always room for pleasant surprises!

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they aren't going to announce that they're open sourcing their Linux driver and/or co-operating fully with the nouveau developers to make the open source driver feature complete.

Would be nice to be surprised....

Actual huang sadness about opensource collaboration



Back to topic if ampere is successfull maybe big navi could dont be out and leave for rdna 3 next year




Last edited by mrdeathjr on 10 August 2020 at 6:45 pm UTC

I repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

They should calm down and release new GPUs every three years and not every year.

I'll freely admit that I find AMD's products and release schedule confusing, but on the Nvidia side:
Fermi 2010
Kepler 2012
Maxwell 2014
Pascal 2016
Turing 2018
Consumer Ampere? 2020

You don't have to buy a new card every generation if you don't want to.


Last edited by CatKiller on 10 August 2020 at 7:51 pm UTC

I repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

I miss the days when Matrox still had competitive cards... they jad great hardware, stable drivers and their G series were mostly open source! Then they just couldn't keep up with the insane chase for frames per second, and said screw it and just focused on carxs that can control many screens...

Oh well, the few times I have delved into AMD land, I have left disappointed.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

Also, Intel have problems with switching to smaller node process in CPUs, which also I assume will affect their GPUs.


Last edited by Shmerl on 10 August 2020 at 7:47 pm UTC

I repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

They should calm down and release new GPUs every three years and not every year.

I'll freely admit that I find AMD's products and release schedule confusing, but on the Nvidia side:
Fermi 2010
Kepler 2012
Maxwell 2014
Pascal 2016
Turing 2018
Consumer Ampere? 2020

You don't have to buy a new card every generation if you don't want to.

If you skip a generation or two, you'll get larger performance boost compared to what you had before. Not every generation is going to double your FPS, but if you wait as long as I have, that is likely going to happen. I still have GTX 970...

I repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

They should calm down and release new GPUs every three years and not every year.

I'll freely admit that I find AMD's products and release schedule confusing, but on the Nvidia side:
Fermi 2010
Kepler 2012
Maxwell 2014
Pascal 2016
Turing 2018
Consumer Ampere? 2020

You don't have to buy a new card every generation if you don't want to.

If you skip a generation or two, you'll get larger performance boost compared to what you had before. Not every generation is going to double your FPS, but if you wait as long as I have, that is likely going to happen. I still have GTX 970...

I change my main videocard every 4 years.

I buy the most powerful video card I can buy; in November of 2015 I bought a GTX 970 and in September of 2019 I bought an RTX 2060 SUPER

The performance gap between the two card is huge!

21 Days, 21 Years, 21xx Series?

I repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

They should calm down and release new GPUs every three years and not every year.

I'll freely admit that I find AMD's products and release schedule confusing, but on the Nvidia side:
Fermi 2010
Kepler 2012
Maxwell 2014
Pascal 2016
Turing 2018
Consumer Ampere? 2020

You don't have to buy a new card every generation if you don't want to.

If you skip a generation or two, you'll get larger performance boost compared to what you had before. Not every generation is going to double your FPS, but if you wait as long as I have, that is likely going to happen. I still have GTX 970...

I change my main videocard every 4 years.

I buy the most powerful video card I can buy; in November of 2015 I bought a GTX 970 and in September of 2019 I bought an RTX 2060 SUPER

The performance gap between the two card is huge!

For a long time my computer upgrades revolved around whether or not I could run everything in the MAME library. It wasn't until a few iterations back that I could run the Gauntlet games that ran with a 3DFx Voodoo chip when I stopped... but now my upgrade cycle is determined by if VR runs well... so sadly I have actually not been able to skip a generation since the 980GTX... But I think I may have to with the RTX 3xxxx. As I don't feel like shelling out the money I'd likely need to go with the Ti version this time (I usually get the non-Ti as the they are a decent chunk less.) I sold off my 1080 to a friend, but still have my 980GTX sitting in an external case for my portable VR set up... which apparently is too weak for the Index, but works well for the original Vive.

3080ti it is then.
Been waiting too long for something that can do a decent job at 4k

I repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

They should calm down and release new GPUs every three years and not every year.

I'll freely admit that I find AMD's products and release schedule confusing, but on the Nvidia side:
Fermi 2010
Kepler 2012
Maxwell 2014
Pascal 2016
Turing 2018
Consumer Ampere? 2020

You don't have to buy a new card every generation if you don't want to.

If you skip a generation or two, you'll get larger performance boost compared to what you had before. Not every generation is going to double your FPS, but if you wait as long as I have, that is likely going to happen. I still have GTX 970...

I still have a GTX 780.