Today CES continues on with Intel and AMD having their announcements, and now it's NVIDIA up with the GeForce RTX 3060, plus lots of GeForce RTX laptops.
Ampere becomes a whole lot more affordable, as the GeForce RTX 3060 will succeed the GTX 1060 which was a very popular GPU due to the performance and price, with NVIDIA putting the GeForce RTX 3060 up for $329. It wasn't just the 1060 that was popular, the 2060 was also really popular with gamers (according to the Steam Survey) so NVIDIA sure took their time getting this out.
RTX 3060's specifications:
- 13 shader-TFLOPs
- 25 RT-TFLOPs for ray tracing
- 101 tensor-TFLOPs to power NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)
- 192-bit memory interface
- 12GB of GDDR6 memory
“There’s unstoppable momentum behind ray tracing, which has quickly redefined the new standard of gaming,” said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of global GeForce marketing at NVIDIA. “The NVIDIA Ampere architecture has been our fastest-selling ever, and the RTX 3060 brings the strengths of the RTX 30 Series to millions more gamers everywhere.”
NVIDIA will also be supporting "Resizable BAR" with the 30xx series, an advanced feature of PCI Express that can increase performance in games which is NVIDIA's answer to AMD's Smart Access Memory. It's not clear if this will work on Linux with NVIDIA drivers yet though.
When will the GeForce RTX 3060 be available? Soon! They say late February with stock speeds and factory overclocked units from top-tier vendors to be ready. However, expect stock issues as always.
On top of that lots of GeForce RTX 30 series laptops have been announced, with global availability expected later this month. Pricing will start at $999 (for the 3060 models) and they will have either the GeForce RTX 3060, GeForce RTX 3070 or the GeForce RTX 3080. NVIDIA also said they worked with partners to arrange many more laptops than ever before to come with at least 1440p displays so it's about to get a lot more common.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
oldrocker99 12 Jan 2021
Maybe in a year, when the pandemic subsides, when tariffs drop...
NVIDIA will also be supporting "Resizable BAR" with the 30xx series, an advanced feature of PCI Express that can increase performance in games. It's not clear if this will work on Linux though.
The feature is already working on Linux (upcoming Mesa 21 already has the patches to make use of it on AMD GPUs). AFAIK, It's 100% up to them to make use of the feature on their Linux driver.
Avehicle7887 12 Jan 2021
Working with Mesa doesn't mean working with NVIDIA proprietary drivers though :)NVIDIA will also be supporting "Resizable BAR" with the 30xx series, an advanced feature of PCI Express that can increase performance in games. It's not clear if this will work on Linux though.
The feature is already working on Linux (upcoming Mesa 21 already has the patches to make use of it on AMD GPUs). AFAIK, It's 100% up to them to make use of the feature on their Linux driver.
Working with Mesa doesn't mean working with NVIDIA proprietary drivers though :)
I know, but you wrote "it's not clear if this will work on Linux though". The feature per se works on Linux but Nvidia has to use it in their drivers.
rustybroomhandle 12 Jan 2021
EDIT: Seems it was only the TI earlier. How odd! Oh well. :)
Last edited by Beamboom on 12 Jan 2021 at 8:38 pm UTC
furaxhornyx 13 Jan 2021
It wasn't just the 1060 that was popular, the 2060 was also really popular with gamers (according to the Steam Survey)
I'd say it was more popular with manufacturers, seeing how many "gaming" laptops and destops were shipped with a xx60...
and its sold out
Like practically all the rtx 20's & 30's! I wanted to upgrade my Windows gaming rig, but I will wait for availability and affordable price ... The soldout ASUS dual RTX-3080-O8G quoted at C$830 on Newegg, is available on Ebay for C$1200-1500!
For the time being I am happy to play on Linux, even some new Windows games, such as HZD at 30fps (
), and thru RDP on Linux!
and its sold out
Like practically all the rtx 20's & 30's! I wanted to upgrade my Windows gaming rig, but I will wait for availability and affordable price ... The soldout ASUS dual RTX-3080-O8G quoted at C$830 on Newegg, is available on Ebay for C$1200-1500!
For the time being I am happy to play on Linux, even some new Windows games, such as HZD at 30fps (
Whats shittier is Asus have already confirmed a 66 percent price increase across its range (graphics cards are going up by 20 to 25 percent)
Prices are going up ... now it's C$1700 - C$2000 I have even seen the RTX3080 3-fans for C$3300!!
For the time being I am happy to play on Linux, even some new Windows games, such as HZD at 30fps (
Why play on Linux thru RPD? Because I spend most of my time on the Linux Rig and get the same FPS than on the Windows one (
) since on Windows I have only an Asus GTX750ti which I hope to upgrade to an Asus dual RTX3070-OC8G in the not too distant future ... when they become available again!
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