RTX 3080. The next gen.
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The GeForce RTX 3080 is the lead card of the brand new Ampere range. It’s joined by the RTX 3090 (a consumer level Titan replacement) and soon the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060. Ampere cards incorporate everything great about the Turing architecture and improve on it. The RTX 3080 is faster in games, offers better AI performance, it packs in cutting edge technology support and features improved ray tracing capabilities. If Turing served as a teaser of the possibilities of ray tracing, the Ampere generation may be the one that elevates it from a technology with potential into one that becomes as commonly enabled as anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering.
What’s under the hood
At the heart of the RTX 3080 lies the GA102 GPU. This is actually the same GPU as the one that powers the RTX 3090, but with one of the shader clusters disabled. The 3080 packs in 8,704 CUDA cores vs the 4,352 of the outgoing RTX
