Recently, AMD and NVIDIA have launched a wave of new graphics cards. AMD has RX 6500 XT and RX 6400, and NVIDIA has more, In addition to the notebook version of the graphics card and the resurrected RTX 2060 12GB, the desktop also has RTX 3050, RTX 3090 Ti, etc., and recently launched the RTX 3080 12GB.
In terms of specifications, the RTX 3080 12GB uses a new core numbered GA102-220, with 8960 CUDA cores, an increase of 256 compared to the RTX 3080, and only 1280 away from the RTX 3080 Ti.
At the same time, there are 70 ray tracing cores, 280 Tensor cores, and 280 TMUs, all increased by 18, while the core clock remains unchanged at 1440-1710MHz. In addition to the increase in memory capacity, the memory bus is also opened from 320-bit to full 384-bit, the clock frequency is still 19GHz, and the bandwidth thus reaches 912GB/s.
What will the release of the RTX 3080 12GB graphics card bring to the market? The foreign media published a commentary pointing out that following the release of the new card, gamers have no interest, because under the current circumstances, the new card not only increases in price, but also cannot keep up with the supply, and the hyped price is higher. . Not only the high-end cards, but also the RX 6500 XT and RTX 3050 graphics cards. The price will increase before it goes on sale, which is much higher than the suggested selling price announced by AMD and NVIDIA.
PC players who want to play games have also changed their minds now. Instead of spending more than 300 euros to buy an RX 6500 XT graphics card, it is better to buy a game console, such as: Xbox Series X, PS5, etc.
One more thing is certain, that is, the graphics card market will not return to 2020, because the supply chain has comprehensively raised the price level of graphics cards (for more than a year, electronic components, wafer foundry, logistics, packaging, etc. prices have gone up.), the only hope now is that such extreme prices will not become the norm.
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