NVIDIA unveiled an improved GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory and a degraded GeForce RTX 3060 with 8GB GDDR6

NVIDIA officially unveiled an improved GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory as well as a degraded GeForce RTX 3060 with a reduced to 8GB GDDR6 memory.
Characteristics of the cards appeared on the company's website.
Some partners NVIDIA, such as Manli, ASUS and Colorful, have previously provided their versions of these gas pedals.Image source: NVIDIA \"To diversify the choice of gamers and creators of digital content, we present some new options from our network of partners around the world.
They will be available in November.
In addition to the regular GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6 memory we are introducing the faster GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory.
The second gas pedal is the GeForce RTX 3060 with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.
Support for both products are included in the new version of the graphics driver Game Ready Driver\" - says NVIDIA.
Model GeForce RTX 3060 8GB - this is actually a copy of the original GeForce RTX 3060 with 12 GB of memory, but with reduced to 8 GB of memory GDDR6 and cut to 128 bits memory bus.
As a consequence, the memory bandwidth of this gas pedal decreased from 360 to 240 GB/s.
This could have a negative impact on gaming performance.
At the basis of a new version of the gas pedal is used the former Ampere GA106 graphics processor with 3584 CUDA cores.
The use of faster GDDR6X memory in the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, in turn, should have a positive impact on the performance of the graphics card in games.
The faster memory provides a higher bandwidth at 608 GB/s.
Recall that the original version of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a GDDR6 memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.
The new version of the gas pedal has only changed the standard of memory used.
The volume of 8 GB and support for 256-bit memory bus is preserved.
At the basis of this graphics card is used the former GA104 graphics processor with 4864 CUDA cores.

NVIDIA introduced GeForce RTX 4090 and two GeForce RTX 4080 next-generation gas pedals priced from $899

NVIDIA has officially introduced the next generation of GeForce RTX 4000 graphics gas pedals.
In today's presentation, its CEO Jensen Huang announced the first models of the new series, the GeForce RTX 4090, the GeForce RTX 4080 with 16GB of memory, and the GeForce RTX 4080 with 12GB of memory.
In the reference design new items largely repeat the design of previous models.Image source: NVIDIAVideo cards GeForce RTX 4000 use GPUs based on the new architecture Ada Lovelace.
The chips have up to 76 billion transistors and are produced on 4nm TSMC N4 process.
The key features of the new architecture are 3rd generation RT cores and 4th generation tensor cores.
The company said that the new graphics cards based on Ada Lovelace architecture support DLSS 3.0 image scaling technology, which significantly improves gaming performance.
At the core of the flagship graphics card GeForce RTX 4090 is a graphics processor AD102-300 with 16 384 cores CUDA.
The declared frequency of its work is up to 2520 MHz.
The theoretical performance of the graphics card in single precision operations is 82.6 Tflops, which is 2.3 times higher than its predecessor on the Ampere architecture (GeForce RTX 3090).
It features 24 Gb of GDDR6X memory, 384 bit bus, 21 GHz effective frequency and 1 Tbytes/s peak bandwidth.
We are talking about power consumption of 450W, which is 100W better than the GeForce RTX 3090.
According to Jensen Huang, GeForce RTX 4090 is up to 4 times faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.On sale GeForce RTX 4090 will appear on October 12.
Its recommended price is $1599.
Along with the new flagship gas pedal Huang introduced two cards with the same name, but with different specifications.
The first is the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB.
At its core is half-cut processor AD103-300 with 9728 CUDA cores, running at up to 2505 MHz.
The card has 16 GB of GDDR6X memory with a 256-bit bus bit rate of 22.5 Gbit/s per pin (22.5 GHz effective frequency) and a bandwidth of 720 GB/s.
It has a claimed power consumption rating of 320W.
The model will go on sale in November.
Its recommended price is $1199.What was supposed to be the GeForce RTX 4070 model in the end was presented under the name GeForce RTX 4080 12GB.
This card uses an AD104-400 GPU with 7,680 CUDA cores, running at up to 2,610 MHz.
It has 12GB of GDDR6X memory with 192-bit bus bandwidth, 21Gb/s per pin, and a throughput rating of 504GB/s.
The new items have a claimed power consumption level of 285 watts.
NVIDIA has priced this model at $899.
It will also be on sale in November.
The manufacturer claims that the performance level of both GeForce RTX 4080 is 2-4 higher than the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

NVIDIA will release an entry-level graphics card GeForce GTX 1630 - it will replace the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

NVIDIA is going to release an entry-level graphics card GeForce GTX 1630.
This information was provided by VideoCordz, citing its sources.
The novelty should come to replace the model GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which is still actively used in budget systems.Image source: VideoCardzRemind that the last model of the gas pedal GTX series with Turing architecture - GeForce GTX 1650 - was released by NVIDIA in April 2019, that is, three years ago.
A lot has changed in the market since then.
The beginning of the semiconductor shortage effectively killed the entire entry-level segment of video cards.
And while NVIDIA did eventually release an entry-level GeForce RTX 3050 model as part of its current Ampere line of graphics cards with a recommended price of $249, this gas pedal currently sells for $330, making it much less appealing to many potential buyers.
AMD, which in turn released such graphics cards as the Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400 with recommended prices of $199 and $159 respectively, is well aware that the competitor has problems with entry-level gas pedals.
AMD recently launched a promotional campaign in which it compared the Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards in terms of performance per dollar spent to competitive solutions.
At the bottom of the graphics cards segment is clearly visible the difference in this ratio between AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards, where the same Radeon RX 6400 cost $160 is more profitable than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.Image source: AMD writes VideoCardz, GeForce GTX 1630 model comes to replace the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, so its cost is likely to be below $ 190, for which the current GeForce RTX 1650.
At the moment, information about the specifications of the GeForce GTX 1630 is unknown.
It can be assumed that the new card will be based on the NVIDIA TU117 (Turing) GPU and its power consumption will be below 75W.
In addition, it is likely to receive memory of GDDR6 standard.
It should be recalled that the GeForce GTX 1650 model is available in five different versions based on chips TU106, TU116 and TU117, and including the Super version.