With the label "Ultimate Countdown" (definitive countdown), NVIDIA has announced an event that will take place on September 1, in which of course the launch of Ampere, its new generation of graphics cards, is expected. We tell you everything that is known and what we can expect from this event below.Initially, NVIDIA published a trailer through its official Twitter account, followed by the announcement on its website where we can see a countdown under the slogan “21 days, 21 years. Before we go into the future, join us in celebrating the biggest advancements in PC gaming since 1999. And what's next".
This mysterious message points to September 1 at 9 in the morning (Pacific time), and it is no coincidence that it was precisely on this date that it was launched 21 years ago to the market the famous GeForce 256 of the brand, so everything indicates that this event is precisely to launch its new Ampere graphics cards.This has been the first advance of several that the company will have prepared until the time of the event (they have said that they will tell "stories" advancing a year each day from now until the time of the event, and for now they have enabled a minisite on their website in a "retro" way, under the title "Tonight I'm going to play like it's 1999!"
In this article they look back to tell us what it was like to play at that time, recalling those moments that many of us already lived, such as CD-RW recorders (and that was already modern by the year 99), broadband Internet (Likewise, a server began its adventures with 28800 baud modems) and remembering that time considered the golden age of video games.But let's go back to the present. In this article NVIDIA also confirms that on September 1 they will welcome the new era (another way of saying that it is the launch of Ampere) with a special event via streaming with the CEO of NVIDIA, Jen-sen Huang , which you can all access to see it live from the link you will find at the bottom of this article. In fact, if you log in, you also have a direct access to add the event to your calendar so you don't forget it.
Obviously the new Ampere architecture graphics cards are expected to be officially announced, with the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3080 leading the way. It is possible that they talk about the rest of the graphics cards of this generation, but remember that NVIDIA is expected to make a staggered launch of the whole family, so initially these two would arrive that are the top of the range to later launch the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060, that the last would arrive.If we trust what has happened in almost all previous generations, each new graph equals the previous generation in a number, that is, in this case the RTX 3060 will be equal to or greater than the current RTX 2070, the RTX 3070 it will be equal to or greater than the RTX 2080 and so on. NVIDIA is also expected, by the way, to showcase a new heatsink design on its Founders Edition graphics.On the other hand, it is being said that the top-of-the-range Ampere graphics will surpass the current queens, the RTX 2080 Ti, by far in performance, but they are also expected to equal or exceed the price of these that even today are inaccessible. for most users, since they are around 1,200 USD. Finally, this new generation of graphics is also expected to arrive with amounts of memory never seen in the consumer market until now, with capacities of up to 20 and 24 GB.All this and much more is what the NVIDIA CEO is expected to confirm during the conference, which will take place (remember) on September 1 at 9AM Pacific time.