NVIDIA HAS LAUNCHED AMPERE, its new 8nm GPU chip architecture, and the performance bump over Turing is a healthy one. Nvidia boasts of nearly doubling just about every metric. There are three initial cards. The RTX 3070 costs $499, has 5,888 CUDA cores and 8GB of memory. The mid-range RTX 3080 is $699 with 8,704 cores and 10GB. The monster is the RTX 3090 at $1,499. It has 10,496 cores, and 24GB of GDDR6, This is near Titan-level pricing for a GeForce-branded card.
Turing was launched two years ago and brought a raft of new technologies, but was expensive and had issues, so the RTX didn’t sell in huge numbers.