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We knew it was coming, but now things are clear -- NVIDIA has just made the GeForce RTX 3060 with 12GB of GDDR6 official and it'll cost $329 and drops in late February 2021.

This is the 5th GeForce RTX 30 desktop series GPU, with 12GB of GDDR6 and will have 13 TFLOPs of single-precision compute performance, and offers much better performance across the board in games like Cyberpunk 2077 with RT + DLSS enabled, Fortnite, Watch Dogs: Legion, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider with all RT + DLSS enabled are better on the new RTX 3060 over the previous-gen Turing-based RTX 2060 graphics card.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3060 with 12GB GDDR6 will battle AMD's new Radeon RX 6000 series with their higher-stacked 16GB GDDR6.

AMD will kick off its CES 2021 keynote on January 12 @ 9AM PST, where AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be featured where she and her team will unveil new products, and talk of the success of AMD throughout 2020, into 2021, and beyond.

You will be able to watch it here, or in the YouTube embed above.

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MSI is gearing up to unleash some new Ampere graphics cards, with GeForce RTX 30 series Sea Hawk water-cooled cards to be unveiled on January 13 @ 11AM PST during its Tech for the Future event at CES 2021.

We just saw EVGA teasing its GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Hydro Copper graphics card, but now it'll be MSI's turn in a few days to unveil a liquid cooled graphics card. MSI should unveil two new variants, as it has done before: the Sea Hawk X and Sea Hawk EK X.

The difference here is that the Sea Hawk X has an AIO cooler similar to EVGA's GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Hybrid, while the MSI Sea Hawk EK X graphics cards have a full pre-installed waterblock from the fine folks at EKWB.

EVGA is flashing around its custom GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Hydro Copper graphics card and boy, boy, boy does it look good up here.

It looks like EVGA is using the same PCB as the original EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Hybrid graphics card, which was a different variant that packed an AIO (all-in-one) cooler. But EVGA's new GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Hydro Copper graphics card rocks out with a fully custom PCB and water block, ready for a fully-water cooled PC.

It looks like EVGA is going with 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors here on the GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Hydro Copper graphics card, and we should totally expect the 450W XOC (extreme overclocking) BIOS for the GeForce RTX 3090 KINGPIN Hydro Copper, too.

NVIDIA has given us a brief tease of what is to come at its GeForce RTX: Game On event on January 12, where we will be seeing their new GeForce RTX 30 series mobile GPUs unveiled.

It looks like we will be introduced to the GeForce RTX 3080 mobile GPU with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, as well as a GeForce RTX 3070 mobile GPU with 8GB of GDDR6. The video also teased a new game called Outriders, with a free demo dropping on February 25 and should include some GeForce RTX features and technology.

Not only that, but NVIDIA seems to be teasing something that could be a desktop GeForce RTX graphics card -- so maybe we'll see the company unveil its new GeForce RTX 3060 ULTRA with 12GB of GDDR6 that was teased recently, but in Founders Edition form of course.

Intel's new DG2 discrete GPU is on its way, with some recent teases thanks to some newly-released Intel GPU drivers.

The new Intel 100.9126 GPU driver teases SKU variants of DG2, with two DG2 Device IDs found in the new driver. There is a 128 EU (Execution Unit) version that would pack 1028 Shading Units, while the 512 EU version would pack 4096 Shading Units.

We don't know where this fits in against AMD and its new RDNA 2 architecture and Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, nor do we know how Intel's new GPUs will battle against NVIDIA's new Ampere architecture and the GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards.

NVIDIA will reportedly be launching two new GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile GPUs, with a Max-P and Max-Q model that will see the Max-P with up to 150W power, while the Max-Q is a little tamer at 90W.

The GeForce RTX 3080 Max-P will have a 1100MHz base GPU clock and 1545MHz boost GPU clock and 150W, while the GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q will have a 780MHz base GPU clock and 1245MHz boost GPU clock at 90W. We should see a few variants in between these two models at 80W, 115W, 125W, and others.

NVIDIA will also be offering both 8GB and 16GB models of its new GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile GPUs, which I hope happens. VideoCardz thinks we'll see up to 10 models of the GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile/Laptop graphics cards, each with varying GPU clock speeds, power limits, and memory capacity.

It looks like AMD is expected to launch its mid-range Radeon RX 6700 graphics card in March 2021.

The news is coming from Cowcotland, which reports: "According to our sources the two new AMD graphics cards are scheduled for the end of the first quarter of this year, so end of March".

AMD's new Radeon RX 6700 series will reportedly use the Navi 22 GPU and have up to 40 Compute Units (2560 stream processors). But it is the higher-end Radeon RX 6700 XT that could be the star of the show, and could be a mid-range killer that NVIDIA is now just responding to with the purported GeForce RTX 3060 ULTRA.

COLORFUL has just unveiled its very latest, and one of -- if not the most exclusive graphics card the company has ever made... introducing the iGame GeForce RTX 3090 Vulcan RNG Edition.

The card is a specially-made limited edition card designed and hand-crafted for Chinese esports team RNG, or Royal Never Give Up. The team plays League of Legends for the most part, so as VideoCardz puts it -- it's pretty damn overkill for that game. Still, it looks boss and would be a beautiful card in any collection (if you collect graphics cards).

COLORFUL has used the same great-looking design from its regular iGame Vulcan, but have dipped it in a totally new color scheme. Satin gold is used to great effect, while the backplate is covered with the members of RNG.

ASUS has come out swinging very early on, telling everyone to expect increases in the costs of PC components across the board -- graphics cards, motherboards, and everything in between.

The news is coming directly from ASUS's Technical Product Marketing Manager, Juan Jose, who posted on the ASUS PC DIY Facebook page. I've got his full quote below, but commenting on the post has been disabled. I'm sure this was done so that there wouldn't be any debate about it.

We've seen gigantic shortages of high-end graphics cards, motherboards, and even the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles worldwide. It should come as no surprise PC component shortages are happening, so price increases across the board will be happening in response to that.

Well, it seems my predictions are coming true -- NVIDIA is bringing back the ULTRA branding and I couldn't be more hyped. We're starting with new rumors from our friends over at Wccftech, who have the scoop on the new GeForce RTX 3060 ULTRA.

Yeah, you read that right -- GeForce RTX 3060 ULTRA. Not the GeForce RTX 3060 -- Wccftech says that their sources informed them that NVIDIA is re-branding its GeForce RTX 3060 and introducing it as the GeForce RTX 3060 ULTRA. I'm alright with that, because I'm a huge fan of the older GeForce cards and their ULTRA branding.

ULTRA >> Ti >> SUPER.

GIGABYTE has just silently made some changes to its new GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, a new AORUS Master variant of the card. Check it out:

The new AORUS RTX 3080 Master has been modified from using 2 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, to 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors. The new revision now has 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors but it might use the same board design as the AORUS XTREME version which rocks triple 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

What can do you do with more power? GIGABYTE could be increasing the TGP for this model up from the dual 8-pin PCIe connectors + PCIe socket offering 375W up to 400W+ with a good enough design. As for the GPU frequency, we're looking at 1845MHz boost GPU clocks which is an out-of-the-box overclock of just under 8%.

NVIDIA is expected to launch two new high-end graphics cards sometime this year, with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and now the newly-rumored GeForce RTX 3080 SUPER graphics card.

But joining the new rumor of the GeForce RTX 3080 SUPER is the GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER, but why? Well, the RTX 3080 has 10GB of VRAM and the RTX 3070 has 8GB of VRAM. Both of their competitors in the Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 have 16GB of VRAM and I'm sure NVIDIA wants to something about that.

The new rumors are coming from kopite7kimi on Twitter, who says that there are "some new SKUs" coming and they might be the GeForce RTX 3080 SUPER and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER graphics cards. We could expect the RTX 3080 SUPER to be a tweaked RTX 3080 with 16GB of VRAM -- while the higher-end RTX 3080 Ti would pack 20GB of VRAM.

AMD is working on GPU chiplet technology for a future GPU release, but on December 31, 2020 as the world was about to ring in the New Year, AMD submitted a new patent to the USPTO.

The new patent describes a GPU chiplet design that would be quite the advancement over NVIDIA right now, with the GPU chiplet be direct 'communicably coupled' to the CPU with each of the GPU chiplets in the array would be coupled to the first GPU through a passive crosslink.

AMD sees a future where a passive crosslink is used for communication wires between GPU chiplets, which are all on a single interposer. This means that the groups of GPU chiplets work work like a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) which is divided into separate functional chips.

GALAX has just unveiled two new custom GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards before the New Year rings in -- with the new CLASSIC series cards with blower-style fans. Check them out:

The new GALAX RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 CLASSIC series graphics cards feature blower-style designs and you wouldn't really tell the difference between them. I've only got the RTX 3090 pictured here, but they both look identical. Both cards will require 2 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, with TDPs of 350W for the RTX 3090 CLASSIC and 320W for the RTX 3080 CLASSIC.

At the end of the card you have the standard 1 x HDMI 2.1 and 3 x DP 1.4 connectors as well as a helluva lot of heat sink -- it is chunky down in there.

GIGABYTE has just announced its new Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming OC graphics card, which will rock a large triple-fan cooler and require triple 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

The new Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming OC graphics card from GIGABYTE is their fastest custom RX 6900 XT yet, but there will be an AORUS version of the RX 6900 XT announced sometime in 2021. For now, we have GIGABYTE cooling the card with its WindForce 3X cooling design, packing a triple-fan cooler, the use of graphene nano lubricant, and more.

GIGABYTE is using 3 x 80mm fans that each have 11 blade, with a plastic shroud on the front -- the fans themselves use nano lubricant which reportedly offers the same lifespan as dual ball bearings, but they're quieter. The fans also spin in alternate mode that reduces the turbulence of other fans, increasing air pressure.

NVIDIA is cooking up its fresh new Big Navi competitor with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti waiting in the wings to deploy in 2021, with ASUS kinda unveiling its custom GeForce RTX 3080 Ti -- and now GIGABYTE just did with new entries at the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) regulatory office.

GIGABYTE is preparing an onslaught of custom GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards with 20GB of RAM, with custom cards in the following families of cards: AORUS Xtreme, AORUS Master, Vision, Gaming, Eagle, and Turbo. GIGABYTE seems to be releasing cards in the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with all of its lineup, just like it did with the RTX 3080 and its 10GB of VRAM.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will do things right with 20GB of VRAM, up from the 10GB of VRAM given on the RTX 3080. AMD's new Radeon RX 6000 series cards all have 16GB of VRAM, including the Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT.

A story has been floating around that 500,000 boxed-up GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards were discovered in a shipping container -- gone missing during transit, but that story was BS.

Geeknetic.es first reported the story which when put into Google Translate spits out that a Samsung subsidiary port warehouse worker somewhere in South Korea found a bunch of boxes with NVIDIA logos on them. This staffer noted that the shipment wasn't on any port records.

The staffer himself had been trying to buy a GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card, and after seeing the hundreds of boxes of NVIDIA products "only added to my frustration of not getting one".

You might be finding it impossible to buy a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card worldwide right now, but crypto miners have their hands-on a lot of them -- and this crypto miner has 78 x GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards for a huge ETH mine.

Simon Byrne built this crypto mining setup which consists of 13 x 6 card arrays for a total of 78 GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards. Each card should be using around 300W of power, so this 78 x GPU crypto mine would be using around 23.4 kilowatts of power to run -- and then there's AC on top.

Our friends at TechARP breaking down the pricing noting that Bryne is based in Las Vegas, taking that into consideration when talking about how much the mine costs to run. As for the GPUs, we're looking at the base mine costing around $100,000 or so:

NVIDIA's current flagship GeForce RTX 3090 is a beast of a graphics card, with AMD able to take a few blows with its Big Navi-powered Radeon RX 6900 XT -- but now we're hearing about the next-gen AD102 GPU.

The post-Christmas news is coming from leaker @kopite7kimi, who has said NVIDIA's next-gen AD102 GPU built on the next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture will pack an insane 72 Texture Processor Clusters (TPCs) and 144 Streaming Multiprocessors.

AD102 rocking 144 SMs would see the GPU packing a quite simply insane 18432 CUDA cores, which is a gigantic 71% more CUDA cores than the flagship Ampere-based GA102 GPU that powers the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card.