Forget PS5 — this GeForce RTX 3080 leak shows PC gaming is the future

Forget PS5 — this GeForce RTX 3080 leak shows PC gaming is the time to come

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Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 and the potential GeForce RTX 3090 are gear up to get a serious boost in ray-tracing performance cheers to a rumored dual-sided design.

A video by Coreteks detailed how the next-generation GeForce graphics card based on Nvidia's Ampere architecture will have the main GPU on one side of the printed excursion lath (PCB) and a co-processor on the other side. That co-processor will supposedly be dedicated to powering ray-tracing rendering, building upon the dedicated ray-tracing cores the electric current GeForce RTX 20-serial graphics cards have.

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There'southward very little to support this rumor, though Coreteks has a proven to exist a reliable tech tipster in the past. But we'd notwithstanding suggest you take this declared data with a degree of skepticism, because so far the leaked images of the GeForce RTX 3080 don't necessarily evidence a graphics card with a dual-sided PCB.

But WCCFtech pointed out that Nvidia has patented traversal co-processors to aid in ray-tracing back in 2018. So at that place'southward a case for the adjacent GeForce series of graphics cards to come with co-processors, which would do the job of ray-tracing cores while avoiding the need to fit them all into the GPUs die.

All of this should translate into better ray-tracing performance for Nvidia's next-generation GeForce graphics cards. Such a boost in performance is to be expected, but a hike in ray-tracing performance could be significant for the gaming globe.

That's considering the PS5 and Xbox Series X are coming with ray-tracing support to usher in games with much more realistic lighting that can transform the look of a game. Consoles with ray-tracing capabilities requite developers a larger audience that tin support the advanced rendering technique.

Equally a result, that's probable to mean more games with ray-tracing; how those will run on PS5 and Xbox Series X hardware has however to exist seen. But if the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 profoundly heave ray-tracing performance, information technology could make running such titles at very high resolutions and at high frame rates a distinct possibility for PC gamers.

Nosotros all the same don't accept whatever official info on the RTX 3080, but Nvidia is rumored to unveil its new GPU as soon equally August. And with AMD expected to release a powerful graphics card to take on Nvidia'due south best GPUs around September time, the second half of the year is set up to be equally interesting for PC gamers every bit it is for Xbox and PlayStation fans.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion manufactures. He oftentimes writes most gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he'southward also got an interest in cars. When not at his desk-bound Roland can be found wandering around London, frequently with a await of curiosity on his face.