Nvidia and AMD go head-to-head in Computex GPU unveilings

Nvidia launched upgrades to the GeForce 30-series while AMD focused on mobile graphics cards

Nvidia and AMD have unveiled their newest GPUs: the GeForce 30-series Ti cards and Radeon 6000M series.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti are an upgrade to the RTX 3080 and 3070 cards launched in September last year.

The new cards feature second-gen RT cores and more VRAM versus the originals. They support Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) upscaling technique, as well as Reflex latency tuning and real-time ray tracing.

The RTX 3080 Ti, based Nvidia's Ampere GPU architecture, offers twice the performance of the GTX 1080 Ti, according to Nvidia. Moreover, it can run 4K games up to 1.5 times faster than the last-gen RTX 2080 Ti.

This GPU has 10,240 CUDA cores and 80 GPU clusters, running at a base frequency of 1.37GHz and boost speed of up to 1.67GHz. It also features 12GB GDDR6X VRAM with a 384-bit interface.

The RTX 3070 Ti, on the other hand, clocks at up to 1.77Ghz. It has 6,144 CUDA cores, 48 RT cores and 8GB GDDR6X VRAM with a 256-bit interface.

Nvidia claims that the RTX 3070 Ti delivers double the performance of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, while also offering about 50 per cent more performance than the RTX 2070 SUPER.

Both cards draw up to 350W of power.

The RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 (about £845), should be available worldwide from 3^rd June. The RTX 3070 Ti will be available at $599 (about £420), and will ship from 10^th June.

"With RTX such a huge success, gamers and creators will be thrilled with the performance and features the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti offers," said Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of the GeForce business unit at NVIDIA.

"As the new flagship to the RTX family, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is the ultimate upgrade for GPU enthusiasts of any generation."

AMD has also announced its long-awaited Radeon RX 6000M series of mobile graphics cards, to counter Nvidia's 30-series offering. The new units announced are the Radeon RX 6800M, Radeon RX 6700M, and Radeon RX 6600M.

'The Radeon RX 6800M aims to deliver desktop-class performance to power ultra-high frame rate 1440p gaming anywhere,' AMD said during the Computex 2021 tech event.

AMD Radeon RX 6000M series mobile GPUS are built on AMD's RDNA 2 gaming architecture. They deliver up to 1.5x higher performance, or the same performance at up to 43 per cent lower power, as earlier AMD RDNA cards.

The Radeon RX 6800M GPU delivers 2160 x 1440 resolution at 120 fps, with DirectX raytracing. It has 40 compute units and ray accelerators, 12GB of GDDR6 memory, a 96MB Infinity Cache, a game clock of 2,300MHz, 192-bit memory interface and 145+ watt TDP.

The Radeon RX 6700M features 36 compute units/ray accelerators, a game clock of 2,300MHz, 10GB of GDDR6 memory, 80MB of Infinity Cache and 135-watt TDP.

Finally, the Radeon RX 6600M sports 28 compute units/ray accelerators, a game clock of 2,177MHz, 8GB of GDDR6 memory and 32MB of Infinity Cache.

The new cards have a range of new features, including Smart Access memory, Infinity Edge and SmartShift technology.

AMD's Radeon RX 6000M series mobile GPUs will be available from 1^st June.

The company has also shared details of its FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling framework, which it will roll out in the second half of the year.