Some Ampere rumours:

NVIDIA Ampere Powered GeForce RTX 30 Series Reportedly Launching With RTX 3080 & RTX 3090 In September

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-rtx-3080-ampere-launch-september/

Rumor: NVIDIA Planning To Introduce A Traversal Coprocessor With The RTX 3090 GPU

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-traversal-coprocessor-rtx-3090-gpu/

AMD Radeon gets a new logo



EA announces Star Wars Squadrons to be developed by Battlefront II studio

https://www.notebookcheck.net/EA-announces-Star-Wars-Squadrons-to-be-developed-by-Battlefront-II-studio.470504.0.html

Persona 4 Golden has Denuvo which is pretty dumb for how old of a game this is but least it's otherwise a good port

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113000/Persona_4_Golden/

That traversal coprocessor thing sounds pretty rad and believable. Considering that RT will be ubiquitous in the near future and that it does need huge amounts of dedicated processing it just makes sense to offload it from the main chip. It offers flexibility for the die size and for users who couldn't give a crap about RT for some reason. It also fits with the rumor that the 3090 will have a whooping 350W TDP, which would make sense if it sports a huge processing chip and another one dedicated for RT on the back, which then also would fit the weird double sided fan rumor. It might also be the first step for RT expansion cards in the future.

If this rumor is true I would imagine that the double sided design is exclusive to 3090 cards with all others sporting regular chips with RT cores on the die.

As cool as that would be, I have a feeling it would cost more than a Mortgage payment

j2c estimated 2k

^ That would be my guess as well. The cooler alone is worth $150.

350W TDP for the 3090... either NVidia doesn't want to take any chances with big Navi/RDNA2 or they know something about it we don't know just yet.

yes that RT eats resources like a fatman eats pies

Either way I hope Big Navi is competitive. These GPU prices from Nvidia are getting out of hand.

So for the ultimate gaming PC with the i9 10900K at 5.1Ghz which around 316 Watts, a Cooler powerful enough to even cool that thing and RTX 3090 350 Watt TDP which is probably conservative since I doubt they are using boost clock numbers... Somewhere in the world... The CEO of a Power Supply company just had an orgasm as they fap to the return of the 1000 Watt PSU!

Personally I have a 750 Watt PSU and a 3900X so I should be fine if I wanted to sell my Kidney to the nearest shady black market salesmen and get a RTX 3090 during the Covid and Economic crisis...