NVIDIA’s new series of video cards, the RTX 30-series, will be unveiled on September 1st.

The era of the RTX 2080 Ti being the king of PC gaming is coming to a close. NVIDIA has reportedly discontinued its RTX 20-series and will now replace it with the brand new RTX 30-series starting next month. Their arrival will be heralded by a special online event to be hosted by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on September 1st at 9 AM Pacific.

What’s special about these new GPUs is that they’re rumored to be particularly potent. We’re talking performance increases as much as 20-30% over the previous models all thanks to NVIDIA’s new “Ampere” technology.

Various leaks and rumors point to four different models being offered at launch: the RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060. Expect the highest-end 3080 cards to arrive first in September, then the 3070 in October, followed by the middling 3060 in November.

The announcement was preceded by a changing of NVIDIA’s Twitter profile that gave us a countdown of “21 days” along with the #Ultimatecountdown hashtag. NVIDIA also noted it’s been “21 years” since the launch of the Geforce 256, NVIDIA’s first widely available commercial video card and likely many people’s first GPU ever. A nostalgia-laden website has also popped up that refers to 1999 as the “golden age” of PC gaming thanks to titles like Homeworld, Descent 3, Counter-Strike, and Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Unlike with the launch of the RTX 20-series, NVIDIA’s partners will also launch their own versions of the RTX 30-series along with NVIDIA at the same time. That means you should be able to pick up a slightly cheaper RTX 30 card from MSI, Zotac, or ASUS if you’re not into paying for a founder’s card.

As for the performance increase, rumors point to the 3080 Ti having a massive 1TB/s of memory bandwidth, while the regular 3080 is supposedly up to 30% faster than the current RTX 2080 Ti.

We’ll have to wait a few weeks to see if that’s true, but if it is, then PC gamers will be able to handle next-gen games just fine.

Source: NVIDIA, Wccftech