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=== GeForce 30 series ===
{{Main|GeForce 30 series}}
Nvidia officially announced at the GeForce Special Event that the successor to GeForce 20 series will be the 30 series, it is built on the [[Ampere (microarchitecture)|Ampere]] microarchitecture. The GeForce Special Event introduced took place on September 1, 2020, and set September 17th as the official release date for the RTX 3080 GPU, September 24 for the RTX 3090 GPU and October 29th for the RTX 3070 GPU.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-delivers-greatest-ever-generational-leap-in-performance-with-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus | title=NVIDIA Delivers Greatest-Ever Generational Leap with GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs | access-date=September 3, 2020 | archive-date=January 13, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113035553/https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-delivers-greatest-ever-generational-leap-in-performance-with-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/special-event/ | title=Join us for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX: Game on Special Broadcast Event | access-date=August 16, 2020 | archive-date=September 2, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902190958/https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/special-event/ | url-status=live }}</ref> With the latest GPU launch being the RTX 3090 Ti. The RTX 3090 Ti is the highest-end Nvidia GPU on the Ampere microarchitecture, it features a fully unlocked GA102 die built on the Samsung [[7 nm process|8 nm]] node due to supply shortages with [[TSMC]]. The RTX 3090 Ti has 10,752 CUDA cores, 336 Tensor cores and texture mapping units, 112 ROPs, 84 RT cores, and 24 gigabytes of [[GDDR6 SDRAM|GDDR6X]] memory with a 384-bit bus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Specs |url=https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090-ti.c3829 |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=TechPowerUp |language=en |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123200947/https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090-ti.c3829 |url-status=live }}</ref> When compared to the RTX 2080 Ti, the 3090 Ti has 6,400 more CUDA cores. Due to the [[2020–present global chip shortage|global chip shortage]], the 30 series was controversial as scalpers and high demand meant that GPU prices skyrocketed for the 30 series and the [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]] [[Radeon RX 6000 series|RX 6000]] series.