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The highly anticipated Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 (or Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti) GPU will likely debut tomorrow. However, if you can’t wait that long, check out a series of “leaked” slides outlining the powerful performance of the RTX 3090, including its raw physical specs, as well as how it can benefit three popular PC games.
The only problem is that the slides are probably made up, come from an unknown “filter”, and contain visual artifacts usually associated with photoshopped images.
Credit @ yuten0x pic.twitter.com/T4YRTNVir4August 31, 2020
The information comes from Wccftech, who also took the rumor with a big grain of salt. The skeptical author, Usman Pirzada, republished the slides, which came from an unknown Twitter account called @ yuten0x. The only reason Pirzada gave credit to the slides is because another Twitter user, @CyberPunkCat, endorsed by them. CyberPunkCat has made some good calls about upcoming gaming teams in the past, though like most tech “leakers” on Twitter, their track record isn’t perfect.
In any case, if you’re still morbidly curious, yuten0x posted two “leaked” slides from Nvidia. The first claims that the GeForce RTX 3090 will offer “a new level of performance”, with 5,248 cores, 24 GB of memory and a speed of 19.5 Gbps. (The slide also suggests that the GeForce RTX 3090 exists, and under that name, instead of “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti”. No assumption is necessarily true). There is also an image of the supposed GPU and some bubbles, just to look pretty.
The second slide is weirder, measuring the performance of the GTX 3090 in Control, Minecraft, and Wolfenstein: Youngblood against the Nvidia GeForce 2080 Ti. But there are no actual parameters on the graph; it simply says that the 2080 Ti runs these games at “1x”, while the 3090 can run them between “1.5x” and “2x”. It’s hard to imagine Nvidia putting together such a vague slide.
There is another problem that calls the whole story into question, and that is the poor visual editing of the slides. A Twitter user named “What about Nah666?He expressed supreme skepticism, pointing to three telltale signs of sloppy image editing that surrounds the edges and text of the slides. While it is not absolutely impossible for Nvidia’s own programs to leave these artifacts on the slides, it is much more feasible for someone to simply improvise the slides from existing documents.
Yes of course. pic.twitter.com/wUm0P27ouYAugust 31, 2020
Wccftech was right to subject the “leak” to such severe scrutiny; it is almost certainly not true. But if you can’t wait until tomorrow to see Nvidia’s new GPUs, at least it gives you something to think about. We’ll know for sure what Nvidia has in store at 12pm ET on September 1; take everything you hear until then with a whole salt shaker.
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