Nvidia releases a mysterious announcement before August 31st. The maker of the graphics card today pointed to a potential event on Twitter, with a post that simply says “#UltimateCountdown”, accompanied by a video of a star’s supernova. Nvidia has also updated them GeForce Twitter account header image with another teaser calling “21 days. 21 years. ”
The supernova tease makes it clear that what Nvidia plans to announce will be big news, and it could come in a period of 21 days. Nvidia’s teaser comes just days after rumors suggested that the company planned to launch its new Ampere graphics cards on September 9th. Nvidia is rumored to be launching RTX 3000 Series cards and presumably a GeForce RTX 3080 successor to the RTX 2080.
Wccftech also speculates that the mention of the 21-year countdown may be related to the original GeForce 256 GPU. It’s been almost 21 years since the GeForce 256 launched in 1999, and Wccftech note that if you multiply 256 by 21, you get 5,376, which is a core count that was recently leaked.
Nvidia unveiled its Amper GPU architecture back in May, but the first graphics card was built for scientific computing, cloud graphics, and data analytics. We do not yet know exactly what Ampere GPUs will bring for traditional PC gaming, but we will probably find out at the end of the month.
