Nvidia's trio of high-end RTX GPUs has arrived, and we may have the first reliable information about the upcoming specs of the GeForce RTX 30 series (also known as Ampere).

If new information brought to light by Videocardz ahead of Nvidia's September 1 event is to be believed, the new cards will come with both a second-generation ray-tracing core and a third-generation Tensor core.

Videocardz reports that Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080, and GeForce RTX 3070 will be officially announced at Nvidia's event next Tuesday. According to our sources, of the three, the RTX 3080 and 3090 will be the first to hit retail shelves in mid-September

: the GeForce RTX 3080 is estimated to come with 4,352 CUDA cores and 10GB of GDDR6X memory, while the 3090 will be available on GA102 -300 silicon and is likely to offer a whopping 5,248 cores, 24GB of GDDR6X memory, and a 384-bit memory interface.

It should be noted, however, that custom models require two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, while Founders Editions require only one 12-pin PCIe connector. Of course, you will pay extra for this convenience. [No information on the RTX 3070's CUDA cores yet, but it is said to have 8GB of GDDR6X memory. We may have to wait a bit longer to get additional information from the other two cards, as this card could appear by the end of next month. As for the speed of the memory chip, Videocardz estimates that the RTX 3070 could be clocked at 16 Gbps. [But there is more to this story: the A100 in the Ampere series utilizes TSMC's 7nm FinFET process node, and Videocardz claims that the same 7-nanometer node will be implemented in consumer graphics cards in the near future. Unfortunately, we have not yet received independent confirmation of these claims. However, if this is the case, the consumer-grade Ampere will likely appear with native support for HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a output as well as a PCIe 4.0 interface.

Recent regulatory filings from South Korea suggested that a new Nvidia release may be imminent, which could have been scheduled for September 1. These new specs are certainly new ones to analyze, as there have been few details about the new enthusiast-grade GPUs. We are still very much in the dark about the naming scheme, whether the RTX series will have the ability to provide ray tracing in UHD without sacrificing frame rates, and many other details.

Nvidia's September 1 event will start at noon EST/9:00 a.m. GMT, and we will bring you the latest news on Nvidia's upcoming graphics chips.