With 'Ampere,' NVIDIA is introducing its 2nd generation, which adds even more hardware-accelerated RTX effects and improves performance. While purely raytraced interactive 3D remains a very long-term engineering goal due to the enormity of required compute power, NVIDIA realized that conventional raster 3D can be combined with certain raytraced elements, such as lighting, shadows, reflections, global illumination, and ambient occlusion, to uplift graphics realism way beyond what's possible with raster 3D, even with the latest DirectX 12 feature set, and innovated the RTX technology. The company was first to introduce real-time raytracing for gaming with its path-breaking RTX 20-series 'Turing' in 2018, and 'Ampere' is an exercise in making raytracing have much less of a performance impact than with the previous generation. The GeForce RTX 3080 is the first 'Ampere' graphics card based on NVIDIA's first consumer graphics architecture in close to two years. In this review, we take a look at the RTX 3080 Suprim X, but we'll also have a review of the RTX 3090 Suprim for you soon. MSI is reserving the Suprim X treatment for high-end GPUs only, beginning with the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, and RTX 3070. In addition to a more upmarket design than the Gaming X Trio, the RTX 3080 Suprim X comes with higher clock speeds and a handful exclusive features. It's likely that Suprim X is the new Gaming Z since the company in the past probably had to fight the perception that Gaming Z is just an overclocked Gaming X when in fact it would usually come with certain physical improvements.

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Suprim X graphics is the company's new premium custom-design implementation of the RTX 3080 'Ampere.' With it, the company is debuting its new 'Suprim' brand extension positioned a notch above the MSI Gaming X Trio line of graphics cards.

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