The moment a lot of PC gamers/enthusiasts have been waiting for is almost upon us. From the looks of it, NVIDIA is gearing up for the upcoming release of its Ampere GPUs. And, according to some recent registered trademarks, these Ampere GPUs will indeed have the “3080” numbers/naming scheme.
Now what’s really interesting here is that NVIDIA has also trademarked “4080” & “5080” with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. This could mean that the Hopper GPUs, which may come out in 2022 at 5nm, will be GTX 4080 or RTX 4080. As for the “5080” GPUs? Well, these graphics cards won’t be coming out anytime soon.
NVIDIA has also trademarked some other words like NVIDIA Omniverse, Frames Win Games, NVIDIA CloudXR, NVIDIA Aerial and Kaolin. According to their descriptions, most of them are gaming-related. Thus, we may be looking at some new features that the green team will introduce in the next couple of years.
Before closing, we should note that the 3080, 4080 and 5080 trademarks were filled on May 1st, 2019, and were registered on November 27th, 2019. On the other hand, NVIDIA filled the trademark for Aerial on May 25th, 2020. The most recent filling is the one for NVIDIA EGX (July 1st, 2020).
As we’ve reported, NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs may be using Samsung’s 8nm process node. Additionally, an image surfaced earlier this month, giving us the first look at a potential ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti ROG STRIX GPU.
Lastly, and from what we know so far, NVIDIA may officially reveal the new Ampere GPUs in September 2020. The green team may reveal these GPUs at either Gamescom 2020 or Computex 2020. If I had to guess, I’d say that the Computex 2020 rumor sounds more plausible.
Stay tuned for more!
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I believe Nvidia will name the 4080 as RTX 4080. I’m convinced that RTRT is here to stay.
With the new gen 20-30% raw performance milking, yes.
Milk me then, MOOOO cause I want it.
I don’t know if i should be ashamed or proud for how f’n pumped I get about information about Video Cards. LOL!!! I am just jacked aF!!!!
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/783/825/b51.gif
I’m interested in the RTX 4070. Hurry up Nvidia !
AMD probably can still use them and just put R in front of them ^^ like how Ryzen series are named
Who cares what AMD labels their peasant GPUs.
you.
and nvidia apparently peasant
lul, imagine an amd simping peasant calling someone with superior hardware a peasant. take your fedora back to your parents attic.
All fanboys are peasants.
Truth.
Welp, no surprise here, moving on.
This is actually OLD news ! Not fully confirmed though.
It’s important to highlight that Nvidia’s petition is currently under review, which means that the European Union Intellectual Property Office might NOT rule in favor of the chipmaker.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-amd-navi-3080-4080-5080-trademarks,39435.html
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-files-trademarks-for-30804080-and-5080.html
EDIT: NVM, According to John, the registration occurred in November 2019, months after those articles went live !! So there you have it !!
Also, Trade mark status: Registered…IDK
I was wondering about that. It would be one thing to trademark “RTX 4080” but just 4080 seems unlikely.
I think back to Nvidia releasing the GTX 480 and GTX 580 and if Nvidia had just trademarked the numbers alone then AMD might not have been able to call the RX 480 and RX 580 by their respective names.
We are not even sure whether the 3000 series nomenclature of the upcoming Ampere cards is final or not. Sure we have seen a leaked photo before, but it could also be a placeholder.
I suppose Nvidia could bypass the 3xxx and go straight to 4xxx. They have bypassed numbers before. Like going from the 2xx (Tesla) to 4xx (Fermi) but it would be the next logical step to go to 3xxx next and then 4xxx and then 5xxx.
They can skip the 3000 series naming and straight away move on to 4000 series if need be. But this seems unlikely, imo.
Oh boy, that’s true. Then why did john make an article now, after 1 year, lol ?
The fillings were made in May 2019 (when some websites reported on them). It was unclear back then whether the EUPIO would accept those trademarks. A few months later, in November 2019, EUPIO registered them. In other words, these are now official trademarks for specific categories. It’s a bit old, sure, but there are also some new fillings about some of NVIDIA’s upcoming features.
Damn…I’m so glad Nvidia ‘filled’ those trademarks.
Wait for Pascal.