Nvidia Ampere Usb C

The usb c port for vr headsets discussion.

Nvidia ampere usb c. Rtx 2070 of the 30 rtx 2070 cards released so far 27 support virtuallink and. The usb c connector on high end turing cards which was meant to facilitate connection to vr headsets wasn t being used often so nvidia nixed it. Nvidia this week revealed the geforce rtx 30 series graphics card lineup and you may have noticed that none of the cards include a usb c port for virtuallink support. Been following the leaks of the new gpus pretty closely because a i m impatient official release is tomorrow and b there have been a ton of them.

So despite months of rumors and speculations there was a bit of. Also the presentation had no new vr features announced. The usb c port for vr headsets. Nvidia ampere gpus 3090 3080 3070 3060.

Here s something you might not know. Nvidia ampere was initially released mostly for data center devices with no geforce in sight just like volta a few years ago. While nvidia is killing off virtuallink amd is seemingly implementing the usb c port on some big navi models which will probably compete with the best gaming graphics cards that are on the market. With ampere nvidia is developing three tiers of high end gpus.

No usb c connector for the reverb g2. The source confirms that ampere will implement pci express gen 4 0 x16 host interface. Display outputs include three dp and one each of hdmi and virtuallink usb c. We should note that that is an hdmi 2 1 port.

But the usb controller is built into the gpu so featuring the usb c port means it should support the standard.