More than two years in the making, Nvidia is unveiling its long-awaited RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards, which are expected to be called the GeForce RTX 3000 series, built on Nvidia's new Ampere GPU architecture, which promises to further enhance the current GeForce RTX 2000 series and promises to further enhance the ray tracing capabilities and power of the GeForce RTX 2000 series

On September 1, Nvidia will host a "GeForce Special Event" dedicated to "what's coming next" after 21 years of involvement in PC gaming, although Nvidia has not officially said it will announce a new lineup of GeForce graphics cards, That would seem to be a given

So here's what you need to know to follow the event live And what you might expect from Nvidia at the start of the fall

Following the GeForce special event is very easy, head to Nvidia's GeForce event page on September 1 at 9am PT, 12pm ET, or 5pm BST

Nvidia will also likely be live streaming the event on its Nvidia GeForce channel on YouTube In addition, Nvidia's Twitch channel is currently running a countdown to the show's start time You can check out the stream embedded here:

If you would like to check in and check out Nvidia news, Tom's Guide will keep you up to date with important announcements from the event

Nvidia's official UK Twitter page has been tweeting about graphics landmarks throughout its lifetime of providing graphics cards and technology to the PC gaming world With this in mind, we can expect Nvidia's CEO and founder, the leather-jacketed Jensen Huang, to wax lyrical about Nvidia's long gaming GPU history before moving on to what's next for GeForce graphics

From there, we can expect to see several top-end GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards revealed Leading the lineup will be the GeForce RTX 3090 (possibly also called the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti), followed by the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 There is even a possibility that an RTX 3070 Ti will be introduced into the mix

These will be the flagship cards of the new GeForce series and will offer improved performance over current Turing architecture-based graphics cards and enhanced ray tracing performance [Nvidia introduced Deep Learning Supersampling (DLSS) at the last GeForce event of 2018

As for the more mainstream and affordable next-generation GeForce cards, they will likely appear a month or so after the high-end cards are released or in early 2021 Laptop versions are also likely to appear next year

Overall, we do not expect the new GeForce RTX cards to revolutionize PC gaming graphics However, they will come at a time when the PS5 and the Xbox Series X are set to launch Both of these consoles promise to offer ray-tracing rendering, and we can expect to see more games utilizing this technology

This should increase the desire for graphics cards with ray-tracing technology In short, Nvidia's second generation of RTX graphics cards, the Ampere generation of GeForce RTX cards, is a good opportunity for PC gamers to choose a ray-tracing GPU Expect to see the best gaming PCs equipped with GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards in the future