We all knew they were coming. They’d been leaked, rumored, and pretty much verified by the concrete benchmark tests that went online a few days ago. Then Nvidia went ahead and announced a 24 hour event, and we knew that was that. They would announce another set of graphics cards, presumably at the high end, and the PC gaming market would move forward by another generation, at least as far as hardware is concerned.

And yep, they have done it.

Nvidia have announced two new high end GPUs, called the GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970- as expected, they skipped straight to the 900s with these new ones. Both cards are shockingly high value, costing very little for the amount of power they deliver- the 980 packs 4GB of GDDR5 video ram and runs at just 165w TDP, and 5.2 billion transistors, and it is available for just £429. The 970 offers 4GB of VRAM and offers a TDP of just 145w, and it will retail for £259.

All in all, both are great graphics cards, and now, more than ever, is a good time to jump on board to PC gaming if you haven’t already, especially since the new consoles continue to disappoint.

Nvidia has announced that they will be holding its own, extravagant, 24 hour long game event that they will be hosting on September 18. Of course, gaming events held by major gaming hardware manufacturers aren’t exactly rare or unheard of, and Nvidia, which holds the key to some quality PC gaming, being, as they are, the leading manufacturers of top GPUs, have certainly been known in the past to host some truly spectacular events.

But this upcoming one promises to be something special. You see, this is the event that we anticipate that Nvidia will finally announce Geforce GTX 980 and Geforce GTX 970, meaning we might be seeing us finally making the full jump to Maxwell.

Of course, we still don’t quite know exactly how this event will be (especially because, apparently, the event will be streamed 24 hours non stop), but hey, new hardware being announced is always a big deal. And maybe if we are lucky, some high profile PC games may also be shown off/announced at this event, right?