Yesterday, Nvidia's social media profiles began a 21-day countdown in celebration of of the 21st anniversary of the GeForce 256, the company's first GPU, which was first announced on August 31, 1999. The company said it would "take a look back before looking forward", suggesting the announcement of new graphics cards at the end of the countdown. Today, the company officially announced a GeForce Special Event, scheduled for September 1, where it will talk about its "latest innovations in gaming and graphics". Naturally, this means the company is preparing to announce the next generation of GeForce GPUs, as the RTX 20 series is nearly two years old at this point. As you'd expect, the event will include a keynote speech by CEO Jensen Huang. Rumors up until this point have suggested the new family of cards will be called the RTX 30 series, and leaked benchmarks have showcased some notable performance improvements over the RTX 2080 Ti, Nvidia's current top-tier model.