Nvidia counters AMD with stiffer Geforce RTX 3070

Since the beginning of September, the three top models in Nvidia’s recent Geforce RTX 3000 series have been officially unveiled. Two of them have debuted on the market, albeit in very limited volumes. However, the rumor mill has continuously continued to spin about future graphics cards in the “Ampere” family, where the only nailed-down stop at the moment is RTX 3070, which will be released on October 29.

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1 Specifications: Geforce RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and new intermediate model

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This is just one day after AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 presentation and Nvidia is said to follow the red team’s upcoming product release with great interest. It was recently reported that Nvidia is putting Geforce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 models with more graphics memory on the shelf. Now presents Twitter profile “kopite7kimi” data that suggest that the reason for the shelving is spelled even stiffer variants.

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The new data refers to a graphics card in the void between Geforce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070, a void that the blown away RTX 3070 card with 16 GB of graphics memory would have populated. The blown card was said to use the same GA104 circuit as seen on the RTX 3070, but then in full-scale design. The Twitter user believes that this is being upgraded to a variant of the GA102 top circuit, which is being scaled down to 7,424 CUDA cores.

Specifications: Geforce RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and new intermediate model

	RTX 3080	RTX 3070 TI/Super?	RTX 3070
Circuit	GA102	GA102	GA104
CUDA cores	8 704 st.	7 424 st.	5 888 st.
GPU Boost	1 710 MHz	?	1 730 MHz
Memory bus	320-bit	320-bit	256-bit
Memory amount	10 GB GDDR6X	?	8 GB GDDR6
Memory frequency	19 000 MHz	?	16 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	760 GB/s	?	512 GB/s

The step up from the 5,888 CUDA cores of the Geforce RTX 3070 is thus just under 26.1 percent, but the number is still sheltered compared to the circuit sibling RTX 3080 with 8,704 cores – 14.7 percent behind more specifically. Like the latter card, on the other hand, it is claimed that the memory bus is widened to 320 bits from 256 bits of the RTX 3070.

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Letting intermediate models step up to graphics circuits and memory buses from higher segments is nothing new from Nvidia’s side, where the Geforce RTX 2070 Super is an example of the former. If the increase reported is correct, however, the underlying reason is somewhat more rare, namely competition from AMD in the top performance. The future will show if this is true, but also what other specifications and names belong to the model.

Source: Wccftech via kopite7kimi