Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 can achieve 50 percent higher performance than RTX 2080 Ti

The rumor mill about Nvidia’s next generation consumer graphics card with the code name “Ampere” has calmed down lately, even though the data center card A100 has only recently been seen in its first performance tests. Now, however, information emerges in the form of a tweet from kopite7kimi which places the upcoming top card Geforce RTX 3090 in a class of its own in terms of performance in the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme test.

It’s true. Almost 10000pts.

– kopite7kimi (@ kopite7kimi) July 30, 2020

If a result “close to 10,000 points” is converted to about 9,500 points in standard design, it would mean an increase in performance in the order of 50 percent over today’s flagship RTX 2080 Ti, whose results in the graphics test tend to end up in the range 6,100 – 6,500 points. If we compensate for pre-production drivers and factor in overclocking potential, the limit is 10,000 points within reach of presumed air cooling – if the result in the rumor is set at standard frequencies.

Previous leaks regarding an “unknown” card in the Ampere series have shown just over 30 percent higher performance than RTX 2080 Ti, while early data spoke of 50 percent performance increases paired with halved power consumption from today’s “Turing” circuits. More or less nailed is in any case GDDR6X memory and manufacturing of 7 nanometers, and that a complete set of new circuits permeates the entire RTX 3000 family.

The Geforce RTX 3000 family

All information and specifications are speculative

The naming of the cards in the Ampere series is also shrouded in obscurity, where the top card in the Geforce series is rumored to be called either RTX 3090 or 3080 Ti. Which of the alternatives, if anything, turns out to be true, we will see ahead of the autumn, when Nvidia’s new graphics card series looks to be joined on the market by AMD’s new combatant Navi 2X.

Update: Performance figures for RTX 3080

During Friday afternoon Swedish time, alleged performance figures also appeared for what is believed to be Geforce RTX 3080 – also this time from kopite7kimi. The test software 3DMark Time Spy Extreme once again provided the basis, where a result of “almost 8600 points“This would mean that the RTX 3080 offers 30-35 percent better performance than the RTX 2080 Ti.

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