During this year’s inaugural CES show, Nvidia was expected to showcase the Geforce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, which at the time was expected to be a response to AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. The recipe from Nvidia’s side was expected to be performance just below the RTX 3090 with a 320-bit wide memory bus for a total of 20 GB of GDDR6X memory – a configuration that was glimpsed in various leaks.
The plan at the time for the RTX 3080 Ti was to use a circuit called the GA102-250, a variant of the RTX 3090 and its GA102-300. Now Hardwareluxx reports that cards with the not sharply launched designation have reached the consumer. This is an RTX 3090 Founders Edition, where the GA102-250 is completely sonic, has been crossed out and replaced with the GA102-300.
Sources to Videocardz state that Nvidia has abandoned plans for an RTX 3080 Ti with a 320 bit wide memory bus and therefore unlocks the bus in GA102-250 for use in RTX 3090. That circuits with the designation exist in the wild both indicate that the launch of an RTX The 3080 Ti with 20 GB of memory was close, and Nvidia was ready to recast full-featured GA102-300 circuits to meet competition from AMD.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 “Ampere”:
RTX 3090 | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 3080 | RTX 3070 Ti | RTX 3070 | RTX 3060 Ti | |
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Technical | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung |
Circuit | GA102 | GA102 | GA102 | GA104 | GA104 | GA104 |
Circuit surface | 628 mm² | 628 mm² | 628 mm² | 392 mm² | 392 mm² | 392 mm² |
Transistors | 28.3 billion | 28.3 billion | 28.3 billion | 17.4 billion | 17.4 billion | 17.4 billion |
Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere |
CUDA cores | 10 496 st. | 10 240 st. | 8 704 st. | 6 144 st. | 5 888 st. | 4 864 st. |
RT cores | 82 st. | 80 st. | 68 st. | 48 st. | 46 st. | 38 st. |
Tensor cores | 328 st. | 320 st. | 272 st. | 192 st. | 184 st. | 152 st. |
Texture units | 328 st. | 320 st. | 272 st. | 192 st. | 184 st. | 152 st. |
Raster units | 112 st. | 112 st. | 96 st. | 96 st. | 96 st. | 96 st. |
Clock frequency | 1 395 MHz | ? | 1 440 MHz | ? | 1 500 MHz | 1 410 MHz |
GPU Boost | 1 695 MHz | ? | 1 710 MHz | ? | 1 725 MHz | 1 665 MHz |
Computational power | 35 581 GFLOPS | ? | 29 768 GFLOPS | ? | 20 313 GFLOPS | 16 197 GFLOPS |
Memory amount | 24 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 |
Memory frequency | 19 500 MHz | 19 000 MHz(?) | 19 000 MHz | ? | 14 000 MHz | 14 000 MHz |
Memory bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
Memory bandwidth | 936 GB/s | 912 GB/s(?) | 760 GB/s | ? | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s |
Power supply | 12-pin | 12-pin | 12-pin | 12-pin | 12-pin | 12-pin |
SLI connection | NVLink 3.0 x4 | ? | – | – | – | – |
TBP | 350 W | ? | 320 W | ? | 220 W | 200 W |
Launch price | 1 499 USD | 999 USD(?) | 699 USD | 599 USD(?) | 499 USD | 399 USD |
Data for RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti are unconfirmed.
Now that AMD’s graphics cards in the Radeon RX 6800 series and RX 6900 XT instead exist in extremely few copies, Nvidia has changed its plans – Geforce RTX 3080 Ti is expected to be delivered with 12 GB GDDR6X memory over a full-width memory bus of 384 bits. Exact details are still unknown, but early rumors speak of a circuit called GA102-225.
Nor does the upcoming version of the Geforce RTX 3080 Ti look set to launch according to plan. Where original leaks from partner manufacturers pointed to a launch in mid-April, the card is now expected to be launched only in May, according to Videocardz.