Reputation indicates specifications for Geforce RTX 3000 "Ampere"

Twitter user Chiakokhua, which goes by the name Retired Engineer, has previously proven to be a reliable source of technical advance information about AMD’s processor architectures. This week, in a now deleted Twitter post, he published a table with specifications for four new graphics cards from Nvidia.

The set of specifications indicates both product names and circuit names and the technical capacity of the various circuits. These consist of the GA100 in the absolute top, which is used in the graphics card Geforce RTX 3080 Ti. The step down from this will be GA103, which is the basis for both Geforce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070. Last but not least, GA104 will take place in Geforce RTX 3060.

Graphics card	RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 2080 Ti	RTX 3080	RTX 2080 Super
Circuit	GA100	TU102	GA103	TU104
CUDA cores	8 192	4 352	4 608	3 072
RT cores	256	68	144	48
Tensor cores	1 024	544	576	384
Boost frequency	1 750 MHz	1 545 MHz	2 000 MHz	1 815 MHz
Graphics memory	16 000 MHz	14 000 MHz	16 000 MHz	15 500 MHz

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Graphics card	RTX 3070	RTX 2070 Super	RTX 3060	RTX 2060 Super
Circuit	GA103	TU104	GA104	TU106
CUDA cores	3 584	2 560	2 560	2 176
RT cores	112	40	80	34
Tensor cores	448	320	320	272
Boost frequency	1 900 MHz	1 770 MHz	2 000 MHz	1 650 MHz
Graphics memory	16 000 MHz	14 000 MHz	16 000 MHz	14 000 MHz

The biggest technical step forward is the top model Geforce RTX 3080 Ti with almost twice as many CUDA cores as its predecessor, and almost four times as many ray tracingcores. The Geforce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 also take a large, though not as large, step up in technical capacity.

For the Geforce RTX 3060 entry board, it is more inclined to inherit the specifications from the previous generation Geforce RTX 2070 Super. The big exception between the two models is precisely ray tracingcapacity as for all models in the Geforce RTX 3000 series increases by anywhere from 135 to 276 percent.

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The specifications are far from complete. Among other things, there is no information on the number of raster units (ROP), texture units (TMU), the size of the models’ graphics memory and the width of the memory buses. It should also be pointed out that several specifications are in contrast to previous data. Previous reports have, for example, pointed to a lower number of CUDA cores but higher memory bandwidth.

According to the statement, all cards will be manufactured using TSMC’s 7nm process and Geforce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 are expected to reach sales already during the third quarter of 2020. Geforce RTX 3080 Ti in turn will be delayed until the fourth quarter beginning of the year 2021.

If these specifications prove to be true, the end of 2020 could be the scene of a heavy battle between the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 “Ampere” and AMD’s “Big Navi” family, which according to new reports also comes with ample size and computing capacity.

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What do you think, is there any truth in these rumors and which of you are thinking of buying for the new generation Geforce?