In September 2020, Nvidia launched its latest generation graphics card with the architecture Ampere manufactured on Samsung’s 8-nanometer technology. It’s been eight months since then and now Nvidia is in full swing to provide the Geforce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 each with its Ti siblings with pointed specifications. It now appears that the flagship may also receive the same treatment.
Specifications: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 “Ampere”
RTX 3090 Ti | RTX 3090 | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 3080 | RTX 3070 Ti | RTX 3070 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Technical | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung | 8 nm Samsung |
Circuit | GA102 | GA102 | GA102 | GA102 | GA104 | GA104 |
Circuit surface | 628 mm² | 628 mm² | 628 mm² | 628 mm² | 392 mm² | 392 mm² |
Transistors | 28.3 billion | 28.3 billion | 28.3 billion | 28.3 billion | 17.4 billion | 17.4 billion |
Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere |
CUDA cores | 10 752 st.(?) | 10 496 st. | 10 240 st. | 8 704 st. | 5 888 st. | |
RT cores | 84 st.(?) | 82 st. | 80 st. | 68 st. | 48 st. | 46 st. |
Tensor cores | 336 st.(?) | 328 st. | 320 st. | 272 st. | 192 st. | 184 st. |
Texture units | 336 st.(?) | 328 st. | 320 st. | 272 st. | 192 st. | 184 st. |
Raster units | 112 st.(?) | 112 st. | 112 st. | 96 st. | 96 st. | 96 st. |
Clock frequency | Four-digit | 1 395 MHz | 1 365 MHz | 1 440 MHz | – | 1 500 MHz |
GPU Boost | Higher | 1 695 MHz | 1 665 MHz | 1 710 MHz | – | 1 725 MHz |
Computational power | Count with it | 35 581 GFLOPS | 34 099 GFLOPS | 29 768 GFLOPS | – | 20 313 GFLOPS |
Memory amount | 24 GB GDDR6X(?) | 24 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6 |
Memory frequency | 19 500 MHz(?) | 19 500 MHz | 19 000 MHz | 19 000 MHz | 19 000 MHz(?) | 14 000 MHz |
Memory bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
Memory bandwidth | 936 GB/s(?) | 936 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 608 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 | NVLink 3.0 x4 | NVLink 3.0 x4 | – | – | – |
TBP | Absolutely | 350 W | 350 W(?) | 320 W | ? | 220 W |
Launch price | “Okay” | 1 499 USD | 999 USD | 699 USD | ? | 499 USD |
The information about the Geforce RTX 3090 Ti is scarce and the only information available is that it has been glimpsed in Zotac’s latest version of the overclocking software Firestorm. While it is easy to see this as a confirmation that the graphics card exists and is underway, it is quite possible that it is only a placeholder created by Zotac, ahead of a possible RTX 3090 Ti.
Assuming a Geforce RTX 3090 Ti is up and running, there are not many alternatives to the specifications of the GA102 graphics circuit, which of the RTX 3090 has 82 of its 84 SMX clusters enabled. In other words, it’s no big deal that the RTX 3090 Ti would get the full-featured variant of the GA102 with 84 SMX clusters with 128 CUDA cores each, for a total of 10,752 pieces.
On the memory front, it would be a 384-bit wide bus with 24 or 48 GB GDDR6X. In addition to a possible upgrade of the amount of memory, there is the possibility of higher bandwidth, as Micron has GDDR6X memory available with an efficient clock frequency of up to 21,000 MHz. In such cases, it would mean a bandwidth of 1,008 GB / s.
Some information about the price and when the launch may take place is not yet known.
Source: @japanese_pcmania via Videocardz
Read SweClocker’s review of Geforce RTX 3090:
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