NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and 3080 Specifications Leak, there's a 3070 Coming as well

Witcher29

2020-08-28 19:07

This is the end for competition i feel sorry for amd atm, big navi might not be enough to beat this 3090 beast. Thats bad business for consumers because the price be premium, maximum effort needed now from amd if not, then these cards are almost unbuyble from nvidia because of the sky rocket prices.

#5822787

Serotonin

2020-08-28 19:37

Witcher29:

This is the end for competition i feel sorry for amd atm, big navi might not be enough to beat this 3090 beast. Thats bad business for consumers because the price be premium, maximum effort needed now from amd if not, then these cards are almost unbuyble from nvidia because of the sky rocket prices.

I don't need a 3090 equivalent. Give me a 3080 equivalent with solid ray tracing performance, more than 10GB of ram and less $$ than nvidia's 3080.

#5822789

Undying

2020-08-28 19:39

If amd release a Navi cards with 16gb, comparable performance to 3080 it will kill it forcing nvidia to drop prices right of the bat or bring up the 3080 20gb ver sooner then they thought.

#5822792

alanm

2020-08-28 19:46

Pretty sure 10gb will be enough for me. Probably will not even care to wait for 20gb version.

#5822797

Serotonin

2020-08-28 19:53

Khronikos:

Even though the 3080 will crush my 1080ti, it still has less memory, and I think I will be getting a PS5 this holiday. I just can't really justify it with what my card can still do on my backlog. It would be nice to just get a 3090, but I ain't got that lying around either.

I don't think the (rumored) price of the 3090 is justified based on the very anemic amount of RT titles available right now and complete lack of AAA PC exclusives, as well as some really bad port jobs we have been accustom to. Premium price should mean premium experience. The hobby just isn't in the same place it was, ironically when the hardware - at least gpu's, were much cheaper. Not for me. It's not about the money, it's about what I get for the money. For the rumored price, one can get both next gen consoles and be content for 5 years, no broken ports, plenty of exclusives, no upgrades, no hot drivers, and ray tracing out of the box.

#5822800

Supertribble

2020-08-28 20:03

Raider0001:

RTX 3070 will have as much memory as R9 390 blahh 0 future proofing

The 3070 will likely be 256-bit bus*, so 8 or 16GB, I think that's how it works. 384-bit 12 or 24GB, 352-bit 11 or 22GB and so on. It has something to do with the make up of the chip, bus width, ROPS ect. edit *Says right there in the article, which I should have read before posting. 😳

#5822802

cryohellinc

2020-08-28 20:06

SpajdrEX:

https://abload.de/img/tojbu.png no need to have 12pin PCIE connector guys!

Hahahaha

#5822806

XenthorX

2020-08-28 20:11

Where is this whole rumor started from about a 20gb 3080? That would be a new behaviour from Nvidia if that's the case wouldn't it?

#5822808

Kool64

2020-08-28 20:15

Perhaps the RT core will be the ticket but right now I don’t feel as bad about buying a 2070s for a little under $500 USD as I thought I was going to.

#5822816

Supertribble

2020-08-28 20:25

ACEB:

Its as expected, plenty of head room for Super and TI variants which will make the initial 3080 and 3090 rip offs just like the 2080 was

There were 4GB GTX 670, 680 and 770 but I don't think those were reference cards.

#5822818

DesGaizu

2020-08-28 20:26

8gb of old memory for the 3070!? thats killed my hype off. Looks like they doing the old trick of adding another top end card number (the 90) and nerfing midrange cards again, bet they don't nerf the price's though.

#5822825

Mufflore

2020-08-28 20:37

XenthorX:

Where is this whole rumor started from about a 20gb 3080? That would be a new behaviour from Nvidia if that's the case wouldn't it?

I think there was mention of an aftermarket card(s) getting double vram. Wishful thinking imo.

#5822826

theoneofgod

2020-08-28 20:37

DesGaizu:

8gb of old memory for the 3070!? thats killed my hype off. Looks like they doing the old trick of adding another top end card number (the 90) and nerfing midrange cards again, bet they don't nerf the price's though.

Yep same. Wait for Super for 10GB+ or pay the premium for the 3080. I haven't decided what to do yet as I know the prices are gonna be major turnoff too.

#5822828

Aura89

2020-08-28 20:40

itpro:

If pricing is wrong once again, with those mediocre specs and huge tgp,

Mediocre specs and huge tdp.... I'm sorry do you not know how this works? Do you think if the specs were higher...the tdp would magically lower? You literally just insulted it for being too powerful, hence the high tdp, while also insulting it for not being powerful enough, for the tdp, as though you have a competing product to compare it to, showing this. Which, obviously...you do not....

#5822832

Supertribble

2020-08-28 20:53

Nvidia have had a reputation of being much more power efficient than AMD for a long time now, or is it the other way around and AMD cards having legendary power requirements. I feel this started with the 290/X and for sure Vega didn't help. Polaris, while being a budget champion, also had fairly high power demands considering the die size and overall spec, the same could be said about RDNA1 tbh. RDNA2 is apparently much improved in that regard.

#5822833

Fediuld

2020-08-28 20:58

FYI some AIB 3000 series have 3-4 8pin connectors.

#5822838

alanm

2020-08-28 21:09

XenthorX:

Where is this whole rumor started from about a 20gb 3080? That would be a new behaviour from Nvidia if that's the case wouldn't it?

According to rumors, Nvidia will not be offering 20gb versions of the 3080. But that they have allowed their AIB partners the option to offer it.

#5822841

schmidtbag

2020-08-28 21:12

Denial:

The memory configurations are so weird. I wonder if the 3090 is really just some Titan replacement for rendering or whatever and Nvidia is going to do something offset the need for more VRAM (maybe the NVCache rumor is true?). The gap between the 3090 and 3080 is randomly large. The fact that it may be 7nm again is really weird. The 30w TDP difference between the 3090/3080 despite massive differences is really weird. Whole thing is weird, I don't like it.

The memory situation is definitely very weird. But, we might see a 3080 Ti, a 3080 FE, and a 3080 Super. So, each of those could fill the gap. The power consumption is a little suspicious, but all they're providing is boost clocks. TDP is often measured by base clock (since that's the performance level you're supposed to be guaranteed) so I wouldn't be surprised if the base clock is more like 1700MHz for the 3090.

#5822842

geogan

2020-08-28 21:16

To those complaining about 300W power requirements - I previously owned dual-GPU cards - Radeon HD 5970 (294 W TDP) and Radeon HD 7990 (375 W TDP). And that was on a X57 and 42nm i7 920 and later i7 970 CPU - the entire thing was pulling over 500-600W at least.

#5822847

alanm

2020-08-28 21:24

DesGaizu:

8gb of old memory for the 3070!? thats killed my hype off.

3070 may also come with 16gb variant (for marketing purposes), to ensure no lost sales due to ppl who dont think 8gb is enough for the 3070. Again, possibly to be offered by AIB partners. Cant wait for direct testing of the 8 vs 16gb and the 10 vs 20gb cards. Everybody thinks Nvidia didnt think this through, that 8 and 10gb cards will fail vs higher vram versions. If it does, it will be the most monumental mistake Nvidia has achieved, I seriously doubt they are that stupid to allow such an occurrence. Pretty sure they have thought this through. 3 weeks to go and we will know.