It appears that some gaming performance benchmark numbers and alleged specs of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080/RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB graphics card have leaked out. One Chinese content creator “Big hardware player” got access to an engineering sample of the GeForce RTX 3080 20GB GPU, and has posted his findings over at Bilibili, coming via @9550pro.
But before continuing, please bear in mind that this leak might seem a bit fishy, since we can’t verify whether the leaker indeed has this GPU with him, and more importantly, the GPU-Z software database has not been updated for this GPU yet by TechPowerUp. So exercise some caution here. Still, there’s a huge chance none of this is legitimate.
With that being said, we are looking at Nvidia’s unreleased GPU which happens to be either the RTX 3080 20 GB or the RTX 3080 Ti/SUPER 20GB SKU (assuming Nvidia chooses this Ti nomenclature instead). In either case, this GPU sports 20GB of GDDR6X VRAM and has beefier specs than the already released RTX 3080 10GB SKU.
The manufacturer of this card happens to be the COLORFUL brand as evident from the GPU-Z “subvendor” and device entry/ID. Coming to the specs, RTX 3080 Ti/RTX 3080 20GB GPU is expected to feature the PG133-SKU15 PCB, and the GA102-250-KD-A1 graphics core. For comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 rocks the GA102-300 GPU.
We expect this 20GB GDDR6X memory SKU to feature similar specs as the RTX 3090 GPU, sporting 10496 FP32 CUDA cores, and 112/328 ROP & TMU counts, respectively. The clock speeds should be 1395 MHz for the base and 1695 MHz for the boost.
But unlike the RTX 3090, the 20GB GeForce RTX 3080/3080 Ti retains the same memory speeds as the RTX 3080 at 19 Gbps. The RTX 3090 GPU on the other hand has 19.5 Gbps as the memory speed. Moreover, the card will have the same 320-bit bus interface which provides a total bandwidth of 760 GB/s.
TDP for the card is also set to be the same as the RTX 3080 at 320 Watts, though the leaker claims the TDP can be increased to 350 Watts as well, which is the same as the RTX 3090 GPU to feed the extra GPU cores.
For the testing the user also appears to have used an engineering driver for this GPU variant, which might seem a bit unusual. Here are some of the red flags in this leak, which makes these benchmarks even more suspicious.
First off, the GPU-Z registers the card as a vanilla RTX 3080; however the specs seem to match with the RTX 3090. But there were rumors before that this 20GB SKU will sport similar specs as the current flagship RTX 3090 GPU. Maybe NVIDIA will drop the Ti nomenclature?
Next, the GPU driver version is blurred out in the GPU-Z screenshot of the RTX 3080 20GB SKU. Moreover, the leaker has used driver version 456.16 on the 3080 10GB, and version 456.71 on the 3090 GPU. Why use different GPU driver versions in the same test? Why blur out the entry?
Apart from that, the GPU-Z “subvendor’ entry/ID is also blurred out, which actually reveals the manufacturer, but the leaker claims the card is from Colorful brand.
Also, note the WHQL drivers from December 3 being used on the 3080 Ti GPU. All three GPUs have a different driver version date, which seems a bit odd! Moreover, GPU-Z version 2.35.0 was used on the 3080 Ti, while version 2.36.0 was used on the RTX 3090 and version 2.34.0 was used for the RTX 3080 10GB variant. Again, three different versions used for the same test ?
Nonetheless, here are some gaming benchmark screenshots, along with some synthetic benchmark scores as well. In most of the tests, the GPU performed almost on par (3-5% average difference) with the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU. The GPU was paired with an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU, running on Windows 10 pro OS, version 1909.
These are the 3DMark Time Spy, Firestrike, Port Royal performance metrics.
Twitter use @harukaze5719 has made a compiled chart showing the overall 3DMark scores put together in an easy to read graph:
Here is the GPU driver entry:
So basically the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti or the GeForce RTX 3080 20 GB will be a direct competitor to AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT flagship GPU which currently retails for $999 USD. The RTX 3090’s MSRP is set at $1499, so we expect this RTX 3080 20GB SKU to have a price tag of approx max $999 USD.
But the availability is going to be a huge issue, given the recent demand and supply market trend.
So don’t expect this card to be easily sold in retail shelves at least at the MSRP value set by Nvidia. AIBs on the other hand are obviously going to charge a premium for their custom models.
The performance of this SKU seems to be on par with the current flagship RTX 3090 GPU, but it remains to be seen where this GPU will fit in the performance hierarchy, given its price tag.
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Weird ! performance is really close to the RTX 3090, but will this not affect the sales of the RTX 3090 card ? i mean who will pay 1500 USD, when you get almost the same performance at a lower price ?
Not sure why Nvidia is rushing to release this card, but a lot of points you mentioned about this leak makes sense. The testing seems fishy to me as well. Something feels a bit off here.
If you think of the 3090 as the Ampere Titan then this is pretty common for Nvidia. Titans usually have had a wider Memory Bus and more VRAM and this will be the case with the 3080 Ti (320 bit Memory Bus) versus the 3090 (384 bit Memory Bus) and then Nvidia charges a lot more for the Titans.
The Titans have never been worth the extra money for strictly gamers imo but some people buy them anyway.
Oh, I thought they dropped the TITAN name, and the branding ? Because they have advertised the 3090 as a gaming GPU.
But i get your point. makes sense to market a 24GB GPU as both a compute and a gaming card. I think this is pure marketing stunt !
But Titan cards usually cost north of $2K-3K IMO.Anyways the 3090 can still be considered a Titan level GPU.
Nah, they presented the 3080 as the flagship gaming GPU.
From the very beginning with the Kepler Titan they have all been marketed to gamers. The 3090 is also marketed to gamers on the GeForce website. From the GeForce site:
GeForce RTX 3090
THE BFGPU
The GeForce RTX™ 3090 is a big ferocious GPU (BFGPU) with TITAN
class performance. It’s powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX
architecture—doubling down on ray tracing and AI performance with
enhanced Ray Tracing (RT) Cores, Tensor Cores, and new streaming
multiprocessors. Plus, it features a staggering 24 GB of G6X memory, all to deliver the ultimate gaming experience.
Pretty much but the 3090 is basically the titan and if memory serves they never really called that the gaming flagships either – The 80 + 80ti’s (beside the 2080 when 2080ti was released at the same time) have always been what they referred to as the gaming flagships.
I believe the titans base idea was to give the devs as close as possible to the next gen and also to get close to the current when all debuggers etc are running (and consuming resources) along with a more workstation like card for those that needed that extra math/vram etc.
What 4 games are showcased and benched ? I can figure out SOTR and Witcher 3, and the remaining two titles ??
Remember when the Ti used to be like 30% faster?
“The RTX 3090’s MSRP is set at $1499, so we expect this RTX 3080 20GB SKU to have a price tag of approx max $999 USD.”
Why would nvidia sell a card that is better than a 6900XT in every way at the same price ? The 20 gig model will occupy the spot that 2080TI did, at 1200 dollars. Why would you sell a card with better performance and more vram at the same price as your competitor ? Considering amd doesnt even have stock, its much worse than nvidia.
That extremely fast gddr likely cost quite abit, will be interesting to see if the price lands there. Personally i would guesstimate more than 999$.
Stop reporting lies about video cards.
When anyone can go to their favorite electronics store and actually walk out with an video card in their hands for MSRP, that’s will be true reporting. Right now this is impossible.
He’s not lying about prices. Even in this article he mentions the charging more than the MSRP:
So don’t expect this card to be easily sold in retail shelves at least at the MSRP value set by Nvidia.
The bad part is that these shortages are going to continue into the next generation as well.
Scalping will continue because there’s a huge amount of profit in it..
Mining is becoming lucrative again.
The Corona virus will continue. Vaccines won’t help. There are already mutations showing up in several countries that are even more contagious including my country (USA) which the current vaccines don’t work on.
Shortages of PCB boards and the components that go on them will continue.
They are keeping the specs close to the 3090.
Can’t say why anyone is excited about this too much when they can’t even buy current GPUs. I managed to procure a Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme 3080 for $929 through means not available to most, but that was just last week between scalpers, bitcoin miners making a return and pandemic gamers that can’t buy next gen consoles. You can barely even buy a CPU at this point unless it is Intel..