Following yesterday’s leak, Videocardz has now managed to grab some pictures of the custom RTX 3090 & RTX 3080 graphics cards from the Gainward brand. Specifications are more or less confirmed.
These are high-end custom Phoenix ‘Golden Sample’ line of graphics cards from Gainward, both of which feature a 2.7 slot design. It has now been confirmed that the RTX 3090 will get 5248 CUDA cores, 24GB GDDR6X VRAM at 19.5 Gbps speed, and 350W of total graphics power/TGP. This GPU has a 384-bit wide memory bus, thus having a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 936 GB/s.
The RTX 3080 on the other hand will feature 4352 CUDA cores, 10GB GDDR6X VRAM at 19 Gbps memory and will have 320W TGP. Since the memory is running at 19 Gbps across a 320-bit wide bus interface, we expect a bandwidth of up to 760 GB/s.
The RTX 3090 Phoenix Golden Sample has a boost clock of 1725 MHz while the RTX 3080 Phoenix GS features a boost of 1740 MHz. Both the card’s specs match with the previous leak but we don’t have any details on the TMU (texture mapping unit), ROP count (raster operations pipeline) yet. These custom cards feature a black and silver design, and an aluminum shroud which is illuminated by RGB LEDs.
Since both the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 are based on the same GA102 GPU die, hence the design for both the models is same. As mentioned before, these cards feature a 2.7-slot and a triple-fan cooler design, along with a full cover backplate that extends beyond the PCB. The PCB however appears to be shorter than the cooler and it doesn’t extend the full length of the cooler. The design does not seem to be similar to the reference Founders Edition PCB that we saw earlier, but it comes in a standard form factor instead.
This could also mean that some of the custom AIB card variants from other brands won’t require a triple 8-pin connector to boot, but for overclocking and faster clock speeds, the third 8-PIN is still needed.
Only the RTX 3090 is going to feature the NVLink SLI interface, but all the GeForce RTX 30 series cards will feature the 2nd Generation of Ray Tracing/RTX cores, and the 3rd Generation of Tensor Cores. The GeForce RTX 30 lineup will support the HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a connector interface for the display output, and also the PCI Express 4.0 interface/standard.
According to these links from the GPU database, some more info on the specifications can be noted, though do keep in mind that these are not final specs, as they are subject to change. Nonetheless, if we take the RTX 3090 GPU for instance, the card is expected to feature 656 TENSOR cores, 82 RT cores, and TMU count of 328, fabbed on the 7nm FinFET fabrication process node.
Coming to the RTX 3080, the card is expected to feature 544 TENSOR cores, 68 RT cores, and TMU count of 272, along with 98 ROPs, fabbed on the 7nm FinFET fabrication process node. Both these custom graphics cards from Gainward will require dual 8-pin PCIe connectors to boot.
Nvidia is hosting a Geforce Special Event on September 1st, and we expect the company to announce the next-gen Ampere Gaming GPUs.
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3rd gen tensor cores, I thought turing was first to have it or it was volta?
Volta was the first card to have Tensor cores mate
Let’s agree to disagree :2nd gen of consumer gpus.
Yeah that’s true enough LOL
Yeah that’s true enough LOL
320W on standard clocks oh my… Most of games are GPU bound so the card will be on 99-100% usage soo enjoy a lot of heat, higher bills, I mean for winter people rooms will be warm 😀
Holes in the backplated… Meh it was bad idea.
So only RTX 3090 will support SLI?
Two 3070’s in SLI would make much more sense. A single 3090 will be a monster anyway, and seriously, how many people can afford two of them?
I think that’s why Nvidia has disabled NVLink on other Ampere GPU models. Because if they allow this interface to be supported on other cards as well, then it will cannibalize the sales of the RTX 3090.
Two 3070’s in SLI might outperform and match the performance of a Single 3090 GPU, IMO. Guess a guess though, as I’m not sure. But Nvidia just wants to sell as many of these expensive Flagship 3090s, and trust me there are gamers who are ready to pay a premium, or even go for an SLI setup.
Regardless, multi-GPU is kind of pointless these days, since most of the Games, if not all, don’t SCALE very well in SLI. Some Games don’t even benefit from SLI, and the single GPU and multi-GPU performance is also the same. I forgot the Game’s name though.
Apart from Gaming, for few other applications, yes SLI might be beneficial, for high workloads not related to gaming, imo. Can you imagine the Power draw of the RTX 3090 SLI setup ! Its going to be enormous, lol.
Yeah, for some people price is no object. I personally know a guy who spent over $5000 on a PC.
As the poster above said, they will sell out the first day. As usual.
As someone without kids and drives a shitbox to avoid car payments. I will gladly invest money in a damn nice pc.
These will no doubt sell out in minutes regardless of the prices.
Gainward are awesome, my first ever high end gpu was a Gainward 9800 GT 1GB. It was solid as a rock!
Gainward makes strong cards. My 1080ti is a Gainward Phoenix. I got it used in march this year and it runs like a champ.
Same here. This was my previous GPU, the GTX 970 Phantom, and the build quality/durability was rock solid and awesome. The card is still in full working condition after so many years.
The guy who bought my GPU seems to be pretty much satisfied with Gainward.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gainward-gtx-970-phantom.b3057
Isn’t PALIT a much better brand ?
Both are same. PALIT is the parent company actually. Gainward brand division was sold to Palit in 2005.
Palit now runs two major brands, Palit, and Gainward, which target different local and global markets, and few other brands like Daytona, Vivkoo, Yuan, KFA2, Galaxy (GALAX), and XpertVision.
Most of these sub-brands mainly target the ASIAN market, and have different production lines/factory.
Cool man. Thanks for the info ! You rock, lol .
Galaxy (GALAX) white edition!!! <3
so, palit nvidia = gainward = galax = kfa2 ??
Wait… if both 3090/380 are on 102 can the small RT, Tensor, Tmu and Rop make such a difference on performance in gaming ? I mean, yea 20gbs of vram sounds fun when i’m not sure i’m going to even use 12 gb so let alone 20…
Oh boy, these cards are pretty long. Won’t fit in normal ATX enclosure. PSU recommendation not listed ?
So the Ampere lineup appears to be expensive, bigger in size, more power hungry, and bulky ! So much for next gen optimization, lol
24gb is very good.i believe we are gonna see pcs with more vga ram than system ram in the not so far future.
…..just remember folks wait a couple of months before buying right away..
My current case will not even fit any of these cards.
1st nvidia geforce rtx with PCIE 4.0…….. ^^
The only 10 GBs on the RTX 2080 are a shame! I really hope that the rumors about a probable 20gb version are real!