Igor Wallossek from Igor’s Lab has once again leaked another marketing material from his sources regarding the next-gen Ampere lineup of cards.
Igor’s lab predicts that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series might launch in September. According to the data provided, NVIDIA is currently evaluating the design of its high-end RTX Ampere series. The decision as to which design will end up in the actual “final” product will be made in July, during the Design Validation Test.
Igor reports that the Ampere GeForce RTX 30 series is currently going through the DVT phase which is a ‘design validation test’. He has given a full estimation of the timeframe and launch window of Nvidia’s next-gen Ampere graphics cards.
As we can see, the DVT phase is followed by the WS (Working Sample) phase, which means we might see some early performance leaks, most probably in mid or end of July, based on Igor’s timeframe.
The final BIOS for these GPUs won’t be available till the beginning of August, so any early benchmark leaks and performance won’t actually reflect the final product’s graphics performance scores.
The mass production of the RTX 30 series of cards will begin in August. According to Igor, Nvidia will also host a media event for its next-generation Ampere GPU launch in September, and will provide us with some first benchmarks. This means we can expect some early performance reviews by September 2020 at the earliest. Based on this timeframe, we estimate the RTX 3000 series to launch around September, more specifically the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 SKU variants.
NVIDIA RTX 3080 & RTX 3090 Mass Production in August
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Your move AMD.
Just WAIT…..And wait, and wait….That’s AMD’s motto, not mine…lol
Still no news or some roadmap on AMD…This sucks, and judging from how Nvidia is seriously preparing for the RTX 30 series, I doubt AMD can capture some of the high-end GPU market.
These RTX 30 cards are going to kill and annihilate AMD cards for sure.
I cannot disagree on that point though.
AFAIK AMD have shown more roadmap info regarding their future gpu vs nvidia that in general no longer talk about it. What we are seeing is rumor or leaks at this point.
Personally i think AMD did not want direct confrontation witn nvidia. If anything they probably hoping to launch surprise attack like what they did with Ryzen. But the primary subject is nvidia here. And nvidia in certain aspect is even more ruthless than intel.
I’m just guessing but I don’t think AMD wants to compete with the 3080 Ti. They will probably be content to stick with entry level to upper midrange and Keep most of their R&D money on Ryzen.
I believe Ryzen is where AMD makes most of their profit because before the Ryzen release AMD was going into debt hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. For 2018 AMD showed a profit of 337 million dollars and for 2019 they showed a profit of 341 million dollars.
That’s still very small compared to Intel and Nvidia but it’s pretty hard for AMD to compete with Intel and Nvidia at the same time.
Not sure if AMD will want to compete on the highest end but i think AMD will try to avoid aggressive price war with nvidia even if they decided to compete head to head with nvidia at the top. Their action since late 2018 reflect this.
As for CPU and GPU i believe each division will need to make their own money to fund their respective R&D. Many believe that once AMD start gaining more profit they can help and “subsidized” GPU division R&D better. It might not that simple. They might have the upper hand right now against intel but it doesn’t mean intel will not retaliate. So they can’t afford to soften their CPU R&D and use the money to help RTG. one thing about AMD is they need bleeding edge process to stay on top. And that will require massive amount of money to keep that up. Remember their revenue is still around 1/10th of what intel get.
amd still busy with console peasant.
Now all we need is another bitcoin explosion. We dont know if this rumour is referring to consumer gaming gpu…??
These are consumer Gaming cards more likely.
I know I am getting ahead of myself on this but I have a 650W power supply currently. Will it still be possible to use this with a new 3800 card. I only have a single fan with a M.2 drive. Just curious.
On the TPU GPU database the recommended wattage for a RTX 3080 Ti is 600 watts so for a RTX 3080 (non Ti) you should be fine but Metal Messiah is right. It needs to be quality and provide enough amps on the +12V rail.
Those figures might change though as the release date gets closer.
If it were me I would add a couple more fans or get a model that exhausts the heat out the rear.
What’s the exact Make and Model/brand of the 650 Watts PSU ? Power consumption from the wall will depend on the “efficiency” and the build quality of the PSU.
Wattage number is not always important. The quality and the make matters. The main concern is the “quality” of the power, the quality of the components used/CAPS, as well as the total AMP drawn on the +12V RAIL (output), the efficiency under load, “ripple suppression”, among other factors.
Oh btw, I’m NOT saying you have a generic cheap PSU, but just wanted to confirm the brand/make.
I have a Corsair CX650M
I’ve got the same one rocking it for my overclocked i7, and RTX 2080, with 16GB of DDR4 and a 1TB SSD sitting in a older Asus Z-170 mobo. You should be just fine.
Thanks folks for the information. I was hoping to not have to open the wallet for a new PSU but I need to replace my ye olde 1080 hopefully with a new 3080 :}
Another great piece of info, Nick. If I may I wanted to provide a little constructive criticism as far as editing in your articles.
Having read them I’ve noticed that excessive repetition is what plagues them. Case in point:
This “design validation test” procedure was comprehensive right from the first time it was mentioned. But it’s basically mentioned 3 times in two consecutive sentences. I think your pieces would only benefit from a tighter edit. In this instance I would drop the “which is a ‘design validation test’” line completely since you’ve basically spelled out the meaning of DVT phase one sentence prior.
Other than that you’re doing an awesome job and providing us with interesting tidbits of information.
I know that part sounds redundant, but I just wanted to highlight it once again. Not a big deal honestly speaking.
I know that part sounds redundant, but I just wanted to highlight it once again.
Btw, thank you for your kind words.You have my respect. I’m not a journalist by “profession” though. So please bear with me.
I was actually reluctant/hesitant to accept this post here on DSOG, since I was submitting articles only as a “guest” user/reader, but John insisted that I should join the team, since most of my submitted articles as a guest/user actually fell under the “news” category, as per the rules of this website.
You’re doing pretty good! Looking forward to reading more of your articles.
Thank you once again ! 😀
I actually love reading his articles !
We don’t have any info on other RTX Models. Companies usually announce and Launch the Flagship products first, so other mid-range mainstream cards are going to arrive after some time.
Well I was lucky enough to get a “Vanilla” open box MSI RTX 2080 for 399$, wondering just how much depreciation the 2080 series will see once the 3xxx are released. Any other 2080 owners plan on upgrading? As usual thanks for the great article Metal Messiah.