Nvidia recently announced its Ampere lineup of Flagship GPUs, the RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070, but we might be getting even faster variants soon. The company did not announce any plans to release the X60 SKU, the mainstream RTX 3060 card, though we have been hearing rumors that Nvidia might release two variants, having the GA106 and GA104 GPU core/board.
The GA104 GPU would likely adopt the Ti or SUPER branding. We expect the GA106 GPU board to be featured on the plain RTX 3060 GPU (non-Ti/SUPER variant), and rumor has it that this card might feature 6 GB of GDDR6 memory over a 192-bit wide bus interface.
The RTX 3060 Ti/Super on the other hand might feature 8 GB of GDDR6 memory over a 256-bit bus interface. Now according to @Kopite7kimi, who is a well known leaker, the RTX 3060 Ti/SUPER GPU would allegedly feature the GA104-200 GPU having 4864 CUDA cores, in a total of 38 SMs, which is 1024 CUDA cores less than the RTX 3070’s 5888 count. The card is also said to feature only 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, since this is more of a successor to the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER SKU.
The leaker also mentions the following SKUs to release next year, the 3080Ti, RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 Ti/Super 16GB, but the specifications are not yet confirmed to any board partner/AIB. The RTX 3070 SUPER variant is expected to feature the PG142 board, and might come in 8/16 GB VRAM flavors, the non-X GDDR6 memory type. The RTX 3070 Ti on the other hand is expected to feature 16 GB of VRAM. He expects a 6144 CUDA core count for the RTX 3070 Ti/Super.
According to Nvidia’s roadmap we also have the RTX 3080 20 GB GDDR6X VRAM variant in the works. The RTX 3080 20 GB card will feature the same PG133/132 board, having more than 8704 CUDA cores. There is also a rumor regarding an RTX 3080 Ti variant, having either 12 or 16 GB of GDDR6X VRAM. But treat this as a speculation for now, since Nvidia has not given any confirmation on this.
SKU0 GA104-400 PG141/142 GDDR6X/6 8GB 3072=3070Ti
SKU10 GA104-300 GDDR6 2944=3070 https://t.co/p3mfchajfR— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) July 7, 2020
But do note that the Ti and SUPER variants might also be the same GPU, since the RTX 3060 is based on the same board, the GA104-200 SKU/ PG142 PCB. Also, don’t expect similar pricing for these Ti or Super variants, since the GeForce RTX 3070 with 16 GB of VRAM could end up close to the pricing of the GeForce RTX 3080, and the RTX 3080 20 GB would cost around $799-$899 USD.
These Ti/Super variants aren’t meant to replace the existing RTX 30 series lineup, but they rather offer a step-up and upgrade in terms of memory and better core specs, but at higher prices. This all depends on how AMD responds back with their NAVI 2X lineup based on the RDNA2 architecture.
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Wow Nvidia is really scared of Big NAVI….No way ngreedia giving all that power at this price just for fun LOL!
They don’t have to be scared at all. Nvidia has enough R&D, and they can counter any Navi GPU AMD has to offer, beating even the Flagship Navi 2x cards.
They are just reserving these variants to counter AMD’s release. Nvidia wins in the end though.
If winning is having more sales then yeah but there is a chance AMD can make their cards cheaper then Nvidias and still make the same margins.
They will have smaller chips for the same performance and also won’t need those big coolers like Nvidia because of greater efficiency.
But we also don’t know how much money Nvidia is saving by going with the cheaper and inferior 8nm process. Might be a lot, otherwise I don’t see why Nvidia did’t just go for 7nm too.
I’ve heard the same thing from Moore’s Law Is Dead YT channel. Inefficient Samsung 8nm node, hence the absurd power consumption.
Fanboyist comment.
Shut the F up, AMDumb.,
I have an RX 580 on my rig, so no, I’m not any fanboy for sure. I was just stating some facts, because Nviida really has powerful GPUs in their roadmap. Just wait and see.
Thanks for the down-vote though. I won’t do the same, ’cause then there won’t be any difference between both of us. I’m proud owner of both AMD and Nvidia/Intel hardware.
If big Navi offers great performance jump at a reasonable price, then I would be the first to buy it. Will also wait for some Ampere Gaming benchmarks as well.
Internet allow us to say anything, your 3 comments were very emotionally biased, this allows me to deduce it is a typical fanboyist comment you may not even a fanboy, but your comment was.
Nvidia wins at what? Having the fastest card on the planet?
But how many people on this forum will go for RTX 3090? My guess is very few, if any.
And 3090 is ridiculously big, some AIB partners will release full triple slot 3090s to deal with TDP.
size aint an issue. price is.
Agreed, that’s exactly my point.
Don’t know much about business, huh? Ask your dad.
AMD always low prices = they care about customers
Nvidia low price = they are scared of RDNA2
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This Meme is very disturbing though.
Can’t you just stop this stupid fan war??
I’m 42yrs old and got both AMD/Nvidia card.Surely had more graphic cards than you ever got LOL.
After turing prices you really think nvidia whant to lower the prices LOL.
No they clearly know that Bignavi gone be very good,other wise those 3080/3090 whould have been priced for 999/1900.
Nvidia offering the 2080ti performance for 499 #RTX3070, tell me that they know Big navi is good.And to sell those RTX they need to cut down those mad prices !
RTX 3080/3070 have same MSRP prices as RTX 2080/2070. About what price cuts you are talking about?
RTX 3070 is using 8nm so it’s not surprising it offering big performance improvement.
If big navi wasnt scarry for nvidia! guess what
2070s –>499$
2080s —>599$
2080ti —>699$
3070—>850$
3080—->1300$
3090 —->2500$
I think the most important thing is that AMD could very easily catch nVidia in rasterized performance, but i find it hard to believe that they will catch nVidia in Ray Tracing performance.
If a game with a lot of RT performs 10% worse with AMD than nVidia that will be a huge turn off, and AMD would need insane headroom with rasterization which will not be provided for the same price.
So true!!!
They are still cutting back on the VRAM. 16GB seems a bit okay, but 20GB for the same price would have been awesome.
No sign of Big navi yet, lol.
No sign except in fortnite of all places lol
“No sign of Big navi yet, lol”
That’s factual comment…
Reportedly the performance of Big Navi will fall somewhere in between 3070 and 3080. If it has more than 10GB of VRAM, and it’s competitively priced, it will be a great card.
It’s just a rumour though.
8gb of vram is a joke its 2020 not 2016, the 70 series cards have had 8gb of vram for 4 years now, not to mention the 1080ti that had 11, so here we are 4 years later and the 3080 only has 10, Nvidia is regressing, and dumb people are still gonna lap up these cards, Unreal Engine 5 is coming and im sure it will take as much vram as you can throw at it
8GB not enough for 4K gaming. People buy these very fast cards for 4K, not 1080p.
pretty sad to see RTX 3060 not coming out this Year. Probably 2021.
amd it is then.
Powerfull AND cheap enough
Considering the RTX 3070 is $499 base…this will be $379 – $399 likely…
Hopefully AND can beat the 3060. BigTard incoming lol!
AMD is garbage.
The 3060 is likely to use only half of a GA104 die.
It says GA106 not 104.
Or maybe you just mean that 106 will be half the size of 104.
Depends on the price
lol, AMDumbs on suicide watch after Nvidia’s announcement. They are scared shit(less about Ampere dethroning Big papa “slow” Navi. lmfao…
Amd is pure peasant stuff. Nvidia delivers powerful and technologically enhanced GPUs. Period.
Greedia. “Trying to increase profits no matter the means”.
hey, I have a question?can anyone please give me a solution….
i have a 1070 zotac amp extreme 8gb graphics card and i want to upgrade to one of rtx 3000 series cards but if i am running on a 1080p 60 fps monitor, should i buy the 3070 or wait for the 3060.