Wednesday, September 23rd 2020

GALAX Confirms GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Matches RTX 2080

An alleged event by GALAX targeted at distributors in China revealed up to three upcoming SKUs in NVIDIA's RTX 30-series. This comes as yet another confirmation from a major NVIDIA AIC partner about the 20 GB variant of the GeForce RTX 3080. The RTX 3080 originally launched with 10 GB memory earlier this month, and it is widely expected that NVIDIA fills the price-performance gap between this $700 SKU and its $1,500 sibling. The RTX 3080 uses twenty 8 Gbit GDDR6X memory chips (two chips per 32-bit data-path), much like how the RTX 3090 achieves its 24 GB memory amount.

Elsewhere we see GALAX mention the RTX 3060, a performance-segment SKU positioned under the RTX 3070. You'll notice that the product-stack graph by GALAX suggests performance comparisons to previous-generation SKUs. The RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 are faster than everything from the previous generation, while the RTX 3070, which is coming next month, is shown trading blows with both the RTX 2080 Ti and the RTX 2080 Super. In this same graph, the RTX 3060 is shown matching up to the RTX 2080 (non-Super), a card NVIDIA originally launched at $700.
There's an unnamed SKU slotted between the RTX 3070 and the RTX 3080 10 GB, which is codenamed "PG142 SKU 0." Some AICs/OEMs are referring to this as the "RTX 3070 Ti," and others the "RTX 3070 Super." Given that the Super brand extension has been used by NVIDIA to denote a mid-life refresh for an existing product stack, it's very likely that this SKU is simply the RTX 3070 16 GB (RTX 3070 with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and perhaps bolstering in other areas). This SKU is shown trading blows with the RTX 2080 Ti and the TITAN RTX.
Source: Overclocking.com
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81 Comments on GALAX Confirms GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Matches RTX 2080

#76
R-T-B
medi015700 and 5700XT
Yes, and I regretted it.

EDIT: Not really, it was cheap. But I can't say I enjoyed it too much either.

I really do hope I am wrong.
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#77
Kapone33
bug5700XT maybe, but 5700 was basically a slightly better 2060, 9 months later and with no RTRT. If you bought a 2060 for RTRT, you wouldn't have any regrets.
5700XT didn't have RTRT either, but it came for like $100 less.
The 2060 is not a good example for RT Gaming.
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#78
bug
kapone32The 2060 is not a good example for RT Gaming.
Maybe, but if you're curious about the technology, it's the cheapest entry point. The 5700 doesn't do RTRT at all and it's not cheaper either, I don't see why the 5700 would make you sorry for getting a 2060.
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#79
Kapone33
bugMaybe, but if you're curious about the technology, it's the cheapest entry point. The 5700 doesn't do RTRT at all and it's not cheaper either, I don't see why the 5700 would make you sorry for getting a 2060.
It all depends on whether or not you care about RT. There is no doubt that for regular Gaming for 99.8% of all of the rest of PC Games a 5700 or 5700XT are great choices vs a 2060 (as they are 2070 competition). I know that using a 5700 I get 144+ FPS in Division 2, TitanFall 2, Shadow of War, Jedi Fallen Order and a few others using a 5700. Paired with a 165hz Freesync monitor is Gaming bliss. If I wanted to get into RT I would have gotten at least a 2070.
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#80
bug
kapone32It all depends on whether or not you care about RT.
More like it depends on your brand loyalty.
Both cards cost and perform about the same, but one of them also offers an extra feature. I'm sorry, I see no way the less featured card makes you regret getting the other one.
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#81
N3M3515
medi01What would make it 5% faster?
Higher clocks i guess, to justify it xD
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