Wednesday, October 21st 2020
NVIDIA Reportedly Cancels Launch of RTX 3080 20 GB, RTX 3070 16 GB
Fresh reports floating in the rumor mill's circulatory system claim that NVIDIA backtracked on its plans to launch higher VRAM capacity versions of their RTX 3080 and the (in the meantime, delayed) RTX 3070. These cards launched with 10 GB VRAM for the RTX 3080 and 8 GB VRAM for the RTX 3070, with reports circulating as early as their announcement that there would be double-capacity versions hitting the market just a few months later - specifically, in December of this year. Videocardz, however, claims that these long-rumored 20 GB and 16 GB SKUs have now been canceled by NVIDIA, who sent this news to its AIB partners - and the usage of canceled, not postponed, is perfunctory.
For cards theoretically shipping come December, this is indeed a small advance notice, but it might be enough for AIB partners to feed all their GA102-200 (RTX 3080) and GA104-400 (RTX 3070) silicon towards the already - if not readily - available models. This report, Videocardz claims, has been confirmed by two of their sources, and comes at the exact same day specifications for AMD's RX 6000 series leaked. It's likely NVIDIA already had knowledge of its competition's designs and performance targets, however, so this could be seen as nothing more than a coincidence. One of the publications' sources claims GDDR6X yields might be the cause for the cancellation, but this doesn't help explain why the alleged RTX 3070 16 GB card (with its GDDR6 chips) was also canceled. Remember: these are rumors on cards that were never announced by NVIDIA themselves, so take these with the appropriate salt-mine level of skepticism.
For cards theoretically shipping come December, this is indeed a small advance notice, but it might be enough for AIB partners to feed all their GA102-200 (RTX 3080) and GA104-400 (RTX 3070) silicon towards the already - if not readily - available models. This report, Videocardz claims, has been confirmed by two of their sources, and comes at the exact same day specifications for AMD's RX 6000 series leaked. It's likely NVIDIA already had knowledge of its competition's designs and performance targets, however, so this could be seen as nothing more than a coincidence. One of the publications' sources claims GDDR6X yields might be the cause for the cancellation, but this doesn't help explain why the alleged RTX 3070 16 GB card (with its GDDR6 chips) was also canceled. Remember: these are rumors on cards that were never announced by NVIDIA themselves, so take these with the appropriate salt-mine level of skepticism.
88 Comments on NVIDIA Reportedly Cancels Launch of RTX 3080 20 GB, RTX 3070 16 GB
i knew a 3080 with 20vram was too good to be true.
If you really think in the 3080 lifetime that game developers are going to forfeit sales by deliberately making games that will basically ignore the lower VRAM amounts of lesser cards, then you are unaware that they need to make a profit. You only do that by making games that are within the capability of mainstream cards, usually of the previous generation.
Since My system had a lot of VRAM FS2020 never used much more than 10-14GB RAM despite having 32GB available while people with less VRAM were reporting it needed more than 16GB.
If games were made with higher texture detail and less pop in they could use 20GB no problem and with minimal performance hit to those with enough memory as the GPU performance hit comes more from lighting effects which is lighter on memory usage.
I believe AMD could beat Nvidia this round and Nvidia will release a revision of the 3000 series within six months to claim back it's edge and that will likely come with more memory.
As others have said adding more VRAM to there current line now doesnt make much sence as they are already expencive and have high enough power use but with some tweaks a new revision of the cards soon after could make more sense.
What you are not comprehending is the tests done right here on TPU have shown that there was no loss in game quality or performance by going to lower VRAM amounts. What this clearly shows is games are only filling up what is available, NOT using it.
To tackle Radeon RX 6800 XL (an alleged name for the lowest-tier Navi 21 graphics card, according to @KittyYYuko).
videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-pg132-sku35-rtx-3070-ti-with-ga102-150-to-tackle-radeon-rx-6800xl
same for vram bandwidth where ppl whine when numbers dont go up/decrease,
yet has never been an issue in real world use (as other things improve (compression) and reducing the need for more bandwidth in the first place).
- 60-80% of all gamers on the planet are running FHD, so yeah, they really need those 10gb.
- by the time you use more than 10gb, most chips run out of power, hence useless to have more, unless cards get faster.
- no Ti/S version increased vram over non-ti/S, not sure why ppl always name those models. past releases show it (how about 1060 as 3 and 6, no ti or S??)
its not like they cant say xx65/75/85, and never even release anything S/Ti.
and regarding prices:
how many of you have "protested" that porsche/lambos (or any equivalent) are overpriced, and need to be as cheap and affordable like your chevy/toyota/vw (etc)?
right.
just because "you" think something is overpriced/no value, doesnt mean thats for everyone.
buy or dont, your choice. but dont sour it for others that will (like ppl with +100k/y income, or nothing else to pay for)