Tuesday, December 14th 2021
NVIDIA Delays RTX 3070 Ti 16GB and RTX 3080 12GB Launches
NVIDIA has reportedly pushed midlife refreshes to its GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" graphics card family to beyond January, according to a report by Igor's Lab. The company was supposed to launch as many as three high-end graphics card SKUs in early-Q1, which include a 16 GB variant of the RTX 3070 Ti, which maxes out the GA104 silicon, a refreshed RTX 3080 12 GB variant, which keeps the CUDA core count of the original RTX 3080, but maxes out the 384-bit memory bus width of the GA102; and the RTX 3090 Ti, which maxes out both memory and CUDA cores on the GA102.
It's being reported that while the RTX 3090 Ti launch is on schedule, with announcements slated for NVIDIA's 2022 International CES presentation; the RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB and RTX 3080 12 GB could be launched only after the Chinese New Year (at least mid-February). The three SKUs, we predict, are designed to calibrate NVIDIA's lineup against a possible refresh of AMD's RDNA2 graphics architecture on the TSMC N6 (6 nm) node, which could allow the company to dial up engine clocks across the board, along with faster 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, to better compete against the RTX 30-series. AMD is expected to announce these 6 nm GPUs in its CES presentation.
Source:
Igor's Lab
It's being reported that while the RTX 3090 Ti launch is on schedule, with announcements slated for NVIDIA's 2022 International CES presentation; the RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB and RTX 3080 12 GB could be launched only after the Chinese New Year (at least mid-February). The three SKUs, we predict, are designed to calibrate NVIDIA's lineup against a possible refresh of AMD's RDNA2 graphics architecture on the TSMC N6 (6 nm) node, which could allow the company to dial up engine clocks across the board, along with faster 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, to better compete against the RTX 30-series. AMD is expected to announce these 6 nm GPUs in its CES presentation.
13 Comments on NVIDIA Delays RTX 3070 Ti 16GB and RTX 3080 12GB Launches
why release a lower-end card with moar vram, but a higher-end one with less vram....
perhaps I've missed something ??
Then again, the whole idea that the 3080 should have released with 12GB over 10GB has been part of the conversations since the card launched.
I don't really get the logic either. The 3080 doesn't have anywhere to go in terms of performance since it only sits about 5-10% behind the 3080Ti and only another 5-10% behind a 3090. You can't really close the gap anymore or you alienate the 3080Ti that already costs upwards of $700+ over a 3080.
A similar issue with the 3070Ti update.... what's the 16GB on this card going to offer over the 8GB model (aside from some more VRAM)?
And I wont be surprised if nGreedia just plays with the black market, since it's mind blowing how 90% of those cards arrive there anyways. Somebody should really investigate this thoroughly in my opinion.
The 3070ti - or more precisely ga104 - can be whatever nvidia whishes it to be, like for example the 12gb 192bit 3060.
I do some times wonder how they decide, lately it really seems like a coin toss looking at the line up having for example 12gb 3060, 8gb 3060ti and 10gb 3080 :kookoo:
That's why I said what I did earlier...
Who's there?
12gb 2060
12gb 2060 who?
fuck if I know, no reference price or stock availability :D
Or as I said, nvidia can pretty much do whatever it wants and feels will be profitable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (what's stopping them from popping up 10gb - 5x2gb 160 bit - on the 3070?)
It starts getting very murky because if you slash the bus length to fit more memory the card might perform worse (depends on the application - it's usually worse for gaming) but nvidia clearly doesn't give the slightest fuck and is all into segmenting their entire line-up with many different options that are hard to understand