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ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 ULTRA Photo Leaks, yes ULTRA
That's right, not 3060, 3060 SUPER but 3060 ULTRA. If this is true, then NVIDIA might position yet another 3060 SKU into the market, positioning itself in between 3060 Ti and 3070 presumably.
If this product is released, it might be because of the pending series Radeon RX 6700 release of course. The card would use the now familiar 8 nm GA104 GPU, used in the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070; but with a different shader core-configuration and likely 12 GB of GDDR6. At wccftech a box photo of the custom RTX 3060 Ultra card was spotted as well, the ASUS TUF Gaming. Predicted pricing; USD $449.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series 'Ampere' Graphics Card Specifications (preliminary for the new SKUs):
| Graphics Card Name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti? | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti? | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Name | Ampere GA107 | Ampere GA106? | Ampere GA104-200 | Ampere GA104-250? | Ampere GA104-300 | Ampere GA102-150 | Ampere GA102-200 | Ampere GA102-250 | Ampere GA102-300 |
| Process Node | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm |
| Die Size | TBA | TBA | 395.2mm2 | TBA | 395.2mm2 | 628.4mm2 | 628.4mm2 | 628.4mm2 | 628.4mm2 |
| Transistors | TBA | TBA | 17.4 Billion | TBA | 17.4 Billion | 28 Billion | 28 Billion | 28 Billion | 28 Billion |
| CUDA Cores | 2304 | 3584 | 4864 | 3840 | 5888 | 7424 | 8704 | 10496 | 10496 |
| TMUs / ROPs | TBA | TBA | 152 / 80 | TBA | 184 / 96 | 232 / 80 | 272 / 96 | 328 / 112 | 328 / 112 |
| Tensor / RT Cores | TBA | TBA | 152 / 38 | TBA | 184 / 46 | 232 / 58 | 272 / 68 | 328 / 82 | 328 / 82 |
| Base Clock | TBA | TBA | 1410 MHz | TBA | 1500 MHz | TBA | 1440 MHz | TBA | 1400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | TBA | TBA | 1665 MHz | TBA | 1730 MHz | TBA | 1710 MHz | TBA | 1700 MHz |
| FP32 Compute | TBA | TBA | 16.2 TFLOPs | TBA | 20 TFLOPs | TBA | 30 TFLOPs | TBA | 36 TFLOPs |
| RT TFLOPs | TBA | TBA | 32.4 TFLOPs | TBA | 40 TFLOPs | TBA | 58 TFLOPs | TBA | 69 TFLOPs |
| Tensor-TOPs | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | 163 TOPs | TBA | 238 TOPs | TBA | 285 TOPs |
| Memory Capacity | 4 GB GDDR6? | 6 GB GDDR6? | 8 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 10 GB GDDR6X? | 10 GB GDDR6X | 20 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 192-bit? | 256-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit | 320-bit | 320-bit | 320-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Speed | TBA | TBA | 14 Gbps | TBA | 14 Gbps | TBA | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | TBA | TBA | 448 Gbps | TBA | 448 Gbps | TBA | 760 Gbps | 760 Gbps | 936 Gbps |
| TGP | 90W? | TBA | 180W? | TBA | 220W | 320W? | 320W | 320W | 350W |
| Price (MSRP / FE) | $149? | $199? | $399 US? | $299? | $499 US | $599 US? | $699 US | $899 US? | $1499 US |
| Launch (Availability) | 2021? | 2021? | November 2020? | 2021? | 29th October | Q4 2020? | 17th September | January 2021? | 24th September |
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#5875327 Posted on: 01/08/2021 05:09 PM
VRam is not the issue, its all about Cuda Cores. And not everyone has hopped on the 4k train.
VRam is not the issue, its all about Cuda Cores. And not everyone has hopped on the 4k train.
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#5875447 Posted on: 01/09/2021 12:44 AM
Seems like 3060ti/3070/3080 will be replaced with more vram versions sooner than we thought. Nvidia could have released all these 12/16/20gb cards at the start but thats not part of their plan.
Im telling you 3090 users ware the smartest ones everyone else got screwed over.
That would be just agreeing that everyone was right about low vram, and they already know it wont cut in next gen games.
Cant wait to see if 3070 8gb will tank in 2 years at 1440p
Seems like 3060ti/3070/3080 will be replaced with more vram versions sooner than we thought. Nvidia could have released all these 12/16/20gb cards at the start but thats not part of their plan.
Im telling you 3090 users ware the smartest ones everyone else got screwed over.
That would be just agreeing that everyone was right about low vram, and they already know it wont cut in next gen games.
Cant wait to see if 3070 8gb will tank in 2 years at 1440p
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so basically an 8GB card with 256-bit gddr6 should not really vary that much from a 16gb gddr6 256-bit card if you're targetting +60 fps at 4K right ?
seems like 3080 is very well balanced.
was caching 8gb of data really the intention here ? will majority of games use this and how much can we get in return ? it looks like paying for a huge amount of cache you're very rarely gonna use.
seems like 12g on a 192-bit bus is redundant too
anyway,thanks for explaining it.now I know why in ROTR I was having terrible fps drops with 7.5GB vram used on gtx1080 but my 2070 Super could go to 7.9G and it was fine.
seems like same thing would happen to 6800xt vs. 3080
There are definitely going to be scenarios in which 6800 (XT) will drop fps more than 3080 connected to memory bandwidth.
And there may be scenarios which enable 6800 (XT) to pull ahead thanks to IF. But as I wrote before, in most of those, sensible reduction of textures or other memory intensive operations will solve problem with minimal visual impact.
For 4K, people should get 3080 even while it is not up to my fps standard. But looking forward, 6800 (XT) will be in worse place than it is now.
1440p, it is matter of preference. And on 1080p, 6800 (XT) are very good. And usual competitive games/settings may give 6800 (XT) some advantages too.
And those 12GB incoming cards with likely 384GB/s bandwidth or even 336GB/s, they will struggle before their memory utilization hits mentioned 11GB.