NVIDIA just issues a statement on their website postponing the availability of the GeForce RTX 3070, the new availability date is now set at Thursday, October 29th. An included perf chart shows perf above GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

The GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card has 5888 Shading cores running at a 1.5 GHz base and boost frequency of 1.73 GHz. it makes use of conventional GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s. The GPU features a TDP of 220 W and is priced  $499.

NVIDIA; Production of GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards are ramping quickly. We’ve heard from many of you that there should be more cards available on launch day. To help make that happen, we are updating the availability date to Thursday, October 29th.

We know this may be disappointing to those eager to purchase a GeForce RTX 3070 as soon as possible, however this shift will help our global partners get more graphics cards into the hands of gamers on launch day.

The GeForce RTX 3070 delivers incredible performance and features, including NVIDIA Reflex and Broadcast, for $499. Across a variety of ray-traced and rasterized DirectX and Vulkan titles, the GeForce RTX 3070 delivers similar or faster performance than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (which sold for twice the price) and is on average 60% faster than the original GeForce RTX 2070.