NVIDIA is reportedly planning to unveil three new of its new GeForce RTX 30 & RTX 20 series graphics cards. The cards include the RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB, RTX 3080 12 GB and RTX 2060 12 GB next month.
The latest information comes from hongxing2020 on Twitter, the same user had also reported previously that NVIDIA was prepping three new cards for launch in early 2022. According to sources, the green team will be unveiling the new GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB graphics cards in the coming month of December on 17th.
The leaker also mentions that the GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB will be unveiled and launched on the same day on the 7th of December. The GeForce RTX 30 series offerings will be hitting retail shelves by the mid of January (11th).
There were also rumours that NVIDIA is preparing its 12 GB GeForce RTX 2060 variant which will be up for launch in Q1 2022 to tackle GPU shortages as those are now expected to persist throughout 2022. Following is the rumoured launch plan:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB – 17th December Unveil / 11th January Launch
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB – 17th December Unveil / 11th January Launch
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB – 7th December Unveil / 7th December Launch
Reports further suggest that the RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB will be sticking with its existing core specifications however, the while the upgraded RTX 3080 might feature a brand new Ampere GPU SKU with a wider 384-bit bus interface to support the 12 GB memory as opposed to the existing 320-bit bus and 10 GB memory capacity.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 ‘SUPER’ Series Graphics Card Specifications (Rumored):
| Graphics Card Name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti/SUPER? |
| GPU Name | Ampere GA106-300 | Ampere GA104-200 | Ampere GA104-300 | Ampere GA104-400 | Ampere GA104-400 | Ampere GA102-200 | Ampere? | Ampere GA102-225 | Ampere GA102-300 | Ampere GA102-350? |
| Process Node | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm |
| Die Size | TBC | 395.2mm2 | 395.2mm2 | 395.2mm2 | 395.2mm2 | 628.4mm2 | TBA | 628.4mm2 | 628.4mm2 | 628.4mm2 |
| Transistors | TBC | 17.4 Billion | 17.4 Billion | 17.4 Billion | 17.4 Billion | 28 Billion | TBA | 28 Billion | 28 Billion | 28 Billion |
| CUDA Cores | 3584 | 4864 | 5888 | 6144 | 6144 | 8704 | TBA | 10240 | 10496 | 10752 |
| TMUs / ROPs | 112 / 64 | 152 / 80 | 184 / 96 | 184 / 96 | 184 / 96 | 272 / 96 | TBA | 320 / 112 | 328 / 112 | 336 / 112 |
| Tensor / RT Cores | 112 / 28 | 152 / 38 | 184 / 46 | 184 / 46 | 184 / 46 | 272 / 68 | TBA | 320 / 80 | 328 / 82 | 336 / 84 |
| Base Clock | 1320 MHz | 1410 MHz | 1500 MHz | 1575 MHz | TBA | 1440 MHz | TBA | 1365 MHz | 1400 MHz | TBA |
| Boost Clock | 1780 MHz | 1665 MHz | 1730 MHz | 1770 MHz | TBA | 1710 MHz | TBA | 1665 MHz | 1700 MHz | TBA |
| FP32 Compute | 13 TFLOPs | 16 TFLOPs | 20 TFLOPs | 22 TFLOPs | TBA | 30 TFLOPs | TBA | 34 TFLOPs | 36 TFLOPs | TBA |
| RT TFLOPs | 25 TFLOPs | 32 TFLOPs | 40 TFLOPs | 44 TFLOPs | TBA | 58 TFLOPs | TBA | 67 TFLOPs | 69 TFLOPs | TBA |
| Tensor-TOPs | 101 TOPs | 192 TOPs | 163 TOPs | 183 TOPs | TBA | 238 TOPs | TBA | 273 TOPs | 285 TOPs | TBA |
| Memory Capacity | 12 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6X | 16 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory Bus | 192-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 320-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Speed | 16 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 21 Gbps | 19 Gbps | TBA | 19 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps | 21 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 384 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 608 GB/s | 672 GB/s | 760 GB/s | TBA | 912 Gbps | 936 GB/s | 1008 GB/s |
| TGP | 170W | 175W | 220W | 290W | ~300W | 320W | TBA | 350W | 350W | 450W |
| Price (MSRP / FE) | $329 US | $399 US | $499 US | $599 US | $599 US? | $699 US | TBA | $1199 | $1499 US | $1499 US |
| Launch (Availability) | 25th February 2021 | 2nd December 2020 | 29th October 2020 | 10th June, 2021 | Q1 2022? | 17th September 2020 | Q1 2022? | 3rd June 2021 |
