Wednesday, August 5th 2020
Possible NVIDIA RTX 3000 Rollout Schedule Detailed - RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 After September
September is emerging as a busy month for PC hardware announcements - if not actual product launches or availability. A report by Chinese tech publication MyDrivers suggests that the upcoming GeForce RTX 3000 series "Ampere" graphics cards could have a staggered market availability. Although the technology and product family is expected to be announced in September 17, 2020, the month could see the release of only the top-dog (read: low volume) parts, namely the flagship RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3080 (or the SKUs that succeed the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080).
The GeForce RTX 3070, or the SKU that succeeds the RTX 2070 Super, could launch a month later, in October 2020, according to the MyDrivers report. The higher-volume performance-segment part, the RTX 3060, or the SKU that succeeds the RTX 2060, could launch only by November, just in time for the Holiday shopping season. The report goes on to state that NVIDIA has discontinued production of the popular RTX 2070 Super, following its decision to stop RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Super production, allowing the retail channel to digest existing inventories of these parts.
Sources:
MyDrivers, VideoCardz
The GeForce RTX 3070, or the SKU that succeeds the RTX 2070 Super, could launch a month later, in October 2020, according to the MyDrivers report. The higher-volume performance-segment part, the RTX 3060, or the SKU that succeeds the RTX 2060, could launch only by November, just in time for the Holiday shopping season. The report goes on to state that NVIDIA has discontinued production of the popular RTX 2070 Super, following its decision to stop RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Super production, allowing the retail channel to digest existing inventories of these parts.
32 Comments on Possible NVIDIA RTX 3000 Rollout Schedule Detailed - RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 After September
They save the best for last much to the disappointment of early adopters.
So they broke the supposed past record that time. They could do it again.
Here:
980ti launch: June 2nd, 2015
980 & 970 launch: Sep. 18th, 2014
960 launch: Jan. 22nd, 2015
1080ti launch: Mar. 17th, 2017
1080 launch: May 27th, 2016
1070 launch: June 16th, 2016
1060 launch: July 19th, 2016
2080ti launch: Sep. 27th, 2018
2080 launch: Sep. 20th, 2018
2070 launch: Oct. 17th, 2018
2060 launch: Jan 15th, 2019
www.overclockers.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-and-rtx-2080-ti-review/
It was delayed a week. The reviewer samples still went out early of course.
Anyway, this launch is the opposite of Turing where the flagship came out first along with #2.
Regardless of how much you lke or dislike NVIDA, you've got to agree that they know how to do product releases right.Don't you mean the same as Turing?
If so, then yes.. lol
EDIT: I'm not doing too well in the reading comprehension... lol
They're selling what gets made IMHO, regardless of everything but a major flaw, and we are not hearing about issues so it's rolling as we speak.
They don't have the time for further stepping so the design they have now ,they had when a100 taped out in all likelihood.
450 Watts is on the cards for Nvidia IMHO but which one, hopefully just the 3090.
Turing is an exception to a rule, but even so... the reason to not release the biggest chip first is simply because the yield usually doesn't allow it. For Turing, that was different because the node wasn't new and neither was the GPU - V100 has been around for awhile, and the RTX Quadros also launched halfway 2018. They're all baked on the same 12nm node and are all big dies. And even so, Turing's 2080ti was plagued with early problems up to and including a bad batch, it had an astronomical price tag (again a sign of low yield given the die size) and was only sold to a miniscule percentage of the market.
So there is your explanation, I'm not seeing any big GPUs on the newest nodes yet so you can expect a mid-high end launch with x80 and GA104 or whatever its equivalent will be. I'd be pretty surprised if x80ti would launch straight away, but we know too little about the gen to begin with, to be fair. x80ti might be eclipsed by something else. Last time it was SUPER that came round the corner suddenly... this is not new to Nvidia's strategy. The way they pushed Titan, then 780ti and then made it a norm... they might do that again with something new. Turing showed us they're able and willing to go to extreme die sizes to make that happen.
Either way, its definitely into wait and see mode IMO. Buying GPUs on launch was never a good idea, I'm not planning to start now :)I'll happily take a bet on that one NOT happening. 300W peak is already a stretch.Keep in mind that the market is also changing. The resolution is a whole new selling point. A vast majority games on 1080p, but an increasing part is venturing into 1440p and even 4K, it just requires a different class of GPU. A wider spread also in the performance range of a full gen. If you put Turing next to something like Kepler, the differences in performance from bottom to top are staggering. In addition, 1080p gaming is still getting cheaper every gen. So I'd rather say everyone's winning with the way Nvidia pushes performance every time. Turing was just a rather weak gen at doing so, and part of that is a total lack of competition.
Smartest is to wait for RDNA2 to launch before buying: best case it forces NVIDIA to drop their prices, worst case you have a slightly lower performance, but lower-priced alternative to drop your hard-earned cash on. There will also be a lot of second-hand Turings and Navis popping up which might be a better option, depending on how much of a performance boost the new gen does (or doesn't) give.
But yeah, wait for both launches, the advice is sound. What happened with Turing is not the norm.