Sunday, August 30th 2020
Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Ampere Pictured, Slides Confirm Specs
A mega dump of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phoenix GS and RTX 3080 Phoenix GS reveal not only the common board design of the two cards, but also the final specs of the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The RTX 3090 features 5,248 CUDA cores, and 24 GB of 19.5 Gbps GDDR6X memory across a 384-bit memory bus, which belts out 936 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The Gainward Phoenix GS runs the RTX 3090 at 1725 MHz boost frequency. The RTX 3080, on the other hand, features 4,352 CUDA cores, and 10 GB of 19 Gbps GDDR6X memory across a 320-bit memory bus, with 760 GB/s memory bandwidth. Gainward is running the RTX 3080 at 1740 MHz on the Phoenix GS.
What's interesting is the board power figures put out by Gainward. The RTX 3090 typical board power (at least for the Phoneix GS), is rated at 350 W, while that of the RTX 3080 is rated at 320 W. These explain why we're seeing custom-design RTX 3090 cards with either three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, or in case of the Founders Edition card, the 12-pin connector that's capable of 600 W power delivery. Many of the custom-design RTX 3080 cards we've come across have two 8-pin PCIe inputs. The slides also list out "2nd generation RTX technology," and "3rd gen tensor cores." Gainward's board features a meaty triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution that has RGB LED illumination. We predict Palit's cards to look very similar to these (with different cooler shroud designs).
Update 06:09 UTC: More pics follow, courtesy harukaze5719.
Sources:
VideoCardz, harukaze5719 (Twitter)
What's interesting is the board power figures put out by Gainward. The RTX 3090 typical board power (at least for the Phoneix GS), is rated at 350 W, while that of the RTX 3080 is rated at 320 W. These explain why we're seeing custom-design RTX 3090 cards with either three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, or in case of the Founders Edition card, the 12-pin connector that's capable of 600 W power delivery. Many of the custom-design RTX 3080 cards we've come across have two 8-pin PCIe inputs. The slides also list out "2nd generation RTX technology," and "3rd gen tensor cores." Gainward's board features a meaty triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution that has RGB LED illumination. We predict Palit's cards to look very similar to these (with different cooler shroud designs).
27 Comments on Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Ampere Pictured, Slides Confirm Specs
Reminded me of an old Dodge Charger, not sure if the cooling was particulairy good but man does it look good.
Other than that, like most gamers, I'm most interested in flagships as an indication of how the subsequent mid range/mid-hign end GPUs of the line will perform. Call me crazy but a power hungry VRAM-munching monster like this does not exactly inspire confidence on a reasonable scaled down version. Hope I'm wrong, of course.
And here we are, back to those era when Long GPU support was a thing.
That being said, I'm more interested in RTX 3070/3060 or RDNA2 rather than these overpriced things.
All graphics cards by other vendors are like the actual.
Even the power connectors. No 12 Pin obligation.
Definitely looks beefier than the awful looking Founders Edition design, which I think is going to alienate most people with both the proprietary connector as well as the triple slot requirement (definitely a no-go for ITX and most mATX builds I reckon).
I fully expect CP2077 to support it.
The gamer which has talent and speed at taking correct decisions, he can win most trophy's, in comparison to monster VGA with a player whom afraid s to fight or die in battle.
That feature will either only come on the ultra-even-moar-expensive, super-duper-Ti +++++ cards, or better yet, the NEXT revision, therefore giving them yet anutha excuse to milk moar $$ out of your wallets hahahaha ..:laugh:..:cry:..:roll:
With the new cards out hopefully the price of 2070 supers come down to good price point so I can SLi them.