Friday, September 11th 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ampere Launching Before the RTX 3060?
In possible anticipation of AMD's Radeon RX 6000 RDNA2 series, NVIDIA is reportedly fleshing out the upper performance segment of its GeForce RTX 30-series, with the RTX 3060 Ti reportedly launching before the RTX 3060. Early August, we heard reports of NVIDIA pushing its RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 series launches beyond September. It is turning out that way, as the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 launches dominate this month, with an RTX 3070 launching some time in October. There's still no official word on SKUs beyond the RTX 3070. VideoCardz has some idea. The RTX 3060 Ti - a possible RTX 2060 Super successor, in being launched before the RTX 3060.
Based on the same "GA104" silicon as the RTX 3070, the RTX 3060 Ti is configured with 4,864 CUDA cores, 38 RT cores, 152 Tensor cores, 152 TMUs, and possibly 64 ROPs. It comes with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit memory interface. Given that the RTX 3070 base specs cover 14 Gbps memory frequency, one can only expect the same (or lesser) memory frequency. With its typical board power expected to be between 180 W to 200 W, one can even expect custom-design cards with single 8-pin PCIe power connectors.
Source:
VideoCardz
Based on the same "GA104" silicon as the RTX 3070, the RTX 3060 Ti is configured with 4,864 CUDA cores, 38 RT cores, 152 Tensor cores, 152 TMUs, and possibly 64 ROPs. It comes with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit memory interface. Given that the RTX 3070 base specs cover 14 Gbps memory frequency, one can only expect the same (or lesser) memory frequency. With its typical board power expected to be between 180 W to 200 W, one can even expect custom-design cards with single 8-pin PCIe power connectors.
46 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ampere Launching Before the RTX 3060?
It most certainly isn't you or me. They are working for themselves, and as such they don't want to give us the simple `3050 60 70 80 and 90` lineup.
It is not in their interest.
Its going to be tempting for me.
As for launching a Ti version before the regular 3060, that wouldn't make much sense either. They can spec it to the Ti variant and call a lesser model 3050 or something. There are plenty of naming choices they can pick from.
Super is fine though. Probably next year, maybe spring, maybe after summer. But not in 2020.
It's called capitalism. The Board of directors / officers of a company are legally bound, within the limits of applicable laws, to obtain maximum return for their investors. While ethical grounds such as environmental impacts and and religious conflicts have carved out some exceptions, the case law from "Dodge v. Ford Motor Company (1919) " remains the primary governing law.
"Most investors were interested in a healthy return on their investment, rather than any type of social good. Shareholders contended that the concern Ford expressed for his workers and customers was both improper and illegal. The court agreed, and Ford was forced to abandon his managerial goal of balancing profits and realizing broader social goals. "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
"prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets"
So why do companies charge what they do ? a) simply because they can b) because they have an obligation to maximize investor return.
So if you want to blame someone ...
a) blame the competition ... if there's a better deal out there no one would pay the higher prices.
hothardware.com/news/nvidia-amd-jon-peddie-2020-gpu-discrete-market
www.jonpeddie.com/store/market-watch-quarterly
b) Blame the people why are responsible for vendors inability to keep cards in stock. Vendors can't make money with products they don't have stock and will only discount proced when supply exceeds demand. A few days ago the 1080 Ti was selling for $2250 ... today it's $1600 ... the MSRP was $1250 at a time. The 2080.... even with a new cheaper 2080 arriving in a matter of days, is still selling for $40 over MSRP.Yes, sinxe the xx60 / xx60 same into common usage, the xx60 has alwats been considered a midrange card.
There are going to be a lot of sad RTX 20 owners when they are unable to sell their old cards to finance the purchase of a new one.I think miners will be buying up all the 3090 and 3080 cards before they come for the 3060 and 3070's, and if AMD's cards are cheaper, that makes them a better buy for miners.
you can make this reply to anything being said about any product by any company ever sooo its rather pointless, why even bother typing it up?
course they dont work for me....althought they kinda do? I mean I am their customer and if I and others dont like these practices that means no money for them soooo yeah.
For example the last gen you could have an alternative up to 2070 / 2070 Super with the 5700XT, but no alternative up from there for any of nVidia's cards.
I mean don't get me wrong, I don't like their practices just as much as you do, but I see it for what it is, a business endeavor, nothing else.
Games are ~25% int so a 4,864 CUDA core ampere is equivalent to ~3648 Turing cuda cores while gaming... depending on the compute mode split. 16 core buckets.