Wednesday, September 23rd 2020
GALAX Confirms GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Matches RTX 2080
An alleged event by GALAX targeted at distributors in China revealed up to three upcoming SKUs in NVIDIA's RTX 30-series. This comes as yet another confirmation from a major NVIDIA AIC partner about the 20 GB variant of the GeForce RTX 3080. The RTX 3080 originally launched with 10 GB memory earlier this month, and it is widely expected that NVIDIA fills the price-performance gap between this $700 SKU and its $1,500 sibling. The RTX 3080 uses twenty 8 Gbit GDDR6X memory chips (two chips per 32-bit data-path), much like how the RTX 3090 achieves its 24 GB memory amount.
Elsewhere we see GALAX mention the RTX 3060, a performance-segment SKU positioned under the RTX 3070. You'll notice that the product-stack graph by GALAX suggests performance comparisons to previous-generation SKUs. The RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 are faster than everything from the previous generation, while the RTX 3070, which is coming next month, is shown trading blows with both the RTX 2080 Ti and the RTX 2080 Super. In this same graph, the RTX 3060 is shown matching up to the RTX 2080 (non-Super), a card NVIDIA originally launched at $700.
There's an unnamed SKU slotted between the RTX 3070 and the RTX 3080 10 GB, which is codenamed "PG142 SKU 0." Some AICs/OEMs are referring to this as the "RTX 3070 Ti," and others the "RTX 3070 Super." Given that the Super brand extension has been used by NVIDIA to denote a mid-life refresh for an existing product stack, it's very likely that this SKU is simply the RTX 3070 16 GB (RTX 3070 with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and perhaps bolstering in other areas). This SKU is shown trading blows with the RTX 2080 Ti and the TITAN RTX.
Source:
Overclocking.com
Elsewhere we see GALAX mention the RTX 3060, a performance-segment SKU positioned under the RTX 3070. You'll notice that the product-stack graph by GALAX suggests performance comparisons to previous-generation SKUs. The RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 are faster than everything from the previous generation, while the RTX 3070, which is coming next month, is shown trading blows with both the RTX 2080 Ti and the RTX 2080 Super. In this same graph, the RTX 3060 is shown matching up to the RTX 2080 (non-Super), a card NVIDIA originally launched at $700.
81 Comments on GALAX Confirms GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Matches RTX 2080
I'm still patiently waiting to see what AMD offers. Get me that 2080Ti performance level at $500 or less, I'm sold - whether it's from Nvidia or AMD. I don't care what kind of junk leaks these companies are dropping for Nvidia.
Right now from Nvidia it's looking like a 3070 (but that depends on reviews). I just need to see what AMD gives us.
1. 3070 is clearly lower in the heirarchy than 2080Ti, counter to Nvidia's claims.
2. What is a PG142?
It seems to me the improvement in power efficiency from Turing to Ampere is a lot smaller than from Pascal to Turing. In order for Ampere to reach the performance delta claimed by NV, they have to be pushed to the extreme in terms of energy consumption. Personally I'm not a fan of 300W+ cards.
Also, as it stands right now, the $1500 RTX 3090 is rumoured to be only ~10% faster than 3080 (in games) but that's just a rumour for now, we will know tomorrow.
They bought the Hype, these are the consequences.
I say screw 'em...
Are you still going to go Big Navi top tier even if nvidia clobbers it to death in the benchmarks? Just curious.
drivers have improved a lot on AMD's side. i only ever had an issue when i tried overclocking, and im fine with that, as my days of overclocking are over.
Anyone that was paying attention should have seen this coming. I sold my 2080 Ti 2 months ago in anticipation of the 30 series launch. I didn't even bother to attempt a purchase on launch day because 20GB SKUs are right around the corner.
But I like the train of thought: Nvidia releases the 10GB 3080 - omg, not enough VRAM; Nvidia supposed to release the 20GB 3080 - omg, initial buyers are screwed.