Friday, March 26th 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Could be Offered in Both 8 GB and 16 GB SKUs
Uniko's Hardware, a usual spot for leaks and information on upcoming hardware, has put forward that NVIDIA could be looking to introduce two versions of its upcoming RTX 3070 Ti graphics card. The difference would be dual-sided GDDR6X memory or not, which would make available memory capacities for this card in the league of either 8 GB (the same as the RTX 3070) or 16 GB running at 19 Gbps.
The intention with the RTX 3070 Ti is to bring the fight back to AMD, who released a pretty good offering to the market in the form of the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT graphics cards - both featuring 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. NVIDIA is looking to improve its market position compared to AMD by offering both the RTX 3070 and RTX 3070 Ti on the market. It could also be a time for NVIDIA to release another cryptomining-crippled graphics card - and this time to try and do it right by not releasing a driver that unlocks that particular effort. The card is rumored for launch come May, though we've already seen an unprecedented number of delays for NVIDIA's new SKUs - a sign that there is indeed a problem in the upstream semiconductor offering field.
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The intention with the RTX 3070 Ti is to bring the fight back to AMD, who released a pretty good offering to the market in the form of the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT graphics cards - both featuring 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. NVIDIA is looking to improve its market position compared to AMD by offering both the RTX 3070 and RTX 3070 Ti on the market. It could also be a time for NVIDIA to release another cryptomining-crippled graphics card - and this time to try and do it right by not releasing a driver that unlocks that particular effort. The card is rumored for launch come May, though we've already seen an unprecedented number of delays for NVIDIA's new SKUs - a sign that there is indeed a problem in the upstream semiconductor offering field.
79 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Could be Offered in Both 8 GB and 16 GB SKUs
Saying "nVidia hasn't decided" is ridiculaous - this implies you know of a statement or conversation at nVidia where they said a 16GB gaming card might be an option. YOU are the one who needs to provide proof of that... so where's this proof?
Accusing others of speaking for nVidia is pretty rich when you're doing the exact same thing by claiming they have not made a decision on something... they may have but you don't know that and to claim you do would be trolling.
3080 was supposed to be sold with twice as much memory (and likely twice higher MSRP) and be named, say, 3080Ti. 20GB on a $699 GPU is not viable, nor is asking much more than that, when the pesky 6800XT is around with 16GB and for $650.
3070 would be $800-900-ish card (and green camp would claim it to be a great deal, "much cheaper than 2080Ti" chuckle) and have 16GB. And that's the biggest GA104 chip, Carl, being beaten by the smaller RDNA2 chip, and sandwiched by even smaller one. Yikes.