Sunday, January 9th 2022
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB Edition Rumored to Launch on January 11th
During the CES 2022 keynote, we have witnessed NVIDIA update its GeForce RTX 30 series family with GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3090 Ti. However, this is not an end to NVIDIA's updates to the Ampere generation, as we now hear industry sources from Wccftech suggest that we could see a GeForce RTX 3080 GPU with 12 GB of GDDR6X VRAM enabled, launched as a separate product. Compared to the regular RTX 3080 that carries only 10 GB of GDDR6X, the new 12 GB version is supposed to bring a slight bump up to the specification list. The GA102-220 GPU SKU found inside the 12 GB variant will feature 70 SMs with 8960 CUDA, 70 RT cores, and 280 TMUs.
This represents a minor improvement over the regular GA102-200 silicon inside the 8 GB model. However, the significant difference is the memory organization. With the new 12 GB model, we have a 384-bit memory bus allowing GDDR6X modules to achieve a bandwidth of 912 GB/s, all while running at 19 Gbps speeds. The overall TDP will also receive a bump to 350 Watts, compared to 320 Watts of the regular RTX 3080 model. For more information regarding final clock speeds and pricing, we have to wait for the alleged launch date - January 11th.
Source:
Wccftech
This represents a minor improvement over the regular GA102-200 silicon inside the 8 GB model. However, the significant difference is the memory organization. With the new 12 GB model, we have a 384-bit memory bus allowing GDDR6X modules to achieve a bandwidth of 912 GB/s, all while running at 19 Gbps speeds. The overall TDP will also receive a bump to 350 Watts, compared to 320 Watts of the regular RTX 3080 model. For more information regarding final clock speeds and pricing, we have to wait for the alleged launch date - January 11th.
18 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB Edition Rumored to Launch on January 11th
Where does the green team leads us to ? Extra 2gb and slight bumps ?
Nvidia is being the Intel right now, pushing metrics nobody cares about for excessive power figures. Pioneering wild technologies that have no support in the industry like RT or E-cores, to save face. Well, someone's gotta be first right. So far the price of RT is two generations of utter shite GPUs and exploding TDPs. And its not just crypto making them unobtanium either, the dies are big to begin with.
We're still transitioning and Turing + Ampere are still early adopter territory with subpar spec. The industry is still adjusting. I wonder what rabbits Nvidia's Hopper (wasn't it?) will pull out.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/my-hypothesis-proposal-on-graphics-card-shortages-there-is-no-shortage-watch-the-spoon-bend-neo.289186/
s in store only.
no need to be sorry, we can agree to disagree
Hmm... I can't help but wonder what would have happened to TDP if Nvidia chose to go with GDDR6 instead of GDDR6X. RTX 3070 increased its power consumption by 30% when it switched to GDDR6X with 3070 Ti.
Of course then it would be a side grade from RTX 3080's 10 GB 760 GBps memory (320-bit * GDDR6X 19 Gbps) to a 12 GB 768 GBps memory (384-bit * GDDR6 16 Gbps). But we would see much lower power consumption, maybe a sub-300 watt 3080.