author: Bart Woldanski
GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 - Launch, Price and Specs
As announced, Jensen Huang, President of Nvidia, officially launched the Ampere family of GeForce GPU, the GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070. We learned the release date, price, specs and expected performance gain.
Today, at 9 AM PT, a show by Nvidia took place, during which the new GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards were officially announced. They were undoubtedly the most important part of the presentation. Not only the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 was presented, but also GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070, which will support the PCIe 4.0 standard. It was revealed that the core of GA102 is built from as many as 28 billion transistors (for comparison, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti contains 18.6 billion of them).
GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 - performance and specs
The cards are expected to deliver up to 1.9 times the performance increase per watt compared to their Turing generation counterparts. We've also learned the performance gain in shaders, RT cores and Tensor cores. In addition, Nvidia has released a graph comparing (in general) performance in selected 4K games, but we have to wait for the actual results to be tested by independent websites, which will appear near the store launch of the cards. Below is a table including GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 with specs, release dates and price.
GPU | GeForce RTX 3090 | GeForce RTX 3080 | GeForce RTX 3070 |
CUDA cores | 10496 | 8704 | 5888 |
VRAM | 24 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6 |
Data bus | 348-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit |
Boost | 1700 MHz | 1710 MHz | 1730 MHz |
TGP | 350 W | 320 W | 220 W |
Recommended power supply | 750 W | 750 W | 650 W |
Power Connectors | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
Performance (TFLOPS) | 36 TFLOPS Shader 69 RT TFLOPS 285 Tensor TFLOPS | 30 Shader TFLOPS 58 RT TFLOPS 238 Tensor TFLOPS | 20 TFLOPS Shader 40 RT TFLOPS 163 TFLOPS tensor |
Release date | September 24 | September 17 | October |
Price | $1499 | $699 | $499 |
Judging by the table, many rumors have been confirmed. GeForce RTX 3090 is expected to have 24GB of GDDR6X memory and is the first GPU for 8K resolution according to Nvidia. GeForce RTX 3080, which is also expected to have GDDR6X memory, but with 10GB of VRAM, will be twice as fast as GeForce RTX 2080, while GeForce RTX 3070 is expected to have "only" GDDR6 memory (8GB of VRAM) and offer performance beyond GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The cards will be equipped with HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a.
Premieres
We have learned the release date for GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 models only, which will be released on September 17 and 24, respectively. We will have to wait until October for GeForce RTX 3070. Together with Founders Edition, the following companies will also make their debut on the market: ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac.