Rumours in regards to the upcoming line-up of Nvidia Ampere RTX 3000 graphics playing cards have intensified this week, as the most recent web gossip means that the anticipated RTX 3080 Ti received’t be the graphics card sitting on the prime of the Ampere foodchain. Instead, it’s going to be the RTX 3090, in line with new leaks from German tech web site Igor’s Lab, which is outwardly going to have a large 24GB of GDDR6X reminiscence.
According to the leaked specs, the RTX 3090 shall be constructed from the identical underlying GPU chip because the RTX 3080 Ti (or Super, as a result of who even is aware of that these playing cards are going to be known as till Nvidia makes a correct announcement about them) and RTX 3080, however could have 24GB of double-sided GDDR6X reminiscence, a 384-bit interface and a large TDP of 350W.
The RTX 3080 Ti, in the meantime, will apparently have 11GB of standard GDDR6X reminiscence, a 352-bit interface and a TDP of 320W, whereas the common RTX 3080 could have 10GB of GDDR6X reminiscence, a 320-bit interface and the identical 320W TDP as its Ti sibling. That’s in line with Igor’s Labs’ specs, anyway, however we received’t know for certain till Nvidia maintain their very own launch occasion for them. It’s not unusual for Nvidia to re-use the identical GPU for a number of playing cards, in order that a part of the leak is extra more likely to be true if there actually is an RTX 3090 in manufacturing.
Other rumours have advised the RTX 3090 is simply the brand new identify for Nvidia’s Titan graphics playing cards, as the present Titan RTX card additionally has 24GB of reminiscence in the mean time, albeit common GDDR6 reasonably than the GDDR6X purported by the leak.
The Titan RTX isn’t actually a shopper graphics card as such, what with it costing upwards of £2450 / $2500 and all, and is as an alternative geared towards 3D rendering professionals who want that additional horsepower. It’s potential that Nvidia could be within the means of repositioning their Titan playing cards as extra shopper going through GPUs in an effort to influence the toughest of the hardcore to half with much more money than they know what to do with – a bit like what Intel have achieved with their Core i9 CPUs, for instance – however once more, there’s no method to know for certain till Nvidia say one thing extra concrete.
Either approach, it certain appears to be like prefer it’s going to be an fascinating couple of months as we watch for Nvidia to launch their RTX 3000 playing cards, particularly when AMD are as a result of launch their flagship ‘Big Navi’ playing cards before the end of the year as properly. The new AMD Navi playing cards will utilise AMD’s 2nd Gen RDNA 2 structure, and also will have ray tracing assist for the very first time. Who shall be sitting atop the best graphics card throne come the top of the 12 months? Only time will inform.
