In a temporary information put up made to their GeForce web site final evening, NVIDIA has introduced that they’ve delayed the launch of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 video card. The high-end video card, which was set to launch on October 15th for $499, has been pushed again by two weeks. It will now be launching on October 29th.
Indirectly referencing the launch-day availability issues for the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 final month, NVIDIA is citing a need to have “more cards available on launch day” for the delay. NVIDIA doesn’t disclose their launch provide numbers, so it’s not clear simply what number of extra playing cards one other two weeks’ value of stockpiling will internet them – it doubtless nonetheless gained’t be sufficient to satisfy all demand – but it surely ought to a minimum of enhance the percentages.
| NVIDIA GeForce Specification Comparison | ||||||
| RTX 3070 | RTX 3080 | RTX 3090 | RTX 2070 | |||
| CUDA Cores | 5888 | 8704 | 10496 | 2304 | ||
| ROPs | 96 | 96 | 112 | 64 | ||
| Boost Clock | 1.73GHz | 1.71GHz | 1.7GHz | 1.62GHz | ||
| Memory Clock | 16Gbps GDDR6 | 19Gbps GDDR6X | 19.5Gbps GDDR6X | 14Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 256-bit | 320-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit | ||
| VRAM | 8GB | 10GB | 24GB | 8GB | ||
| Single Precision Perf. | 20.four TFLOPs | 29.eight TFLOPs | 35.7 TFLOPs | 7.5 TFLOPs | ||
| Tensor Perf. (FP16) | 81.three TFLOPs | 119 TFLOPs | 143 TFLOPs | 59.eight TFLOPs | ||
| Tensor Perf. (FP16-Sparse) | 163 TFLOPs | 238 TFLOPs | 285 TFLOPs | 59.eight TFLOPs | ||
| TDP | 220W | 320W | 350W | 175W | ||
| GPU | GA104 | GA102 | GA102 | TU106 | ||
| Transistor Count | 17.4B | 28B | 28B | 18.6B | ||
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Turing | ||
| Manufacturing Process | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | TSMC 12nm “FFN” | ||
| Launch Date | 10/29/2020 |
09/17/2020 | 09/24/2020 | 10/17/2018 | ||
| Launch Price | MSRP: $499 | MSRP: $699 | MSRP: $1499 | MSRP: $499 Founders $599 |
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Interestingly, this delay additionally signifies that the RTX 3070 will now launch after AMD’s deliberate Radeon product briefing, which is scheduled for October 28th. NVIDIA has already proven their hand with respect to specs and pricing, so the 3070’s worth and efficiency are presumably locked in. But this does give NVIDIA one final probability to react – or a minimum of, distract – ought to they want it.
