Nvidia might have already announced its GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, but the Ampere rumor mill never rests. Hardware insider @kopite7kimi, who was spot on with Ampere's specifications before launch, just revealed alleged specifications for another undetermined SKU that could well earn a spot on our Best Graphics Cards list.
According to the tweet, the leaker doesn't know if the card in question is the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or GeForce RTX 3060 Super. In either case, the graphics card will reportedly leverage the GA104 silicon, similar to the the one that's confirmed to be inside the GeForce RTX 3070. More specifically, according to kopite7kimi, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or GeForce RTX 3060 Super would land with the GA104-200 die and 4,864 CUDA cores.
As a quick recap, each streaming multiprocessor (SM) in Nvidia's Ampere architecture houses 128 CUDA cores, one RT core and 4 Tensor cores. If the core count is accurate, the GA104-200 die has 38 enabled SMs, amounting up to 38 RT cores and 152 Tensor cores.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti / GeForce RTX 3060 Super Specifications
| Header Cell - Column 0 | GeForce RTX 3090 | GeForce RTX 3080 | GeForce RTX 3070 | GeForce RTX 3060 Ti / RTX 3060 Super* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture (GPU) | Ampere (GA102) | Ampere (GA102) | Ampere (GA104) | Ampere (GA104) |
| CUDA Cores | 10,496 | 8,704 | 5,888 | 4,864 |
| RT Cores | 82 | 68 | 46 | 38 |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | 272 | 184 | 152 |
| Texture Units | 328 | 272 | 184 | 152 |
| Base Clock Rate | 1,400 MHz | 1,440 MHz | 1,500 MHz | ? |
| Boost Clock Rate | 1,700 MHz | 1,710 MHz | 1,730 MHz | ? |
| Memory Capacity | 24GB GDDR6X | 10GB GDDR6X | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Speed | 19.5 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 16 Gbps? | 14 Gbps? |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 935.8 GBps | 760 GBps | 512 GBps? | 448 GBps? |
| ROPs | 96 | 88 | 64 | ? |
| L2 Cache | 6MB | 5MB | 4MB | ? |
| TDP | 350W | 320W | 220W | ? |
| Transistor Count | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Die Size | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| MSRP | $1,499 | $699 | $499 | ? |
*Specifications are not confirmed by Nvidia.
On the memory side, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or GeForce RTX 3060 Super allegedly has 8GB of GDDR6 memory at its disposal. The memory speed and interface remains a mystery. However, the amount of memory suggests it will have a 256-bit memory bus, like the GeForce RTX 3070. The GeForce RTX 3070 is rumored to use 16 Gbps memory, so it's possible Nvidia is looking to give this unconfirmed card slower GDDR6 memory chips to differentiate it from the RTX 3070 in terms of memory bandwidth.
Release Date?
As per Nvidia's Ampere launch schedule, the GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080 come out on September 24 and 17, respectively, while the GeForce RTX 3070 arrives at an unspecified date in October.
AMD is expected to announce Big Navi on October 7, so if the rumored GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or GeForce RTX 3060 Super is real, it's likely Nvidia's waiting to unveil it until after it sees what AMD drops, suggesting a potential November launch for the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or GeForce RTX 3060 Super.
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Chung Leong The RTX 2070 has 20% more cuda cores than the RTX 2060. The rumored part is around that far off from the RTX 3070. Most likely it's the plain-old RTX 3060.Reply -
RodroX Lets hope is just RTX 3060 and the "Super" is gone for good, already enough with the TI to also add the Super.Reply -
nofanneeded If you look carefully . RTX 3060 Coda/RT/Tensor cores are 0.826 of the RTX 3070 .. All of them.Reply
Lets assume it will be ~$400 and around 20% less speed. -
daworstplaya ReplyRodroX said:Lets hope is just RTX 3060 and the "Super" is gone for good, already enough with the TI to also add the Super.
Agreed, just call it RTX 3060 and leave the Ti for the refresh next year. Dump the Super naming. -
watzupken It will be a good mid end GPU if Nvidia don't gimp it with 6 GB VRAM. Let's hope they stick to the 8 GB mentioned here.Reply -
trance77 I also hope it will be a 3060 (the card I want depending on the cost), makes no sense to me to release a Super or TI before the standard 3060.Reply -
Endymio >> "However, the amount of memory insinuates a memory bus of 256-bit ..."Reply
That may not be quite the word you were looking for... -
JarredWaltonGPU Reply
I've edited the text slightly, as insinuates has negative connotations.Endymio said:>> "However, the amount of memory insinuates a memory bus of 256-bit ..."
That may not be quite the word you were looking for...