Nvidia's RTX 3000 amp player graphics cards could still be released this fall, despite Corona. At least that can be derived from a comment by a Bloomberg columnist. The thesis is supported by a source that apparently cooperates with Tweaktown.
Accordingly, Nvidia's Ampere graphics cards for the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) should launch in March 2020. For now, however, as a Quadro RTX for professional users. Player GPUs from the GeForce RTX 3000 series would have been expected a little later in the year.
However, due to the Corona crisis, the GTC was canceled and any replacement events have since been canceled.
How is the situation now?
As Bloomberg columnist Tae Kim explains, things are going very well for Nvidia. The gaming business is growing strongly on all fronts precisely because of the corona crisis and the measures to slow the spread of the virus.
In addition, the production in China, which has now started up again, should already Around 70 to 80 percent of capacity at the end of the month fully occupied Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is quoted. The company is therefore on track for a release of the RTX 3000 amp GPUs.
Tweaktown goes into more detail. There it is also realistic, based on an unspecified source, that the ampere GPUs will now be teased in June or July and officially announced shortly afterwards.
The Ampere release should then take place in autumn as part of Computex 2020. The hardware fair was postponed from the beginning of June (2nd – 6th June) to the end of September (28th – 30th September).
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Possible RTX-3000 specifications
So far there are no official details about Nvidia's new graphics cards, but there are some rumors.
- Production at Samsung using the 7nm Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) process
- 200 to 300 MHz higher clock speeds than Turing (RTX 2000, GTX 1600)
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new circuit board design
- GA102 (RTX 3080 Ti) – 84 SMs / 5,376 CUDA cores / 12/24 GB GDDR6 384 bits
- GA103 (RTX 3080) – 60 SMs / 3,840 CUDA cores / 10/20 GB GDDR6 320 bits
- GA104 (RTX 3070) – 48 SMs / 3,072 CUDA cores / 8/16 GB GDDR6 256 bits
For full expansion in the professional area (GA100), 8,192 CUDA cores and up to 48 GB HBM2e video memory are assumed. Until Nvidia itself provides information on this, it is only speculation.
In principle, this applies exactly to the intended release date. In view of the expectations to date, autumn seems quite plausible here.
