Additional specifications of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ampere Gaming graphics card have been extracted from UserBenchmark which were detected by Rogame. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 will be one of several high-end and enthusiastic gaming options to be unveiled on September 1st, using the new Ampere GPU architecture.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Graphics Card Tracked with 2.1 GHz GPU clocks and 19 Gbps GDDR6X memory
According to the leak, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is still being evaluated internally, as the entry on UserBenchmark is from August 15th. The entry shows the Ampere graphics card with a device ID of ’10DE 2206′. In addition to the GeForce RTX 3080 specifications, the PCI Id has also been unveiled, which according to Videocardz is ‘2206’. Rogame also sheds some light on the PCI IDs & says there are at least three IDs for three different cards.
Preliminary specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card have been extracted from UserBenchmark. (Image Source: Rogame)
Going by the specifications, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 was tracked with 10 GB of VRAM running 19 Gbps GDDR6X memory (4750 MHz QDR effective) over a 320-bit bus interface. This should provide a memory bandwidth of 760 GB / s. This is almost a 53% jump in memory bandwidth over the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER which is quite impressive. As for the GPU clocks, the card has set a BIOS limit at 2100 MHz, so we should look at clock speeds equal to the Turing GPUs which also clock at 2.1 GHz.
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PCI IDs for GA102 GPUs
GA102 12GB (RTX 3080 Ti?) => 0x2206
GA102 10GB (RTX 3080) => 0x2206
GA102 24GB (RTX 3090) => 0x2204– _rogame (@_rogame) August 16, 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Ampere ‘GDDR6X’ Memory Specifications (preliminary):
| GPU Name | VRAM | Memory clock | Memory Bus | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 21 Gbps | 384-bit | 1024 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 20 Gbps | 384-bit | 960.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 19 Gbps | 384-bit | 912.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 20 GB GDDR6X | 21 Gbps | 320-bit | 840.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 20 GB GDDR6X | 20 Gbps | 320-bit | 800.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 20 GB GDDR6X | 19 Gbps | 320-bit | 760.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | 16 GB GDDR6X | 21 Gbps | 256-bit | 672.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | 16 GB GDDR6X | 20 Gbps | 256-bit | 640.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | 16 GB GDDR6X | 19 Gbps | 256-bit | 608.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | 12 GB GDDR6X | 21 Gbps | 192-bit | 504.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | 12 GB GDDR6X | 20 Gbps | 192-bit | 480.0 GB / s |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | 12 GB GDDR6X | 19 Gbps | 192-bit | 456.0 GB / s |
The average clock speed of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, especially the GA102 GPU core, is likely to be rated at around 1.7-1.8 GHz as seen in previous leaks. These will be the actual boost clocks for the cards, while we can expect the standard operating range to be close to 1.9 GHz. Custom cards will allow higher clock speeds due to better power supply and we can expect speeds to close at the 2.1 GHz limit.
What’s interesting is that the graphics card ran on an unreleased 455.90 driver. The GPU performance is not that great within the benchmark, but it is likely that this is still an early design candidate for the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card. There have been reports that the GeForce RTX 3080 will have 20 GB of GDDR6X memory instead of the 10 GB previously rumored.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 – GA102 For High-End Gaming
Going to the GeForce RTX 3080 reports the rumor that the card will be with the GA102-200-KD-A1 SKU. This trimmed SKU will have the same 4352 CUDA cores as the RTX 2080 Ti which will handle a total of 68 SMs. In all likelihood, the card will have up to 20 GB of memory, which will also be GDDR6X. Assuming the memory runs at 19 Gbps over a 320-bit bus interface, we can expect a bandwidth of up to 760 GB / s.
The switch to GA102 from TU104 on the RTX 2080 is definitely an interesting one. A high end SKU would also result in higher wattage and thermals, but I believe this could be done to raise the bar on the sub $ 500 segment that should consist of GA104 based RTX 3070 and RTX 3060. The latest performance leaks also show a manly performance improvement over the RTX 2080 and even the RTX 2080 Ti in synthetic benchmarks. If the same could translate to the performance of gaming, then Ampere seems like a super attractive product for gamers who have been waiting for almost 2 years now.
In addition to the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card specification leak, Chiphell has posted what looks like a proven performance card of the GeForce RTX 30 series lineup that includes the GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070 & the GeForce RTX 3060. The card claims to be an average performance measure of the graphics cards pure in gaming benchmarks at various resolutions from 1080p and up to 4K. It also shows the performance per watt gain for each respective generation. Again, this card should be taken with a grain of salt, as the performance information is yet to be verified.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 ‘Ampere’ Gaming Graphics Card Setup is expected to be announced on September 1 at a digital event hosted by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. We expect at least three new graphics cards during the event that will include the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (as RTX 3090), GeForce RTX 3080, and a next-generation Titan. There is definitely a lot more to talk about on the Amper GPUs, but we’ll have to wait until more information comes our way.
