With less than a week until AMD’s official unveiling of its RX 6000 Series graphics cards, a series of leaks is suggesting that the flagship Big Navi GPU will be considerably more powerful than expected. Not only has this caught the attention of gamers, but AMD’s biggest competitor too, with the latest reputable rumors suggesting that Nvidia is going to boost the power of its upcoming RTX 3070 Ti card, in order to better compete.
The leak comes from known and reliable leaker Kopite7kimi, who states that a new specification is due for Nvidia’s GA102 GPU chip, which is used in the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080. The new version of the GPU is detailed to have 7424 cores, which places it between the mainstream RTX 3070 and flagship RTX 3080 in terms of performance, with 26% more CUDA cores than the RTX 3070, and just 9% fewer than the RTX 3080.
The new chip is believed to be used in a new card coupled with 10 GB of the latest GDDR6X memory, which is currently only used in the flagship cards. It will therefore have a 320 bit memory bus, running at a faster 19 GB per second rather than the 256 bit bus and 14 GB per second of the standard RTX 3070. This means the card is essentially a cut down RTX 3080 rather than a boosted RTX 3070.
The new card powered by this GPU is expected to still be called the RTX 3070 Ti, and appears to be behind the recent cancellation of the originally planned RTX 3070 Ti, which was due to use the less powerful GA104 GPU along with a larger, but slower 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256 bit bus. The combination of far more CUDA cores and faster memory will almost certainly produce a card that fills the gap between the current flagship and mainstream cards, likely at the halfway $599 price point.
From a market perspective, the upgraded RTX 3070 Ti card would make far more sense than the originally planned version, being much better equipped to take on AMDs faster than expected RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT. However the key question will remain for Nvidia, can it actually produce enough of the cards to meet demand from gamers? If the supply issues cannot be fixed by early next year, there is a possibility that the speed and price of the card may not be enough to keep some gamers from switching to AMD.
That said, given the supposed production yield issues for the Ampere GPUs, there is a strong logic to utilizing the less perfect GA102 chips in a cheaper product rather than relying on the perfect production of the smaller GA104 chip. Providing a more powerful card that will hopefully also benefit from better supply of its main GPU.
Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti is expected to launch in late 2020 or early 2021.
Source: Wccftech
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