GeForce 30 series
File:GeForce RTX 30 Series logo with slogan.png File:RTX3000.png | |
Release date | September 17, 2020 |
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Codename | GA10x |
Architecture | Ampere |
Models | GeForce RTX series |
Fabrication process | Samsung 8 nm |
Cards | |
High-end | GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3080 |
Enthusiast | GeForce RTX 3090 |
API support | |
DirectX | Direct3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2) |
OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
Vulkan | Vulkan 1.2 |
History | |
Predecessor | GeForce 20 series |
The GeForce 30 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 20 series.
The line was announced on September 1, 2020, and started shipping on September 17, 2020.[1][2]
These cards are announced to have real-time raytracing (RTX) with Nvidia's 2nd generation of RT cores and 3rd generation Tensor Cores.[3] They support HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a.[4]
The cards are built on the Ampere architecture, which runs at roughly double the performance and energy efficiency of the preceding Turing architecture.[5][6]
History
Release
The lack of pre-order functionality and high demand resulted in a large number of online retailers struggling with the sheer number of purchases on launch day for the RTX 3080, September 17.[7] Newegg had completely sold out within five minutes of the launch, and stated that they received higher site traffic than would be expected on Black Friday. Long lines formed outside physical stores with stock, such as Microcenter in the US,[8] and Dospara in Japan.[9] Twitter users reported that they used bots to buy large numbers of cards for resale.[10]
Nvidia released a statement the following day, apologizing for the difficulties with their own store, which went down on launch day.[11]
Details
Architectural improvements of the Ampere architecture include the following:
- CUDA Compute Capability 8.6
- Custom Samsung's 8nm process (8N)
- Third-generation Tensor Cores with FP16, bfloat16, TensorFloat-32 (TF32) and sparsity acceleration
- Second-generation Ray Tracing Cores, plus concurrent ray tracing and shading and compute
- GDDR6X memory on GA102 (GeForce RTX 3090 & RTX 3080)
- PCI Express 4.0 support
- HDMI 2.1 support with full 48Gbps bandwidth
- PureVideo Feature Set K hardware video decoding with AV1 hardware decoding[12]
- Double FP32 performance per SM on Ampere for GPUs other than the GA100
Products
All the cards below feature PCIe 4.0 interface and are manufactured using Samsung's 8N (8 nanometer) MOSFET fabrication process.[6] Unlike the GeForce 20 series, the GeForce 30 series lack support for single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) as NVIDIA has decided to reserve the feature for Quadro enterprise class cards.[13]
Model | Launch | Code name(s) | Transistors (billion) | Die size (mm2) |
Core config[a] | SM count[b] |
L2 cache (MB) |
Clock speeds | Fillrate | Memory | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Ray tracing performance | TDP (watts) | NVLink support | Launch price
(USD) | ||||||||||
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Base core clock (MHz) | Boost core clock (MHz) | Memory (MT/s) | Pixel (GP/s)[c] |
Texture (GT/s)[d] |
Size (GB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Type | Bus width (bit) | Single precision (boost) | Double precision (boost) | Half precision (boost) | Rays/s (billions) |
RTX-OPS (trillions) |
Tensor FLOPS (trillions) | |||||||||||
GeForce RTX 3070[14] | October 15, 2020[15][16] | GA104-300-A1 | 17.4 | 392.5[17] | 5888:184:64:46:184 | 46 | 4096 | 1500 | 1730 | 14000 | 96 (110.7) | 276 (318.3) | 8 | 448 | GDDR6 | 256 | 17664 (20372) | 552 (637) | 35328 (40745) | 220 | No | $499 | |||
GeForce RTX 3080[18] | September 17, 2020 | GA102-200-K1-A1 | 28.3 | 628.4[19][20] | 8704:272:96:68:272 | 68 | 5120 | 1440 | 1710 | 9500 (19000) [e] [21] | 138.2 (164.2)[21] | 391.7 (465.1)[21] | 10 | 760 | GDDR6X | 320 | 25068 (29768) | 783 (930) | 50135 (59535) | 320 | $699 | ||||
GeForce RTX 3090[22] | September 24, 2020 | GA102-300-A1 | 10496:328:112:82:328 | 82 | 6144 | 1400 | 1700 | 9750 (19500) [e] [21] | 156.8 (190.4)[21] | 459.2 (557.6)[21] | 24 | 936 | 384 | 29389 (35686) | 918 (1115) | 58778 (71373) | 350 | 2-way NVLink | $1,499 |
- ^ Shader Processors : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Ray tracing cores : Tensor Cores
- ^ The number of Streaming multi-processors on the GPU.
- ^ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the lowest of three numbers: number of ROPs multiplied by the base core clock speed, number of rasterizers multiplied by the number of fragments they can generate per rasterizer multiplied by the base core clock speed, and the number of streaming multiprocessors multiplied by the number of fragments per clock that they can output multiplied by the base clock rate.
- ^ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
- ^ a b Cards with GDDR6X send two bits per transfer. Equivalent transfer rate to GDDR6 in brackets used for comparing bit rate. Please note transfer rate should not be confused with bit rate.
See also
- GeForce 10 series
- GeForce 16 series
- GeForce 20 series
- Nvidia Quadro
- List of Nvidia graphics processing units
References
- ^ https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-delivers-greatest-ever-generational-leap-in-performance-with-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus
- ^ "GeForce Special Event". Nvidia. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs Powered by Ampere Architecture". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Compare Geforce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ^ https://www.anandtech.com/show/16057/nvidia-announces-the-geforce-rtx-30-series-ampere-for-gaming-starting-with-rtx-3080-rtx-3090
- ^ a b Walton, Jarred (August 31, 2020). "Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and GA102: Everything We Know". Tom's Hardware.
- ^ https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-how-to-buy/
- ^ https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/nvidia-newegg-rtx-3080-apologize
- ^ https://twitter.com/watch_akiba/status/1306626993320984577
- ^ https://uk.pcmag.com/graphic-cards/128682/how-a-bot-bought-dozens-of-rtx-3080-units-before-consumers-could-grab-them
- ^ https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-issues-a-statement-on-geforce-rtx-3080-going-immediately-out-of-stock
- ^ "GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs: Ushering In A New Era of Video Content With AV1 Decode". NVIDIA.
- ^ "Ryan Smith on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Graphics Card". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
- ^ "RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review Date". NVIDIA. 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
- ^ "Nvidia's $500 GeForce RTX 3070 gets an October 15 release date". PCWorld. 2020-09-12. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
- ^ https://wccftech.com/nvidia-slyly-announces-the-geforce-rtx-3070-availability-sliding-in-before-rx-6000-announcement/amp/
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Graphics Card". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
- ^ https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/ampere/pdf/NVIDIA-ampere-GA102-GPU-Architecture-Whitepaper-V1.pdf
- ^ https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-30-series-ampere-graphics-cards-deep-dive/
- ^ a b c d e f "NVIDIA GeForce Ampere Architecture, Board Design, Gaming Tech & Software". techpowerup. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Card". www.nvidia.com. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
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