GeForce 30 series

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GeForce 30 series
RTX 3090 Founders Edition!.jpg
GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
Release dateSeptember 17, 2020; 16 months ago (2020-09-17)
CodenameGA10x
ArchitectureAmpere
ModelsGeForce RTX series
Transistors
  • 13.3B (GA106)
  • 17.4B (GA104)
  • 28.3B (GA102)
Fabrication processSamsung 8 nm
Cards
Entry-level
  • GeForce RTX 3050
  • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
Mid-range
  • GeForce RTX 3060
  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
High-end
  • GeForce RTX 3070
  • GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 3080
  • GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
Enthusiast
  • GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 3090
  • GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
API support
Direct3DDirect3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2)
OpenCLOpenCL 3.0
OpenGLOpenGL 4.6
VulkanVulkan 1.3
History
Predecessor
SuccessorN/A

The GeForce 30 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 20 series. The series was announced on September 1, 2020, and started shipping on September 17, 2020.[1][2] The cards are based on the Ampere architecture and feature hardware-accelerated raytracing (RTX) with Nvidia's second-generation RT cores and third-generation Tensor Cores.[3]

The lineup, which is designed to compete with AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series of cards, consist of the entry-level and laptop-exclusive RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti, mid-range RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti, high-end RTX 3070, RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 12GB, and the enthusiast RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti. This is the last generation from NVIDIA to have official support for Windows 7 as the latest drivers available for this generation no longer have Windows 7 support.[4]

Release and availability issues[]

See also: 2020–2022 global chip shortage

Launch day for the RTX 3080 was September 17, 2020.[5] The lack of pre-order functionality and high demand exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and boost in popularity of cryptomining, resulted in a large number of online retailers struggling with the sheer number of purchases.[5][6] Newegg had completely sold out as expected on Black Friday. Long lines formed outside physical stores with stock, such as Micro Center in the United States,[7] and  [ja] in Japan.[8] Twitter users reported that they used bots to buy large numbers of cards to resell for higher prices.[9]

Nvidia released a statement the following day, apologizing for the difficulties with their online store, which went down on launch day due to high traffic.[10] On October 2, Nvidia announced that it would delay the release of RTX 3070 cards by two weeks to guarantee availability.[11] On October 5, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced delays due to supply shortages, which were expected to go on until 2021.[12] On October 9, the company announced that all Founder's Edition graphic cards in the United States would temporarily be sold via Best Buy, while the official web store would be upgraded to improve the shopping experience.[13][14][15] In early December, Nvidia blamed continued component shortages on Samsung wafer shortages, resulting in chip shortages, among other factors.[16]

Shortages of RTX 30 series cards continued into 2021.[17] In an effort to limit purchases by cryptominers, Nvidia announced in February that the RTX 3060 cards would be able to detect algorithms for mining of the Ethereum cryptocurrency and halve the hash rate.[18] Shortly after release, NVIDIA accidentally released a driver update which disabled the detection.[19] In March, TechRadar reported that the shortages could continue until the third quarter of the year, in part blaming a global GDDR6 memory shortage and the cards' supply being bought out by cryptominers.[20] In April, Hong Kong Customs and Excise seized 300 non-video CMP cards.[21]

Nvidia officially announced new RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate (LHR) SKUs on May 18, 2021, which limits the Ethash mining hash rate.[22]

Nvidia released the RTX 3080 Ti on June 3, and the RTX 3070 Ti one week later, on June 10. Both included the cryptocurrency mining hash rate limiter.[23]

There have been multiple attempts to meet the demand. EVGA has a system designed to put people into a queue; the goal is to prevent cards from selling out quickly and decrease wait time.[24]

An aftermarket variant of the RTX 3090, made by manufacturer Gigabyte

Besides the Founders Edition, there are also a variety of aftermarket cards, referred to as "custom cards" by Nvidia. The graphics chip is taken from Nvidia and parts of the card are modified according to the company's specifications. Such modifications include: clock speeds, fans, heat sinks, connectors, and aesthetics. Such aftermarket cards tend to perform better than Nvidia's in-house cards, but such increased performance comes with tradeoffs in temperature and power consumption. Manufacturers include: Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, ASUS, EVGA, INNO3D. [25][26][27][28][29]

Details[]

Architectural improvements of the Ampere architecture include the following:

  • CUDA Compute Capability 8.6[30]
  • Samsung 8 nm
  • Doubled FP32 performance per SM on Ampere GPUs
  • 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 support (RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 3080 12GB, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3090, RTX 3090 Ti)
  • PCI Express 4.0
  • NVLink 3.0 (RTX 3090)
  • HDMI 2.1 with full 48Gbps bandwidth[31]
  • PureVideo Feature Set K hardware video decoding with AV1 hardware decoding[32]

GeForce 30 (30xx) series[]

Only the RTX 3090 supports 2-way NVLink.

All the RTX 30 GPUs are made using the 8nm Samsung node.[33]

Model Launch Launch Price (USD) Code name(s) Transistors (billion) Die size
(mm2) 		Core config[a] SM
count[b] 		L2 cache
(MB) 		Clock speeds Fillrate Memory Processing power (TFLOPS) Ray tracing performance TDP

in watts

Core clock MHz

(boost)

Memory (MT/s) Pixel
(GP/s)[c] 		Texture
(GT/s)[d] 		Size (GB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Type Bus width (bit) Half precision (boost) Single precision (boost) Double precision (boost) SP/DP ratio Rays/s
(billions) 		RTX-OPS
(trillions) 		Tensor TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050[34] January 27, 2022 $249 GA106-150-KA-A1 13.3 276.0 2560

80:32:20:80

20 2 1550

(1780)

14000 8 224 GDDR6 128 7.936

(9.114)

7.936

(9.114)

0.124

(0.142)

1/64 130
GeForce RTX 3060[35] February 25, 2021 $329 GA106-300-A1
GA106-302-A1 		3584

112:48:28:112

28 3 1320

(1777)

15000 63.4 (85.3) 147.8 (199.0) 12 360 192 9.462

(12.738)

9.462

(12.738)

0.148

(0.199)

51.2[36] 170
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti[37] December 2, 2020 $399 GA104-200-A1
GA104-202-A1 		17.4 392.5[38] 4864

152:80:38:152

38 4 1410

(1665)

14000 112.8 (133.2) 214.3 (253.1) 8 448 256 13.716

(16.197)

13.716

(16.197)

0.214

(0.253)

64.8[36] 200
GeForce RTX 3070[39] October 29, 2020[11] $499 GA104-300-A1
GA104-302-A1 		5888

184:96:46:184

46 1500

(1725)

144.0 (165.6)[40] 276 (317.4) 17.664

(20.314)

17.664

(20.314)

0.276

(0.317)

81.3[36] 220
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti[39] June 10, 2021 $599 GA104-400-A1 6144

192:96:48:192

48 1580

(1770)

9500 (19000) [e][41] (169.9) (339.8) 608 GDDR6X 19.415

(21.700)

19.415

(21.700)

0.303

(0.340)

87[42] 290
GeForce RTX 3080[43] September 17, 2020 $699 GA102-200-K1-A1
GA102-202-K1-A1 		28.3 628.4[36][44] 8704

272:96:68:272

68 5 1440

(1710)

138.2 (164.2)[41] 391.7 (465.1)[41] 10 760 320 25.068

(29.768)

25.068

(29.768)

0.392

(0.465)

119[36] 320
GeForce RTX 3080 12GB January 11, 2022 N/A GA102-220-A1 8960

280:112:70:280

70 6 1260

(1710)

(164.2) (478.8) 12 912 384 22.579

(30.643)

22.579

(30.643)

0.353

(0.479)

350
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti[43] June 3, 2021 $1199 GA102-225-A1
GA102-250-A1 		10240

320:112:80:320

80 1365

(1665)

(186.5) (532.8) 27.955

(34.100)

27.955

(34.100)

0.437

(0.533)

136 [42]
GeForce RTX 3090[45] September 24, 2020 $1499 GA102-300-A1 10496

328:112:82:328

82 1395

(1695)

9750 (19500)[e][41] 156.2 (189.8)[41] 457.6 (556.0)[41] 24 936 29.284

(35.581)

29.284

(35.581)

0.458

(0.556)

142[36]
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti January 27, 2022 TBA GA102-350-A1 10752

336:112:84:336

84 1560

(1860)

10500

(21000)

(238.1) (625) 1008 33.546

(39.997)

33.546

(39.997)

0.524

(0.625)

450
Model Launch Launch Price (USD) Code name(s) Transistors (billion) Die size
(mm2) 		Core config[a] SM
count[b] 		L2 cache
(MB) 		Clock speeds Fillrate Memory Processing power (TFLOPS) Ray tracing performance TDP

in watts

Core clock MHz

(boost)

Memory (MT/s) Pixel
(GP/s)[c] 		Texture
(GT/s)[d] 		Size (GB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Type Bus width (bit) Half precision (boost) Single precision (boost) Double precision (boost) SP/DP ratio Rays/s
(billions) 		RTX-OPS
(trillions) 		Tensor TFLOPS
  1. ^ a b Shader Processors : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Ray tracing cores : Tensor Cores
  2. ^ a b The number of Streaming multi-processors on the GPU.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ a b Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
  5. ^ a b Cards with GDDR6X send two bits per transfer. Equivalent transfer rate to GDDR6 in brackets used for comparing bit rate. The transfer rate should not be confused with the bit rate.

GeForce 30 (30xx) series for notebooks[]

Model Launch Code name(s) Process (nm) Transistors (billion) Die size
(mm2) 		Core config SM
count 		L2 cache
(MB) 		Clock speeds Fillrate Memory Processing power (TFLOPS) Ray tracing performance TDP (watts)
Core clock MHz

(boost)

Memory (MT/s) Pixel
(GP/s) 		Texture
(GT/s) 		Size (GB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Type Bus width (bit) Half precision (boost) Single precision (boost) Double precision (boost) SP/DP ratio Rays/s
(billions) 		RTX-OPS
(trillions) 		Tensor TFLOPS Dynamic Boost 2.0 (watts)
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop[46] May 11, 2021 GA107 Samsung 8N ? ? 2048

64:40:64:16 (16) (3)

16 2 713-1530

(1057-1740)

12000

14000

? ? 4 224 GDDR6 128 96 ? 2.920 0.046 64 2.92-6.27

4.33-7.13

0.016-0.098

0.068-0.111

2.92-6.27

4.33-7.13

35-80 0-15
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop[46] GA107 2560

80:48:80:20 (20) (3)

20 735-1463

(1035-1695)

? ? 4 118.8 ? 3.763 0.059 64 3.76-7.49

5.30-8.68

0.059-0.117

0.083-0.136

3.76-7.49

5.30-8.68

35-80 0-15
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop[46] February 25, 2021 GA106 13.25 276 3840

120:48:120:30 (30) (3)

30 3 900-1387

(1283-1703)

? ? 6 336 192 171.0 ? 6.912 0.108 64 6.91-10.65

9.85-13.08

0.108-0.166

0.154-0.204

6.91-10.65

9.85-13.08

60-115 0-15
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop[46] January 12, 2021 GA104-770-A1 17.4 392 5120

160:80:160:40 (40) (6)

40 4 1110-1215

(1290-1620)

? ? 8



8/16

448 256 249.6 ? 11.366 0.178 64 11.37-12.44

13.21-16.59

0.178-0.194

0.206-0.259

11.37-12.44

13.21-16.59

80-125 0-15
Geforce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop February 1, 2022 GA104 5888

184:96:46:184

46 (1035-1485) 0-25
GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop[46] January 12, 2021 GA104-775-A1 6144

192:96:192:48 (48) (6)

48 1110-1350

(1245-1710)

296.6 ? 13.640 0.213 64 13.64-16.59

15.30-21.01

0.213-0.259

0.239-0.328

13.64-16.59

15.30-21.01

80-150 0-15
Geforce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop February 1, 2022 GA103M 7424

232:96:232:58

58 (1125-1590) 16000 16 512 0-25

See also[]

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