GeForce 30 series

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]

GeForce 30 series

Geforce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
Release dateSeptember 17, 2020 (2020-09-17)
CodenameGA10x
ArchitectureAmpere
ModelsGeForce RTX series
Transistors
  • (GA107)
  • (GA106)
  • 17.4B (GA104)
  • 28.3B (GA102)
Fabrication processSamsung 8 nm
Cards
Mid-rangeGeForce RTX 3060
High-endGeForce RTX 3060 Ti
GeForce RTX 3070
EnthusiastGeForce RTX 3080
GeForce RTX 3090
API support
Direct3DDirect3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2)
OpenCLOpenCL 1.2
OpenGLOpenGL 4.6
VulkanVulkan 1.2
History
PredecessorGeForce 20 series

The launch of the 30 series was panned for its lack of availability, and critics attributed it to high demand during the COVID-19 pandemic[4] and some consumers using bots to buy large numbers of cards for resale.[5]

Release and availability issues

The lack of pre-order functionality and high demand exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic[4] resulted in a large number of online retailers struggling with the sheer number of purchases on launch day for the RTX 3080, September 17.[6] Newegg had completely sold out as expected on Black Friday. Long lines formed outside physical stores with stock, such as Microcenter in the United States,[7] and Dospara in Japan.[8] Twitter users reported that they used bots to buy large numbers of cards for resale.[5]

Nvidia released a statement the following day, apologizing for the difficulties with their own online store, which went down on launch day.[9]

On October 2, 2020 Nvidia announced that it would delay the release of RTX 3070 cards by two weeks to guarantee availability.[10] On October 5, 2020 Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang announced delays due to supply shortages, which were expected to go on until 2021.[11]

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.[12][13][14]

In early December 2020, Nvidia blamed continued component shortages on Samsung wafer shortages, among other things.[15]

Details

Architectural improvements of the Ampere architecture include the following:

  • CUDA Compute Capability 8.6[16]
  • 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 3080 and RTX 3090)
  • PCI Express 4.0
  • NVLink 3.0 (RTX 3090)
  • HDMI 2.1 with full 48Gbps bandwidth[17]
  • PureVideo Feature Set K hardware video decoding with AV1 hardware decoding[18]

Products
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 EAGLE

All the cards below feature PCIe 4.0 interface and are manufactured using Samsung's 8N (8 nanometer) MOSFET fabrication process.[19] 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.[20]

Model Launch Code name(s) Transistors (billion) Process (nm) Die size
(mm2)		 Core config[lower-alpha 1] SM
count[lower-alpha 2]		 L2 cache
(MB)		 Clock speeds Fillrate Memory Processing power (GFLOPS) Ray tracing performance TDP (watts) NVLink support Launch price

(USD)

Base core clock (MHz) Boost core clock (MHz) Memory (MT/s) Pixel
(GP/s)[lower-alpha 3]		 Texture
(GT/s)[lower-alpha 4]		 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 3060 Ti[21] December 2, 2020 GA104-200-A1 17.4 8 392.5[22] 4864:152:80:38:152 38 4 1410 1665 14000 74.5 (88) 214.3 (253.1) 8 448 GDDR6 256 13716 (16197) 214 (253) 13716 (16197) 64.8[23] 200 No $399
GeForce RTX 3070[24] October 29, 2020[10] GA104-300-A1 5888:184:96:46:184 46 1500 1730 96 (110.7) 276 (318.3) 17664 (20372) 276 (318) 17664 (20372) 81.3[23] 220 $499
GeForce RTX 3080[25] September 17, 2020 GA102-200-K1-A1 28.3 628.4[23][26] 8704:272:96:68:272 68 5 1440 1710 9500 (19000) [lower-alpha 5][27] 138.2 (164.2)[27] 391.7 (465.1)[27] 10 760 GDDR6X 320 25068 (29768) 392 (465) 25068 (29768) 119[23] 320 $699
GeForce RTX 3090[28] September 24, 2020 GA102-300-A1 10496:328:112:82:328 82 6 1400 1700 9750 (19500)[lower-alpha 5][27] 156.8 (190.4)[27] 459.2 (557.6)[27] 24 936 384 29389 (35686) 459 (558) 29389 (35686) 142[23] 350 2-way NVLink $1,499
  1. Shader Processors : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Ray tracing cores : Tensor Cores
  2. The number of Streaming multi-processors on the GPU.
  3. 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. Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
  5. 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

References
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