Jump to content

GeForce 30 series

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Tcnuk (talk | contribs) at 21:34, 21 October 2020 (→Release: Clarify that statement is US only). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

GeForce 30 series

File:RTX3000.png
Geforce RTX 3080 Founders Edition
Release dateSeptember 17, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-09-17)
CodenameGA10x
ArchitectureAmpere
ModelsGeForce RTX series
Transistors
  • 17.4B (GA104)
  • 28.3B (GA102)
Fabrication processSamsung 8 nm
Cards
High-endGeForce RTX 3070
GeForce RTX 3080
EnthusiastGeForce RTX 3090
API support
DirectXDirect3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2)
OpenCLOpenCL 1.2
OpenGLOpenGL 4.6
VulkanVulkan 1.2
History
PredecessorGeForce 20 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]

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.[4] 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,[5] and Dospara in Japan.[6] Twitter users reported that they used bots to buy large numbers of cards for resale.[7]

Nvidia released a statement the following day, apologizing for the difficulties with their own store, which went down on launch day.[8]

On October 2, 2020 Nvidia announced that it would delay the release of RTX 3070 cards by two weeks to guarantee availability.[9] On October 5, 2020 Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang announced delays due to supply shortages.[10]

On October 9th, the company announced that temporarily all Founder's Edition graphic cards in the United States would be sold via Best Buy while the official web store would be upgraded to improve the shopping experience.[11][12][13]

Details

Architectural improvements of the Ampere architecture include the following:

  • CUDA Compute Capability 8.6[14]
  • Custom Samsung's 8nm process (8N)
  • 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
  • PureVideo Feature Set K hardware video decoding with AV1 hardware decoding[15]

Products

All the cards below feature PCIe 4.0 interface and are manufactured using Samsung's 8N (8 nanometer) MOSFET fabrication process.[16] 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.[17]

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)

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[18] October 29, 2020[9] GA104-300-A1 17.4 392.5[19] 5888:184:64:46:184 46 4 1500 1730 14000 96 (110.7) 276 (318.3) 8 448 GDDR6 256 17664 (20372) 552 (637) 35328 (40745) 81.3[20] 220 No $499
GeForce RTX 3080[21] September 17, 2020 GA102-200-K1-A1 28.3 628.4[20][22] 8704:272:96:68:272 68 5 1440 1710 9500 (19000) [e] [23] 138.2 (164.2)[23] 391.7 (465.1)[23] 10 760 GDDR6X 320 25068 (29768) 783 (930) 50135 (59535) 119[20] 320 $699
GeForce RTX 3090[24] September 24, 2020 GA102-300-A1 10496:328:112:82:328 82 6 1400 1700 9750 (19500) [e] [23] 156.8 (190.4)[23] 459.2 (557.6)[23] 24 936 384 29389 (35686) 918 (1115) 58778 (71373) 142[20] 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. ^ 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

References

  1. ^ Newsroom, NVIDIA. "NVIDIA Delivers Greatest-Ever Generational Leap with GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs". NVIDIA Newsroom Newsroom. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "GeForce Special Event". Nvidia. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs Powered by Ampere Architecture". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  4. ^ Ridley, Jacob (September 24, 2020). "Here's the latest on RTX 3080 stock, according to retailers and manufacturers".
  5. ^ "Nvidia, Newegg Address Nearly Non-Existent RTX 3080 Availability". Tom's Hardware.
  6. ^ 株式会社インプレス (2020-09-18). "GeForce RTX 3080の夜間販売に自作PCファン集結、120名以上の人で賑わうドスパラにはキャンセル分を求める行列も". AKIBA PC Hotline! (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  7. ^ Sep 2020, Michael Kan 17; P.m, 10:53 (September 17, 2020). "How a Bot Bought Dozens of RTX 3080 Units Before Consumers Could Grab Them". PCMag UK. {{cite web}}: |first2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "NVIDIA issues a statement on GeForce RTX 3080 going immediately out of stock".
  9. ^ a b "GeForce RTX 3070 Availability Update". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  10. ^ Lyles, Taylor (2020-10-05). "Nvidia CEO anticipates supply shortages for the RTX 3080 and 3090 to last until 2021". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  11. ^ "NVIDIA Store Update, GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Founders Edition". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  12. ^ October 2020, Darren Allan 10. "Nvidia admits defeat with RTX 3080 and 3090 Founders Edition stock, passes baton to Best Buy". TechRadar. Retrieved 2020-10-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series Founders Edition locked to Best Buy in US". TweakTown. 2020-10-11. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  14. ^ "I.7. Compute Capability 8.x". docs.nvidia.com. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  15. ^ "GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs: Ushering In A New Era of Video Content With AV1 Decode". NVIDIA.
  16. ^ Walton, Jarred (August 31, 2020). "Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and GA102: Everything We Know". Tom's Hardware.
  17. ^ "Ryan Smith on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  18. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Graphics Card". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  19. ^ "NVIDIA Slyly Announces The GeForce RTX 3070 Availability, Sliding In Before RX 6000 Announcement". September 12, 2020.
  20. ^ a b c d https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/ampere/pdf/NVIDIA-ampere-GA102-GPU-Architecture-Whitepaper-V1.pdf
  21. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Graphics Card". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  22. ^ Mujtaba, Hassan (September 4, 2020). "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Ampere GPU Deep-Dive, Full Specs, Thermals, Power & Performance Detailed".
  23. ^ a b c d e f "NVIDIA GeForce Ampere Architecture, Board Design, Gaming Tech & Software". techpowerup. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  24. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Card". www.nvidia.com. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
Notelist
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GeForce_30_series&oldid=984749653"