Nvidia Ampere Graphics Cores Revealed

Nvidia's RTX line which includes the RTX 2080, RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 among its variants such as the newer RTX Super line was first released on September 10th in 2018 starting with the RTX 2080. While subsequently. more budget friendly non ray tracing cards such as the GTX 1660 and GTX 1650 models were also released to cater to the budget segment as a replacement for the venerable GTX 1060 & GTX 1050. The successor to the GTX 1060 came with Ray Tracing support and was aptly named the RTX 2060, not only this but the new card also had a significant price premium of USD 349 for the reference design putting it well outside the budget segment.

With the second generation RTX line rumored to be launching in the second half of September 2020 specifications are beginning to surface around the web. However, please note that the said specifications have not been confirmed by Nvidia and they can change at launch as it still in the rumor stage. It is not clear if the successor to the RTX series will carry the moniker RTX 3000, however for arguments sake this is the unofficial term the community uses to refer to it. Among the new offering is expected to be a dual GPU card possibly labeled RTX 3090 paired with a whopping 24GB of DDR6.

According to Guru3d.com the following cards and specifications we can expect.

• RTX 3090 (Titan): 5248 shaders|24GB GDDR6X VRAM| 350W TDP

• RTX 3080: 4352 shaders|10GB GDDR6X VRAM| 320W TDP

• RTX 3070 Ti: 3072 shaders|8GB GDDR6X VRAM| 250W TDP

• RTX 3070: 2944 shaders|8GB GDDR6 VRAM|220W TDP

Additionally, YouTuber WccftechTV quotes the following diagram in which the RTX 3060 is which is expected to be the replacement for the RTX 2060 is quoted, however the release date is known. The replacement column is the SKU it is expected to replace.

The Ampere pricing is still spotty. A majority of PC users purchase non enthusiast SKU's and I do hope Nvidia offers some real competition here its its previous mid rage offering was underwhelming when compared with its predecessors the GTX 1000 series.