Nvidia's 3000 Series RTX GPU [3090s with different memory capacity]

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Starting with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, the graphics card is expected to get a new variant based on the AD102 GPU die while retaining its 8 GB and 256-bit bus interface. The core specs are not mentioned but they are expected to remain the same. The original RTX 3070 Ti features the GA104 GPU with 6144 CUDA cores and a TGP of 290W. The second model is the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti which will retain its GA104 GPU core but will be upgraded to 8 GB of GDDR6X memory whereas the current model uses the standard GDDR6 memory standard. Finally, we have the RTX 3060 that will be utilizing a cut-down 8 GB and 128-bit bus interface from its original 12 GB & 192-bit design.
 
Well, at least one nice thing that the Ada announcement has done, it's further driven down prices of 3xxx series cards. There's actually a RTX 3070 available on Amazon for MSRP (499 USD PNY card New).

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Indeed, and its not like Ampere GPU's dont cut it.... They are great gpu's nonetheless. Its RT is above what RDNA2 is and theres ML acceleration, topped with very capable raster and compute performance. The high end 4000 series are just not ripe for the gaming market really, its more a paper launch to be honest. Things will look better next year.

I'd get a 3080(Ti) or a 6800XT if your coming from Pascal or below. You will be good for the rest of the generation, if not you can always upgrade the gpu in some years to a entry RTX6000.
 
The second hand market is definitely where to look for cards right now.

Since the announcement I've noticed a reduction in listings and prices starting to go up again.

The second hand market really depended on Nvidia delivering on the price of the 4090/4080 and they haven't so it's not dropped the value of the 3000 series at all which is disappointing, hopefully AMD can deliver and disrupt the used market for both their GPU's and NVidia's.
 
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So it's basically a waste of time then, 36% more bandwidth for an 7% performance increase.

My 3060ti with overclocked memory has 523GB/s of bandwidth so it seems that anymore than that is a bit of a waste.

It would have a much better option to just release a 16GB version of the current 3060ti as doubling the VRAM would have been much more beneficial than 36% more bandwidth.
 
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