NVIDIA Delays GeForce RTX 3070 Launch to October 29th
by Ryan Smith on October 2, 2020 3:30 PM EST
In a brief news post made to their GeForce website last night, NVIDIA has announced that they have delayed the launch of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 video card. The high-end video card, which was set to launch on October 15th for $499, has been pushed back by two weeks. It will now be launching on October 29th.
Indirectly referencing the launch-day availability concerns for the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 last month, NVIDIA is citing a desire to have “more cards available on launch day” for the delay. NVIDIA does not disclose their launch supply numbers, so it’s not clear just how many more cards another two weeks’ worth of stockpiling will net them – it likely still won’t be enough to meet all demand – but it should at least improve the odds.
| NVIDIA GeForce Specification Comparison | ||||||
| RTX 3070 | RTX 3080 | RTX 3090 | RTX 2070 | |||
| CUDA Cores | 5888 | 8704 | 10496 | 2304 | ||
| ROPs | 96 | 96 | 112 | 64 | ||
| Boost Clock | 1.725GHz | 1.71GHz | 1.7GHz | 1.62GHz | ||
| Memory Clock | 14Gbps GDDR6 | 19Gbps GDDR6X | 19.5Gbps GDDR6X | 14Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 256-bit | 320-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit | ||
| VRAM | 8GB | 10GB | 24GB | 8GB | ||
| Single Precision Perf. | 20.4 TFLOPs | 29.8 TFLOPs | 35.7 TFLOPs | 7.5 TFLOPs | ||
| Tensor Perf. (FP16) | 81.3 TFLOPs | 119 TFLOPs | 143 TFLOPs | 59.8 TFLOPs | ||
| Tensor Perf. (FP16-Sparse) | 163 TFLOPs | 238 TFLOPs | 285 TFLOPs | 59.8 TFLOPs | ||
| TDP | 220W | 320W | 350W | 175W | ||
| GPU | GA104 | GA102 | GA102 | TU106 | ||
| Transistor Count | 17.4B | 28B | 28B | 10.8B | ||
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Turing | ||
| Manufacturing Process | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | TSMC 12nm "FFN" | ||
| Launch Date | 10/29/2020 |
09/17/2020 | 09/24/2020 | 10/17/2018 | ||
| Launch Price | MSRP: $499 | MSRP: $699 | MSRP: $1499 | MSRP: $499 Founders $599 |
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Interestingly, this delay also means that the RTX 3070 will now launch after AMD’s planned Radeon product briefing, which is scheduled for October 28th. NVIDIA has already shown their hand with respect to specifications and pricing, so the 3070’s price and performance are presumably locked in. But this does give NVIDIA one last chance to react – or at least, distract – should they need it.
Source: NVIDIA
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zodiacfml - Saturday, October 3, 2020 - link
interesting. looks like they don't know yet AMD's pricing for the RX 6000 series but recently found the performance. I reckon, the RTX 3070 will be within 5% performance (including RT) on one of the AMD cards.AndrewJD - Saturday, October 3, 2020 - link
Unless your lucky enough to get a pre order, the mainstream public will need to wait till 2021 to actually get an RTX3070. Look at the past 20 years of Nvidia launching their cards. They deliberately do this to make them more demanding and profit from it. Google Scalping. This is what Nvidia does. They should be prosecuted for this they are a 100 billion company who basically gets away with everything but murder. But then who knows about that.Spunjji - Monday, October 5, 2020 - link
That's a bit much. They're certainly manipulating launches to maximise profit, but it's down to consumers not to buy into the hype and they just... fail. Over and over.TheinsanegamerN - Monday, October 5, 2020 - link
This. Same with gaming. I cant be mad comapnies push heavy monetization, because consumers just fall head over heels to dump money into games these days. Pre-order culture only evolved into this monster because people kept buying into the BS.The consumer is always right, and the consumer is a total idiot.
raywin - Sunday, October 11, 2020 - link
I agree with this line of thinking, particularly on the software side. Preordering software is lunacy. On the hardware front, the enthusiast market is being roasted by the companies by creating nominal parts and nominal prices, that are completely unavailable in the first 3 months after launch.TheinsanegamerN - Monday, October 5, 2020 - link
Prosecuted because you couldnt buy a $700 card.Jesus dude. Its just a video card. Calm TF down.
raywin - Sunday, October 11, 2020 - link
i think they meant persecuted, but definitely they are abusing the market by paper launching a card no one can buy at that price point. They actually have extreme fans who have waited to build a machine around a gpu that can't reasonably be purchased.bcronce - Saturday, October 3, 2020 - link
3090 has 15/20% more compute/ROP, but only has 10% more TDP at the same frequency.Gigaplex - Sunday, October 4, 2020 - link
Compared to the 3070 which is what this article is about? No.mrvco - Saturday, October 3, 2020 - link
Good on AMD for at least keeping this interesting, these certainly aren't the choices that Nvidia would be making if they were the only game in town.