Let us pretend, for a second, that the GPU market is not a trash fire scalpers, minors and 1030 surprises gt. Even in this alternative reality where you can buy a hassle-free GPU, NVIDIA has pretty big holes in its range of products right now. Today at Compuex in Taipei, some of these gaps were filled with the RTX 3070 TI and RTX 3080 TI.
First, a quick refresh on where we are in this alt. Reality: For desktops, NVIDIA sells RTX 3060 for $ 329, 3060 Ti for $ 399, RTX 3070 for $ 499, RTX 3080 for $ 699 and RTX 3090 for $ 1,499. Given, historically, the most sold cards are about $ 250, the most shouting hole remains gaping, but there are other important unregistered price points: the range of $ 500 to $ 698 and every price between 699 $ and $ 1,499.
The new RTX 3070 IT will cost $ 599 and fills the first hole as a fairly mild upgrade on the RTX 3070, while the RTX 3080 TI sits carefully between the 3080 and the super-price 3090 to 1 1990. $. Resolved problems!
We will have to look at the 3080 IT to discern its real performance, but we can make basic mathematics to get an idea where IT sits. For razaster – Putting pixels on a screen – The RTX 3080 has 29.8 teraflops of power, the RTX 3080 TI has 34.1 and the RTX 3090 A 35.6. (You derive these numbers, which are not really comparable to nothing but GPU of the RTX series 30, multiplying the number of kernels by their max clock speed, then multiply that by the number of operations that each kernel can Manage by clock.) So, the 3080 TI has about 96% of the power of 3090, while the 3080 has about 84%.
As shown, the memory is where the cards really differ: the 3090 to 24GB of 9,750 MHz * GDDR6x on a 384-bit bus, while the 3080 has 10 GB of 9,500 MHz GDDR6X on a narrower bus from 320 bits. The 3080 TI, as you wait, is somewhere between, 12GB associated with 9,500 MHz of 3080, with a 3090-type 384 bits bus. This puts it very close to the 3090 in terms of bandwidth In memory, although it obviously has only half of the actual memory capacity, which could exclude it for professionals as 3D animators and those who work with complex video projects.
* This figure is not actually the memory clock, it is the speed of the actual memory, but we are talking to Nvidia?
What does all this mean? Nvidia said the target audience of 3080 Ti is players. (Specifically, press materials have a lot of comparisons at 2080 TI.) It makes a lot of sense: you are probably in the games, to become extremely close to the performance of the 3090, which, given the price differential, means Only 3090 really makes sense for professionals. It was already the case because of the performance of the 3080, but there is a certain type of player who can not help but buy the best – the 3080 IT becomes so close that even they could be influenced.
Value decisions to which players face are rather similar to when I decided to become an owner of 2080 thirds of the last generation. Those who are looking for high-end performances at a price a little reasonable can pick up 3080 to 699 dollars, the same price as the 2080 of the last generation, while idiots like me who are willing to pay 40% more for a tiny Increase in performance can enter the 3080. IT in the same price range as the 2080 IT launched in. Things differ at the end of rainbow wrappedor, because the 3090 to $ 1,499 has the same use case as the 20 Series Titan RTX, which, for any reason, has been launched. at $ 2,499. The 3090 is definitely a “halo” card more viable for the hunting players that has never been.
