[Hardware] NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 & RTX 3050 Ti With Mid-Range GA106 GPU Detailed, RTX 3060 Ti Already on Sale at Retailer

[Hossam Taibi]

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics cards alleged specifications have been reported by Kopite7kimi. According to the details, the mainstream GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics cards will feature the Ampere GA106 GPU and likely aim at the sub $299 US market.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 & RTX 3050 Ti Graphics Cards Allegedly Based on Ampere GA106 GPU, Expected Core Counts Revealed

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti will be replacing the existing RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti/SUPER series graphics cards. Both graphics cards will feature the Ampere GA106 GPUs.  The GA106 GPU is a mid-range chip for mainstream graphics cards and we expect to see several configurations for this chip for each specific discrete product it's featured within.

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Eagle OC Dual-Fan Graphics Card Pictured, Features Compact PCB Design

 

For desktops, the GeForce RTX 3060 will be featuring a 30 SM GA106 GPU which will equal 3840 CUDA cores while the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti will be featuring a 28 SM GA106 GPU, equalling 3584 CUDA cores. NVIDIA is likely to feature a 192-bit bus interface on its GA106 class GPUs such as the RTX 3060 along with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory capacity however, it remains to be seen whether the RTX 3050 Ti will carry the same frame buffer or go with a cut-down bus interface of 160-bit for 5 GB of 128-bit for 4 GB capacity.

NVIDIA has already released its GeForce GTX 1060 with 5 GB memory capacity across a 160-bit bus interface and we have also seen them test out a 5 GB variant of the RTX 2060 before. It will be very interesting to see how the final specs of both cards, especially the RTX 3050 Ti pan out. Also a first for the RTX lineup, the RTX 3050 Ti would be the first *50 series card to bring ray-tracing to gaming segment. We can also expect a non-Ti variant but that has not been confirmed yet.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series 'Ampere' Graphics Card Specifications:

Graphics Card Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti?	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti?	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPU Name	Ampere GA106?	Ampere GA106?	Ampere GA104-200	Ampere GA104-300	Ampere GA102-150	Ampere GA102-200	Ampere GA102-250	Ampere GA102-300
Process Node	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm
Die Size	TBA	TBA	395.2mm2	395.2mm2	628.4mm2	628.4mm2	628.4mm2	628.4mm2
Transistors	TBA	TBA	17.4 Billion	17.4 Billion	28 Billion	28 Billion	28 Billion	28 Billion
CUDA Cores	3584	3840	4864	5888	7424	8704	10496	10496
TMUs / ROPs	TBA	TBA	152 / 80	184 / 96	232 / 80	272 / 96	328 / 112	328 / 112
Tensor / RT Cores	TBA	TBA	152 / 38	184 / 46	232 / 58	272 / 68	328 / 82	328 / 82
Base Clock	TBA	TBA	1410 MHz	1500 MHz	TBA	1440 MHz	TBA	1400 MHz
Boost Clock	TBA	TBA	1665 MHz	1730 MHz	TBA	1710 MHz	TBA	1700 MHz
FP32 Compute	TBA	TBA	16.2 TFLOPs	20 TFLOPs	TBA	30 TFLOPs	TBA	36 TFLOPs
RT TFLOPs	TBA	TBA	32.4 TFLOPs	40 TFLOPs	TBA	58 TFLOPs	TBA	69 TFLOPs
Tensor-TOPs	TBA	TBA	TBA	163 TOPs	TBA	238 TOPs	TBA	285 TOPs
Memory Capacity	6 GB GDDR6?	6 GB GDDR6?	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	10 GB GDDR6X?	10 GB GDDR6X	20 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X
Memory Bus	192-bit?	192-bit?	256-bit	256-bit	320-bit	320-bit	320-bit	384-bit
Memory Speed	TBA	TBA	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	TBA	19 Gbps	19 Gbps	19.5 Gbps
Bandwidth	TBA	TBA	448 Gbps	448 Gbps	TBA	760 Gbps	760 Gbps	936 Gbps
TGP	TBA	TBA	180W?	220W	320W?	320W	320W	350W
Price (MSRP / FE)	TBA	TBA	$399 US?	$499 US	$599 US?	$699 US	$899 US?	$1499 US
Launch (Availability)	2021?	2021?	November 2020?	29th October	Q4 2020?	17th September	Q4 2020?	24th September

Gigabyte's GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Eagle Already on Sale in Saudi Arabia

The second part of this story is a rather interesting one. Apparently, one retailer in Saudi Arabia has already received stock of the custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards from Gigabyte & put them on sale. The card that is being sold in particular is the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Eagle which was leaked a few hours ago by Videocardz.

 

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This happens to be a clear embargo breach or lack of embargo from the looks of it. The card is on sale for 3,699 Saudi Riyal while the Eagle OC variant is listed for 3,799 Saudi Riyal as spotted by @Harukaze5719 which equals around $1000 US. This is no way what anyone should be paying for this card which is expected to cost around $399 US. It looks like the retailer is clearly trying to earn an extra dime by selling an unreleased product.

We have confirmed with our sources that the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti card has indeed been pushed back from its original launch in November. The card is expected to launch on 2nd December & will feature a price of around $399 US with custom variants featuring a slight premium.