Confirmed: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti launches after RTX 3070

A mid-range card with 8GB memory.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

The first mid-range Ampere card to launch this year is GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, likely to be the first SKU in these series. We now have two sources confirming that the next graphics card in the Ampere GeForce RTX 30 series is RTX 3060 Ti. There is currently no confirmation on RTX 3060 non-Ti launch date. The non-Ti model is expected to feature a third Ampere GPU – GA106 – presumably not yet ready for launch.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will feature GA104-200 GPU with 4864 CUDA cores (1024 cores or 8 SMs fewer than RTX 3070). Similarly to RTX 3070, this model will feature 8GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 Gbps. The bus width will remain at 256-bits and this should provide 448 GB/s of bandwidth.

Naturally, this model will require less power. We are told that custom boards are rated at 200W, which implies that the reference board is somewhere near 180W. If this number is correct then RTX 3060 Ti will consume slightly more power than RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 SUPER, both rated a 175W.

The launch date has not yet been confirmed, but internal roadmaps point toward the end of October. We might hear more about this SKU at GeForce RTX 3070 launch. We are not sure entirely why NVIDIA decided to launch the Ti model first, but one would guess that AMD might have a strong mid-range offer where RTX 3060 would simply not offer a firm competition.

NVIDIA has plans to launch GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16GB after AMD Radeon RX 6000 series announcement (which happens October 28th) There is no firm date yet, the cat is already out of the bag thanks to leaks from Gigabyte and Galax:

Both GALAX (left) and Gigabyte (right) are planning RTX 3060 series

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Specifications
VideoCardz.com	RTX 3090	RTX 3080	RTX 3070	RTX 3060 Ti
Picture				[To be leaked]
Reference Board	PG132 SKU 30	PG132 SKU 10	PG142 SKU 10	PG190 SKU 10
GPU	8nm GA102-300	8nm GA102-200	8nm GA104-300	8nm GA104-200
Die Size	628 mm2	628 mm2	392 mm2	392 mm2
Transistors	28.3 B	28.3 B	17.4 B	17.4 B
CUDA Cores	10496	8704	5888	4864
GPU Utilization	98%	81%	96%	79%
Tensor Cores	328	272	184	152
RT Cores	82	68	46	38
Base Clock	1395 MHz	1440 MHz	1500 MHz	TBC
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	1710 MHz	1725 MHz	TBC
Shader Perf.	35.6 TFLOPS	29.8 TFLOPS	20.3 TFLOPS	TBC
Memory	24 GB G6X	10 GB G6X	8 GB G6	8 GB G6
Memory Clock	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Memory Bus	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Max Bandwidth	936 GB/s	760 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s
Thermal Design	350W	320W	220W	~180W
MSRP	$1,499	$699	$499	TBC
Release Date	September 24th	September 17th	October 15th	Late October

Source: VideoCardz