NVIDIA might be preparing GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GA103-200 GPU

A new variant of GeForce RTX 3060 Ti?

NVIDIA Studio driver released earlier this year included a new graphics card that has not yet been officially released. 

So as it turns out, while only some IDs were included, the 511 Studio driver itself listed a new ID attached to RTX 3060 Ti graphics card. The new ID of 2414 appears to match the PCI Device family of GA103 GPU, the new GPU for RTX 3080 Ti laptop GPU.

There were rumors that NVIDIA might be preparing two variants of this processor, the GA103S for laptops and GA103 for desktops. The RTX 3060 Ti would therefore be the first desktop variant.

NVIDIA_DEV.2414 = “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti”

The fact that RTX 3060 Ti might be getting a GA103 GPU has already been recorded by PCI Device ID database maintainers, who have included the new SKU into their list. What this means is that we are now getting a third variant of this popular desktop GPU after NVIDIA release a Lite Hash Rate edition half a year ago.

NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti with GA103 GPU, Source: PCI Devices

The RTX 3060 Ti has been the least supplied model in the RTX 30 family. Some board partners have told that they have not seen a shipment of this SKU for months as NVIDIA priorities more expensive RTX 3070 variant, also based on GA104 GPU. With the release of a new GA103 model, NVIDIA might finally have a chance to meet the demand for this very powerful mid-ranger simply by using two different GPUs.

It is unclear what could possibly GA103 be offering in terms of overclocking headroom, power consumption, or simply efficiency, after all, it is still made using Samsung 8nm process technology. But the GPU reportedly features 7680 CUDA cores in its full implementation, so the RTX 3060 Ti would only utilize 60% of the silicon. It should only be a matter of time before NVIDIA launches RTX 3070 with the same GPU as well.

Update: According to known NVIDIA leaker @kopite7kimi, this new RTX 3060 Ti variant is to feature GA103-200 GPU. This new processor is to feature the same specs as GA104 one.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series
VideoCardz.com	RTX 3070	RTX 3060 Ti	RTX 3060 TI New	RTX 2080 SUPER
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Reference Board	PG142 SKU 10	PG190 SKU 10	TBC	PG180 SKU 40
GPU	8nm GA104-300	8nm GA104-200	8nm GA103-200	12nm TU104-450
Die Size	392 mm2	392 mm2	TBC	545 mm2
Transistors	17.4 B	17.4 B	TBC	13.6 B
CUDA Cores	5888	4864	4864	3072
Tensor Cores	184	152	152	384
RT Cores	46	38	TBC	48
Base Clock	1500 MHz	1410 MHz	1410 MHz	1650 MHz
Boost Clock	1725 MHz	1665 MHz	1665 MHz	1815 MHz
Shader Perf.	20.3 TFLOPS	16.2 TFLOPS	16.2 TFLOPS	11.2 TFLOPS
Memory	8 GB G6	8 GB G6	8 GB G6	8 GB G6
Memory Clock	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	15.5 Gbps
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Max Bandwidth	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	497 GB/s
Thermal Design	220W	200W	TBC	250W
MSRP	$499	$399	$399	$699
Release Date	Oct 29th, 2020	Dec 2nd, 2020	TBC	Jul 23th, 2019

Many thanks to westlake for the tip!