NVIDIA pushes GeForce RTX 3070 launch back to October 29th

NVIDIA pushes GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards back. 

NVIDIA changes the launch date to October 29th

NVIDIA has postponed the launch of its GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card by two weeks. The manufacture has already updated its webstore information. The cards will be available for sale on October 29th.

This is exactly a day after AMD announces its Radeon RX 6000 series. What is also interesting is that the card will now be launched two months after the announcement, which is very unusual for NVIDIA.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 is the first desktop GA104-based model. This card will feature 5888 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 (non-X) memory. The card is advertised as faster than GeForce RTX 2080 Ti but at a much lower MSRP of 499 USD.

NVIDIA officially confirmed that GeForce RTX 3070 will be delayed until October 29th

GeForce RTX 3070 Availability Update

Production of GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards are ramping quickly. We’ve heard from many of you that there should be more cards available on launch day. To help make that happen, we are updating the availability date to Thursday, October 29th.

We know this may be disappointing to those eager to purchase a GeForce RTX 3070 as soon as possible, however this shift will help our global partners get more graphics cards into the hands of gamers on launch day.

The GeForce RTX 3070 delivers incredible performance and features, including NVIDIA Reflex and Broadcast, for $499. Across a variety of ray-traced and rasterized DirectX and Vulkan titles, the GeForce RTX 3070 delivers similar or faster performance than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (which sold for twice the price) and is on average 60% faster than the original GeForce RTX 2070.

We have been told that reviews will be published on the same day as the card goes on sale – October 29th.

Another thing to note, if the launch of RTX 3070 has indeed been pushed back, then RTX 3060 Ti should also launch at a later time (possibly November).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 new launch date

NVIDIA has previously communicated that GeForce RTX 3070 will be available on October 15th:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 old launch date

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 29th	TBC

Source: NVIDIA via HardwareLuxx