NVIDIA quietly remarking GeForce RTX 3080 Ti’s GA102-250 GPUs to GA102-300 for RTX 3090

NVIDIA GA102-250 GPU originally intended for RTX 3080 Ti is already being used for RTX 3090

HardwareLuxx member discovered that this GeForce RTX 3090 features a new GPU silicon.

NVIDIA Ampere GA102-250 GPU was originally meant for the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, that is till NVIDIA changed its mind and decided to use a different GPU silicon instead.

As we mentioned in our previous story, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, the unreleased high-end graphics card has already gone through various configurations internally but so far none have been used in the actual product – the graphics card has still not reached the market. The new RTX 3080 Ti model has been rescheduled five times, each time receiving a slightly different specification. Till late January, the graphics card was planned to use GA102-250 GPU, but those plans have been scrapped and the new specs for the upcoming card now mention GA102-225 GPU instead.

Earlier this week we received information that NVIDIA has begun remaking GA102-250 GPUs for RTX 3090. This GPU was rumored to offer just as many cores as RTX 3090, but it would be attached to fewer memory modules. The rumored RTX 3080 Ti specs from January only mentioned a memory size of 20GB. NVIDIA apparently decided to put a different label on this chip and enable the full 384-bit memory bus instead. The original, and apparently now scrapped ‘250’ would only support 320-bit. Our source had no further information and we were unable to confirm it with other sources:

“All GA102-250 GPUs are being remarked to GA102-300 by NVIDIA to be used on RTX 3090”

— VideoCardz’s Source

As it turns out, NVIDIA is indeed already remaking GA102-250 GPUs for RTX 3090. HardwareLuxx member ‘iso0’ bought a Founders Edition of the flagship NVIDIA SKU with plans to install a water block. To his surprise the graphics card had laser engraving mentioning GA102-250 GPU later changed to GA102-300:

NVIDIA GA102-250 GPU, Source: HardwareLuxx

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should now use GA102-225 GPU with 10240 CUDA cores. This SKU is now scheduled to launch in May.

RUMORED NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Specifications
VideoCardz	RTX 3090	RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 3080	RTX 3070 Ti	RTX 3070
Picture		[ to be leaked ]		[ to be leaked ]
GPU	GA102-300	GA102-225	GA102-200	GA104-400	GA104-300
GPU Clusters	82	~80	68	48	46
CUDAs	10496	~10240	8704	6144	5888
RTs	82	~80	68	48	46
Tensors/TMUs	328	~320	272	192	184
ROPs	112	~112	96	96	96
Base Clock	1395 MHz	TBC	1440 MHz	TBC	1500 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	TBC	1710 MHz	TBC	1725 MHz
Memory	24 GB G6X	12 GB G6X	10 GB G6X	8 GB G6X	8 GB G6
Bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	19.5 Gbps	~19 Gbps	19 Gbps	~19 Gbps	14 Gbps
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	~912 GB/s	760 GB/s	~608 GB/s	448 GB/s
TDP	350W	TBC	320W	TBC	220W
MSRP	$1,499	TBC	$699	TBC	$499
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	May 2021	Sep 17th, 2020	May 2021	Oct 29th, 2020

Source: HardwareLuxx