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

Published: Mar 27th 2021, 19:46 GMT   Comments

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
VideoCardzRTX 3090RTX 3080 TiRTX 3080RTX 3070 TiRTX 3070
Picture[ to be leaked ][ to be leaked ]
GPUGA102-300GA102-225GA102-200GA104-400GA104-300
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 DateSep 24th, 2020May 2021Sep 17th, 2020May 2021Oct 29th, 2020

Source: HardwareLuxx




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