CES 2022: Nvidia holds GeForce RTX 3090 Ti in camera and unveils RTX 3050
At CES, Nvidia holds a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti in the camera and says little about it. Instead, the RTX 3050 for the desktop and the RTX 3080 Ti as well as 3070 Ti for laptops are presented.
Actually, Nvidia should present it and not just tease it. It was supposed to - but it didn't want to: The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti was briefly held up to the camera at CES 2022. But not much more came. Instead, there was more info on the RTX 3050 for the desktop and the RTX 3070/3080 Ti for laptops. Nevertheless, the internet already knows what the specs of the 3090 Ti should look like.
However, Nvidia then briefly says something about the latest, probably fastest consumer graphics card in the world to date: The RTX 3090 Ti offers 40 teraflops of GPU performance. This is about 11 percent faster than an RTX 3090. 78 teraflops are available for ray tracing and 320 teraflops for AI tasks. In addition, there's fast GDDR6X memory clocked at 21 Gbit/s. In total, there's 24 GB of video RAM with a speed increase of almost 7.7 percent compared to the RTX 3090.
More on the new monster would be available from Nvidia later this month. Nevertheless, the as-yet-unconfirmed, supposedly exact specs for the new card are already floating around the web. They should look like this. The table also lists the RTX 3090 for comparison, as well as the RTX 3050 that was actually announced today. The latter is aimed at ray tracing beginners and should be available from January 27, 2022. Details about the clock and bandwidth are still missing.
| RTX 3090 Ti | RTX 3090 | RTX 3050 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | GA102-350 | GA102-300 | GA106-150 |
| CUDA Cores | 10752 | 10496 | 2560 |
| RT Cores | 84 | 82 | 20 |
| Tensors/TMUs | 336 | 328 | 80 |
| Base Clock | 1560 MHz | 1395 MHz | ? |
| Boost Clock | 1860 MHz | 1695 MHz | ? |
| Memory | 24 GB G6X | 24 GB G6X | 8 GB G6 |
| Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 21 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps | 14 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 1008 GB/s | 936 GB/s | ? |
| TDP | 450 W | 350 W | 130 W |
New graphics cards with unprecedented Nvidia power will also be available for laptops. Starting February 1, notebooks with GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti will hit the market. Few details have been given about this as well:
Compared to a GeForce RTX 3080 laptop GPU, the new 3080 Ti offers about 21 percent more cores with 7424 CUDA cores. Its base clock is 1395 MHz and it has 16 GB of GDDR6 video RAM at its side. That's on a 256-bit interface with a bandwidth of 512 GB/s. Power consumption is said to be a maximum of 175 watts.
As for the RTX 3070 Ti, Nvidia said that it will launch with 8 GB of GDDR6. Unfortunately, more is unknown here as well. But there are three new features for the mobile cards - so the new GPUs will be able to control and throttle the CPU directly if necessary. In addition, individual processing cores of the GPU can be deactivated if necessary in order to clock others higher. Last but not least, the laptop graphics cards have a new "Battery Boost 2.0" feature to extend the battery life by allegedly up to 70 percent depending on the application.
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