News Asus Lists Custom GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, RTX 3080 Ti GPUs

[FakeMike]

12gb ram on an enrty level gpu?


All that is doing is raising price for no reason as most ppl would benefit from more ram...would benefit more for ma more powerful gpu to begin with....

Totally agree. 3060 should be aimed at 1080p and maybe less demanding titles at 1440p so 12GB at this res makes little sense and will make 3060 Ti with 8 GB look under specced.

 

[spongiemaster]

The big issue is going to be supply. Nvidia is still having difficulty keeping up with demand for Ampere GPUs. Is there enough GDDR6 and GDDR6X to go around for all the doubled VRAM models? GDDR6 is probably okay, but GDDR6X only comes from Micron, and 3080/3090 are the only GPUs that use it, so Nvidia needs to be very careful about how much memory it orders. Not enough and it can't do 3080, never mind 3080 Ti and 3090. Too much and it would have to make everything into a 3080 Ti/3090 to get rid of the excess. Actually, 3060 with 12GB of GDDR6X would be an interesting alternative. I don't know if the GA104/GA106 GPUs support GDDR6X, though. Would love to see a 12GB GDDR6X 192-bit bus card for around $300-$350, but that's probably a pipe dream.

Any chance the 3080Ti uses 16gb GDDR6X modules that Micron said would be coming in 2021? One would have to assume the 12GB 3060 will use 16gb GDDR6 modules to prevent needing cooling on the back of the card with 12x8gb chips.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Any chance the 3080Ti uses 16gb GDDR6X modules that Micron said would be coming in 2021? One would have to assume the 12GB 3060 will use 16gb GDDR6 modules to prevent needing cooling on the back of the card with 12x8gb chips.

Either option is possible, and without an official announcement (or at least leaked images), we don't know much about what Nvidia is actually going to do. I suspect the 16Gb modules will cost more for the same capacity than 8Gb modules, and speed and other factors don't really seem to be an issue with the "memory clamshell" approach of putting two chips on opposite sides of the PCB -- 3090 proves Nvidia can do that at full GDDR6X speeds. I'm pretty sure that eventually we'll have 20GB, 16GB, and 12GB Nvidia 30-series cards. Will that be in January/February, or later in the year? Not entirely sure. The number of leaks suggest sooner than later, but Nvidia still can't meet demand for the existing cards. Hopefully it ordered enough wafers and RAM for the upcoming models plus the existing ones!

 

[chickenballs]

Just a general comment here that doubling the VRAM on every one of the RTX 30-series GPUs from the 3080 down isn't particularly difficult, and it gives Nvidia (and its partners) an easy way to increase pricing on each card.

Nvidia and their clever ways to fool ignorant consumers into buying their marginally better products like they did with Turing GPUs.
If the 3080Ti will be priced at $1000 then we should expect it to be around $1200 like the 2080Ti
but at least the consumers will potentially get more VRAM instead of less VRAM for the same price like they did with 2080/2080S...