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GeForce 30 series

GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
Release date	September 17, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-09-17)
Codename	GA10x
Architecture	Ampere
Models	GeForce RTX series
Transistors	13.3B (GA106) 17.4B (GA104) 28.3B (GA102)
Fabrication process	Samsung 8 nm
Cards
Entry-level	GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
Mid-range	GeForce RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
High-end	GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
Enthusiast	GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
API support
DirectX	Direct3D 12.0 Ultimate (feature level 12_2)
OpenCL	OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan	Vulkan 1.2
History
Predecessor	GeForce 16 series GeForce 20 series
Successor	N/A

The GeForce 30 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 20 series. The series was announced on September 1, 2020, and started shipping on September 17, 2020. The cards are based on the Ampere architecture and feature hardware-accelerated raytracing (RTX) with Nvidia's second-generation RT cores and third-generation Tensor Cores.

The lineup, which is designed to compete with AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series of cards, consist of the entry-level and laptop-exclusive RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti, mid-range RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti, high-end RTX 3070, RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 12GB, and the enthusiast RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti. This is the last generation from NVIDIA to have official support for Windows 7 as the latest drivers available for this generation no longer have Windows 7 support.

Release and availability issues

Launch day for the RTX 3080 was September 17, 2020. The lack of pre-order functionality and high demand exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and boost in popularity of cryptomining, resulted in a large number of online retailers struggling with the sheer number of purchases. Newegg had completely sold out as expected on Black Friday. Long lines formed outside physical stores with stock, such as Micro Center in the United States, and Dospara [ja] in Japan. Twitter users reported that they used bots to buy large numbers of cards to resell for higher prices.

Nvidia released a statement the following day, apologizing for the difficulties with their online store, which went down on launch day due to high traffic. On October 2, Nvidia announced that it would delay the release of RTX 3070 cards by two weeks to guarantee availability. On October 5, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced delays due to supply shortages, which were expected to go on until 2021. On October 9, the company announced that all Founder's Edition graphic cards in the United States would temporarily be sold via Best Buy, while the official web store would be upgraded to improve the shopping experience. In early December, Nvidia blamed continued component shortages on Samsung wafer shortages, resulting in chip shortages, among other factors.

Shortages of RTX 30 series cards continue into 2021. In an effort to limit purchases by cryptominers, Nvidia announced in February that the RTX 3060 cards would be able to detect algorithms for mining of the Ethereum cryptocurrency and halve the hash rate. Shortly after release, NVIDIA accidentally released a driver update which disabled the detection. In March, TechRadar reported that the shortages could continue until the third quarter of the year, in part blaming a global GDDR6 memory shortage and the cards' supply being bought out by cryptominers. In April, Hong Kong Customs and Excise seized 300 non-video CMP cards.

Nvidia officially announced new RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate (LHR) SKUs on May 18, 2021, which limits the Ethash mining hash rate.

Nvidia released the RTX 3080 Ti on June 3, and the RTX 3070 Ti one week later, on June 10. Both included the cryptocurrency mining hash rate limiter.

There have been multiple attempts to meet the demand. EVGA has a system designed to put people into a queue; the goal is to prevent cards from selling out quickly and decreasing wait time.

Besides the Founders Edition, there are also GeForce 30 graphics cards in the Custom Edition version. The graphics chip is taken from NVIDIA and some parts of the card are modified according to the company's specifications. These can be the cooling devices, the fans or the construction of the graphics card board. In the application, these deviations become noticeable through higher clock rates of the memory and the computing unit, but usually with higher power consumption. Manufacturers are for example Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, ASUS, EVGA, INNO3D.

Details

Architectural improvements of the Ampere architecture include the following:

• CUDA Compute Capability 8.6
• Samsung 8 nm
• Doubled FP32 performance per SM on Ampere GPUs
• Third-generation Tensor Cores with FP16, bfloat16, TensorFloat-32 (TF32) and sparsity acceleration
• Second-generation Ray Tracing Cores, plus concurrent ray tracing and shading and compute
• GDDR6X memory support (RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 3080 12GB, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3090, RTX 3090 Ti)
• PCI Express 4.0
• NVLink 3.0 (RTX 3090)
• HDMI 2.1 with full 48Gbps bandwidth
• PureVideo Feature Set K hardware video decoding with AV1 hardware decoding

GeForce 30 (30xx) series

Only the RTX 3090 supports 2-way NVLink.

All the RTX 30 GPUs are made using the 8nm Samsung node.

1. ^ Shader Processors : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Ray tracing cores : Tensor Cores
2. ^ The number of Streaming multi-processors on the GPU.
3. ^ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the lowest of three numbers: number of ROPs multiplied by the base core clock speed, number of rasterizers multiplied by the number of fragments they can generate per rasterizer multiplied by the base core clock speed, and the number of streaming multiprocessors multiplied by the number of fragments per clock that they can output multiplied by the base clock rate.
4. ^ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
5. ^ Cards with GDDR6X send two bits per transfer. Equivalent transfer rate to GDDR6 in brackets used for comparing bit rate. The transfer rate should not be confused with the bit rate.

GeForce 30 (30xx) series for notebooks

See also

• GeForce 10 series
• GeForce 16 series
• GeForce 20 series
• Quadro
• List of Nvidia graphics processing units

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Notelist

External links

• Official website
• Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture whitepaper
• Media related to Nvidia GeForce 30 series video cards at Wikimedia Commons

• Computer-related introductions in 2020
• GeForce series
• Graphics processing units
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the video game industry
• Graphics cards