NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile Ampere GPU
as NVIDIA released both its GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090
to the public (although availability was an issue for most
people). It’s understandable that supplies would be tight, however,
considering that the GeForce RTX 3080 delivers roughly twice
the performance of the GeForce RTX 2080 at the $699 price point.
While NVIDIA clearly has its eye on the [desktop] ball at the
moment, we know that laptop variants of Ampere GPUs will eventually
be incoming. Thankfully, today we’re getting our first alleged look
at a qualification sample for the GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
courtesy of @9550pro via Twitter. The chip is labeled GN20-E5-A1,
which according to previous rumors is based on the GA104 GPU.
Clustered around the GPU are a number of GDDR6 modules from SK
Hynix (H56C8H24AIR), which total up to 8GB using a 256-bit memory
bus.
The desktop version of the GeForce RTX 3070 includes 5,888 CUDA
cores, a base clock of 1.5GHz and a boost clock of 1.73GHz. At
this point, we don’t know if the GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile will
feature the same core arrangement, however, the GeForce RTX 20
Series laptop GPUs generally have the same number of CUDA cores as
their desktop counterparts albeit with lower base and boost
clocks.
At this point, we have received no indication as to when NVIDIA
plans to release its GeForce RTX 30 Series, or how many SKUs will
be available at launch. However, we could possibly see something
around CES 2021, around the same time when Intel could possibly
be ready to launch 11th generation Tiger Lake-H processors.
With that being said, the next launch on NVIDIA’s calendar is the
desktop version of the GeForce RTX 3070,
