Caporegime
I'm hoping a bios comes out so we can flash our 10GB 3080 to a 20GB 3080.
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I'm hoping a bios comes out so we can flash our 10GB 3080 to a 20GB 3080.
Can't be accurate. Kopite claimed its cancelled. He is the most reliable leaker. Assuming this is correct, what is the status of the RTX 3080 Ti as this would be rather close in price to the Ti so why would anyone buy the 20GB 3080MSI submits GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and GeForce RTX 3080 20GB to EEC
https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-submits-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-and-geforce-rtx-3080-20gb-to-eec
Guess RTX 3080 20GB is alive and not cancelled.
East will use whatever he can find/manufacture, special kind of fella that oneNvidia will sell whatever people will buy, if there's enough demand for a 20GB variant of the card either they will make an SKU for one or some of the AIB partners will.
Using that as justification to say that 10GB isn't enough is kinda like saying regular HDMI connectors aren't enough because someone makes gold plated ones
East will use whatever he can find/manufacture, special kind of fella that one
Well I disagree. Nvidia releasing a card with more vram has nothing to do with what he is trying to say. Clearly some want more than 10gb and nvidia are more than happy to take those peoples money. Having options is a good thing.He's not wrong though lol.
What a shambles this thread turn into. Apparently, even nvidia agrees that 10gb isn't enough.
Lol. Well I cancelled mine so you are at least one position higherI'm still in position 764
You can but it's not a straight win, it's always some kind of trade off with the end result usually being some compromise of different factors.
Typically you're trying to balance multiple things like:
1) The amount of memory
2) The memory speed (in mhz)
3) The memory bus width
4) How fast/demanding the GPU is
5) Power/thermal limits
You're not only targeting a certain amount of memory capacity but also a certain amount of total memory bandwidth. If you lack enough memory bandwidth to keep the GPU fed with data then you bottleneck it and performance drops. Memory bandwidth is the total bus width multiplied by the memory speed, however each actual memory chip typically has a smaller width on its own interface, in most cases it's 32bit.
The 3080 for example has 10GB of vRAM which is 10x1Gb chips each with a 32bit interface, giving you a total of 10x32bit for a bus width of 320bits. And then a memory speed of 19Gbps which in bytes is /8 so 2.375GBps, multiplied by the 320bit bus width for your 760GB/sec total memory bandwidth.
The 6800XT opted for 16GB total memory and used 2GB chips of GDDR6 but those chips while larger are still the same bus width, so 8 total chips of 2GB each to get the total 16GB but that only leaves you with a bus width of 8*32bit or 256bit. That mixed with the fact the chips are slower at only 16Gbps or 2GBps means they only have 512GB/sec total memory bandwidth.
Normally this little memory bandwidth would bottleneck such a powerful GPU, so they spend a lot of silicon area on chip making Infinity Cache, essentially a very large L3 cache to reduce demand on vRAM. But that has a trade off because more area of the silicon spent on memory means less on transistors to do calculations with, meaning less performance. And then on top of all of that there's cost. Faster memory cost more, GDDR6x is more expensive than GDDR6, higher capacity memory costs more and the downside is that it has the same memory interface which means if you use double the density memory you get half the effective bandwidth.
It's all one giant trade off, you can target one thing to get perfect but often to the detriment of other things.
Lol. Well I cancelled mine so you are at least one position higher
I would pay max $100 more for that cardMSI submits GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and GeForce RTX 3080 20GB to EEC
https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-submits-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-and-geforce-rtx-3080-20gb-to-eec
Guess RTX 3080 20GB is alive and not cancelled.
I would pay max $100 more for that card
How much max would you pay in pounds?I would pay max $100 more for that card
How much max would you pay in pounds?
Being someone that has a 3080 for £650 on pre-order I would not want to pay over £750 for a 20gb card, and we all know it will be closer to £900 imo, so many people that say "oh i'll wait for a 20gb card then", I don't think they realise the cost increase.