NVIDIA may possibly be working on a sort of a refresh of their Turing based GeForce RTX 20 series lineup is rumors are to be believed. The refreshed RTX 20 series cards are being prepped in order for the company to compete against the AMD Radeon Navi GPUs which are expected to launch in the coming quarter for mainstream gamers.
NVIDIA Preps GeForce RTX 20 Series Refresh With Faster GDDR6 Memory and Higher Clocks, Aiming To Tackle The AMD Radeon Navi Lineup
The source of the rumor is RedGamingTech who report that their source has revealed that NVIDIA is working on a series of Turing based GeForce RTX 20 series refresh graphics cards that will come with faster GDDR6 memory chips. It is stated that the cards can feature higher clock speeds and a possible bump in core configuration but that’s mere speculation right now with the main highlight only being the memory speed bump that is acknowledged by the source. The reports of refreshed lineup come just weeks before AMD is going to announce their 7nm based Navi GPU lineup for the Radeon lineup so it’s possible that this is NVIDIA reacting to the recently leaked information on the Navi GPUs.
Now while this is a rumor, we have to look back at similar things that NVIDIA has done in the past. We all remember the NVIDIA GeForce 10 series cards based on the Pascal GPU architecture. It was back in 2016 when NVIDIA unveiled their Pascal based GTX 1080 graphics card, the first to feature the GDDR5X memory interface for $599 US.
The card initially featured 10 Gbps memory chips but was upgraded with 11 Gbps memory after 11 months since its launch. That resulted in a bandwidth uplift of 352 GB/s from 320 GB/s. There were also price cuts offered on the pre-existing models that still featured 10 Gbps memory with the new price adjusted to $499 US. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 also received an upgrade of 9 Gbps chips (GDDR5) which offered a nice bandwidth bump over the 8 Gbps models.
Similarly, the price of the pre-existing models went down while the 9 Gbps models were available at the reference price. This move and the launch of NVIDIA’s flagship GTX 1080 Ti (of that time) happened before hype related to the AMD Radeon RX Vega series kicked up and similarly, now that hype around Navi is picking up, we are hearing news related to a new NVIDIA refresh.
Now that we have suggested that a refresh from NVIDIA is very much possible, it also needs to be checked whether the faster memory chips themselves that are being talked about actually exist or not. If you go over to the main GDDR6 memory providers, Samsung and Micron, product catalogs, you’d see that Micron isn’t offering any 16 Gbps solution at the moment although they have been far into developing their 16 Gbps memory chips.
Samsung on the other does indeed has two Dram variants listed for 16 Gbps. The 8Gb density dies are in production while the 16Gb dies are being sampled. Since NVIDIA relies on 8Gb dies and the far better implementation of Samsung dies over Micron, it is possible that the refreshed lineup may end up entirely using Samsung GDDR6 stock.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX/GTX "Turing" Family:
| Graphics Card Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Architecture | Turing GPU (TU117) | Turing GPU (TU116) | Turing GPU (TU116) | Turing GPU (TU106) | Turing GPU (TU106) | Turing GPU (TU104) | Turing GPU (TU102) |
| Process | 12nm FNN | 12nm FNN | 12nm FNN | 12nm FNN | 12nm FNN | 12nm FNN | 12nm FNN |
| Die Size | 200mm2 | 284mm2 | 284mm2 | 445mm2 | 445mm2 | 545mm2 | 754mm2 |
| Transistors | 4.7 Billion | 6.6 Billion | 6.6 Billion | 10.6 Billion | 10.6 Billion | 13.6 Billion | 18.6 Billion |
| CUDA Cores | 896 Cores | 1408 Cores | 1536 Cores | 1920 Cores | 2304 Cores | 2944 Cores | 4352 Cores |
| TMUs/ROPs | 56/32 | 88/48 | 96/48 | 120/48 | 144/64 | 192/64 | 288/96 |
| GigaRays | N/A | N/A | N/A | 5 Giga Rays/s | 6 Giga Rays/s | 8 Giga Rays/s | 10 Giga Rays/s |
| Cache | 1.5 MB L2 Cache | 1.5 MB L2 Cache | 1.5 MB L2 Cache | 4 MB L2 Cache | 4 MB L2 Cache | 4 MB L2 Cache | 6 MB L2 Cache |
| Base Clock | 1485 MHz | 1530 MHz | 1500 MHz | 1365 MHz | 1410 MHz | 1515 MHz | 1350 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1665 MHz | 1785 MHz | 1770 MHz | 1680 MHz | 1620 MHz 1710 MHz OC |
1710 MHz 1800 MHz OC |
1545 MHz 1635 MHz OC |
| Compute | 3.0 TFLOPs | 5.0 TFLOPs | 5.5 TFLOPs | 6.5 TFLOPs | 7.5 TFLOPs | 10.1 TFLOPs | 13.4 TFLOPs |
| Memory | Up To 4 GB GDDR5 | Up To 6 GB GDDR5 | Up To 6 GB GDDR6 | Up To 6 GB GDDR6 | Up To 8 GB GDDR6 | Up To 8 GB GDDR6 | Up To 11 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Speed | 8.00 Gbps | 8.00 Gbps | 12.00 Gbps | 14.00 Gbps | 14.00 Gbps | 14.00 Gbps | 14.00 Gbps |
| Memory Interface | 128-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 352-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 128 GB/s | 192 GB/s | 288 GB/s | 336 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 616 GB/s |
| Power Connectors | N/A | 8 Pin | 8 Pin | 8 Pin | 8 Pin | 8+8 Pin | 8+8 Pin |
| TDP | 75W | 120W | 120W | 160W | 185W (Founders) 175W (Reference) |
225W (Founders) 215W (Reference) |
260W (Founders) 250W (Reference) |
| Starting Price | $149 US | $219 US | $279 US | $349 US | $499 US | $699 US | $999 US |
| Price (Founders Edition) | $149 US | $219 US | $279 US | $349 US | $599 US | $799 US | $1,199 US |
| Launch | April 2019 | March 2019 | February 2019 | January 2019 | October 2018 | September 2018 | September 2018 |
Now that the pricing and memory availability aspect is covered, we now have to talk about the specifications. The rumor only talks about the new GDDR6 memory chips as the main reason to which NVIDIA is providing a refresh but there could also be a spec bump. No doubt that GeForce RTX 20 series will get a nice bump in bandwidth with the new chips with RTX 2070, RTX 2080 going for 512 GB/s over 448 GB/s and RTX 2080 Ti going for at least 704 GB/s.
The price cuts would also be something noteworthy but we have seen reports of NVIDIA ending production of non-A GPU dies and offering their A revision dies across all RTX cards. The RTX 20 series with A-dies offer a better overclocking environment and higher clock speeds and it is possible that the new refresh cards may end up being factory overclocked even higher than the current reference models. But this much is just speculation at the moment.
GPU Memory Technology Updates 2019
| Graphics Card Name | Memory Technology | Memory Speed | Memory Bus | Memory Bandwidth | Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | GDDR5X | 10.0 Gbps | 256-bit | 320 GB/s | 2016 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 | GDDR6 | 14.0 Gbps | 256-bit | 448 GB/s | 2018 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 | GDDR6 | 16.0 Gbps | 256-bit | 512 GB/s | 2019 |
| AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 | HBM2 | 1.9 Gbps | 2048-bit | 483 GB/s | 2017 |
| AMD Radeon R9 Fury X | HBM1 | 1.0 Gbps | 4096-bit | 512 GB/s | 2015 |
| NVIDIA Titan Xp | GDDR5X | 11.4 Gbps | 384-bit | 547 GB/s | 2017 |
| NVIDIA Titan V | HBM2 | 1.7 Gbps | 3072-bit | 652.8 GB/s | 2017 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | GDDR6 | 14.0 Gbps | 352-bit | 616 GB/s | 2018 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | GDDR6 | 16.0 Gbps | 352-bit | 704 GB/s | 2019 |
| NVIDIA Tesla P100 | HBM2 | 1.4 Gbps | 4096-bit | 720 GB/s | 2016 |
| NVIDIA Tesla V100 | HBM2 | 1.7 Gbps | 4096-bit | 901 GB/s | 2017 |
In the end, only time would tell if this is true or not as the likely announcement date of this lineup would be Computex 2019 which is two weeks from now. We also don’t know if only the RTX cards would be getting the updated design or the GeForce 16 series too but given that the 16 series is still a very fresh launch, I believe that the refresh would be kept exclusive to the RTX 20 series.
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