NVIDIA Delays GeForce RTX 3070 Launch to October 29th

In a brief news post made to their GeForce website last night, NVIDIA has announced that they have delayed the launch of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 video card. The high-end video card, which was set to launch on October 15^th for $499, has been pushed back by two weeks. It will now be launching on October 29^th.

Indirectly referencing the launch-day availability concerns for the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 last month, NVIDIA is citing a desire to have “more cards available on launch day” for the delay. NVIDIA does not disclose their launch supply numbers, so it’s not clear just how many more cards another two weeks’ worth of stockpiling will net them – it likely still won’t be enough to meet all demand – but it should at least improve the odds.

NVIDIA GeForce Specification Comparison
	RTX 3070	RTX 3080	RTX 3090	RTX 2070
CUDA Cores	5888	8704	10496	2304
ROPs	96	96	112	64
Boost Clock	1.73GHz	1.71GHz	1.7GHz	1.62GHz
Memory Clock	16Gbps GDDR6	19Gbps GDDR6X	19.5Gbps GDDR6X	14Gbps GDDR6
Memory Bus Width	256-bit	320-bit	384-bit	256-bit
VRAM	8GB	10GB	24GB	8GB
Single Precision Perf.	20.4 TFLOPs	29.8 TFLOPs	35.7 TFLOPs	7.5 TFLOPs
Tensor Perf. (FP16)	81.3 TFLOPs	119 TFLOPs	143 TFLOPs	59.8 TFLOPs
Tensor Perf. (FP16-Sparse)	163 TFLOPs	238 TFLOPs	285 TFLOPs	59.8 TFLOPs
TDP	220W	320W	350W	175W
GPU	GA104	GA102	GA102	TU106
Transistor Count	17.4B	28B	28B	18.6B
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	Turing
Manufacturing Process	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	TSMC 12nm "FFN"
Launch Date	10/15/2020 10/29/2020	09/17/2020	09/24/2020	10/17/2018
Launch Price	MSRP: $499	MSRP: $699	MSRP: $1499	MSRP: $499 Founders $599

Interestingly, this delay also means that the RTX 3070 will now launch after AMD’s planned Radeon product briefing, which is scheduled for October 28^th. NVIDIA has already shown their hand with respect to specifications and pricing, so the 3070’s price and performance are presumably locked in. But this does give NVIDIA one last chance to react – or at least, distract – should they need it.

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