NVIDIA Readying Refreshed RTX Cards with Faster Memory to Counter AMD’s Navi

[Tsing]

According to RedGamingTech, NVIDIA is planning a refreshed range of RTX Turing cards to fend off AMD’s Navi lineup. These cards will reportedly feature GDDR6 memory running at a clock speed of 16 Gbps. That’s a 2 Gbps improvement over current RTX GPUs, which have a memory speed of 14 Gbps.

For the RTX 2080, that would mean a jump in memory bandwidth from 448GB/s to 512GB/s, an almost 15% increase (and faster memory bandwidth means a faster graphics card in general).

 

[Dan_D]

I wonder how much of an impact this will actually have.

 

[David_Schroth]

I wonder how much of an impact this will actually have.

I bet @Brent_Justice could make an educated guess right here in this thread....

 

[northrop]

I wonder how much of an impact this will actually have.

Probably another $1k/Gbps

 

[Richard Gouge]

Interesting that Nvidia feels that they need a refresh already on their somewhat newly released flagship cards to compete with Navi

 

[Dan_D]

Interesting that Nvidia feels that they need a refresh already on their somewhat newly released flagship cards to compete with Navi

I don't think it does. NVIDIA's success is largely due in part to them putting as much distance between their products and the competition as possible.

 

[alttabbins]

I'll be interested to see the temps on the vram. My FE 2080ti gets way too hot and I had to wait about 5 months for them to clear out the ones with the bad vram.

 

[Brent_Justice]

Realistically, I've found most modern games to be more clock/pixel/engine driven than memory bandwidth limited, especially on high-end cards. Where a bump like this would really help are the lower-end video cards, those are the ones I'd like to see memory clock bumped. Regardless, if NVIDIA wants to send the new cards, I'd gladly take them for a run and make some comparisons to see the difference.