Nvidia postpones the launch to have inventory

Originally scheduled for October 15, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 is postponed for 2 weeks to keep away from the breakdowns encountered on the RTX 3080.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Nvidia’s RTX 3070 will not be accessible on October 15. Not that there will be no shares, however simply the alternative as a result of the graphics card specialist from Santa Clara needs to keep away from repeating what occurred with the RTX 3080.

Two weeks postponement

Through a weblog article, Nvidia has simply introduced that the GeForce RTX 3070 will be launched on October 29, 2020. The worth clearly doesn’t change and stays fastened at 519 euros in France.

These extra two weeks should permit Nvidia to construct up enough stock to keep away from the debacle encountered with the RTX 3080s. When this graphics card was launched, all the inventory had bought out in simply a few seconds, leaving many potential patrons. filled with frustration.

The GeForce RTX 3070 being extra inexpensive – and positively the mannequin that will promote the most effective -, Nvidia subsequently prefers to make sure its again and postpone the launch a few days to fulfill the best quantity.

The equal of a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Nvidia takes the chance to recall what was mentioned when asserting this GPU: the RTX 3070 is on the efficiency stage of the RTX 2080 Ti. Of course, we will watch for our full take a look at to substantiate this assertion or not, however the American agency exhibits its personal outcomes on totally different video games, displaying a sure efficiency achieve between the 2 maps, except very particular circumstances (Borderlands 3 and Control with the ray tracing activated).

As a reminder, the GeForce RTX 3070 advantages from the identical Ampere structure engraved in 8 nm as its large sisters, the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, with 5,888 CUDA cores and eight GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, all for a TDP of 220 W most. . In addition, along with its three DisplayPort 1.4a ports, it has an HDMI 2.1 port.

On paper, the RTX 3070 is subsequently able to producing 8K, however those who want to launch their video games in this definition would be higher off shifting in direction of the upper fashions. This Founders Edition will, nonetheless, don’t have any bother working video games in 4K, which is already superb for a card at 520 euros.