Citiraj:

Using a cut-down GA104 GPU instead of the GA106 for the GeForce RTX 3060 only makes sense if the silicon is not good enough to power GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/3070/3070 Ti graphics cards since it has too many defects. The GA104 is a pretty large 392 mm˛ chip that packs 17.4 billion transistors and up to 6144 CUDA cores that is rather expensive to make. By contrast, the GA106 is considerably cheaper, it is 276 mm˛ and integrates 13.25 billion transistors as well as up to 3584 CUDA cores. If a company has a significant number of dies that cannot work in proper configurations because of defects, they have to either invent new models or repurpose silicon for lower-end SKUs that are available globally. It remains to be seen whether Nvidia has enough GA104 chips that cannot be used even for GeForce RTX 3060 Ti boards (that carry GPUs with 4864 CUDA cores) and the company will have to sell them outside of China.

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