NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 delayed to October 29

NVIDIA announces its GeForce RTX 3070 will hit the market on October 29, two weeks later than previously communicated. Curiously, this is also one day after AMD's Big Navi (Radeon RX 6000 series) reveal. The GPU giant says it's pushing back the launch of its RTX 3070 to ensure there's more supply.

The poor availability of the RTX 3080 pissed off a lot of people so NVIDIA wants to avoid a repeat of this PR fiasco. Priced at $499, the RTX 3070 features a GA104 GPU with 5888 CUDA cores and 8GB GDDR6 memory.

Production of GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards are ramping quickly. We’ve heard from many of you that there should be more cards available on launch day. To help make that happen, we are updating the availability date to Thursday, October 29th.

We know this may be disappointing to those eager to purchase a GeForce RTX 3070 as soon as possible, however this shift will help our global partners get more graphics cards into the hands of gamers on launch day.

The GeForce RTX 3070 delivers incredible performance and features, including NVIDIA Reflex and Broadcast, for $499. Across a variety of ray-traced and rasterized DirectX and Vulkan titles, the GeForce RTX 3070 delivers similar or faster performance than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (which sold for twice the price) and is on average 60% faster than the original GeForce RTX 2070.

No word yet about the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. That model is supposed to launch after the RTX 3070 so this delay most likely implies the RTX 3060 Ti is delayed too.

According to NVIDIA's own metrics, the RTX 3070 is faster than the RTX 2080 Ti: