GeForce RTX 3080 Ti towards the end of May and RTX 3070 Ti shortly after: are these the dates?

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is already in distribution in the world, but when will it be officially presented? According to the Asian site HKEPC, the card will debut on the market on May 26, with the reviews coming out a day earlier. The GeForce RTX 3070 Tiinstead, it will come at the beginning of June, therefore closely but not simultaneously.

According to the rumors that have emerged so far, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is based on one GPU GA102 (precisely the GA102-225) with 10240 CUDA active cores and 12GB of GDDR6X memory at 19 Gbps on 384-bit bus. This configuration, as the name implies, should allow it to be placed between the RTX 3080 and the RTX 3090, with a price that is rumored to be around 1000 dollars (availability and other variables now known permitting …), in theory at the level of the 6900 XT.

As for the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, a tab with a GA104 (GA104-400) in the maximum possible configuration, i.e. with 6144 CUDA core, the same as the mobile GeForce RTX 3080. Next to the graphics chip there should be 8 GB di memoria GDDR6X a 19 Gbps su bus a 256 bit, although in the past it has been rumored the possible arrival of a second 16 GB model.

Both cards should feature the limiter for cryptocurrency mining such as Ethereum that Nvidia introduced with the GeForce RTX 3060 and then sabotaged itself in a nefarious way by publishing a driver without the necessary stakes.

That said, for the past few hours the test circulates on the net of a sample of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with optimized frequencies (i.e. increased VRAM clock and reduced GPU frequency) without this block and capable of touching a hash rate of 118.9 MH / s. The model that will arrive on the market should not allow this.

In fact, according to recent rumors, Nvidia would be working to create variants of all the GPUs already on the market not recognized by the existing drivers, in order to implement the limiter on the entire GeForce RTX 3000 range and curb purchases of gaming cards. of the miners (for which he created the CMP series).