GeForce RTX 3080 Will it arrive in April with 12GB of memory?

At CES in early January Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, confirming its debut by the end of this month. AMD is expected to introduce mid-range cards from the Radeon RX 6700 series towards the end of the quarter and perhaps a few more models to cover a lower price range. After the debut of the Radeon RX 6800/6900 there was a lot of talk about the possibility that Nvidia would also intervene in the high end of the offer with a model straddling the current RTX 3080 and the RTX 3090 in order to improve its competitiveness against AMD solutions.

At the same time, in recent weeks, there have been rumors of the Nvidia’s choice to temporarily block the release of the alleged GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
to focus on the resolution of the video card shortage. A plausible decision, given that competition seems to be even more important production problems. In the past few hours
the world of indiscretions to speak again of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, putting on the table
two new elements: the first that the card should debut in April, the second that on board will not have 20GB of memory but 12GB, two more than the current RTX 3080. In short, the card would no longer be in the pits and within two to three months it should at least be announced.

We know, by “mouth” of Nvidia and AMD, that the availability of GPUs will not improve until probably between late April and May. The announcement of the RTX 3080 Ti in April (perhaps in the middle of the month) and the gradual spread on the market in the following weeks could therefore make sense, even if we do not have the crystal ball and say today how the situation will be by then it would be from Divino Otelma. As regards the amount of memory on board, we record the new information: so far there was talk of 20GB of GDDR6X memory in accompaniment to a GPU with 10496 CUDA core, but now the new rumors speak of 10260 CUDA core (among the 10496 of the RTX 3090 and the 8704s of the RTX 3080) and precisely “only” 12GB of GDDR6X memory. There is also talk of a 384-bit bus, against the 320 bits of the RTX 3080 and the previous indications.

The 12GB would represent 2GB more than the RTX 3080, but at the same time the same amount of the RTX 3060 coming soon, a card that certainly represents an element of confusion for the less informed, as it comes with 4GB of more memory. compared to the RTX 3060 Ti and the RTX 3070, cards with higher performance. A strangeness daughter of Nvidia’s choice to run for cover in the face of AMD’s choices, which in the high-end offers models with 16GB of VRAM and in the average one will introduce solutions with 12GB.