Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti are expected during the second quarter

Just before Christmas, the rumor machine went hot on the graphics card side. Every now and then, the market expected a Geforce RTX 3080 Ti, and the specifications were long expected to be nailed to 20 GB of GDDR6 memory, and the card would meet AMD’s recently launched Radeon RX 6900 XT in a similar price range. AMD, on the other hand, had concerns about getting enough cards, and when it was time for the January trade fair, Nvidia’s RX 6900 XT challenger failed.

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Now the card is reported once again to be up for launch, this time as soon as in a few weeks. According to Videocardz, a partner manufacturer specifies the release date for the RTX 3080 Ti to “Mid-April”, ie the middle of April. The new model looks to have 12 GB of GDDR6X memory and is then intended to be followed up with another Ti variant of the RTX 3070 at the end of May – also with GDDR6X memory.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 “Ampere”:

	RTX 3090	RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 3080	RTX 3070 Ti	RTX 3070	RTX 3060 Ti
Technical	8 nm Samsung	8 nm Samsung	8 nm Samsung	8 nm Samsung	8 nm Samsung	8 nm Samsung
Circuit	GA102	GA102	GA102	GA104	GA104	GA104
Circuit surface	628 mm²	628 mm²	628 mm²	392 mm²	392 mm²	392 mm²
Transistors	28.3 billion	28.3 billion	28.3 billion	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	17.4 billion
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere
CUDA cores	10 496 st.	10 240 st.	8 704 st.	6 144 st.	5 888 st.	4 864 st.
RT cores	82 st.	80 st.	68 st.	48 st.	46 st.	38 st.
Tensor cores	328 st.	320 st.	272 st.	192 st.	184 st.	152 st.
Texture units	328 st.	320 st.	272 st.	192 st.	184 st.	152 st.
Raster units	112 st.	112 st.	96 st.	96 st.	96 st.	96 st.
Clock frequency	1 395 MHz	?	1 440 MHz	?	1 500 MHz	1 410 MHz
GPU Boost	1 695 MHz	?	1 710 MHz	?	1 725 MHz	1 665 MHz
Computational power	35 581 GFLOPS	?	29 768 GFLOPS	?	20 313 GFLOPS	16 197 GFLOPS
Memory amount	24 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X	10 GB GDDR6X	8 GB GDDR6X	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory frequency	19 500 MHz	19 000 MHz(?)	19 000 MHz	?	14 000 MHz	14 000 MHz
Memory bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth	936 GB/s	912 GB/s(?)	760 GB/s	?	448 GB/s	448 GB/s
Power supply	12-pin	12-pin	12-pin	12-pin	12-pin	12-pin
SLI connection	NVLink 3.0 x4	?	–	–	–	–
TBP	350 W	?	320 W	?	220 W	200 W
Launch price	1 499 USD	999 USD(?)	699 USD	599 USD(?)	499 USD	399 USD

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Data for RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti are unconfirmed.

The other specifications are not yet officially known, but an announcement from Nvidia is reported to be made in early April. However, the RTX 3080 Ti is expected to get a new circuit called the GA102-225, which like the RTX 3090 will be 384 bits wide with a memory bus and specifications that place the newcomer much closer to the top card in the series than the base model of the RTX 3080.

An upcoming top model in the RTX 3070 family with the suffix Ti also looks to be an interesting story. The card appears to use the circuit GA104-400 known from the portable RTX 3080, which would mean a full-featured circuit with 6,144 CUDA cores. In addition, the card is specified with GDDR6X memory – which means that the memory type is either compatible with existing GDDR6 memory controllers, or that Nvidia has built in memory support in all “Ampere” -based cards.

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Whether the company will also continue with its artificial locking for breaking cryptocurrency in the new cards, however, is written in the stars. The original plan was likely that cards in the Geforce family launched after the RTX 3060 would limit performance when the Ethereum algorithm was discovered, something Nvidia themselves later put out of play with a developer-reinforced driver.

The new cards with the Ti suffix at least look to fill the price gaps in Nvidia’s range – we hope that the gaps on the retailers’ store shelves will also be filled.