After several shifts in launch, it’s finally time for Nvidia to release its counterpart to the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. The answer is called Geforce RTX 3080 Ti and has on several occasions been postponed to the future, but now it’s finally time for the graphics card to see the light of day. In a short time, specifications and price have found out, something that is now supplemented with more details about the launch date.
Launch schedule for Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 Ti
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Announcement | 18 May |
Launch and reviews | May 25 |
Sales start | 26 May |
IT Home (Chinese) reports on a post on the no longer public forum at Expreview, where a post claims that Nvidia is planning a step-by-step launch of the Geforce RTX 3080 Ti. The information states that Nvidia will begin with an announcement on May 18, which will be followed one week after May 25 by the media’s confidentiality being lifted and the start of sales taking place the day after May 26. With experience from previous launches, the time to remember for each day is 15:00 Swedish time.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 “Ampere”:
RTX 3090 | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 3080 | RTX 3070 | RTX 3060 Ti | RTX 3060 | |
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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 | GA106 |
Circuit surface | 628 mm² | 628 mm² | 628 mm² | 392 mm² | 392 mm² | 276 mm² |
Transistors | 28.3 billion | 28.3 billion | 28.3 billion | 17.4 billion | 17.4 billion | 12 billion |
Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere |
CUDA cores | 10 496 st. | 10 240 st. | 8 704 st. | 5 888 st. | 4 864 st. | 3 584 st. |
RT cores | 82 st. | 80 st. | 68 st. | 46 st. | 38 st. | 28 st. |
Tensor cores | 328 st. | 320 st. | 272 st. | 184 st. | 152 st. | 112 st. |
Texture units | 328 st. | 320 st. | 272 st. | 184 st. | 152 st. | 112 st. |
Raster units | 112 st. | 112 st. | 96 st. | 96 st. | 96 st. | 64 st. |
Clock frequency | 1 395 MHz | 1 365 MHz | 1 440 MHz | 1 500 MHz | 1 410 MHz | 1 320 MHz |
GPU Boost | 1 695 MHz | 1 665 MHz | 1 710 MHz | 1 725 MHz | 1 665 MHz | 1 777 MHz |
Computational power | 35 581 GFLOPS | 34 099 GFLOPS | 29 768 GFLOPS | 20 313 GFLOPS | 16 197 GFLOPS | 12 738 GFLOPS |
Memory amount | 24 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6 |
Memory frequency | 19 500 MHz | 19 000 MHz | 19 000 MHz | 14 000 MHz | 14 000 MHz | 15 000 MHz |
Memory bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit |
Memory bandwidth | 936 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 360 GB/s |
SLI connection | NVLink 3.0 x4 | ? | – | – | – | |
TBP | 350 W | 350 W(?) | 320 W | 220 W | 200 W | 170 W |
Launch price | 1 499 USD | 1 099 USD | 699 USD | 499 USD | 399 USD | 329 USD |
Although the graphics card is called Geforce RTX 3080 with Ti at the end, it is in terms of specifications much closer to RTX 3090 than regular RTX 3080. With significantly fewer CUDA cores and marginally lower clock frequency, the theoretical performance is only four percent below the flagship. This should also mean a real advantage over the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which beats evenly with the RTX 3080.
Also in terms of memory bandwidth, this is a negligible difference compared to Geforce RTX 3090. The upcoming RTX 3080 Ti will with GDDR6X memory and the effective clock frequency 19,000 MHz a theoretical bandwidth of 912 GB / s, just under three percent below the 936 GB / s which is found in the RTX 3090. The single biggest difference between the graphics cards is the amount of memory, where the RTX 3080 Ti is equipped with 12 GB GDDR6X instead of the 24 GB GDDR6X that is available with the RTX 3090.
In terms of price, the Geforce RTX 3080 Ti is expected to land at the recommended 1,099 USD and place itself exactly between the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080. It can also be compared to the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT whose recommended price is 999 USD. Regarding availability at launch, there is no indication that the shortage of circuits will ease until the end of May.