Monday, December 28th 2020
ASUS Lists RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB, RTX 3060 12 GB Graphics Cards
ASUS on its support website has inadvertently confirmed some of the rumors and speculations of recent months - ever since the official release of AMD's RX 6000-series, really. Not to be outdone by AMD, NVIDIA apparently sees the need to fill the gap between its RTX 3080 10 GB graphics card at a virtual $699 and its top-of-the-line RTX 3090 graphics card at #$1,499 - better to compete with the RX 6900 at (an also virtual) $999. Thus ASUS listed a ROG-STRIX-RTX3080TI-O20G-GAMING and a ROG-STRIX-RTX3080TI-20G-GAMING, alongside some... interesting ROG-STRIX-RTX3060-O12G-GAMING and ROG-STRIX-RTX3060-12G-GAMING.
Thus it is seemingly confirmed that NVIDIA dropped official plans to offer the RTX 3080 in 20 GB GDDR6X flavor, and is instead packing its RTX 3080 Ti with that amount of graphics memory - that should serve to make the model even more attractive to users who were still trying to get an RTX 3080 series, as the drama surrounding that cards' 10 GB of VRAM is well-known across the tech industry and consumers. However, the RTX 3060 being listed in a 12 GB GDDR6 version (with a certain 6 GB version being on its way as well) really is puzzling; that graphics card, which is expected to pack only 3840 CUDA cores in its GA106 chip, will run out of shading and RT power long before that VRAM pool is exhausted. NVIDIA's chip structure is becoming ever more confusing in this 30-series, at least. The announcement for the new graphics cards is expected to take place come January 12th.
Source:
9550pro @ Twitter
Thus it is seemingly confirmed that NVIDIA dropped official plans to offer the RTX 3080 in 20 GB GDDR6X flavor, and is instead packing its RTX 3080 Ti with that amount of graphics memory - that should serve to make the model even more attractive to users who were still trying to get an RTX 3080 series, as the drama surrounding that cards' 10 GB of VRAM is well-known across the tech industry and consumers. However, the RTX 3060 being listed in a 12 GB GDDR6 version (with a certain 6 GB version being on its way as well) really is puzzling; that graphics card, which is expected to pack only 3840 CUDA cores in its GA106 chip, will run out of shading and RT power long before that VRAM pool is exhausted. NVIDIA's chip structure is becoming ever more confusing in this 30-series, at least. The announcement for the new graphics cards is expected to take place come January 12th.
55 Comments on ASUS Lists RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB, RTX 3060 12 GB Graphics Cards
And this is according to Nvidia official website, so we are not speaking about scalpers.
On Amazon you could easily found scalpers selling a 3070 for the equivalent of $1200, and a 3080 for $1400. And they sold out in MINUTES, literally.
So please stop speaking about MSRP, since it was Nvidia (and AMD) trolling customers.
That is why you see the 10GB card with 320bit, 16GB and 8 with 256bit, 11GB with 352bit, 12GB and 24GB with 384bit and 6GB with 192bit.
MSI scalping
most probably every single vendor is doing that with controlled third party.
I know because I bought my 3060 Ti from such a site.
Luckily the site that was linked was a distributor's site, so I was able to secure the card for relatively cheap. Even Amazon India has the 3060 Ti for exorbitant prices - over INR50,000 in some cases($680).
I really like their products, but really hate their management...
GDDR6X is only on the 3080 and 3090.
We don’t know about the bus yet. Maybe 3060 has a smaller bus.
The “early adopters” meme doesn’t apply here.
Are you speaking about VRAM actually USED or just ALLOCATED ?
After that, they bring the normal Cards :)
Never buy on a release day
It's there in the TPU review of Cyberpunk 2077. They did a special review of it because of the game's popularity.It's panic buying, like how they do when a stock becomes too popular.
Just keep your head on straight, know the real value of the item and be patient, you should be fine(well, not *you*, but you get the idea).
Considering you've spent nearly $1200 on a new graphics card, you'd want it to have at least 12 GB VRAM.
A quick look around the web and you'll see countless leaks about a 16 GB variant of the RTX 3080 Mobile which Nvidia is going to unveil alongside other RTX 30 mobile GPUs on January 12, two days from now.
Now 3080 Ti is what interests me the most, though I fear the price might be too high in these times. But I got a feeling things will settle down a bit later in 2H 2021, fingers crossed!