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
If you test the SAME game on a 24 Gb 3090 it would allocate more VRAM than the same exact settings on a 10 Gb 3080.Reported for name calling.
Another frustrated that can’t afford a 3080...
release date was back in September and we are in January. We are not on release day Anymore.I’m sorry but I can’t believe you just on your words.
Do you have any actual proof about a game needing more than 10 Gb of VRAM ?
The fact that Nvidia is going to release 12/16/20 Gb cards in the next future is more driven by marketing than technical needs...
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not happy about Nvidia greediness releasing 8/10 Gb VRAM cards at the time (and I opened a quite long thread about that some months ago), but that is different from say that 10 Gb are not enough.
By the time you need more than 10 GiB, there will be much faster cards on the market.
And most games just use the VRAM as a cache. They do not need all that data. And with DirectStorage coming (this year?), this will be even less important.
You should buy what is best for current games in your price range. Then upgrade in a year or two, selling your old components. You will not have to spend much, and you will always have good performance.
I mean look, the TITAN card had 6GB and it's only now that it's becoming a constraint, even though the GPU itself is not powerful enough for most modern games. Hell, I think my 970 is faster than it(atleast, trades blows).
12, or even 10 GB should be more than enough VRAM for a long time; long enough for the cards to last anyway.
www.techpowerup.com/277167/nvidia-announces-the-geforce-rtx-3060-usd-330-12-gb-of-gddr6
That's a start for sure. Now two other cards remain, the 20 GB 3080 Ti and the 16 GB 3070 Ti (actually this one may never end up being released, well one can only hope).