Monday, February 8th 2021
"Indefinitely Postponed" RTX 3080 Ti Might See April Launch Carrying 12 GB GDDR6X Memory
A well-known leaker from NVIDIA cards past, Kopite7Kimi, has launched a rumor wherein the previously "indefinitely postponed" RTX 3080 Ti graphics card might see the light of day as early as April. Designed as an NVIDIA response to the price/performance offering from AMD's RX 6900 XT graphics card, the RTX 3080 Ti with an overkill 20 GB GDDR6X was rumored to have been in the works following the AMD launch. However, inventory difficulties related not only to wafer production from Samsung, but also GDDR6X supply from Micron and delays in the logistics channels meant that NVIDIA chose to shelve this graphics card release.
The new, reinterpreted RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is rumored to axe the 20 GB of GDDR6X memory in favor of a more tenable 12 GB - which some might argue is but a slight, but sufficient improvement from the RTX 3080's 10 GB. That memory amount, however, means that the card will have to carry a different, wider, 384-bit memory bus, which should mean improved memory performance, but also increased board costs. The RTX 3080 Ti is now rumored as carrying 80 enabled Streaming Multiprocessors (12 more than the RTX 3080's 68, and 2 less than the fully-enabled chip present in the RTX 3090.
Sources:
Kopite7kimi on Twitter, via Videocardz
The new, reinterpreted RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is rumored to axe the 20 GB of GDDR6X memory in favor of a more tenable 12 GB - which some might argue is but a slight, but sufficient improvement from the RTX 3080's 10 GB. That memory amount, however, means that the card will have to carry a different, wider, 384-bit memory bus, which should mean improved memory performance, but also increased board costs. The RTX 3080 Ti is now rumored as carrying 80 enabled Streaming Multiprocessors (12 more than the RTX 3080's 68, and 2 less than the fully-enabled chip present in the RTX 3090.
47 Comments on "Indefinitely Postponed" RTX 3080 Ti Might See April Launch Carrying 12 GB GDDR6X Memory
Nvidia sell every 3080 and every 3090 they ship. They have few interest to really release another SKU right now. These chips would just be better sold as 3090 at inflated price. People are buying them in masses.
But yeah, it suck for value pc enthusiast.
But what does it matter. Amd gpu and cpu together with nvidia ampere and even intels 10 gen cpu for while. All in shortage and hard to get. These past launcheds has been a huge mess. Way to few gpu's available and way to high demand = over pricing.
Scalpers selling cards for twice or triple the msrp, miners happely paying scalpers as bitcoin is now so high that its still a money maker and some gamers support scalpers as well. Just generally to low capacity for chip making. Even car manufacturers can't get enough chips for making cars.
So all in all when rtx 3080 ti is finally coming. It will be just another new card scalpers will sell to overprice, miners will get the rest scalpers might overlook. And we poor gamers can just sit back watching the cards selling out in seconds after release.
The Pr calamity that's been the ti hype train can't possibly be doing their image any favours.
I mean can't Huang put a pin in a thing n call it done.
Especially considering the GPU drought in some regions.
This is how the release chain operates and always has, they can't just make changes at the last minute(month, 6 months, whatever).
They should have postponed 3000 series on account of the coronavirus, but guess what, can't do that either due to competition from AMD.
I guess this ain't a high end GPU anymore. Should compete with the upcoming Radeon 6700XT with its 12GB. Not a dollar over $399usd.
Also, ain't no way in hell this card should or will compete with the 6700XT, and certainly won't be a dollar over $399USD. The Ti cards have always been THE card in Nvidia's chain of command -- except in concerns to the 1660 Ti, which was more or less cannibalized by the 1660 Super -- so expect this, if it even releases, to start at $800 at least.
Don't know what you're smokin' but I want some of it! :D:pimp:
And I don't see 3090 being bought in masses. Fairly modest interest non like 3080 but these are just not available.
One thing getting something released for $999, but as we already know if that's the price of the new 3080 Ti we can easily add 50 or more % to that MSRP.
I doubt NV will release it at anything near $800. $999 is more a wishful thinking though.
Those are the results, the Cut off is at 0.15% of the pc. bellow that, they aren't in the chart.
Source : store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
AMD GPU making the cut
- none
Nvidia GPU making the cut
- 3090 - 0,23%
- 3060 Ti - 0,27%
- 3080 - 0,66%
So there is more gamers using Steam that have a 3090 than any AMD card right now by a significant margin. There are more 3090 than there is 3070.
the 3090 is frequently in stock at Newegg. i could have got probably a dozens but i was shopping for a different cards. Yeah they were overprice, some up to 3000$ CAN. but they got sold.
What is interesting about the steam survey, is it would contain gamers and moderate miners, full time miners wouldn't bother running steam at all. So Nvidia have probably sold more cards to gamers than AMD. (but they still had 2 more month to do it, or 33% more time)
Worse than that, the 1050-series which have been out of production for two years are still gaining marketshare faster than the entire Ampere family combined. People are so desperate for a working GPU they're buying crap 1050Ti laptops that were so unattractively priced that they've been sat on the shelf for 18+ months, awaiting the right balance of gullible/desperate/ignorant customer to come along and pick it up.
But when i was trying to get one, i did check the Nvidia cards and i could had almost every day a 3090. Where it took me 2 week and a half of refreshing the page to get the 6800. Like i said, it was many different model of 3090, not just the same card not selling. But for each cards, you had around few hours to buy it instead of few minutes.
My point on the AMD vs Nvidia was just to show that Nvidia is selling 3080 and 3090 like cake and have no need for a 3080 Ti no matter what AMD does. Also note these data was taken early January. We will see if there are change in February. Also the steam hardware is a Survey, not an inventory. It survey a certain amount of member each month and extrapolate the data from it. You can't say your card purchase wasn't reflected there, first, what is 1 guy in a pool of millions of player and secondly, that is not how survey work.
If there was enough people like you that were able to buy a 6900XT early january to have more than 0,15%, we would see it. Maybe in february. but right now, that is not the case. Nvidia was able to sell way more cards than AMD. (but they also got released 3 month earlier).
My point is that NV is not selling 3080 and 3090 like cakes because the availability is very poor for end consumers.
It is obvious that buying an entire system from a vendor with the graphics card is easier than just the graphics.
Either way the availability is shit no matter how you look at it.
Early January? 6900 XT was released in December 9th (if I recall correctly) and I could get it already in January. 3090 was release weeks before 6900xt and people are still waiting for the card to be delivered from October's orders. So if you want to include availability of a product take a closer look at the release dates of the product and how many actually received it. Sell like cakes here makes no sense.
At any rate, let's hope that NVidia and Samsung can deliver enough Ampere GPUs for this new card to actually appear on shelves at retailers instead of going directly to mining farms and e-bay scalpers.