The Radeon RX Debut 6800 / 6900 has triggered a lot of rumors in recent weeks about Nvidia’s intention to revise the offer with a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti , a solution equipped of 20 GB of memory and a GPU similar to that of the RTX 3090 to position itself under the 1000 dollars in order to bridge the gap between the RTX 3080 and the RTX 3090 in which the RX is inserted 6900 XT.

There have been countless concrete rumors and references about it, so we doubt the project wasn’t real. But right now there is a huge problem, a huge shortage of video cards (officially caused by unprecedented demand) that is affecting both Nvidia and AMD. Introducing the GeForce RTX today 3080 You would be equivalent to a paper launch , which is a debut on paper given the impossibility of satisfying the demand.

Entries leaked to CES 2021 regarding the shortage have clarified that the situation does not seem destined to improve for many months, so it is not surprising to learn from GamerNexus and TechPowerUp that Nvidia would have decided to postpone the debut of the GeForce RTX for an indefinite period of time 3080 Ti and other tabs in the roadmap. A choice of common sense, so as to focus on increasing the production of the models already presented.

The GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB unveiled in recent days in view of the debut in mid-February should therefore be the last Ampere GPU to land on the market for some time. The fact that Nvidia has decided to announce it and at the same time to block other models is probably due to two factors: the choice to position itself – at least on the facade – in the mid-range of the market before AMD, thus keeping the spotlight on its offer, and the fact that perhaps the car was already in motion (design and production of custom models) and could not be stopped out of the blue.

Putting the GeForce RTX to standby 3080 Ti, on the other hand, is a painless operation : Even AMD struggles to bring a good number of cards to market, and the ones available cost too much. For this reason Nvidia does not need to answer, there does not seem to be an immediate danger of losing large market shares. On the other hand, if what was stated at CES is true 2021, Nvidia is really selling all the RTXs 3000 that it produces, given the numbers would be almost double compared to what was recorded by the RTX 2000 in the same time period.