Since first days following the official debut of the first NVIDIA GeForce RTX family video cards 3000 rumors emerged that the debut of new card versions equipped with a greater amount of onboard video memory . It would have gone to 20 GB for GeForce RTX cards 3080 against the 10 GB proposed by NVIDIA as the default at the debut.

The reason for this choice is easy to say: the competing cards of AMD , family models Radeon RX 6000 , they are all equipped with video memory from 16 GB. The difference can be very important, for the purposes of overall speed performance, with some titles especially selecting 4K resolution and very high quality settings.

ASUS indirectly confirmed the debut, in the early years of 2021, of new video cards of the family GeForce RTX 3000 which will adopt higher video memory allocations compared to those currently on the market. Specifically we are talking about the card GeForce RTX 3080 Ti con 20 GB of memory vide oe than that GeForce RTX 3060 with 12 GB of memory .

Both these GPUs are not currently commercially available but their market positioning is easily deducible: the first will be positioned between GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080 , while the second will be for processing power slightly lower than the GeForce RTX model 3060 Ti. Specifically, ASUS will offer these cards within the Strix product family, with versions characterized or not by a standard overclock. We will see over the next few weeks, as their commercial debut approaches, what their final technical specifications will be in terms of the number of CUDA cores and clock rates of GPU and video memory.