Hardly any other topic has heated the minds as much in the past few weeks as the unavailability of the new generation of Ampere graphics cards. The delivery situation, especially for the Founders Edition, is still very mixed and for partner reference models that are hardly faster, you have to dig deeper into your pocket than you would like. It is all the more astonishing that the rumors about a soon to be released GeForce RTX 3080 Ti do not want to tear off.

As has now been known from various Taiwanese manufacturer rumors, a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at a price of the equivalent of just under 1. 000 US dollars with chip details of the GeForce RTX 3090, but with a memory connection of the GeForce RTX 3080. Based on the GA 102 – 250 – KD-A1 graphics chip of the RTX 3090 with 10. 496 CUDA cores, or shader units and a 320 bit wide interface instead of 384 bit, the supposed RTX 3080 Ti can be equipped with 20 GB-GDDR6X. At the same time, the non-support of SLI is confirmed. This can apparently be explained by the same board layout (PG 133 SKU 15) conclude that it should be the same as that of the RTX 3080. NVLink for dual operation would still be reserved for the GeForce RTX 3090.

Despite more CUDA cores compared to the normal GeForce RTX 3080 the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should have the same maximum heat output of 320 W. For comparison: The RTX 3090 has a TDP of 350 W. In order to make this possible, the clock rates are likely to be reduced a bit. How far, no information has yet leaked.

The supposed release date of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti would make sense both in terms of price and model, because for one would close the big gap between the RTX 3090 and the normal RTX 3080, on the other hand, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT that you have to compete against if you don’t want to lose too much ground in the highly competitive next-gen graphics card sector.