MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3X 12GB spotted during transit

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3X 12GB OC

It seems that manufacturers have already begun shipping GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to distribution centers.

A shipment of new MSI graphics cards is heading to Los Angeles. Large boxes with GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3090, Radeon RX 580, and even GeForce GT 710 are heading to the USA. Interestingly one of the boxes also features yet unreleased GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3X OC mode:

More importantly, though, the shipping label confirms this graphics card features 12GB of memory. This ultimately ends the rumors about the RTX 3080 Ti memory size, which was previously rumored to be 20GB or 16GB.

The RTX 3080 Ti is not the only graphics cards being shipped, at least a few pallets of other graphics cards also are heading to the US:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is the upcoming enthusiast graphics card featuring GA102-225 GPU with 10240 CUDA cores. This model will feature half of RTX 3090 memory capacity which is 12 GB of GDDR6X chips. The RTX 3080 Ti is expected to be released in May, but NVIDIA is yet to confirm the exact launch date.

2021 NVIDIA & AMD High-End GPUs
VideoCardz	GeForce RTX 3090	GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	GeForce RTX 3080	Radeon RX 6900XT	Radeon RX 6800XT
Picture		[ to be leaked ]
Architecture	NVIDIA Ampere	NVIDIA Ampere	NVIDIA Ampere	AMD RDNA2	AMD RDNA2
GPU	8nm GA102-300	8nm GA102-225	8nm GA102-200	7nm Navi 21 XTX	7nm Navi 21 XT
Transistors	28.3 B	28.3 B	28.3 B	26.8 B	26.8 B
GPU Clusters	82	~80	68	80	72
FP32 Cores	10496	~10240	8704	5120	4608
RT Accelerators	82	~80	68	80	72
Tensor Cores	328	~320	272	N/A	N/A
Texture Units	328	~320	272	320	288
ROPs	112	~112	96	128	128
Base Clock	1395 MHz	TBC	1440 MHz	1815 MHz	1825 MHz
Game Clock	N/A	N/A	N/A	2015 MHz	2015 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	TBC	1710 MHz	2250 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory	24 GB G6X	12 GB G6X	10 GB G6X	16GB G6	16GB G6
Infinity Cache	N/A	N/A	N/A	128 MB	128 MB
Memory Clock	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	19 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	864 GB/s	760 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
TGP/TBP	350W	TBC	320W	300W	300W
MSRP	$1,499	TBC	$699	$999	$649
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	May 2021?	Sep 17th, 2020	Dec 8th, 2020	Nov 18th, 2020

Source: Lok LOK