NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB now rumored to be announced on January 11th

NVIDIA RTX 3080 12GB with more cores and memory to be announced next week

Wccftech claims to know the announcement date of NVIDIA’s new RTX 30 GPU. 

Next week on January 11th at 6 AM PST NVIDIA is to announce its first ‘refresh’ of the RTX 30 series. It is not a SUPER refresh or a new Ti variant, but relatively a small update to the existing RTX 3080 SKU.

According to the leaked specs, GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is to feature not only 2GB more than the original 10GB model, but also a wider memory bus, which as result increases maximum bandwidth to 912 GB/s. Furthermore, a new GA102 GPU featuring 8960 CUDA cores is to be adopted by this variant, increasing the core count by 3% over the existing model.

At this point in time, it is unclear why NVIDIA is releasing a newer RTX 3080 model, or what will happen to the existing 10GB version. What is clear is that NVIDIA is now to announce yet another high wattage GPU in a span of two weeks. The company already revealed its RTX 3090 Ti flagship GPU with 450W TDP this Tuesday and will now add 350W TDP RTX 3080 12GB.

The RTX 3090 Ti is to launch on the same date as the entry-level RTX 3050, which is January 27th. The on-shelf date for RTX 3080 12GB is not yet known, but we will make sure to report on it as soon as we learn it. Wccftech claims that on January 11th, retailers may begin taking preorders for this new model, however that is also yet to be confirmed.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 High-End SKU Specifications
VideoCardz	RTX 3090 Ti	RTX 3090	RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 3080 12GB	RTX 3080 (10GB)
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GPU	GA102-350	GA102-300	GA102-225	GA102-220	GA102-200
GPU Clusters	84	82	80	70	68
CUDAs	10752	10496	10240	8960	8704
RT Cores	84	82	80	70	68
Tensors/TMUs	336	328	320	280	272
Base Clock	1560 MHz	1395 MHz	1365 MHz	TBC	1440 MHz
Boost Clock	1860 MHz	1695 MHz	1665 MHz	TBC	1710 MHz
Memory	24 GB G6X	24 GB G6X	12 GB G6X	12 GB G6X	10 GB G6X
Bus	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit
Memory Clock	21 Gbps	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	19 Gbps	19 Gbps
Bandwidth	1008 GB/s	936 GB/s	912 GB/s	912 GB/s	760 GB/s
TDP	450W	350W	350W	~350W	320W
MSRP	TBC	$1,499	$1,199	TBC	$699
Release Date	January 2022	September 24th, 2020	June 3rd, 2021	January 2022	September 17th, 2020

Source: Wccftech