NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti to be announced on May 31st, launching in June

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti launch pushed back by a week

We received a full launch schedule on the upcoming RTX 30 Ti graphics cards.

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti announcement has been postponed by two weeks. The original date of May 18th has been changed to May 31st. We have confirmed that NVIDIA is planning to announce both the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti on the same day. However, product reviews will be split, with RTX 3080 Ti being introduced on June 2nd and RTX 3070 Ti reviews going live on June 9th.

We do not have product launch (availability) dates yet, but those embargoes are usually lifted on the same day as reviews or a day later (more common now).

NVIDIA is currently shipping its GA10X-XX2 GPUs designated internally as LHR (Lite Hash Rate). Those should become available to customers in the coming weeks. The plan is to completely refresh the whole lineup with LHR/3080Ti/3070Ti series in the next 2 months.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will feature GA102-225 GPU with 10240 CUDA cores enabled. This model will offer 12GB GDDR6X memory, which is indeed just 2GB more than RTX 3080, but thanks to the wider bus of 384-bit the maximum bandwidth will increase by 152GB/s.

The RTX 3070 Ti, might be one of the most interesting cards in the NVIDIA lineup yet. This is the first Ampere gaming card to feature full GPU specs, in this case, the GA104-400. The RTX 3070 Ti will offer 6144 CUDA cores and 8GB GDDR6X memory. While 8GB is indeed less than RTX 3060 with 12GB, the RTX 3070 Ti allegedly gets GDDR6X modules, which would provide a bandwidth increase of 160 GB/s over RTX 3070 non-TI. It seems that the RTX3080Ti / 3070 TI is all about the memory upgrade.

We received this update shortly after our colleagues at Overclocking.com were also able to confirm the June release. While this is the fifth update to AIBs on the launch schedule of both cards, it is actually the first time NVIDIA confirmed the exact dates of both SKUs. So yes, it seems to be final, but at this point, we can’t promise it won’t change again.

RUMORED NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Specifications
VideoCardz	RTX 3090	RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 3080	RTX 3070 Ti	RTX 3070
Picture		[ to be leaked ]		[ to be leaked ]
GPU	GA102-300	GA102-225	GA102-200	GA104-400	GA104-300
GPU Clusters	82	~80	68	48	46
CUDAs	10496	~10240	8704	6144	5888
RTs	82	~80	68	48	46
Tensors/TMUs	328	~320	272	192	184
ROPs	112	~112	96	96	96
Base Clock	1395 MHz	1365 MHz	1440 MHz	TBC	1500 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	1665 MHz	1710 MHz	TBC	1725 MHz
Memory	24 GB G6X	12 GB G6X	10 GB G6X	8 GB G6X	8 GB G6
Bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	19.5 Gbps	~19 Gbps	19 Gbps	~19 Gbps	14 Gbps
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	~912 GB/s	760 GB/s	~608 GB/s	448 GB/s
TDP	350W	~320W	320W	TBC	220W
MSRP	$1,499	TBC	$699	TBC	$499
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	June 2nd, 2021 ?	Sep 17th, 2020	June 9th, 2021 ?	Oct 29th, 2020