NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is now ‘available’

NVIDIA launches its new ‘gaming flagship’

Despite the global shortage of components NVIDIA decided to add new SKUs to the list. 

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti features 8nm Ampere GA102-225 GPU with 10240 CUDA cores. This is a 17% increase over RTX 3080 non-Ti and 2.4% fewer cores than RTX 3090. Unlike the flagship model though, the RTX 3080 Ti features only 12 GB of GDDR6X memory. It is still an upgrade over RTX 3080 which only shipped with 10GB 320-bit memory. Higher memory capacity requires a wider bus of 384-bit, which improved maximum bandwidth to 912 GB/s as result.

The Founders Edition graphics card has been extensively tested by independent reviewers, who concluded that the graphics card is indeed faster than RTX 3080 non-Ti, but a price increase by over 500 USD is not something that can easily justify the investment. Unfortunately, nothing suggests that custom models will cost anything remotely close to MSRP.

NVIDIA is yet to launch its RTX 3070 Ti model with full GA104 GPU next week. Both cards along with the updated RTX 30 LHR series introduce mining limiters, which should convince cryptocurrency mining enthusiasts to look elsewhere.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Specifications
VideoCardz	RTX 3090	RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 3080	RTX 3070 Ti	RTX 3070
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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	1575MHz	1500 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	1665 MHz	1710 MHz	1770 MHz	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	350W	320W	290W	220W
MSRP	$1,499	$1,199	$699	$599	$499
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	June 3rd, 2021	Sep 17th, 2020	June 10th, 2021	Oct 29th, 2020