NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti now rumored to launch in May

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in May

According to ITHome, NVIDIA has issued an internal update on RTX 3080 Ti.

The site reports that GeForce RTX 3080 Ti which was previously expected to launch in mid-April, has now shifted to mid-May. We received a similar update on Monday, but we were not yet able to verify this information with other sources just yet. Apparently, this information is already known in Asia:

NVIDIA internally issued a new announcement that the release time of the next-generation RTX30 series model. The RTX 3080Ti 12G has been delayed again, and it is now expected to be released around mid-May.

— ITHome

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was originally planned to launch in mid-April. The report from ITHome suggests that there is a delay of another month, a fifth delay for the ‘new 3080’ to be precise. The original model called RTX 3080 20GB was scheduled to launch in December, but NVIDIA has dropped its plans just two weeks in advance. NVIDIA has then scheduled RTX 3080 Ti 16GB to launch in January, but the plans have eventually shifted to February. Since then the SKU has received new specs, reduced CUDA core to 10240, and memory downgrade to 12GB. The final and so far the latest update is that RTX 3080 Ti would launch in May.

NVIDIA has now two cards scheduled to launch in May: RTX 3080 Ti 12GB and RTX 3070 Ti 8GB. It is unclear if the manufacturer has plans to make some kind of a special announcement. Does anyone still remember ‘it’s almost TIme’ GTX 1080 Ti teaser?. Well, a special event for these two cards would definitely seem appropriate, considering they are to represent very popular market segments.

Next month NVIDIA will have its Graphics Technology Conference (GTC 2021), where its CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote. Historically speaking NVIDIA does not unveil client products such as GeForce at GTC. With RTX 3080 Ti being delayed again, one should not expect any updates on this SKU at the conference.

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	TBC	1440 MHz	TBC	1500 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	TBC	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	TBC	320W	TBC	220W
MSRP	$1,499	TBC	$699	TBC	$499
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	May 2021	Sep 17th, 2020	May 2021	Oct 29th, 2020

Source: ITHome