NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to launch in January 2021

NVIDIA preparing a response to Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card.

NVIDIA to launch GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in January

According to the new report from HKEPC, NVIDIA will launch its new high-end GPU in January. The next SKU in the GeForce RTX 30 pipeline is the RTX 3080 Ti, according to the article. This particular model had, in fact, just appeared in the rumor last week when kopite7kimi provided the initial specs of the graphics card. Most of these specs have been confirmed by HKEPC.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be equipped with GA102-250-KD-A1 GPU. The website reports on the 10496 CUDA core count (we were unable to confirm this part of the leak yet). The graphics card would also feature 20GB of GDDR6X memory (the memory speed is currently unknown) across a 320-bit interface. The TGP of the RTX 3080 Ti is estimated at 320W, which is the same value as for RTX 3080 non-Ti. The site reports that 3080 Ti will lack the NVLINK connector. The board number of the RTX 3080 Ti is PG133 SKU 15 (RTX 3080 uses the same board design).

We have been able to partially confirm this rumor just today. Such SKU does exist on the most recent roadmap. However, please do note the roadmaps do change when manufacturers adjust their plans to better target competitor’s offers. We have already seen such an adjustment with RTX 3080 20GB graphics card, which was eventually scrapped.

AMD is currently not expected to have other high-end GPUs in January, thus we expect no significant changes to the current roadmap.

NVIDIA & AMD High-End GPUs 2020-2021
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 GA102-250	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	TBC	68	80	72
FP32 Cores	10496	TBC	8704	5120	4608
RT Accelerators	82	TBC	68	80	72
Tensor Cores	328	TBC	272	N/A	N/A
Texture Units	328	TBC	272	320	288
ROPs	112	TBC	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	20 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	TBC	19 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	936 GB/s	TBC	760 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Bus	384-bit	320-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
TGP/TBP	350W	320W	320W	300W	300W
MSRP	$1,499	TBC	$699	$999	$649
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	January 2021	Sep 17th, 2020	Dec 8th, 2020	Nov 18th, 2020

Source: HKEPC