NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB memory to launch in April?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB memory

We have received a new update on the RTX 3080 Ti.

NVIDIA has allegedly changed the specifications for its upcoming high-end RTX 3080 Ti graphics card once again. We were actually in a process of confirming the specs that we received, when @kopite7kimi, the person who leaked GA100/GA102 specs months ahead of launch, has now shared exactly what we have been hearing.

The most recent update to the NVIDIA product roadmap lists GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB coming in April. The date has not been confirmed by other sources yet. This is actually a third date from the same roadmap, so we wouldn’t necessarily believe that cannot change again. However, this is the latest information that we have. More importantly though, the card is no longer listed as ‘on hold’.

Kopite has revealed that the card might feature 10240 CUDA cores, which means that the RTX 3080 would offer 80 Streaming Multiprocessors, 12 more than RTX 3080 and 2 fewer than RTX 3090. Thus the card should offer a very similar performance to RTX 3090, but it will all depend on the clock speeds and enforced TDP (earlier reports have suggested it will be 320W like RTX 3080).

With 12GB GDDR6X memory, the graphics card would have to rely on a wider 384-bit memory bus. Previous rumors have suggested that the card might feature 20 GB GDDR6X memory, in fact, this information has been available to board partners for at least 2 months. Some of them have already prepared product codes for the RTX 3080 Ti 20GB. However, it would seem that those product codes need to change now.

NVIDIA would launch GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in April. The exact date has not yet been announced by NVIDIA to board partners.

2021 NVIDIA & AMD High-End GPUs
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	~80	68	80	72
FP32 Cores	10496	~10240	8704	5120	4608
RT Accelerators	82	~80	68	80	72
Tensor Cores	328	~320	272	N/A	N/A
Texture Units	328	~320	272	320	288
ROPs	112	~112	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	12 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	19 Gbps	19 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	936 GB/s	864 GB/s	760 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
TGP/TBP	350W	TBC	320W	300W	300W
MSRP	$1,499	TBC	$699	$999	$649
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	April 2021?	Sep 17th, 2020	Dec 8th, 2020	Nov 18th, 2020