Nvidia reportedly pushed back the RTX 3080 Ti’s launch

Videocardz has claimed that Nvidia has set their RTX 3080 Ti’s review embargo date for June 2nd, with the RTX 3070 Ti reviews coming on June 2nd. If true, this would mean that Nvidia will be allowing RTX 3080 Ti reviews to be released two days after the graphics card’s official reveal. At this time, GPU availability dates are unknown. A June launch is expected  

Nvidia’s new RTX 30 series graphics cards are due to ship with Nvidia’s hash rate limiting technology, crippling the graphics card’s cryptocurrency mining performance when mining Ethereum. Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti will replace the RTX 3070 and the RTX 3080 Ti will replace the RTX 3080, effectively removing these popular mining graphics cards from the market. 

Nvidia’s RTX 30 Ti series will focus on offering customers upgraded memory performance, with the RTX 3080 Ti receiving an upgrade from 10GB of GDDR6X to 12GB of GDDR6X while the RTX 3070 Ti gains upgraded GDDR6X memory to replace the RTX 3070’s GDDR6 frame buffer. The RTX 3070 Ti will reportedly feature an 8GB frame buffer, though the upgrade to GDDR6X memory will enable a significant memory bandwidth upgrade. 

Given these memory performance improvements, Nvidia’s hash rate limiting technology will become more important than ever, as Ethereum mining performance is mostly limited by memory performance on modern graphics cards. As such, these graphics cards would be ideal mining GPUs has Nvidia chosen not to limit their mining performance.