Nvidia’s may be preparing an RTX 3080 Ti to combat the Radeon RX 6000 series.

Rumour has it that Nvidia plans to launch a new graphics card called the RTX 3080 Ti, a new GPU which will sit in-between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 with 12GB of VRAM and 9984 CUDA cores. This information comes from @kopite7kimi on Twitter. 

This new graphics card is designed to combat AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series, offering more performance than Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and lower pricing than the company’s 24GB RTX 3090. Given the small performance gap between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ti is expected to perform very similarly to an RTX 3090, as it only features 512 fewer CUDA cores. 

Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ti is expected to offer users 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM over a 384-bit memory bus, allowing Nvidia to deliver much lower retail pricing than its RTX 3090. 

It is possible that these RTX 3080 Ti specifications were previously considered by Nvidia but were later abandoned in favour of their RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 designs. That said, Nvidia may decide to utilise this design should AMD’s RDNA 2 powered RX 6000 series give Nvidia’s Ampere lineup stronger than expected competition. 

Â	RTX 3090Â	Rumoured RTX 3080 Ti	RTX 3080	RTX 3070	Leaked RTX 3060 Ti
Node	8nm	8nm	8nm	8nm	8nm
CUDA Cores	10496	9984	8704	5888	4864Â
Base Clock	1.4 GHz	??	1.44 GHz	1.5 GHz	1.41 GHz
Boost Clock	1.7 GHz	??	1.71 GHz	1.73 GHz	1.665 GHzÂ
Single-Precision Performance	35.7 TFLOPS	??	29.8 TFLOPS	20.4 TFLOPS	16.2 TFLOPS
Memory	24GB GDDR6X	12GB GDDR6	10GB GDDR6X	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6Â
Memory Speed	19.5 Gbps	??	19 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
TGP	350W	??	320W	220W	??
Recommended PSU	750W	??	750W	650W	??
Pricing (US)	$1,499	??	$699	$499	??
Pricing (UK)	£1,399	??	£649	£469	??

GA102-250-A1, 9984FP32, 384bits GD6X

— kopite7kimi4virgil (@kopite7kimi) October 27, 2020

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