Nvidia’s reportedly creating a 20GB RTX 3080 Ti to combat AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT
Nvidia’s reportedly creating a 20GB RTX 3080 Ti to combat AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XTÂ
Rumour has it that Nvidia’s working on an RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, a new Ampere SKU which will act as a new competitor to AMD’s upcoming RX 6900 XT graphics card.Â
According to @koptite7kimi on Twitter, Nvidia has been testing a new graphics card design which features 10,496 CUDA cores, 20GB of GDDR6X memory and the same TDP as Nvidia’s RTX 3080. Â
This new graphics card is expected to target the $999 price point, offering users 4GB less memory than an RTX 3090, slightly slower memory speeds over a smaller 320-bit memory bus and a lower power target than an RTX 3090. Given these specifications, Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ti will sit between Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 models, graphics cards which already feature a slim performance gap.Â
If these reported RTX 3080 Ti specifications are correct, Nvidia will have made their RTX 3090 graphics card practically irrelevant to the wider consumer market. For most users, the RTX 3090’s additional VRAM, memory bandwidth and higher power target will be ok little consequence, as will the GPU’s lack of NVLINK support.Â
|  | RTX 3090 | Rumoured RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 3080 | RTX 3070 | Leaked RTX 3060 Ti |
| Node | 8nm | 8nm | 8nm | 8nm | 8nm |
| CUDA Cores | 10496 | 10496 | 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 GHz |
| Single-Precision Performance |
35.7 TFLOPS | ?? | 29.8 TFLOPS | 20.4 TFLOPS | 16.2 TFLOPS |
| Memory | 24GB GDDR6X | 20GB GDDR6 | 10GB GDDR6X | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6Â |
| Memory Speed | 19.5 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| TGP | 350W | 320W | 320W | 220W | ?? |
| Recommended PSU | 750W | 750W | 750W | 650W | ?? |
| NVLINK | Supported | – | – | – | – |
| Pricing (US) | $1,499 | ?? | $699 | $499 | ?? |
| Pricing (UK) | £1,399 | ?? | £649 | £469 | ?? |
RTX 3080 Ti FE:
PG133-SKU15,
GA102-250-KD-A1,
20GB GD6X,
the same FP32 count as 3090, 10496FP32,
the same MEM speed and TGP as 3080,
no NVLINK.— kopite7kimi4virgil (@kopite7kimi) November 4, 2020
AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series is due to launch as strong competitors to Nvidia’s Ampere lineup, injecting some much-needed competition into the GPU market. Competition could get even tighter in 2021, as Intel plans to enter the discrete graphics market.
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