Nvidia’s rumoured RTX 3080 Ti has reportedly been delayed until February

According to sources at Igor’s Lab, Nvidia plans to release their long-rumoured RTX 3080 Ti graphics card in mid-February, around Chinese New Year. This graphics card will sit between Nvidia’s RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 and offer gamers 20GB of GDDR6X memory. 

In January 2021, Nvidia will reported launch 6GB and 12GB variants of their RTX 3060 graphics card. These GPUs are expected to counter AMD’s rumoured 12GB RX 6700 XT. 

Igor has claimed that Nvidia has lowered the priority of their RTX 3080 Ti graphics card following the launch of AMD’s RX 6000 series. While AMD’s 16GB  frame buffers on their RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT looked great on paper, they did not yield significant performance advantages in reviews. As such, Nvidia’s planned 20GB RTX 3080 Ti did not need to be rushed to market. 

Nvidia is likely to target a $999 pricepoint with their RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, acting as a hard counter to AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT. With this move, Nvidia will offer more memory and the advantages of their RTX feature set, which is a big deal given how much DLSS can impact the performance of games like Cyberpunk 2077. That said, DLSS needs to be adopted by a wider variety of PC games to become a larger selling point for Nvidia. 

Regarding Nvidia’s rumoured 6GB RTX 3060 graphics cards, we feel that 6GB of memory is not enough for future games. Both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 feature 16GB of combined memory, double that of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Future games will require more system memory and GPU memory, making 6GB video cards a tough sell moving forward.