NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has been leaked out for a while now, but still, there is much confusion about when the card will be launching and what its final specifications will be. According to the latest rumor by ITHome, NVIDIA has pushed the launch of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti by a month and it will now be releasing in May instead of the earlier leaked time of April.
It was previously rumored that NVIDIA is planning to launch the RTX 3080 Ti in mid-April but the latest report shares that the company has decided to push the launch of the card by a whole month. It is now rumored for a launch in mid-May which is exactly a month later than its original schedule.
NVIDIA internally issued a new announcement that the release time of the next-generation RTX30 series model. The RTX 3080Ti 12G has been delayed again, and it is now expected to be released around mid-May.
-Via ITHome.
NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 Ti is based on the GA-102 GPU and there is a severe shortage of GA-102 GPUs currently. ASUS in its recent investors call confirmed that they are currently being supplied limited NVIDIA Ampere GPUs which is causing huge stock delays and increased prices. These shortages are more persistent on the GA102 and GA104 GPUs.
Considering that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is going to be based on the GA102 GPU, this could explain why the delay has happened and the card has been moved to mid-Q2.
NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 Ti has been rumored for quite some time now, with the card appearing with several different GPU configurations at different times. According to the latest rumors, NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 Ti will be powered by the GA 102-225-KD-A1 GPU and the PG132-SKU18 PCB design. The GA102-225 GPU will feature 10240 CUDA cores within a total of 80 SM units. It will also feature a similar Hash Rate Limiter as that of the Nvidia RTX 3060.
The RTX 3080 Ti will feature 12 GB of GDDR6X memory. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will retain the same memory speeds as the RTX 3080 at 19 Gbps. Since we are getting 12 GB memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be using a 384-bit bus interface which equals a total bandwidth of 912 GB/s. The larger bus interface should drive higher memory bandwidth. The graphics card is said to have a TDP of 320 watts, the same as the RTX 3080.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is expected to launch for an MSRP of around $999 US. We will have to wait and see if this card has any better stock or will it suffer the same fate of low stock as all other cards.
