New rumors point out that NVIDIA is planning to release new RTX 30 Ti series GPUs to tackle AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards that have been revealed by AMD recently. The rumored cards are said to be the GeForce RTX 3080Ti and the RTX 3070Ti and they will be positioned against the Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards.
The Ti versions of the RTX 3070 and 3080 will feature much beefier specifications than the non-Ti variants which are already present in the market. The rumors come from Kopite7kimi who has been spot on with the majority of his leaks regarding the Ampere 3000 series cards. He has spotted two brand-new GA102 GPU based graphics cards that NVIDIA is working on.
The new GA102 GPUs are expected to feature in RTX 3080Ti and RTX 3070Ti which has long been rumored and was actually in the plans at one point before NVIDIA decided to move things up to the RTX 3090.
The NVIDIA RTX 3080ti will feature the upgraded GA102-250-A1 GPU core which will provide performance between RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card with its GA102 GPU will feature 9984 CUDA cores which are close to the RTX 3090’s 10496 CUDA Cores. This is a 15% core increase from the RTX 3080.
RTX 3080Ti will also feature a 384-bit bus interface and GDDR6X VRAM at either 12 GB or 24 GB of capacity. A 12 GB RTX 3080 Ti should cut down the costs a lot and should be available in better quantities than the RTX 3090 at around $899-$999 US.
Coming to the rumored 3070Ti which will feature GA102-150-A1 GPU which is a huge upgrade from the GA104. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti will utilize the PG132-SKU35 board GPU will feature 7424 CUDA cores or 58 SMs. These are 26% more CUDA cores than the GeForce RTX 3070 and around 9% lower cores than the GeForce RTX 3080.
It is rumored that the 3070Ti will feature a 320-bit bus interface with 10GB of GDDR6 VRAM and the GPU is said to be rated at 320W. It is expected that the 3070Ti will be priced at around $599 and the 3080Ti at around $899-$999 US.
