Not a week goes by without us hearing a different rumor about the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti video card. According to the latest report from ITHome, NVIDIA appears to have postponed the launch of its gaming video card for enthusiasts by one month.
12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card scheduled to launch in May, Rumor Alleges
Previously, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti was due to launch in mid-April, but now it looks like the green team has decided to postpone the launch for an entire month. Now there are rumors of a release in mid-May, exactly a month after its original schedule. We don’t know if the company still wants to proceed with the announcement that was planned for early April or if that too has been postponed, but the launch is definitely delayed and we can already think of some reasons why this change may have occurred.
NVIDIA has internally issued a new announcement that the launch time of the next generation RTX30 series model. The RTX 3080Ti 12G has been postponed again and is now due to be released in mid-May.
via ITHome
ASUS is a recent call from investors that confirmed that limited NVIDIA Ampere GPUs are currently being supplied, which is causing huge delays in inventory and price increases. NVIDIA currently has its line of GPUs Ampere composed of three main chips, GA102, GA104 and GA106. These shortcomings are more persistent in the high performance parts GA102 and GA104, which include boards such as RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti. MSI, another major supplier of NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, confirmed with DigiTimes that, due to to the continuing shortage of GPUs, the company is expected to raise the prices of its existing graphics card portfolio.
Both suppliers have already raised prices due to increased shipping charges and higher prices for various PCB components.
“When it comes to the video card, the main problem today is the lack of Nvidia (GPU) shipments, so there is a situation of supply restriction. Due to a lack of supplies, prices are rising, ”said Asus Co-CEO, SY Hsu. “Everyone is struggling to get units.”
“At the moment, we speculate that the upstream supplier’s performance has not been good,” said Hsu during the event. “This led to a major shortage.”
ASUS Co-CEO, SY Hsu (via PCMag)
Micro-Star International (MSI) will increase the prices of its video cards to reflect the restricted offer that may persist until the end of 2021, according to the company’s president, Joseph Hsu.
Hsu, at an investor conference on March 23, pointed out that final demand for motherboards, graphics cards and gaming notebooks is likely to remain robust for the rest of 2021 and shipments for each product line in 2021, after registering an increase annual between 30-50% in 2020, it is expected to see double-digit growth again.
MSI President Joseph Hsu (via DigiTimes)
Considering that NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be based on the GA102 GPU, this may explain why the delay happened and the card was moved to the middle of the second quarter instead of the beginning of the second quarter. However, despite a delay of a month, we do not expect the situation to improve, as NVIDIA’s own partners are not confident that the GPU supply will return to normal by the end of 2021. This can also be said for AMD Radeon RX 6000 lineup that will focus on more conventional cards in the coming months.
The scheduled time interval for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is the same as the RTX 3070 Ti, which was also expected to launch in May, but should now also be moved back to a different date. We expect the card to be launched next to Computex 2021.
‘Rumors’ NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB graphics card specifications
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB FE (Founders Edition) graphics card must feature the PG132-SKU18 PCB design and the GA102-225-KD-A1 graphics core. The GA102-225 GPU has also changed since the last time we saw them and will now feature 10240 CUDA cores in a total of 80 SM units. Since the main core configuration is completely new, leaked clocks and TMU / ROP counts must previously be discarded.
As for memory, the card will have 12 GB of GDDR6X memory. Unlike the RTX 3090’s 19.5 Gbps speeds, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti retains the same memory speeds as the RTX 3080 at 19 Gbps. As we are getting 12 GB of memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will use a 384-bit bus interface, which equates to a total bandwidth of 912 GB / s. Therefore, although we see an 8 GB reduction in VRAM compared to the previous specification, the larger bus interface should generate greater memory bandwidth.
The TGP for the board is set to be the same as the RTX 3080 at 320 Watts. This is definitely necessary to power the extra cores, so NVIDIA may have to optimize the clocks here a bit. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is expected to launch in mid-April for a suggested price of around $ 999.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series ‘Ampere’ graphics card specifications:
| Graphics card name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti? | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti? | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Name | Ampere GA107 | Ampere GA106? | Ampere GA106-300 | Ampere GA104-200 | Ampere GA104-300 | Ampere GA104-400 | Ampere GA102-200 | Ampere GA102-225? | Ampere GA102-300 |
| Process Node | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm |
| Matrix size | TBA | TBA | TBA | 395.2 mm2 | 395.2 mm2 | 395.2 mm2 | 628.4 mm2 | 628.4 mm2 | 628.4 mm2 |
| Transistors | TBA | TBA | TBA | 17.4 billion | 17.4 billion | 17.4 billion | 28 billion | 28 billion | 28 billion |
| CUDA Cores | 2304? | 3584? | 3584 | 4864 | 5888 | 6144? | 8704 | 10240? | 10496 |
| TMUs / ROPs | TBA | TBA | 112/64 | 152/80 | 184/96 | 192/104? | 272/96 | 320/112? | 328/112 |
| Tensioner / RT cores | TBA | TBA | 112/28 | 152/38 | 184/46 | 192/48? | 272/68 | 320/76? | 328/82 |
| Base Clock | TBA | TBA | 1320 MHz | 1410 MHz | 1500 MHz | TBA | 1440 MHz | TBA | 1400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | TBA | TBA | 1780 MHz | 1665 MHz | 1730 MHz | TBA | 1710 MHz | TBA | 1700 MHz |
| FP32 Compute | TBA | TBA | 12.7 TFLOPs | 16.2 TFLOPs | 20 TFLOPs | TBA | 30 TFLOPs | TBA | 36 TFLOPs |
| RT TFLOPs | TBA | TBA | 25.4 TFLOPs | 32.4 TFLOPs | 40 TFLOPs | TBA | 58 TFLOPs | TBA | 69 TFLOPs |
| Tensor-TOPs | TBA | TBA | 101 TOPs | 129.6 TOPs | 163 TOPs | TBA | 238 TOPs | TBA | 285 TOPs |
| Memory capacity | 4 GB GDDR6? | 6 GB GDDR6? | 12 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 12 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory Bus | 128 bits | 192 bits? | 192 bits | 256 bits | 256 bits | 256 bits | 320 bits | 384 bits | 384 bits |
| Memory Speed | TBA | TBA | 15 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | TBA | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | TBA | TBA | 360 Gbps | 448 Gbps | 448 Gbps | TBA | 760 Gbps | 912 Gbps | 936 Gbps |
| TGP | 90W? | TBA | 170W | 200W | 220W | 250W? | 320W | 320W | 350W |
| Price (MSRP / FE) | $ 149? | $ 199? | $ 329 | $ 399 US | $ 499 US | $ 599? | $ 699 US | $ 999? | $ 1499 US |
| Release (availability) | 2021? | 2021? | February 2021 | December 2020 | October 29 | May 2021? | September 17 | April 2021? | September 24 |
News source: Videocardz