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NVIDIA RTX 3080 12GB with more cores and memory to be announced next week
Wccftech claims to know the announcement date of NVIDIA’s new RTX 30 GPU.
Next week on January 11th at 6 AM PST NVIDIA is to announce its first ‘refresh’ of the RTX 30 series. It is not a SUPER refresh or a new Ti variant, but relatively a small update to the existing RTX 3080 SKU.
According to the leaked specs, GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is to feature not only 2GB more than the original 10GB model, but also a wider memory bus, which as result increases maximum bandwidth to 912 GB/s. Furthermore, a new GA102 GPU featuring 8960 CUDA cores is to be adopted by this variant, increasing the core count by 3% over the existing model.
At this point in time, it is unclear why is NVIDIA releasing a newer RTX 3080 model, or what will happen to the existing 10GB version. What is clear is that NVIDIA is now to announce yet another high wattage GPU in a span of two weeks. The company already revealed its RTX 3090 Ti flagship GPU with 450W TDP this Tuesday and will now add 350W TDP RTX 3080 12GB.
The RTX 3090 Ti is to launch on the same date as the entry-level RTX 3050, which is January 27th. The on-shelf date for RTX 3080 12GB is not yet known, but we will make sure to report on it as soon as we learn it. Wccftech claims that on January 11th, retailers may begin taking preorders for this new model, however that is also yet to be confirmed.
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 High-End SKU Specifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz | RTX 3090 Ti | RTX 3090 | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 3080 12GB | RTX 3080 (10GB) |
| Picture |  |  |  |  | |
| GPU | GA102-350 | GA102-300 | GA102-225 | GA102-220 | GA102-200 |
| GPU Clusters | 84 | 82 | 80 | 70 | 68 |
| CUDAs | 10752 | 10496 | 10240 | 8960 | 8704 |
| RT Cores | 84 | 82 | 80 | 70 | 68 |
| Tensors/TMUs | 336 | 328 | 320 | 280 | 272 |
| Base Clock | 1560 MHz | 1395 MHz | 1365 MHz | TBC | 1440 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1860 MHz | 1695 MHz | 1665 MHz | TBC | 1710 MHz |
| Memory | 24 GB G6X | 24 GB G6X | 12 GB G6X | 12 GB G6X | 10 GB G6X |
| Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit | 320-bit |
| Memory Clock | 21 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 1008 GB/s | 936 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 912 GB/s | 760 GB/s |
| TDP | 450W | 350W | 350W | ~350W | 320W |
| MSRP | TBC | $1,499 | $1,199 | TBC | $699 |
| Release Date | January 2022 | September 24th, 2020 | June 3rd, 2021 | January 2022 | September 17th, 2020 |
Source: Wccftech