NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB memory to launch in April?

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB memory

We have received a new update on the RTX 3080 Ti.

NVIDIA has allegedly changed the specifications for its upcoming high-end RTX 3080 Ti graphics card once again. We were actually in a process of confirming the specs that we received, when @kopite7kimi, the person who leaked GA100/GA102 specs months ahead of launch, has now shared exactly what we have been hearing.

The most recent update to the NVIDIA product roadmap lists GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB coming in April. The date has not been confirmed by other sources yet. This is actually a third date from the same roadmap, so we wouldn’t necessarily believe that cannot change again. However, this is the latest information that we have. More importantly though, the card is no longer listed as ‘on hold’.

Things have changed.
Maybe the current spec is 10240FP32, 12G GD6X. 😃

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) February 6, 2021

Kopite has revealed that the card might feature 10240 CUDA cores, which means that the RTX 3080 would offer 80 Streaming Multiprocessors, 12 more than RTX 3080 and 2 fewer than RTX 3090. Thus the card should offer a very similar performance to RTX 3090, but it will all depend on the clock speeds and enforced TDP (earlier reports have suggested it will be 320W like RTX 3080).

With 12GB GDDR6X memory, the graphics card would have to rely on a wider 384-bit memory bus. Previous rumors have suggested that the card might feature 20 GB GDDR6X memory, in fact, this information has been available to board partners for at least 2 months. Some of them have already prepared product codes for the RTX 3080 Ti 20GB. However, it would seem that those product codes need to change now.

NVIDIA would launch GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in April. The exact date has not yet been announced by NVIDIA to board partners.

2021 NVIDIA & AMD High-End GPUs
VideoCardzGeForce RTX 3090
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
GeForce RTX 3080Radeon RX 6900XTRadeon RX 6800XT
Picture[ to be leaked ]
ArchitectureNVIDIA AmpereNVIDIA AmpereNVIDIA AmpereAMD RDNA2AMD RDNA2
GPU8nm GA102-3008nm GA102-2508nm GA102-2007nm Navi 21 XTX7nm Navi 21 XT
Transistors
28.3 B
28.3 B
28.3 B
26.8 B
26.8 B
GPU Clusters
82
~80
68
80
72
FP32 Cores
10496
~10240
8704
5120
4608
RT Accelerators
82
~80
68
80
72
Tensor Cores
328
~320
272
N/AN/A
Texture Units
328
~320
272
320
288
ROPs
112
~112
96
128
128
Base Clock
1395 MHz
TBC
1440 MHz
1815 MHz
1825 MHz
Game ClockN/AN/AN/A
2015 MHz
2015 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
TBC
1710 MHz
2250 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory
24 GB G6X
12 GB G6X
10 GB G6X
16GB G6
16GB G6
Infinity CacheN/AN/AN/A
128 MB
128 MB
Memory Clock
19.5 Gbps
19 Gbps
19 Gbps
16 Gbps
16 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth
936 GB/s
864 GB/s
760 GB/s
512 GB/s
512 GB/s
Memory Bus
384-bit
384-bit
320-bit
256-bit
256-bit
TGP/TBP
350W
TBC
320W
300W
300W
MSRP
$1,499
TBC
$699
$999
$649
Release DateSep 24th, 2020April 2021?Sep 17th, 2020Dec 8th, 2020Nov 18th, 2020