NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti not for miners
According to new information, all future GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards are to feature ETH mining limiter.
A known leaker who revealed NVIDIA Ampere specifications months ahead of the initial launch has confirmed that the next installment in GeForce RTX 30 series, the RTX 3080 Ti will also feature a crypto mining limiter. According to a tweet posted by @kopite7kimi, NVIDIA will be implementing the same mining limiter that debuted with GeForce RTX 3060 for their next high-end model.
This information should not be a surprise to anyone, because NVIDIA hinted that future RTX 30 releases may have this technology built into the firmware. We already independently confirmed that NVIDIA has recently provided this update on RTX 3080 Ti to AIBs. What Kopite did not post yet is that this feature will also launch for (as it is now listed in the roadmap) GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.
It will have 12G 19Gbps VRAM and an ETH mining nerf too.
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) March 4, 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is now rumored to launch with GA102 GPU with 10240 CUDA cores. From the originally planned 20GB GDDR6X 320-bit memory, NVIDIA has changed the specifications to 12GB GDDR6X 384-bit. So far there has been no update on the specs.
According to our information, NVIDIA will be focusing on RTX 3080 Ti as soon as it releases. The card is not expected to replace the RTX 3080, but the focus will be on the Ti variant. NVIDIA expects that the mining limiter will be a big factor that will ultimately discourage miners from buying this model.
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Ti is still scheduled to launch in April, but it’s worth noting NVIDIA has changed the date three times. Initially, the plan was to launch RTX 3080 20GB in December, then RTX 3080 Ti 20GB in January, but the current schedule has not changed since late January.
| 2021 NVIDIA & AMD High-End GPUs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz | GeForce RTX 3090 | GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | GeForce RTX 3080 | Radeon RX 6900XT | Radeon RX 6800XT |
| Picture |  | [ to be leaked ] |  |  | |
| Architecture | NVIDIA Ampere | NVIDIA Ampere | NVIDIA Ampere | AMD RDNA2 | AMD RDNA2 |
| GPU | 8nm GA102-300 | 8nm GA102 | 8nm GA102-200 | 7nm Navi 21 XTX | 7nm 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/A | N/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 Clock | N/A | N/A | N/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 Cache | N/A | N/A | N/A | 128 MB | 128 MB |
| Memory Clock | 19.5 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 16 Gbps | 16 Gbps |
| 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 Date | Sep 24th, 2020 | April 2021? | Sep 17th, 2020 | Dec 8th, 2020 | Nov 18th, 2020 |