NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB graphics card with the launch...

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card will reportedly be launched as early as January 2021 to tackle AMD’s flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card. According to HKEPC, as reported a few days ago, the card will get a huge spec boost, offering more memory and a very competitive price point versus AMD’s $ 999 graphics card.

Introducing the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in January 2021 to tackle the AMD RX 6900 XT – With 20GB of G6X memory, large core count, and competitive prices

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is designed for AMD’s flagship graphics card, the Radeon RX 6900 XT. This means that the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 are still available for the RX 6800 series graphics cards. There are rumors of an RTX 3070 Ti variant that will compete with the RX 6800 (non-XT), but the RTX 3080 should be conveniently positioned with the RX 6800 XT, albeit with a smaller memory size.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti “Rumored” graphics card specifications

Just a few months later, NVIDIA finally seems to have finalized the specifications for its GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. Details of

RTX 3080 Ti FE:
PG133-SKU15,
GA102-250-KD-A1,
20GB GD6X,
the same FP32 count as 3090, 10496FP32,
the same MEM speed and TGP as 3080,
no NVLINK.

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) November 4, 2020

suggest that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE graphics card (Founders Edition) has the PC13 design PG133-SKU15 and the graphics core GA102-250-KD-A1.

The specifications for the GPU GA102-250 have also changed since the last time and are now exactly the same as for the GeForce RTX 3090 with 10496 FP32-CUDA cores. This means that we are essentially looking at the RTX 3090’s performance at a lower price. There is a chance that some selected blocks for the GA102-250 GPU will be disabled and the card will almost certainly run at lower clock rates, but that remains to be seen.

The memory of the card has 20 GB of GDDR6X memory. In contrast to the 19.5 Gbit / s speeds of the RTX 3090, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is said to maintain the same storage speeds as the RTX 3080 at 19 Gbit / s. Since we are getting a 20 GB bus interface, NVIDIA will use a 320 bit bus interface, which equates to a total bandwidth of 760 GB / s. The TGP for the card is set to the RTX 3080 with 320 watts. This is definitely needed to power the extra cores so NVIDIA may need to tweak the clocks a bit here.

Technical specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series Ampere graphics card:

Name of the graphics card	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 GA106?	Ampere GA106?	Ampere GA104-200	Ampere GA104-300	Ampere GA102-150	Ampere GA102-200	Ampere GA102-250	Ampere GA102-300
Process node	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm
The size	TBA	TBA	395,2 mm2	395,2 mm2	628,4 mm2	628,4 mm2	628,4 mm2	628,4 mm2
Transistors	TBA	TBA	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	28 billion	28 billion	28 billion	28 billion
CUDA colors	3584	3840	4864	5888	7424	8704	10496	10496
TMUs / ROPs	TBA	TBA	152/80	184/96	232/80	272/96	328/112	328/112
Tensor / RT-Kerne	TBA	TBA	152/38	184/46	232/58	272/68	328/82	328/82
Base clock	TBA	TBA	1410 MHz	1500 MHz	TBA	1440 MHz	TBA	1400 MHz
Boost Clock	TBA	TBA	1665 MHz	1730 MHz	TBA	1710 MHz	TBA	1700 MHz
FP32 Compute	TBA	TBA	16.2 TFLOPs	20 TFLOPs	TBA	30 TFLOPs	TBA	36 TFLOPs
RT TFLOPs	TBA	TBA	32.4 TFLOPs	40 TFLOPs	TBA	58 TFLOPs	TBA	69 TFLOPs
Tensor-TOPs	TBA	TBA	TBA	163 TOPs	TBA	238 TOPs	TBA	285 TOPs
Storage capacity	6 GB GDDR6?	6 GB GDDR6?	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	10 GB GDDR6X?	10 GB GDDR6X	20 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus	192-Bit?	192-Bit?	256-Bit	256-Bit	320-Bit	320-Bit	320-Bit	384-Bit
Storage speed	TBA	TBA	14 Gbit / s	14 Gbit / s	TBA	19 Gbit / s	19 Gbit / s	19,5 Gbit / s
Bandwidth	TBA	TBA	448 Gbit / s	448 Gbit / s	TBA	760 Gbit / s	760 Gbit / s	936 Gbit / s
TGP	TBA	TBA	180W?	220W	320W?	320W	320W	350W
Price (RRP / FE)	TBA	TBA	399 US-Dollar?	499 US-Dollar	599 US-Dollar?	699 US-Dollar	899 US-Dollar?	1499 US-Dollar
Start (availability)	2021?	2021?	November 2020?	October 29th	Q4 2020?	17. September	Q4 2020?	24. September

In terms of performance, we can expect the card to tackle the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, but we don’t know if NVIDIA plans to sell the RTX 3080 Ti at a higher price than the RTX 3080, or prices for the existing one RTX 3080 and lower RTX 3070 cards to match the competition. I believe the price cuts won’t happen anytime soon, as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30-series offering will go on sale as soon as it hits retail stores from the factory.

The RTX 3080 Ti could price anywhere between $ 899 and $ 999, which would be at least $ 249 higher than the RX 6800 XT. We also know that the GeForce RTX 3090 is around 10-15% faster than the RTX 3080 and the RTX 3080 Ti is likely to fall in the same range as well. This seems to be largely a repetition of the GeForce GTX 780 and Radeon R9 290X days when the 780 couldn’t impress us against the competition and NVIDIA had to go all the way to release the GeForce GTX 780 Ti to get the better of the R9 290X undo damage caused.