The months of rumors can lastly finish. Nvidia formally introduced the long-awaited GeForce RTX 3080 Ti throughout its Computex keynote late Monday night time, and this $1,200 graphics card seems like an utter beast. The $600 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti additionally made its debut with sooner GDDR6X reminiscence.
All eyes are on the RTX 3080 Ti, although. Nvidia dubbed it GeForce’s “new gaming flagship” because the $1,500 RTX 3090 is constructed for work and play alike, however the brand new GPU is a 3090 in all however title (and reminiscence capability). While Nvidia didn’t go into deep technical particulars in the course of the keynote, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti’s specs web page reveals it packing a whopping 10,240 CUDA cores—only a couple hundred lower than the 3090’s 10,496 depend, however massively greater than the 8,704 discovered within the vanilla 3080. Expect this card to chew by way of video games on par with the perfect, particularly in video games that assist real-time ray tracing and Nvidia’s superb DLSS characteristic.
The reminiscence system can deal with the trip, because it’s constructed utilizing the RTX 3090’s upgraded bones. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comes with a cushty 12GB of blazing-fast GDDR6X reminiscence over a large 384-bit bus, which is half the ludicrous 24GB capability discovered within the 3090, however greater than sufficient to deal with any gaming workload you thru at it. That’s not true with the vanilla RTX 3080, which comes with 10GB of GDDR6X over a smaller bus, as uncommon titles (like Doom Eternal) can already use greater than 10GB of reminiscence whenever you’re enjoying at 4K decision with the attention sweet cranked to the max. The additional two gigs make the RTX 3080 Ti really feel way more future-proof. AMD’s rival $1,000 Radeon RX 6900 XT comes with 16GB to match the brand new gaming consoles however it’s of the slower GDDR6 non-X selection.
NvidiaNvidia-supplied chart teasing RTX 3080 Ti efficiency.
Speaking of reminiscence, it’s the star of the present with the $600 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Nvidia’s specification web page reveals it with 6,144 CUDA cores, or barely greater than the 5,888 discovered within the non-Ti 3070. But the 8GB of onboard reminiscence is upgraded from GDDR6 to GDDR6X within the Ti variant. If the RTX 3070 Ti winds up appreciably sooner in video games, particularly at 4K decision, it’ll be as a result of reminiscence. (Our unique RTX 3080 assessment defined what you must know concerning the cutting-edge GGDR6X chips.)
And sure, each the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti embody Nvidia’s new “Lite Hash Rate” know-how constructed to discourage crypto miners in the course of the crippling GPU scarcity. Huzzah.
Don’t anticipate LHR to work miracles within the quick time period, nonetheless. These graphics playing cards will probably promote for lots of of {dollars} greater than their said MSRPs once they hit the streets, since even historic used graphics playing cards are going with big mark-ups proper now. Your finest likelihood of getting one at a sane value is by beating scalper bots (and hordes of different determined avid gamers) to the checkout web page the millisecond these GPUs drop. Look for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to reach on June 3—simply two days from now—and the RTX 3070 Ti to launch on June 10.
