GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12 GB of memory will be released in mid-April. But will it be possible to buy it? And how much?

As you know, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070 are built on the same GA104 GPU and provide almost the same performance both in games and in mining. But only the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is slightly cheaper. And the same will happen with the RTX 3080 Ti: being built on the GPU GA102, it will be much closer to the GeForce RTX 3090 than the RTX 3080. At the same time, the price, of course, will be lower.

The RTX 3080 Ti is rumored to receive 10,240 CUDA cores – a lot more than the RTX 3080 (8704) and just slightly less than the RTX 3090 (10496). It is expected that the GPU frequency of the RTX 3080 Ti will be slightly higher than that of the RTX 3090 (1.5-1.75 GHz versus 1.4-1.7 GHz), but the GDDR6X memory will be half as much: 12 GB versus 24 GB for the older model. Also, the RTX 3080 Ti is assigned a 352-bit memory bus and 80 Ray Tracing cores. The GeForce 3090 has 384 bits and 82 Ray Tracing cores, respectively.

In general, so far, on paper and by rumors, the RTX 3080 Ti looks very promising, but the question of price remains open. The official one will most likely be at the $ 1,000 mark, but the real one can easily exceed $ 2,500, since the usual RTX 3080 is hard to find cheaper than $ 2,000. And, of course, the RTX 3080 Ti with the power level of the RTX 3090 will quickly become a scarce commodity: Bitcoin is becoming more expensive , which means that miners will increase the capacity of their farms. And a new powerful 3D-accelerator will come in handy for them.