The release date has finally been confirmed by NVIDIA as the 3rd of June after a number of postponed launches for obvious supply issues.
The new RTX 3080 Ti sits between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 and is likely to sell out almost instantaneously, hopefully not to miners and scalpers, but to the gamers who deserve them! With it being touted as being able to crush the demands of 4K gaming once and for all.
Nvidia have published specs for the RTX 3080 Ti and they make for very surprising reading, especially when you compare the specs to it’s bigger brother the RTX 3090. To give you an idea, the CUDA core count of the 3080 Ti is 10240, while the 3090 is 10496, which certainly is a little coincidental don’t you think? Maybe that is why there is talk of the 3090 being scrapped, we will have to wait and see on that one. Memory on the 3080 Ti is 12GB of GDDR6X which is an improvement over the 3080 which has 10GB, it is half what the 3090 has at 24GB but really it is not likely to make a noticeable difference in gaming uses.
Nvidia are saying on their own website that the price will start at £1049.00, which we think is actually good value for money. If you can get this card under £1200 it represents very good value for money and as an owner of an RTX 2080 Ti that does make me feel a bit better about my purchase when the 3080 was priced so low in comparison!
Check out the graph below from the Nvidia website to see how it stacks up against the previous generation, but what is more interesting is how it stacks up against the 3080 non-ti variant we have all been trying to get our hands on…see below.
The construction of the RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition looks to be identical to the RTX 3080, creating a ‘3080 family’ of cards. The two fans work together to actively utilise fresh air coming into the case to cool both the GPU core as well as the VRAM memory chips. The fan closest to the PCI back plate is able to direct air out of the case which is a very effective solution.