The heavily rumoured Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti graphics card failed to turn up at the Nvidia CES 2021 new conference, but rumours still suggest it will start shipping at the end of February.
With both Igor’s Lab and VideoCardz reporting that the RTX 3080 Ti will potentially be available from late February, it was expected that the graphics card would show up at CES 2021. Unfortunately that didn’t turn out to be the case, with Nvidia instead focusing on the launch of its RTX 3060 graphics card and the new 30-Series mobile GPUs.
With so many rumours doing the rounds, the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is still expected to launch in February, acting as a direct rival to the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT with a high-end 4K performance.
Various reports claim the RTX 3080 Ti will feature the same 10496 CUDA core count as the all-powerful RTX 3090, while seeing 20GB GDDR6X of vRAM.
HKEPC claims the RTX 3080 Ti is estimated to cost $999, which is drastically cheaper than the existing RTX 3090.
For more information on the rumoured Nvidia graphics card, keep scrolling down.
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Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti release date
The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is expected to launch in late February, although there’s no word on when Nvidia will make an official announcement.
It had previously been expected that Nvidia would announce the graphics card at CES 2021, but that sadly wasn’t the case.
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti price
The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti will cost approximately $999 according to HKEPC. This is the exact same price as AMD’s RX 6900 XT, which suggests Nvidia’s challenger will offer a similar performance.
Such a figure would make sense, sitting between the $699 RTX 3080 and the $1499 RTX 3090. There’s no word on UK pricing yet, but we’ll update this article as soon as we hear more.
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Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti specs
There are no official specs for the RTX 3080 Ti just yet, but we’ve rounded up all the rumours and leaks from HKEPC and Video Cardz to formulate the below table. Take everything under the RTX 3080 Ti with a pinch of salt for now, as they could well be inaccurate.
| RTX 3090 | RTX 3080 Ti | RTX 3080 | |
| Price | $1499 | $999 | £699 |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere |
| CUDA Cores | 10,496 | 10,496 | 8704 |
| Memory | 24GB G6X | 20GB G6X | 10GB G6X |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit | 320-bit |
| TBP | 350W | 320W | 320W |
One interesting thing to note here is that the CUDA Core count of the RTX 3080 Ti is identical to the more powerful RTX 3090. However, a fall from 24GB G6X memory to 20GB G6X will undoubtedly mean the former won’t be able to match Nvidia’s very best consumer GPU.
Still, this all suggests the RTX 3080 Ti is more of a weakened version of the RTX 3090 rather than an upgraded RTX 3080, which its name suggests. That said, we’re still missing lots of details here, while the specs sheet isn’t always a reliable indicator of performance.
The only thing that we can guarantee to be accurate is that the rumoured card will be running on Ampere architecture.
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Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti performance
Since Nvidia hasn’t even confirmed the existence of this graphics card yet, it’s difficult to establish how powerful the RTX 3080 Ti will be.
That said, it’s almost guaranteed it will be capable of a high-end 4K performance, with our own tests showing the weaker RTX 3080 can hit over 100fps for the likes of Control, Doom Eternal and Horizon Zero Dawn at an Ultra HD resolution.
It’s possible that the RTX 3080 Ti will be capable of an entry-level 8K performance, although it’s debatable how beneficial this would be in the short term since few people have 8K compatible hardware in their homes.
Keep this page bookmarked for all the latest news and rumours on the RTX 3080 Ti.