Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is real — and it's already shipping to the US

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is real — and information technology'southward already shipping to the US

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti doesn't officially exist withal, but information technology looks similar that'southward going to change very before long indeed, if a photograph snapped by Facebook user Lok LOK is legitimate.

The picture, embedded below, shows a palette of MSI GPUs existence shipped to Los Angeles, and one of the boxes has a particularly enticing label: "GEFORCE RTX 3080 TI VENTUS 3X 12GB OC."

A shipment of RTX 3080 Ti cards — (Prototype credit: Lok LOK/Facebook)

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Other pictures evidence a stash of GeForce RTX 3090 stock in the shipment, as well as Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G OC and GT 710 2GD3 LP GPUs. The latter two are considerably less powerful than the super-pop RTX 30 GPUs, simply with all graphics cards in curt supply and going for such inflated prices, any kind of extra inventory is welcome.

If the paradigm is all that information technology seems, and non some kind of elaborate prank, then information technology all but confirms the recent reports that Nvidia has reduced the power of the RTX 3080 Ti. The card was originally said to have 20GB RAM, but both the EEC filing for Gigabyte'southward version of the card and now this MSI shipment clearly say it'll take 'just' the 12GB.

To be clear, that won't make the bill of fare a slouch in whatsoever sense. The latest rumors indicate to a bill of fare with ten,240 CUDA cores, 80 RT cores and 320 Tensor cores. The 12GB retentiveness, fifty-fifty if it is less than originally hoped for, will likely exist GDDR6X clocked at 19 Gbps. In short, it should offer pretty incredible performance, somewhere betwixt the $499 base RTX 3080 and $ane,499 RTX 3090. Rumor has it that the RTX 3080 Ti will launch at around $999 in social club to compete with AMD's Radeon 6900XT.

Of course the above RRPs are all somewhat wishful thinking at this indicate. Need is such that cards are selling out almost every bit soon as they are available, and the second-hand market is awash with GPUs selling for vastly inflated prices. Even last-generation RTX xx cards are going for alarmingly loftier prices, in function due to their appeal to cryptocurrency miners.

While Nvidia has admitted that supply issues are likely to continue for the foreseeable future, it's rumored that the company volition at to the lowest degree exist taking steps to make the RTX 3080 Ti less appealing to cryptominers past introducing a hash rate limiter equally constitute on the recent RTX 3060. Bold information technology can't be sidestepped — and the 3060's could — that will be a welcome motion for those looking to employ their graphics cards for their intended gaming purpose.

While not officially announced, previous rumors have pointed to a May launch for the RTX 3080 Ti. If the cards are office of a shipment already bound for LA, that prediction just became a lot more likely.

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Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in betwixt. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the spider web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing upwards the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, y'all'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.