Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti launch put back to the end of Feb

[spolsh]

It hasn't even launched yet and the 30tribble is already duplicating

No it isn't - if it was tribbling there'd be loads of cards to buy ... not just read about.

[Dribble]

I'm surprised the 3080Ti isn't 16GB, considering Nvidia could still charge $999 and get away with it (thanks to AMD).

The 3080 gpu/board is designed to take 10 memory chips. The cheapest way to do it is just to replace the 1gb chips with 2gb chips.

[kalniel]

The 3080 gpu/board is designed to take 10 memory chips. The cheapest way to do it is just to replace the 1gb chips with 2gb chips.

Given the price of 2gb chips, I think it's cheaper to put another 10 1gb chips on the back of the board than replace the 1gb with 2gb.

[Iota]

(Assuming rumours are true) I'm not, when the 3080 came out with 10GB and was a 'cut down' 3090 it was pretty obvious (to me) how they'd make the 3080ti, it was just things like clock speed and maybe cuda cores that were unknown. Doubling the memory and upping the clocks is a 'cheap' way to make a ti from the slightly better binned 3080 chips (well not quite 3090 ones). The gap in pricing made £1000 predictable as well in all honesty, although would like a little cheaper.

To me the current rumour of the 3080ti having the same cuda cores as the 3090 seems a little suspect, it would cut into the 3090 too much imo.. if I was a betting man I'd say it will have around 9600 cuda cores (it's half way house between the 3080/3090 and some old rumours said 9984 for it too) but at the same time I wouldn't be shocked to see the 3080 ti have the same as the 3080.

In all honesty if it wasn't for AMD coming out pretty strongly and in a way forcing Nvidia's hand a little I wouldn't have put it past Nvidia to just release the 'double ram' versions with slightly higher clocks as the ti versions and call it a day lol.

Mind you without stock it really doesn't make much difference what they're selling because at this rate we'll be on 'next gen' (I suspect it will be shorter window this time)

I don't think there is really a huge amount of wiggle available in the clocks for the GPU (well, boost clocks that have been crashing cards, until limited by the updates). Not unless the Ti variant is produced on TSMC or they refine the Samsung process a bit more / really bin the chips. Doubling the RAM is a cheap way of creating the Ti and I wouldn't be surprised to see Nvidia do this to match / outdo AMD on RAM, while charging extra. I doubt it'll make much difference to performance though?

This will end up the same exact way the current 30 series have.
Bots galore spamming F5!!

No, the bots completely bypass the whole lot and go straight to checkout.

Given the price of 2gb chips, I think it's cheaper to put another 10 1gb chips on the back of the board than replace the 1gb with 2gb.

Possible. It'll be interesting to see how they actually do increase the RAM.

[ddr4000]

Do the original cards usually drop in price once the Ti variants come out? Whether that be FE or AIB cards. Thanks.

[Jonj1611]

You would think so but with stock being so low I would doubt they would drop by much if anything

[ultrasbm]

You would think so but with stock being so low I would doubt they would drop by much if anything

I wouldn't be surprised if they increased...

[LSG501]

Do the original cards usually drop in price once the Ti variants come out? Whether that be FE or AIB cards. Thanks.

doubtful as there's nice little price points they can 'slot' into.... especially with the 3080ti with the huge gap between the 3080 and 3090.

[Spreadie]

Heh, you gotta wait another two months before you can't buy one.

[Baffed]

I'm currently trying to get my hands on a 3080 but it seems it might be worth waiting for the ti. That extra vram will be nice to have in the long run