Computex 2021: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti officially introduced
NVIDIA has finally taken the wraps off the much rumored NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in their Computex 2021 keynote. The new graphics cards add to the list of Ampere-based desktop GPUs that NVIDIA has unveiled.
NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti as the new gaming flagship. While one can say that the GeForce RTX 3090 is an even faster GPU, NVIDIA doesn’t actually target gamers with the GeForce RTX 3090, and has instead referred to the GeForce RTX 3080 as the flagship in the past. Instead, the biggest Ampere GPU in NVIDIA’s arsenal was given the BFGPU moniker.
Meanwhile GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is targeted towards giving the upper mid-range segment an additional choice of the most popular GeForce RTX 30 series cards in the market. Based on the same GA104 GPU, it now offers more CUDA cores and GDDR6X memory to boost performance. The cooler has also been switched to what looks like a hybrid between the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070, which is pretty interesting to note.
New NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti & RTX 3070 Ti Specs
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | |
| CUDA Cores | 5888 | 6144 | 8704 | 10240 | 10496 |
| Clocks (GHz) | 1.73 | 1.77 | 1.71 | 1.67 | 1.70 |
| Performance | 20 Shader TFLOPS 40 RT TFLOPS 163 Tensor TFLOPS | 22 Shader TFLOPS 42 RT TFLOPS 174 Tensor TFLOPS | 30 Shader TFLOPS 58 RT TFLOPS 238 Tensor TFLOPS | 34 Shader TFLOPS 67 RT TFLOPS 273 Tensor TFLOPS | 36 Shader TFLOPS 69 RT TFLOPS 285 Tensor TFLOPS |
| Memory | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6X | 10GB GDDR6X | 12GB GDDR6X | 24GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit | 320-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit |
| TGP rating | 220W | 290W | 320W | 350W | 350W |
| NVLink | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| MSRP | $499 (~RM2057) | $599 (~RM2471) | $699 (~RM2881) | $1199 (~RM4945) | $1499 (~RM6179) |
| Availability | October 2020 | 10th June 2021 | 17th September 2020 | 3rd June 2021 | 24th September 2020 |
Availability will start rather soon, with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti cards slated to hit the market as soon as 3rd June 2021.
Pokdepinion: Stay tuned for our review of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
