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If the release of the Ti is April we should hear something at GTC??
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NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti to launch in January 2021?
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Probably higher margins to be had on the 3080Ti.
3080 Ti could replace the 3080/3090 which would also leave room for a full fat Titan using a fully enabled GA102 chip.
This would enable them to compete more effectively against big Navi.
While true, there are still thousands and thousands of people without a 3080, if they haven't got the supplies to make 3080 cards, how can they make 3080Ti cards?
As it currently stands, ocuk have over 5000 orders not fulfilled for the 3080.
There are countless retailers around with no stock and loads of back orders to fill.
3080Ti shouldn't even be on the cards in 2021 going into 2022.
They would not need anything more than they use now to make the 3080 Ti as it would use the same GA102 chip as the 3080/3090 and nearly all other components would be the same.
It would also give NVidia the opportunity to introduce gaming and mining versions of their high end cards by replacing current 30808/3090 cards. This could be a real money earner for NVidia by forcing miners to buy cards that are even more expensive than the gaming ones.
I wonder if it will be possible to preorder one of these cards when we inevitably lose out to scalpers and cryptominers within 5 secods of lauch. At least that way we'll hopefully be able to get one this calender year. That's more than can be said for the 3080, which is impossible to even preorder at the moment.
it would need more memory, probably be a 12-14 gig card. so if they are running short of memory chips why make a card that would use more, but saying that they did do the 3060 with 12 so you never know.
honestly i wouldn't be surprised if by end of year we get super or ti branded 3080's and 3070's and they stop making the non super ones.
A 20GB 3080Ti FE for circa £850-900 is the card I wanted and (******* bizarrely now) actually seemed a genuine possibility just 4 months or so ago. That’s just not a reality now, who knows what they will do. Worlds gone mad. Graphics cards are just a symptom.
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I don’t think they really had a choice with the 3060. The 60 series has a 192-bit bus and the only possible memory configs were 3,6 and 12. Obviously 3 and 6 are too low for this gen, so they had to go for 12.
yeah i guess, thing thats got me curious is how close will it be in performance to the 3090 as thats got what 10-15% over a stock 3080 so at what level will they be ok possibly gimping 3090 sales. or will the 3090 slowly vanish and the 3080ti is the new top card.
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I think the 3090 will disappear. 3080Ti will be the top gaming card at around £1000 - £1200 and a full fat Titan will be released with a price tag of around £2000, maybe more.
However, I think they’re stupid doing anything until the current supply situation is resolved. If you’re lucky enough to bag a Ti in the current climate, you could probably make the money back and more by flogging your original 3080
Yes it would need more memory than a 3080 but it would use less memory than a 24gb 3090 hence my guess that the 3080 Ti could replace both cards.
If people really needed more memory NVidia could do a full fat GA102 Titan with 24gb or 48gb, again this would be an opportunity for them to make even more money.
Providing NVidia make enough to cover back orders the supply problem does not matter to them.
What does matter is maximising profits by targeting different parts of the market even if it means there is no increase in actual volume produced.
Expensive 3080 Ti dedicated to mining.
Slightly less expensive 3080 Ti dedicated to gaming.
Very expensive Titan dedicated to emptying wallets.
NVidia's way of making more money at the expense of the scalpers and everyone else for that matter.
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Won’t help supply issues. The miners will still snap up every Ti going, unless they gimp hash rates in a way that is totally impossible to bypass.
Also, they are obviously not making enough to cover back orders. There’s still thousands waiting and thousands with their money ready wanting to buy a card.
even higher margin in 3090 so what's ya points
the reason you can't find any 3080 stock is because Nvidia is holding them to be sold as a 3090
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If there's cores that aren't making the grade for a 3090 then slapping some extra RAM on them and selling them at 1K is likely going to be more profitable than at £650.
Especially if there's no FE model, all Nvidia have to do is let the AIBs sell a 3080Ti model and let the AIB makers carry the cost of the extra RAM - Nvidia can just up their prices to the AIB makers.
Let's say Nvidia uses the cut down 3090 ones that fail testing for the 3080ti, that will off the 3080 completely as far as stock goes
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB Rumored For Launch in April, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB in May https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce...?tqid=0PuzaismXR4BbyoJDQNhTTzlGtiIntkG4KcJ9_c