The release of the RTX 3080 Ti will be coming soon! NVIDIA announced a 4-week RTX 3080 Ti Scheduled for mid-April, its release has been postponed to mid-May 2021. This is the fifth time that the release date of this card has been postponed. In this article, we will analyze why its release date is repeatedly postponed, what are its technical characteristics and what about the performance tests of this card.
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Why is the release of the RTX 3080 TI repelled many times?
RTX 3080 TI card will normally be released with RTX 3070 TI whose release date is scheduled for May 2021. Nvidia will hold a GTC conference next month, but we know that Nvidia never leaves products during these typical conferences. Passionate people are therefore awaiting a special event like "It's Almost Time". We still remember this event when the GTX 1080 Ti was released.
Initially, this card was to have 20 GB of memory and was to be released last December, but NVIDIA announced a postponement of the launch with memory reduced to 16 GB for the month of January 2021. The firm postponed its release to February. But the card was not released on the scheduled date. Various modifications have been announced: the CUDA cores have been reduced to 10240 and the memory will only have 12 GB. This latest version was therefore planned to be released this month of April but it was finally postponed to May.
No explanation was provided by Nvidia with regard to these reports, but the most obvious cause would be the fact that Ampere cannot provide sufficient GPUs.
The RTX 3080 TI will indeed include a GA102-225-KD-A1; While at Ampere, the production of GA102 and GA104 has huge delays. This delay is not a new thing because even when the RTX 3080 cards are announced, the sales shelves of NVIDIA partners were emptied just a few hours of the launch of this product.
The explanation provided by Nvidia was the fact that there was a strong unusual demand from customers. We have spoken indeed specified in our last article, the craze of cryptocurrencies for graphics cards RTX 3000 series when they released. According to analyst Mitch Steves of RBC Capital Markets, a very large quantity of 3000 serial cards has been sold to cryptocurrency minors. Or, a sale of around 175 million dollars attributable to this sector of activity.
Why this craze of cryptocurrency on 3000 serial cards?
This craze comes from the fact that Ethereum's blockchain will change operations next December. The new algorithm will favor the stake test and no longer the work test. Which will put minors out of play. As a result, minors use the mining to the last vein and one of the means to get there is using Nvidia 3000 Nvidia cards.
The mining would be profitable with a typical RTX 3080 card after 233 days of intensive mining with an average profitability of 3 dollars per day. It should be noted that a RTX 3080 card in Boost Clock has a mining speed of 84-89 Mh/s.
What are the configurations of this RTX 3080 Ti ?
The Founder Edition has a PCB card PG132-SKU18 fitted with a GPU GA102-225-KD-A1. The GPU has 10,240 cuda cores, 80 RT cores and 320 tensors with an engraving technology at 8 Nm and has 28.3 billion transistors. This card will have 12 GB of GDDR6X operating at 19 GBPS on a 384 -bit memory bus. The bandwidth used would be 912 GB/s. The card will reach a frequency of 1.66 GHz in Boost Clock mode. The Radeon RX 6700 XT compared to it reaches a frequency of 2.64 GHz. The texture speed of the RTX 3080 TI is 532.8.
The card measures 313 mm. It is connected to the motherboard via its 4.0 16x 1x 12 pins PCIE interface. It has 4 video connectors including 1 HDMI and 3 Display Ports. With regard to the APIs supported, the RTX 3080 Ti supports DirectX Ultimate (12.2), Open GPL 4.6, Opencl 2.0, Vulkan 1.2 and Cuda 8.6.
As for TDP power, it would be 350 watts. Regarding the price, NVIDIA is probably positioning itself up to the price of an AMD RX 6900 XT card for its Founder Edition card, at € 1,000. If the MSRP price would therefore be at € 1,000, the price can easily double among partners facing the current shortage and with customized models. Hopefully production is more substantial to best stabilize the price.
RTX 3080 Ti performance bench
Performance test leaks have shown that the performance of RTX 3080 TI are around RTX 3090: FS at 40,606 (RTX 3080 TI) against 43,998 (RTX 3090), TS at 18,723 (RTX 3080 TI) against 19,095 (RTX 3090), PR at 12,398 (RTX 3080 TI) 611 (RTX 3090). In addition, the Big Hardware Player team also publishes results following the tests carried out on a RTX 3080 Ti card (an engineering sample).
This team has tested a card in the initial version containing a 20 GB memory. The RTX 3080 Ti tested has a GA102 GPU with a memory bander of 760.3 GB/S or at -176 GB/S of RTX 3090. However, large controversies revolve around the video published by Big Hardware Player. They come from the fact that the RTX 3080 Ti card is never seen in the video. CPU-Z also recognizes the card as a RTX 3080 20 GB.
But it is obvious that the CPU-Z developer has not yet updated his software for a card that has not yet been officially released by Nvidia. Be that as it may, the tests display correct results because the performance displayed are slightly lower than that of the RTX 3090.
In short, the release date of the RTX 3080 TI card has been repelled many times by NVIDIA following a stock break from the GA102 GPU. The craze of cryptocurrency for 3000 serial cards does not help.
Hopefully this time, the RTX 3080 TI will finally be released with the RTX 3070 TI with a sufficient quantity so as not to frustrate customers who can turn to AMD with the RX 6000 XT which are also fury.
