Asus support confirms GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20GB

by Mark Tyson on 28 December 2020, 10:11

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Being thoroughly prepared for an upcoming hardware launch is an admirable quality for a tech company. However, sometimes eager preparedness can spill over into pre-launch leakage, as we have seen many times before. The latest example is Asus and its ROG Strix RTX 3080 Ti 20G and ROG Strix RTX 3060 12G Gaming graphics cards. These cards have been added to the firm's graphics card support and services pages, spotted HXL, and of course they haven't been officially launched yet. The source spotted the support listings on Christmas Day and they have since been removed.

Above you can see the screenshot taken by HXL and VideoCardz took a snap of it for posterity too. If you are familiar with Asus model names you can see that it has two RTX 3080 Ti models with 12GB waiting in the wings. The O20G model will be a bit faster with a factory overclock and cost more for it. Unfortunately, we don't have any way of knowing the OC version's speed boost, or indeed any other tech specs beyond the 20GB VRAM from this Asus leak. However we have some rumoured specs from back in the days before Asus confirmed that this GPU would be a thing.

In brief the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is expected to feature the GA102 GPU with 10496 CUDA cores, equal to the flagship RTX 3090, but will slower clocks, and 20GB (rather than 24GB) of memory with a reduced TDP.

As for the GeForce RTX 3060 12GB models, you must note that these are not Ti models, but sport 4GB more memory than their RTX 3060 Ti siblings. The other big difference is in the GPU, with the RTX 3060 Ti having 4862 CUDA cores, vs the rumoured 3840 CUDA cores of the RTX 3060 12GB. Moreover, it is claimed that an RTX 3060 with 6GB of VRAM will be launched with 3584 CUDA cores…

Nvidia's GeForce RTX: Game On special event is scheduled for 9am PST (5pm UK) on the 12th January. Some if not all the above new graphics cards should be unveiled at this CES 2021 presentation.



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I seen that announcement and wondered if this will just be a non Ti 3060 ( lower clocks but additional ram ? )

it does seem a little pointless if that's the case
I can see all the 3090 owners crying over paying £500 (or so) for 4 gig more of vram.
dfour
I can see all the 3090 owners crying over paying £500 (or so) for 4 gig more of vram.
I can see the 3080Ti being even less available than any other Ampere card.
Strange that Nvidia does not have spies working at AMD or they are way below in the food chain. These products are a knee-jerk reflex after the 6800 line of GPUs from AMD.
lumireleon
Strange that Nvidia does not have spies working at AMD or they are way below in the food chain. These products are a knee-jerk reflex after the 6800 line of GPUs from AMD.

Yes, I thought this a little strange too. Maybe they got a little complacent with their intel gathering? Though the other, more cynical approach is they knew exactly what AMD was doing, but realised they'd make more profit this quarter (coming quarter now I suppose) releasing cards in this order. ‘Here’s the amazing 3080! it's top dog and you can just about afford it! Oh good, you've bought one? Well here's the 3080 Ti! Giz yer money!".

Oh, and it keeps Nvidia in the headlines. AMD really need to release some press material about the 6700 and 6700 XT to grab a bit of attention.