Nvidia's RTX 3080 Ti could launch on May 18, with the graphics card going on sale just over a week after that on May 26. This is the latest rumor from the IT Home technology site (discovered by Wccftech). This confirms the rumors we've heard before about when the card is supposed to be available for purchase (at least briefly, because if that happens, stocks are likely to dwindle very, very quickly). Hong Kong-based tech site HKEPC previously said May 26 was the on-sale date, with the RTX 3070 Ti following in early June (but there's no mention of this Ti variant in this new rumor, which which could be revealing). . Either way, despite these sources apparently supporting each other, we obviously need to be very careful about the possibility that the dates are correct and that the 3080 Ti is imminent, even though the supposed paddles for the newly shipped GPU have been broken. (and the card). was also spotted at an online retailer). However, as we've discussed before, it seems rather strange that Nvidia is releasing more high-end cards before tidying up its budget (namely the alleged RTX 3050 models). IT Home also acknowledges that the reviews will be released on May 25, the day before the RTX 3080 Ti launches, which makes sense. All of this would be easy enough to guess, of course, from the generous amounts of salt as ever.
In just a few weeks?
If that's true, we'll finally have confirmation of the specs for the RTX 3080 Ti in just three weeks. The rumor seems pretty sure that the graphics card will have 10,240 CUDA cores, 12 GB of GDDR6X video RAM and a 384-bit memory bus (old rumors pointed to more video memory, 20 GB to be precise, but it seems that this does not happen). The theory is that Nvidia also plans to equip this new Ampere variant with anti-mining tech, like it did on the RTX 3060, but it was later cracked. Nvidia has gone back to the drawing board and apparently the RTX 3080 Ti will be equipped with the new hash rate limiter (and maybe other GPUs as well), cutting mining performance in half. It's all part of the push to give gamers a better chance of buying a GPU by deterring crypto miners (although how robust the Limiter will be this time around when it comes to potentially being hacked remains to be seen). Today's best graphics card deals
