Rumors and leaks about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti are now getting thick and fast. Apparently, a lot of information has appeared on the internet confirming the price and specifications, as well as anti-cryptomining technology that seems to hope that Nvidia will make the GPU less attractive to miners and therefore more available to gamers. Many of the details are on the Chinese ITHome website, which it says come from sources close to Nvidia. The leak suggests that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will ship with a GA102 GPU with 10,240 CUDA cores (slightly lower than the 10496 on the RTX 3090 and much higher than the 8704 on the RTX 3080) and 12GB of GDDR6X memory and a 384-bit bus memory. This is in line with the rumors we heard a few days ago, which also suggested that the RTX 3080 Ti would come with 12GB of memory. If those specs are correct (they're also mentioned in a separate leak reported by the Videocardz website), then the RTX GeForce RTX 3080 Ti looks like a formidable graphics card, and its performance might not be too far off from the flagship. RTX 3090. The leak posted by Videocardz also apparently shows off the GA102-225-A1 die, which once again adds weight to the rumors that the RTX 3080 Ti launch is imminent.
(Image credit: Videocardz.com) Meanwhile, ITHome also suggests that the price of the RTX 3080 TI will be ¥7,999 in China, or around $1,099 / £800 / AU$1,420. If that's true, that makes it a very expensive GPU, and while no one ever imagined it would be a budget card, it still makes it more expensive than many of the early rumors suggested. Still, it's a bit cheaper than the RTX 3090, which has a suggested retail price of €1,499 (£1,399, around AU$2,030), though due to low stocks, it often sells for much more.
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While the price for the RTX 3080 Ti seems high, as we've seen with the RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 (plus AMD's newest GPUs and CPUs, the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and basically every new tech released on the past 12 months) due to inventory shortages, these already high prices can skyrocket quickly. When it comes to GPUs, this is largely because cryptocurrency miners buy shares in bulk. Nvidia is apparently trying to discourage miners from buying the RTX 3080 Ti by artificially limiting its mining capabilities, just like it tried to do with the RTX 3060. By limiting the ability of the GPU to mine properly, miners are expected to don't buy it, so the shares will be more available to PC gamers looking to upgrade their platforms. That's just as good, as the Videocardz leak also shows the apparent operating performance of an engineering sample of the RTX 3080 Ti without the cryptocurrency limiter enabled. The results show an ETH mining hash rate of 118,9 Mh/s, which would make the RTX 3080 Ti one of the best graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining in the world. Without this limiter, then, it would be a GPU that would be of great value to cryptocurrency miners. If these results are correct, we really hope that Nvidia finds a way to limit the mining performance of the RTX 3080 Ti that cannot be circumvented. If not, the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti could be another GPU that will be next to impossible to buy. Today's best graphics card deals
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