The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is Nvidia's traditional 1-year refresh of its current generation cards as the ampere architecture reaches 1 year. However, unlike the previous RTX 20 series GPUs, the new models this time around have a "Ti" moniker instead of the super branding. Both graphics card fills in the gaps in terms of pricing in Nvidia's current RTX 30 series lineup allowing gamers to have more options to choose from starting with the base RTX 3060 priced at $399 all the way to the RTX 3090 at $1,499. Nvidia's decision to release Ti models of 3080 and 3070 could also because of AMD's current RX 6000 series GPUs particularly the RX 6900 XT and RX 6800 XT which sit at the same price range as the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti, respectively. That said, the RTX 3080 Ti looks to be the more intriguing card as it's priced $400 more than the 3080 but is also $300 lower than the flagship RTX 3090.
We retain to our stand on our take with the RTX 3080 Ti on our Inno3D iChill variant review - The RTX 3080 Ti is the best flagship gaming GPU you can get your hands on. Sure, there's the RTX 3090 with 5% more cores, but that increase comes at the cost of an additional $300 and a thicker cooler that wouldn't most cases as far as the Founders Edition variants are concerned. The RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition with its updated shiny chaffed design and proven & tested flow-through cooler, is a must-have GPU for gamers for those who can afford it as it provides the best balance of frame rates, form factor, and price. American graphics company Nvidia has unveiled two new graphics cards during the ongoing Computex 2021.
The Founders Edition version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 3080 Ti is priced at $1,199 , while the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition is priced at $599 . The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is the top-of-the-line graphics card and is said to be twice as fast as the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti that was launched a few years ago, and is 50 percent faster than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, on the other hand, is twice as fast as the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and 1.5 times as fast as the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. Nvidia claims the RTX 3080 Ti, which is based on its Ampere graphics processing unit architecture, can run 4K games up to 1.5X faster than the last-gen RTX 2080 Ti. Hardware design and port selection (Nvidia's new 12-pin connector) are in line with the RTX 3080, but the RTX 2080 Ti gets a jump in power and virtual memory . Elsewhere, we're looking at 10,240 CUDA cores running at a base frequency of 1.37GHz with boost speed of up to 1.67GHz.
The GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti graphics card delivers the ultra performance that gamers crave, powered by Ampere—NVIDIA's 2nd gen RTX architecture. It's built with enhanced RT Cores and Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and superfast G6X memory for an amazing gaming experience. The GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti and RTX 3080 graphics cards deliver the ultra performance that gamers crave, powered by Ampere—NVIDIA's 2nd gen RTX architecture. They are built with enhanced RT Cores and Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and superfast G6X memory for an amazing gaming experience. The RTX 3080 Ti clocks at up to 1.67GHz and brings 10,240 CUDA cores and 80 GPU clusters.
RTX 3070 Ti has a boost clock speed of 1.77Ghz with 6,144 CUDA cores and 48 RT core. Both graphics cards come with second-generation RT cores and third-gen Tensor cores. RTX 3080 Ti gets 12GB GDDR6X VRAM with a 384-bit interface while the 3070 Ti comes with 8GB at 256-bits instead.
Remember, when the RTX 3080 launched, NVIDIA had priced it at least half the price of its last generation flagship, the RTX 2080 Ti, which was sold at an average of RM7000 at the time. If you're planning on bumping up from an RTX 3080, I highly recommend that you don't. Barring the fact that supply for the card is scarce, this really is a graphics card that would better serve those wanting an upgrade from their Turing-power RTX 20 Series cards or older. NVIDIA today refreshed the top-end of the GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" family of graphics cards with the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which we're testing for you today.
The RTX 3080 Ti is being considered the next flagship gaming product, picking up the mantle from the RTX 3080. While the RTX 3090 is positioned higher in the stack, NVIDIA has been treating it as a TITAN-like halo product for not just gaming, but also quasi-professional use cases. The RTX 3080 Ti has the same mandate as the RTX 3080—to offer leadership gaming performance with real-time raytracing at 4K UHD resolution.
The RTX 3080 Ti now supplants the RTX 3080 as NVIDIA's flagship gaming GPU. It arrives at a time when GPU availability is still a concern with most cards selling out quickly and at a significant markup above MSRP. The RTX 3080 Ti can also be viewed as NVIDIA's riposte to a resurgent AMD, which seems to have got its mojo back with the launch of RDNA 2-based GPUs. The Radeon RX 6900 XT comes within striking distance of the RTX 3090 in several titles, meaning gamers need not look up to NVIDIA alone for a flagship gaming experience as long as ray-tracing performance is not the main purchasing criterion. The other retailers that will be selling graphics cards are B&H, Amazon, & Newegg.
Similar to the custom models at BestBuy, these retailers will be selling the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti on the website whenever stock drops. Since the quantities of graphics cards are higher than usual, the odds of getting a graphics card are greater on these retailers. While I wouldn't usually recommend Amazon this is one of the better opportunities to land a card on Amazon due to the greater stock.
The drop times for all of these retailers are unknown and likely random. To get alerted when BestBuy, Newegg, Amazon, & B&H drop NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, you can go onto a stock tracking YouTube stream like fixitfixitfixit or DataLover and turn on the sound to be alerted when these retailers drop. When these retailers drop, the window to buy a graphics card will be very small.
Getting a graphics card has been pretty hard lately, but the launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti might be your best shot at getting a graphics card. Here's how retailers are going to be selling their stock of graphics cards tomorrow. Brad Chacos/IDGAMD's rival Radeon RX 6900 XT, on the other hand, packs in more raw capacity—16GB—but of the slower GDDR6 variety across a smaller 256-bit bus, so it only has an effectively memory bandwidth of 512GBps. That's a bit deceiving though, as AMD's RDNA 2 architecture includes a very high bandwidth "Infinity Cache" right on the GPU die itself that can handle many frame buffer tasks without needing to access the graphics card's memory. Nvidia's cards lack a similar feature and rely on the raw power of GDDR6X over a wider bus.
In practice, however, all of these high-end GeForce and Radeon cards deliver plenty of bandwidth and performance for 4K gaming. Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles.
FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. Developers can now add even more amazing graphics effects to Microsoft Windows-based PC games. GeForce RTX graphics cards deliver advanced DX12 features like ray tracing and variable rate shading, bringing games to life with ultra-realistic visual effects and faster frame rates.
Nvidia has also announced a relatively more mass market RTX 3070 Ti alongside the RTX 3080 Ti that will start at $599 and start shipping from June 10. Nvidia says it is up to 1.5X faster than the last-gen RTX 2070 Super with 6,144 CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6X memory, and a power rating of 220W. The RTX 3070 Ti will also include Nvidia's cryptocurrency nerf with half the hash rate for Ethereum mining. The second – and arguably more interesting – card that NVIDIA is announcing today is the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Unlike the RTX 3080 Ti, this card doesn't have quite such a close sibling within NVIDIA's current product stack.
The supercharged RTX 3070 card, which is once again based on the GA104 GPU, essentially gets all the performance NVIDIA left in the tank at launch. This means enabling all 48 SMs, and upgrading the VRAM from GDDR6 to GDDR6X, giving GA104 access to its fullest performance and memory bandwidth capabilities. There has been a lot of pent up negativity about video cards for over 6 months because of their general unavailability with ridiculously high prices.
Social media has blamed NVIDIA and AMD for these issues and few care to read reviews. There has been a perfect storm of twin pandemics hitting in 2020 – COVID-19 and Cryptomining. Both pandemics have increased demand as many people who were forced to stay home turned to gaming. In addition, Etherium GPU mining is currently still profitable which means that miners compete with gamers for supply. But we believe that this is about to change as what goes boom also will go bust. The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is a powerhouse graphics card that delivers an excellent 4K ray tracing performance.
If you can afford its steep up-front cost then it's an excellent choice for any hardcore gamer looking for top-of-the-line performance. However, the gains you get compared to the base RTX 3080, which costs a lot less, make it a hard sell for gamers who don't need the best performance possible in 4K. The crypto currency Ergo is based on the Autolykos algorithm, which was updated in version 2 in early 2021. The Autolykos 2 algorithm is based on the PoW concept and can be efficiently calculated by a graphics card. When calculating Ergo Coins, ASICs have no efficiency advantage over modern graphics cards, which should make Ergo attractive for as many miners as possible.
The Ergo protocol is based on the blockchain and has been optimized for a very long shelf life. The hashrates were achieved under Hive OS with moderate overclocking settings. In an effort to limit purchases by cryptominers, Nvidia announced in February that the RTX 3060 cards would be able to detect algorithms for mining of the Ethereum cryptocurrency and halve the hash rate. Shortly after release, NVIDIA accidentally released a driver update which disabled the detection.
In March, TechRadar reported that the shortages could continue until the third quarter of the year, in part blaming a global GDDR6 memory shortage and the cards' supply being bought out by cryptominers. The GeForce 30 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 20 series. The series was announced on September 1, 2020, and started shipping on September 17, 2020. The cards are based on the Ampere architecture and feature hardware-accelerated raytracing with Nvidia's second-generation RT cores and third-generation Tensor Cores.
The lineup is designed to compete with AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series of cards. The most important thing to look at is the CUDA core count, as that's a key indicator of performance for Nvidia's graphics cards. With a whopping 10,240 cores, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti isn't much of a cut-down GPU—the RTX 3090 has 10,496.
Our benchmarks will show it leaving the vanilla 3080 in the dust and landing right next to the 3090 in raw gaming performance. NVIDIA has crafted yet another shining example of a kick-ass Ti series graphics card, where the only downfall from a technology or feature set perspective is what I would have rathered that it had 16GB of GDDR6X memory and not 12GB. AMD now has more VRAM across its range of Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards than NVIDIA does on the "$1199" GPU that is more expensive than the rest of AMD's Big Navi range. The 12GB of GDDR6X memory was overclocked by 1000MHz+ up to just over 21Gbps, resulting in just over 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth. We should expect this to be some of the best results for GPU boost and overclocking, but I do have some custom GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card reviews coming right after this with varying OC results. Say hello to our newly found friend; yes, the Ti models of the 3080 are being uncovered today.
It's a graphics card series that will sit in-between 3080 and 3090 performance levels, and yeah, that is certainly not a bad spot to be positioned in. It has been a bizarre year if we're talking computer components alone, silicon shortages, mining; it's been sour grapes for a long time. People are almost fighting to grab a decently proceed graphics card, often running up to three times the MSRP pricing. Even though the market is full of scalpers demanding utterly unreasonable amounts of money for relatively old and weak graphics cards, Nvidia goes ahead and ramps up the price of its RTX3080Ti by $200 overnight.
No one can make me believe that Nvidia ramped up the price due to the logistical difficulties posed by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. At the height of the pandemic, when there was no vaccine whatsoever, the price for this card was announced as $999. But to be fair, the chip crisis is worse now compared to November 2020, so Nvidia may as well cite it as a reason for this price hike. But still, it does not make any sense to ramp up the price of a premium card that is absolutely guaranteed to sell fewer units than the $300 cheaper – but nearly as capable – RTX 3080. Nvidia's RTX 3000 series desktop graphics cards are launched and officially available, but finding one is a huge challenge.
The latest card, the RTX 3070 Ti was officially launched on June 3rd but was still showing as "coming soon" on most official stores even an hour after launch. And this follows continuing stock issues with the company's flagship RTX 3080, high-end RTX 3090 and mid-range RTX 3070, all of which were gone within minutes on launch day and have been hard to find ever since. The price tag for the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is also a little cheaper than the Nvidia RTX 3090's price of $1499.
As expected of the high-end cards, enthusiasts are really only paying for a small performance upgrade in the price difference. As a result, the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is perfectly suited for people looking to get solid performance in 4K gaming so long as they don't use up the 12GB of VRAM. Of course, this is all based on the Founders Edition cards and Nvidia's board partners will also offer enthusiasts different options for overclocking later on. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and the RTX 3070 Ti will go on sale around the world on June 3 and June 10 respectively. BTR received the RTX 3080 Ti 12GB Founders Edition from NVIDIA and we have been testing its performance by benchmarking 25 games and also by overclocking it. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is an absolute monster of a graphics card, delivering RTX 3090-level gaming performance at a lower price.
However, the high starting price may still be a turn off for budget-conscious folks that just want to get some PC gaming in. According to the company, Nvidia's Founder Edition model is intended to be a "limited production graphics card," so low supply may be intentional. For consumers who rely heavily on third-party vendors such as Asus, Gigabyte and MSI. Nvidia released a statement the following day, apologizing for the difficulties with their online store, which went down on launch day due to high traffic. On October 2, Nvidia announced that it would delay the release of RTX 3070 cards by two weeks to guarantee availability. On October 5, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced delays due to supply shortages, which were expected to go on until 2021.
On October 9, the company announced that all Founder's Edition graphic cards in the United States would temporarily be sold via Best Buy, while the official web store would be upgraded to improve the shopping experience. In early December, Nvidia blamed continued component shortages on Samsung wafer shortages, resulting in chip shortages, among other factors. The LHR tech is being built into all new GeForce GPUs except the 3090, as that luxury-priced graphics card is already intended to dominate at tasks that can make you money rather than simply amuse. Rumors ahead of the RTX 3080 Ti's reveal whispered that Nvidia's Founders Edition model specifically lacks the LHR limiter, but that's not true. The FE card's mining efficiency is just as nerfed as it is for third-party RTX 3080 Tis by the likes of EVGA, Asus, MSI, and so on. After months of endless leaks and rumors—many inaccurate—Nvidia's $1,200 GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is finally here, and it's an absolute monster.
GeForce's new "gaming flagship," as Nvidia calls it, blazes through games almost as quickly as the ferocious GeForce RTX 3090. This allows you to configure multiple monitors in order to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as having a wider field of view. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition looks similar in design to the RTX 3080 Founders Edition.
NVIDIA is pricing the card at $1,200, or about $200 higher than the Radeon RX 6900 XT. The AMD flagship is really the main target of this NVIDIA launch, as it has spelled trouble for the RTX 3080. As rumors of the RTX 3080 Ti picked up pace, AMD worked with its board partners to release an enthusiast-class RX 6900 XT refresh based on the new "XTXH" silicon that can sustains 10% higher clock-speeds.
In this review, we compare the RTX 3080 Ti with all the SKUs in its vicinity to show you if it's worth stretching your penny to $1,200, or whether you could save some money by choosing this card over the RTX 3090. When we look at UserBenchmark, a website that you can compare PC parts' performances, it is clear that the percentile change in performance does not exceed 13% compared to the RTX 3080 in terms of Average Score and Effective Speed metrics. So, basically, Nvidia expects you to fork out $1,199 dollars for the Ti version, instead of $699 for the normal one, in return for a measly 15% increase in performance – at most. And it's not even close to being fair, not even considering the severe graphics card shortage the tech scene is experiencing so far.
