New Year, New GeForce Cards
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THE LAUNCH OF THE GEFORCE RTX 3080 TI was set for January, but has been pushed back to the end of February. Why? Well demand for the existing cards is high, and while AMD’s cards are good, they aren’t good enough to make Nvidia rush out anything, particularly as it can sell every $1,499 RTX 3090 it can make. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti sits squarely between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. It has the same number of cores as the RTX 3090—10,496—but carries 20GB rather than 24GB of GDDR6X memory sitting on a 320-bit rather than a 384-bit memory bus, so the bandwidth drops from 936GB/s to 760GB/s. It’s expected to go for $999, neatly in the middle of its siblings at $1,499, and $699.