Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU could launch in just a few weeks

Rumor claims big reveal will be on May 18, and on-sale date is May 26

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Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ticould be launched on May 18, and the graphics card will go on sale just over a week after that on May 26.

That’s the latest rumor from tech siteIT Home(as spotted byWccftech). It backs up the whispers we’ve previously heard about the date that the card will supposedly be available to buy (at least briefly, because if this does come to fruition, stock is likely to disappear very, very swiftly).

Hong Kong-based tech siteHKEPC previously said that May 26is the on-sale date, with the RTX 3070 Ti to follow in early June (but there’s no mention of that Ti variant in this new rumor, which could be telling).

At any rate, despite these sources seemingly backing each other up, we obviously still need to be very cautious about the prospect of the dates being correct, and the 3080 Ti being imminent – althoughpurported pallets of the new GPUbeing shipped have been snapped (and the card has beenspotted at an online retailertoo). However, as we’ve discussed before, it does seem rather odd thatNvidiawould be launching more high-end cards before getting its budget house in order (meaning therumored RTX 3050 models).

IT Home also reckons that reviews will be published on May 25, the day before the RTX 3080 Ti hits shelves, which makes sense. All of this would be easy enough to guess, of course, so liberal quantities of salt as ever.

Just a few weeks away?

If true, we’ll finally get confirmation on the specs of the RTX 3080 Ti in just three weeks’ time. The rumor mill seems pretty sure that the graphics card will have 10,240 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR6X video RAM and a 384-bit memory bus (old rumors pointed to more video memory,20GB to be precise, but it seems like that’s not happening).

The theory is that Nvidia is also planning to equip this newAmperevariantwith anti-mining tech, as was present in the RTX 3060, but was subsequently cracked. Nvidia went back to thedrawing board, and apparently the RTX 3080 Ti will come equipped with the new hash rate limiter (andpossibly other GPUs too) which cuts mining performance in half.

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This is all part of the drive to give gamers a better chance of buying a GPU by putting off crypto-miners (although it remains to be seen how robust the limiter will be this time around when it comes to potentially being hacked).

Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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