It is interesting to see NVIDIA introducing even more graphics cards at a time when the chipset crisis around the world is still a huge concern. The company has been trying to get its GPUs into the hands of gamers by reducing crypto-mining abilities on its RTX 30-series models. NVIDIA also has launched dedicated GPUs for crypto-mining purposes under its CMP or Cryptocurrency Mining Processor series; however, it seems that it hasn't helped all that much. At the moment, almost every single graphics card from the company, including the older generation GTX series, is selling at inflated prices. It is extremely likely that the newly announced GPUs will also be sold higher than the suggested pricing.
For many consumers, it then makes more sense to buy a good gaming laptop instead of a GPU just because the laptops are available to purchase and at sane prices. Coming in at $1199 for the 3080 Ti and $599 for the 3070 Ti, these graphics cards are notably more expensive than the base models they are meant to represent upgrades over. In regards to the RTX 3080 Ti, it seems quite expensive at first glance, though equivalently priced to Nvidia's 2080 Ti flagship from the previous generation. However, its specs are comparable to the $1,500 RTX 3090 with the main difference being that it features half of the VRAM. That shouldn't be a problem for most games though, as the RTX 3090 boasts that much VRAM for professional apps like Blender.
As for the RTX 3070 Ti, it will feature an upgrade to GDDR6X memory along with more cores and a higher TDP. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition is a marvelous extension of the RTX 30 Series Founders genealogy and a great weapon for 4K gaming. From the chip crisis to the cryptocurrency market, the cost of graphics cards has grown beyond all expectations in 2021 for both adopted and current selling models. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 review explains that this graphics card works on the same version of the GPU that drives the RTX-3090. This implies despite the business the RTX 3080 Ti is propelling in, it's a potent graphics card that should be able to drive any game following the sun at 4K 60 fps. Firstly, it has about 17% more CUDA cores and RT cores than the RTX 3080.
Secondly, it comes with 12GB of GDDR6X RAM, along with a 20% increase in bandwidth, giving creators and gamers an additional boost. However, the latest Nvidia graphics card also consumes about 10% more power than the previous model. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has a pixel rating of 186.5G Pixels/s and a texture rating of 532.8 GTexels/s. Both the video cards possess excellent Ray Tracing, DLSS and AI capabilities, support Direct X 12 Ultimate, and are VR ready. Nvidia also announced that the number of games and applications that support ray tracing and/or DLSS has now grown to 130, with new entrants including Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Icarus.
Fortnite, which already supports RTX technologies, will be getting a new Titanium City map which features a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card as its backdrop, to mark the product launch. Nvdia has also worked with Orbx to release a free mod for Microsoft Flight Simulator that enhances Tapei's downtown Xinyi district, to celebrate the spirit of Computex 2021. 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'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 RTX 3080 Ti will deliver a 50% improvement in performance over the RTX 2080 Ti at 4K resolution, according to Nvidia's benchmarks. The company released a gameplay video of Doom Eternal running at 60 frames per second in 4K resolution on an RTX 3080 Ti; you can watch it on YouTube.
However, with the current GPU stock shortage, we expect the supply of these new cards to be limited. Seems odd that Nvidia would launch new GPUs when there is a major shortage of the current crop of graphics cards. Additionally, we've also seen inflated GPU prices due to the stock shortage, so these prices might likely go up unless you can find a Founder Edition card. Nvidia's new RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is now theoretically available, now that we've reached the 2PM UK time , 3rd June 2021 release date. Obviously, we're all aware of the state of the graphics card market right now, so all we can do is suggest places that might have stock if you happen to check them at the right time. Anyway, our RTX 3080 Ti review shows that this card is neck-and-neck with the more expensive RTX 3090, making it a far better option for most people - although the original RTX 3080 continues to offer much better value overall.
In this article, we'll share the best places in the US and UK to pick up your new RTX 3080 Ti. The best graphics cards have been near impossible to buy thanks to a worldwide silicon shortage, limiting supply of available stock. On top of that, potential shoppers have had to contend with store lotteries and, even worse, scalpers. Considering the starting price of this graphics card is a premium $1,199, finding one of these is not going to be easy. GeForce RTX 3080 Ti continues to be an impressively persuasive graphics card besides some obduracy instilled in the cost.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is as swift as the RTX 3090 for PC games, even though it owns half the VRAM. Therefore, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review describes that this graphics card offers the steadiest gaming performance at the moment. Considering the other series of Nvidia GeForce RTX 30, the RTX 3080 Ti is manufactured based on the Nvidia Ampere design that bears the same modifications and revisions as the previous series. Moreover, this latest graphics card is beefier than the primary RTX 3080, and that mostly drops to focus number and memory bandwidth.
Nvidia's official recommended retail prices for the RTX 3080 start at $1200/£1050/€1200. Support for both ray tracing and DLSS is on the way for games such as Doom Eternal, Icarus , and Lego Builder's Journey, whereas Red Dead Redemption 2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege are getting DLSS only. The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is one of the most powerful graphics cards I've tested in quite some time, offering stellar 4K performance across the board, even with ray tracing graphics settings on.
But its price makes it a very expensive luxury, with better value found elsewhere. There are two more Nvidia RTX 30 graphics cards on the way this month, the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti. Announced earlier this week as part of Nvidia's Computex 2021 keynote , the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti take their place as Nvidia's new flagship gaming GPUs for 2021. Here's everything you need to know, including where you can buy one, what time they go on sale, their prices, specs and respective release dates.
Apart from the new graphic cards, Nvidia also announced that 130 games and applications now support ray tracing and/or DLSS. The new entrants using ray tracing and/or DLSS are Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Icarus. The American GPU-maker also showcased some new and recently launched gaming and productivity laptops that feature GeForce RTX GPUs. That's a huge difference, but Control hits the RTX cards right where it matters most. So the extra video memory in the 3080 Ti is more adept at rendering a 4K scene with ray tracing and graphics set to maximum with no DLSS. Of course, the 80 RT cores and 10,240 CUDA cores also make a huge difference.
The reality is that Control is now very playable at 4K with max settings for RTX even before you turn on DLSS thanks to the 3080 Ti. Demand for the 3080 Ti will likely match that of the 3080 — at least among hardcore gamers. This is a powerful, 4K graphics card with a suite of great features as well as enough speedy GDDR6X memory to demolish productivity tasks and ray tracing workloads. Rounding out the RTX 3000-series releases is the RTX 3070, which was originally expected to launch on October 15 but was pushed back to October 29th to increase launch day stock. The RTX 3070 is the most affordable of the RTX 3000 cards, packing 5,888 CUs for prices starting at $499.00 and targeting 1440p gameplay.
In leaked tests, it performed slightly better than a 2080 Ti despite its much lower cost, and our own review also compared it to a 2080 Ti. The RTX 3080 Ti, which Nvidia described in its announcement as its "new gaming flagship," will be released worldwide on Thursday, June 3, for $1,199. That's the same price as the RTX 2080 Ti, the highest-end GPU in Nvidia's initial line of graphics cards capable of real-time ray tracing, which debuted in September 2018. (The price is what Nvidia will charge for the Founders Edition of its GPU; cards from third parties will start at that level and go up from there.) It's also $300 lower than the cost of the massive RTX 3090. And as has become increasingly common at Ars, this review comes with an asterisk the size of an asteroid that will likely smash your hopes of buying this card in the near future.
Nvidia didn't offer any briefings about company efforts to stabilize supply, nor did the company try to guarantee that actual humans will be able to buy the RTX 3080 Ti beginning tomorrow, June 3, "starting at" $1,199. It remains anyone's guess if, when, or how a mild-mannered tech enthusiast like yourself will get a fair shake in the current market. Godfall is a large-scale open-world action RPG, full of reflective surfaces and advanced light effects.
Unlike Control, it's optimised to run ray tracing on AMD, rather than Nvidia graphics cards, which is the reason it doesn't support DLSS at the moment. Here, the 3080 Ti once again proved capable of running the game at playable frame rates across every resolution. 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. To find out exactly how the RTX 3080 Ti stacks up against the rest of today's best graphics cards, you can read all about it in my full RTX 3080 Ti review. For what it's worth, I think you should stick with the cheaper RTX 3080 if you're looking to buy a new graphics card, as I don't feel the RTX 3080 Ti's performance is good enough to justify its higher price over its vanilla sibling. As with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 that launched in March 2021, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has a hardware-based hash rate limiter that should limit the appeal to cryptocurrency miners.
We don't test mining performance at TechRadar, so we can't speak to how effective this limit actually is. But given that the hash rate limiter on the RTX 3060 was accidentally bypassed by Nvidia's own driver update, we'll just have to wait and see how well this actually dissuades miners from buying this graphics card in bulk. With LHR being right now successful, the new graphics cards are not that worth the price as the previous ones for miners. However, the problem with the scalpers still persist and it will take some time for the GPU prices to become stable. 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 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and the RTX 3070 Ti will go on sale around the world on June 3 and June 10 respectively.
It also has Nvidia Reflex, which will be highly preferred by competing gamers who can use Nvidia Reflex to spontaneously reduce the input latency and enhance responsiveness. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review also describes about Nvidia Broadcast that lets the gamer enjoy the benefits of AI noise elimination, virtual green screen, or face tracking with the help of your webcam. AV1 decoding along with Nvidia's proprietary encoder makes the graphics card a much-preferred choice for the streamers.
Implemented with HDMI 2.1 support that increases the bandwidth from 18Gbps to 48Gbps. Considering all the amazing performances RTX 3080 has given so far related to 4K gaming, the RTX 3080 Ti is designed to do a better job. It's a card recognized for performance, potential, and excellent cooling. 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. If you see the spec sheet of both RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090, you won't find much difference, except memory. Generally, "Ti" is used for a card that is an upgrade over the base variant and sits between two cards. But, RTX 3080 Ti is very close to RTX 3090 in terms of performance, specs, and price rather than RTX 3080. At Computex 2021, Nvidia launched two graphics card from Jensen kitchen.
RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti, was expected for a long time, especially 3080Ti. However, Nvidia has done weird work in terms of the price and specs of the RTX 3080 Ti, which kept it in the wrong spot. None of the above matters if you can't buy the hardware or it's retailing for double the MSRP.
The RTX 3080 Ti should be far less attractive to miners - I measured a hashrate of around 60MH/sec mining Ethereum, and that makes it the least attractive RTX 3000-series card by far to miners in terms of power efficiency. However, it's not just mining that's causing the crazy price and supply situation, but the microchip shortage too. As the Nvidia Computex 2021 event has taken place, we've got the full rundown on what we can expect from the RTX 3080 Ti. Back in September 2020, the company introduced its lineup of RTX 30 graphics cards for the very first time. All of them were incredibly well-received, and as of June 2021, the lineup has continued to grow with more options to fit as many budgets as possible.
While the cards themself have been fantastic, actually trying to buy one has been a different story. Thanks to a combination of the chip shortage, scalpers, and crypto miners, buying an RTX 30 GPU has become virtually impossible for the average shopper. The cards are constantly out of stock, and when one is available, it's often selling for hundreds more than its MSRP. The official pricing of these cards is a little higher than previous rumors suggested.
No doubt Nvidia will sell the cards regardless, so the increased pricing could be a direct reflection of the current market demand. Speaking of which, we're curious as to whether the built-in Ethereum cryptomining limiter will manage to remain uncracked and actually improve availability. If you're interested in getting one of these cards, it might not be a bad idea to try now while some of the miners are hesitant to invest in one of these.
If the hash rate limiter does get cracked, the endless hordes of miners will pounce on these GPUs in the blink of an eye. In the middle of the current GPU shortage, news of Nvidia's RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti should be something many gamers get excited about. Many gamers, however, may be curious about availability considering the current shortages.
With release dates and pricing information, gamers can only hope that the release of these new Ti series cards will allow them to get their hands on a new RTX 3000 series GPU this year. If you desire ultra performance in gaming, ray-traced workloads, rendering, and GPU-accelerated applications, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is the graphics card for you. Still, the RTX 3080 Ti, which is designed as a true heir to the prior gen's RTX 2080 Ti, is priced exactly the same as its predecessor. In fact, when the cost of inflation is factored in, the $1,199 RTX 2080 Ti from its 2018 launch would cost $1,261 today, making the RTX 3090 some $60 less expensive! Nvidia really has little incentive to go any cheaper given historic pricing.
Given the current global shortage of GPUs and resulting price spikes, it is likely that street prices will be much higher. However, Nvidia's official announcement made no mention of hash rate limiting, a measure rumoured to be introduced to discourage cryptocurrency mining using GPUs, which has caused the worldwide supply crunch. As part of Nvidia's continuing efforts to make its GPUs less attractive to cryptocurrency miners, both the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti will have their Ethereum mining rate halved in software. Of course, mining operations aren't the only reason that GPUs have been even more difficult to buy lately; the ongoing worldwide semiconductor shortage has hit this market hard, further constraining supply as demand remains high. Nvidia also announced the RTX 3070 Ti on Tuesday, an upgraded version of last fall's RTX 3070, which the company said is its "most popular" RTX 30-series GPU.
The RTX 3070 Ti will deliver 50% more performance than the 2-year-old RTX 2070 Super and twice as many frames per second as 2017's GTX 1070 Ti, according to Nvidia. It packs 8 GB of video RAM just like the RTX 3070 — but it's the faster GDDR6X memory instead of GDDR6. Nvidia will release the RTX 3070 Ti on June 10 for $599, which is $100 more than the starting price of the RTX 3070. From what I've seen a large incentive for cheaper prices on the high end side of graphics will be competing with his next generation of consoles.
