The horrible GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is Nvidia’s ‘new gaming flagship’

The months of rumors can sooner or later discontinue. Nvidia formally introduced the lengthy-awaited GeForce RTX 3080 Ti all the design thru its Computex keynote leisurely Monday night, and this $1,200 graphics card looks worship an exclaim beast. The $600 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti also made its debut with sooner GDDR6X memory.

All eyes are on the RTX 3080 Ti, even supposing. Nvidia dubbed it GeForce’s “new gaming flagship” as the $1,500 RTX 3090 is constructed for work and play alike, but the brand new GPU is a 3090 in all but title (and memory means). While Nvidia didn’t run into deep technical particulars all the design thru the keynote, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti’s specs page presentations it packing a whopping 10,240 CUDA cores—staunch a pair hundred not up to the 3090’s 10,496 depend, but vastly extra than the 8,704 stumbled on in the vanilla 3080. Query this card to bite thru video games on par with the excellent, namely in video games that enhance steady-time ray tracing and Nvidia’s unprecedented DLSS purpose.

The memory machine can deal with the chase, because it’s constructed the usage of the RTX 3090’s upgraded bones. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comes with a pleased 12GB of blazing-mercurial GDDR6X memory over a huge 384-bit bus, which is half the ludicrous 24GB means stumbled on in the 3090, but good ample to deal with any gaming workload you via at it. That’s not staunch with the vanilla RTX 3080, which comes with 10GB of GDDR6X over a smaller bus, as uncommon titles (worship Doom Eternal) can already exhaust extra than 10GB of memory must always you’re playing at 4K decision with the win out about candy cranked to the max. The additional two gigs assign the RTX 3080 Ti feel significant extra future-proof. AMD’s rival $1,000 Radeon RX 6900 XT comes with 16GB to envision the brand new gaming consoles but it completely’s of the slower GDDR6 non-X diversity.

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Speaking of memory, it’s the huge title of the conceal with the $600 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Nvidia’s specification page presentations it with 6,144 CUDA cores, or barely extra than the 5,888 stumbled on in the non-Ti 3070. However the 8GB of onboard memory is upgraded from GDDR6 to GDDR6X in the Ti variant. If the RTX 3070 Ti winds up appreciably sooner in video games, namely at 4K decision, it’ll be attributable to the memory. (Our new RTX 3080 review explained what you might want to know regarding the reducing-edge GGDR6X chips.)

And optimistic, every the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti embody Nvidia’s new “Lite Hash Fee” skills constructed to deter crypto miners all the design thru the crippling GPU shortage. Huzzah.

Don’t ask LHR to work miracles in the short timeframe, then again. These graphics cards will maybe sell for a total bunch of greenbacks extra than their mentioned MSRPs after they hit the streets, since even frail gentle graphics cards are going with huge designate-americaright now. Your most productive chance of getting one at a sane designate is by beating scalper bots (and hordes of different determined gamers) to the checkout page the millisecond these GPUs fall. Watch the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to end on June 3—staunch two days from now—and the RTX 3070 Ti to delivery on June 10.

Senior editor Brad Chacos covers gaming and graphics for PCWorld, and runs the morning news desk for PCWorld, Macworld, Greenbot, and TechHive. He tweets too.