Not long ago, we have seen AMD and NVIDIA launch their own new cards. Needless to say, NVIDIA’s performance and long-term reputation are the targets of many players. AMD is not lagging behind. The RX 6000 series accurately targets the Achilles’ heel of NVIDIA’s graphics card product line in terms of performance and pricing. There is a back-and-forth between the two parties. Of course, consumers can expect benefits. Recently, NVIDIA plans to start with its own RTX 3090 flagship, and will release a new card with performance between the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080. It is speculated that this may be the RTX 3080 Ti. There is no news about the upcoming release of this graphics card this year, but a whistleblower pointed out that this new card is expected to be released early next year, hitting the RX 6900 XT, which has a slight advantage in cost performance:
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A leaker on the Internet has released news that NVIDIA is already working on launching a new graphics card for the RX 6900 XT. This graphics card must be strong enough to compete with this card in terms of performance and pricing. As of now, this new card should be the rumored RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. This graphics card is positioned slightly lower than the RTX 3090, but the RTX 3090 is priced at $1,499, which makes it difficult to compete with the RX 6900 XT, which is priced at only $999 but has almost the same performance gap.
AMD kills the bleeding with $699 flagship card, NVIDIA will send RTX 3080 Ti to make up for it
As NVIDA does not intend to directly “divide” the RTX 3090 in order to compete with it, it will inevitably need a high-end graphics card that can compete with the RX 6900 XT at the price of $999 to avoid continued blood loss in its own product line. This card must be able to block the RX 6900 XT from conquering the high-end market. It must be able to compete with it in terms of performance, and the cost must be low enough to resist the opponent’s price reduction strategy. Therefore, the advent of RTX 3080 Ti is not unexpected, and it must be launched as soon as possible to prevent the opponent’s camp from crushing it:
▲AMD’s current graphics cards are not only good enough, but they also have exclusive technical blessings when they combine their own resources to form AMD’s large platform (Image source）
The HKEPC website and Twitter user @koptite7kimi, who currently provide the breaking news, respectively pointed out that the specifications of the RTX 3080 Ti will be 10496 CUDA Cores and have GDDR6X 20GB display memory specifications. The power section is 320W. Although there is no way to confirm these claims at this stage, the author believes that the credibility is not low. If you compare it horizontally with other N-brand graphics cards, you can see NVIDIA’s intention to position this graphics card below the RTX 3090 and above the RTX 3080:
▲Although the clock and other information have not yet been determined, at least among the known specifications, NVIDIA has indeed set it to a sub-flagship level (picture taken fromOverclock3D website)
However, it is currently known that this RTX 3080 Ti does not have built-in NVLINK, which means that NVIDIA still reserves this technology exclusively for the highest-end RTX 3090 graphics card.
This shows that the positioning of the RTX 3080 Ti is not to replace the RTX 3090, but to fill the huge price hole of $1,499 to $699 with a product that can compete with its opponents.
The position of this sub-flagship is very important. After all, it competes directly with AMD graphics cards one-on-one. NVIDIA must use the strongest knife skills to cut out the best products. If the price is almost as sweet, but the performance is better, it may be able to reverse the established impression that AMD’s high-end cards give people cheap and easy to use. The current news indicates that this new graphics card is expected to be released in early 2021. Those who are still hesitating whether to buy an AMD or NVIDIA high-end card may wish to wait and see the latest news, and it is not too late to make a decision until the product performance is actually released:
▲Lao Huang picked up the knife and started to warm up. It is still very exciting to see what product will be cut out with this knife (Image source）
Source: KOCPC Chinese