Updated: GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB Spotted in Transit (added: photos MSI and Gigabyte)

And that confirms exactly that. A box photo in transit towards LA/USA shows the MSI logo and a graphics card that has been removed for a while now, GeForce  RTX 3080 Ti (updated).

The specific model is the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3X OC from MSI as Videocardz noticed in a tweet from a user called loklok. And we can concur, that label looks exactly what it should be. This shipment now confirms the existence of the card and thus 12GB of memory. The card will be based on a GA102-225 GPU, and that promises a spicy GPU with half the memory that of the RTX 3090.

Update: the first photos have started to leak. Meet the MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti SUPRIM X. RTX 3080 Ti should be announced on May 18th with a release date planned for May 26th. 

Update May the 5th - Moore's Law Is Dead has shared a photo of a package of the already expected RTX 3080 Ti, this round the Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti Gaming OC with indeed 12GB. The packaging of the Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti Gaming OC looks very similar to the RTX 3080 and 3090. This is Gigabyte's most costly SKU outside of the high-end Aorus sub-brand. You can spot the photo below at the thumbnails.

And another update: MSI flagship RTX 3080 TI graphics card model already on sale in the United Arab Emirates. Currently priced at just 3500 USD.  The cards are physically available though, see photo below.

Update May 13th: MSI by accident listed the card on its website, check thumbnail below. Does anyone have doubts about a pending release :) BTW they quickly corrected the error and removed the info.

	GeForce RTX 3090	GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	GeForce RTX 3080	Radeon RX 6900XT	Radeon RX 6800XT
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	RDNA2	RDNA2
GPU	8nm GA102-300	8nm GA102-225	8nm GA102-200	7nm Navi 21 XTX	7nm Navi 21 XT
Transistors	28.3 B	28.3 B	28.3 B	26.8 B	26.8 B
CU Clusters	82	~80	68	80	72
Shader ores	10496	~10240	8704	5120	4608
RT  Cores	82	~80	68	80	72
Tensor Cores	328	~320	272	-	-
Texture Units	328	~320	272	320	288
ROPs	112	~112	96	128	128
Base Clock	1395 MHz	-	1440 MHz	1815 MHz	1825 MHz
Game Clock	-	-	-	2015 MHz	2015 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	-	1710 MHz	2250 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory	24 GB GDDR6X	12 GDDRB G6X	10 GB GDDR6X	16GB GDDR6	16GB GDDR6
Infinity Cache	-	-	-	128 MB	128 MB
Memory Clock	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	19 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	864 GB/s	760 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
TGP/TBP	350W	-	320W	300W	300W
MSRP	$1,499	-	$699	$999	$649
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	May/June 2021	Sep 17th, 2020	Dec 8th, 2020	Nov 18th, 2020