GeForce RTX 3080 Ti price, release date (May 26th) surfaces as well as GPU photo (update)

Pricing of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti may have surfaced, according to sources involved the 'Titanium' model will carry an MSRP of roughly 1100 USD; which would be considerably more expensive than the standard RTX 3080 at 699 USD. The GeForce RTX 3090 has an MSRP of 1499 USD. The GPU would become available in May.

The new RTX 3080Ti graphics card is neutered version of the RTX 3090. The shader processors have been reduced from 10496 to 10240, and the graphics memory has become 384-bit wide 12GB GDDR6X particles, which is half of the RTX 3090. 

Meanwhile over at VideoCardz the first die picture of GA102-225 silicon has been shown, pretty much looking similar to the GA102-300 SKU of the RTX 3090 card. As stated the GA102-225 would get 10240 shading cores instead of 10752 shading cores found inside GA102-300 of RTX 3090. 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus / 19 Gbps speeds means a bandwidth of 912 GB/s. The leak shows that the card has managed a 1365 MHz base and 1665 MHz boost frequency. It somehow WAS tested on ETH mining somehow. RTX 3080 Ti achieves an Ethereum hash rate of 118.9 MH/s, which means that we can forget to see this graphics card in stock, much less so at a reasonable price. NVIDIA was supposed to limit this graph for crypto mining, something that clearly would not be working:

A Taiwanese Nvidia partner mentioned that the RTX 3080 Ti will be released on May 26. The RTX 3070 Ti would follow soon there after;likely in the beginning of June, although there is no exact date. Below the preliminary specs. 

	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	1365 MHz	1440 MHz	1815 MHz	1825 MHz
Game Clock	-	-	-	2015 MHz	2015 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	1665 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	$1099	$699	$999	$649
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	May 2021	Sep 17th, 2020	Dec 8th, 2020	Nov 18th, 2020