The RTX 3080 12GB is released next week: more powerful and in stock

At the just-concluded CES 2022, NVIDIA brought a number of new cards, including the RTX 3050/3090 Ti, the RTX 3070 Ti/3080 Ti for notebook platforms, and so on.

At that time, some media said that NVIDIA also announced the RTX 3080 12G and RTX 3070 Ti 16GB desktop graphics, but it seemed to be a oolong, and there was no such thing.

According to the latest news, NVIDIA actually decided to "press" the above two products at the last minute before the CES 2022 online event began, and the latest plan is to be officially released at 22:00 Beijing time on January 11.

According to previous revelations, the RTX 3080 12GB uses a new core numbered GA102-220, the number of stream processors has increased from 8704 to 8960, and the number of optical chasing cores and tensor cores has also increased to 70 and 280.

The core frequency must also be adjusted, the specifics are unknown, and the power consumption of the whole card has increased from 320W to 340-350W, which is almost the same as the RTX 3080 Ti.

RTX 3080 12GB is not only a 2GB increase in video memory, its memory width is also opened from 320-bit to a full 384-bit, matching the capacity change, the frequency is still 19GHz, so the bandwidth is expanded to 912GB/s, a 20% increase over the 10GB old version.

In terms of price, it is expected that between RTX 3080 10GB and RTX 3080 Ti, 899~999 US dollars, of course, you can buy it is definitely not this price.

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