Data purportedly benchmarking the rumored Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB has been released. The numbers, discovered by Chinese "Big Hardware Player" tuner and Twitter user HXL, place the rumored card between the existing RTX 3080 and 3090 boards, but closer to the range-topping megabucks RTX 3090.

The purported leaked GPU-Z grab shows a card with 20GB of memory running on the same 320-bit bus as the RTX 3080, but with the same 10,496 Cuda cores, 112 ROPs, and 328 texture units as the RTX 3090. The core clock and boost clock are again the same as the 3090, but the RTX 3080 Ti's memory clock is slightly slower at 1,188 MHz than the RTX 3080's, instead of the 3090's 1,219 MHz.

Sources suggest that the board could be branded either RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3080 Super. However, the benchmarks include RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 boards as reference points, all running at 4K. Given that the specs of the rumored cards are consistent with the RTX 3090, it is not surprising that the RTX 3080 Ti falls slightly short of the 3090, except for slightly less memory bandwidth (and a reduction in VRAM from 24GB to 20GB).

Earlier rumors had suggested that the 3080 Ti would be available in February for around $999. However, that idea has since been discarded and the board has been delayed "indefinitely," presumably as a result of the severe supply shortages that have plagued the RTX 30 series.

AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series all offer 16GB of VRAM as opposed to the RTX 3080's 10GB and RTX 3070's 8GB, not to mention Nvidia's own RTX 3060, which launched earlier this month with 12GB.

Certainly, Nvidia's RTX 30 series range seems more balanced if the top SKUs are revised with more VRAM. However, the supply of existing RTX 30 series GPUs remains incredibly tight in all flavors, and the prospect of new chipsets becoming available soon seems quite unlikely.

Supply shortages and the insatiable demand of cryptocurrency mining make the supply of actual gaming GPUs unlikely in the foreseeable future.