Nvidia may release RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti one week apart starting June 3.

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Nvidia may release RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti one week apart starting June 3.

Another chance to buy a high-end GPU in the Nvidia RTX 30 series at MSRP has arrived. At least that's the rumor: the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti will be available on June 3 and the RTX 3070 Ti on June 10.

Nvidia has not directly confirmed either card, but WCCFTech claims to have information on the launch of both rumored 30-series cards and cites these two release dates.

These dates are also consistent with previous rumors suggesting the same schedule, and unless there is a last-minute change, it appears that these cards will appear around Computex, which opens on June 1.

Both cards have been in limbo for some time now, although they have been changing their appearance since the beginning of the year. The RTX 3080 Ti, in particular, has transformed from a GA102-250 GPU proposal to a GA102-225 card with fewer cores and less VRAM. It will still have 80 SMs and a total of 10,240 CUDA cores.

The RTX 3070 Ti will likely feature the same GA104 GPUs found on the RTX 3070 to RTX 3060 Ti and the mobile RTX 3080. Exact specs are again a matter of speculation, but a configuration of 6,144 CUDA cores seems likely. [The $999 price tag of the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT might give a rough indication of where the RTX 3080 Ti might be, but pricing is even more of a guess at this point.

The RTX 3070 Ti's price can also be roughly guessed: $499 for the RTX 3070 and $699 for the RTX 3080, with the RTX 3070 Ti inevitably falling between the two. $549 is what we would expect, but $579, the same as the RX 6800, would be reasonable. If Nvidia really feels that it has the performance to make a significant difference to the Radeon, then a $599 price tag is not implausible.

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