The first photos of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti have been released by sources, further confirming its existence. Following the first concrete evidence of the chip's existence, performance figures showing cryptocurrency hash rates began to surface.

Interestingly, someone had the impression that the refreshed Ampere card might have a hash rate limiter, but it appears that someone did not get the memo.

Screenshots obtained by VideoCardz show an Ethernet mining hash rate of 118.9 MH/s for the RTX 3080 Ti based on the Ampere GA102-225 GPU architecture. However, this figure is after some optimization, with TDP reduced to 278 W and memory clocked at 21.4 Gbps.

Incidentally, the RTX 3080 achieves 97 MH/s at 250W of power consumption, which means that a slight increase in power consumption results in a 22.6% increase in mining capacity. These numbers will have cryptocurrency miners flooding the web store come May.

These leaks may suggest that the rumor of a full house of 30 series cards with a hash rate limiter is just hot air. However, we have come to trust the words of the leaker who suggested it, so the sample in question may have been tested before the limiter was added.

In any case, it appears that the RTX 3080 Ti has a base clock of 1365 MHz and a boost clock of 1665 MHz. This is a considerably lower clock than the RTX 3080, but with more cores; 12GB of GDDR6X memory is set at 1188MHz by default, further confirming the 19Gbps speeds comparable to Nvidia's current flagship models, but again, more memory on board.

Such graphics power is expected to set prospective buyers back $999 if resellers do not get their hands on it first.