Rumors are pouring in about how Nvidia will compete with AMD's upcoming RX 6000 series graphics cards. Specifically, the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti.

The RTX 3060 Ti is the more likely of the two, making its appearance on TechPowerUp's public GPU-Z verification page (via VideoCardz and T4CFantasy), with 5,888 to 4,864 CUDA cores of the Nvidia RTX 3070. It is reported to have 5,888 to 4,864 CUDA cores. According to the verification page, the RTX 3060 Ti has 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, providing 448GB/s of bandwidth at the same loadout as the RTX 3070.

The RTX 3060 Ti verification page also suggests a GPU clock of 1,410 MHz and a GPU boost of 1,665 MHz.

The RTX 3080 Ti is a bit shaky, and not just in terms of its potential release. The mention of this high-end card, which sits between the currently released RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, comes from Twitter leaker kopite7kimi, who says it will offer 9,984 CUDA cores and a 384-bit bus tied to GDDR6X memory He suggests. [The rumored RTX 3080 Ti would be slightly above the RTX 3080's 8,704 and slightly below the RTX 3090's 10,496. It will also use the same memory bus width as the RTX 3090, although it will likely have a GDDR6X VRAM capacity closer to the RTX 3080's 10GB than the RTX 3090's 24GB.

In any case, in terms of gaming performance, there is already no significant difference between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, the latter being more of a modest Titan than a GeForce card; with only a little over 10% difference under 4K gaming workloads, the proposed RTX 3080 Ti will not have much room to play.

However, it is likely not a question of how the RTX 3080 Ti will fit into its own stack, but rather how it will shape up against AMD's upcoming RX 6000 series graphics cards. Rumor has it that these cards are shaping up to compete with the RTX 3080 and will exceed early expectations in terms of performance. Initially, AMD's high-end was said to be aimed at the RTX 2080 Ti.

So perhaps this RTX 3080 Ti, if it actually exists, is a reactionary move to AMD's upcoming card. At the very least, it is a sign that Nvidia is weighing its options in case it has to smash the "In case of Radeon" glass in November. Or even tomorrow, when AMD brings out the RX 6000 series.

Nvidia has yet to officially announce either the RTX 3060 Ti or RTX 3080 Ti, but they must have something to compete with the RDNA 2 at some point. However, their exact form and specifications are probably undecided.