Rumor has it that Nvidia is preparing the RTX 3060 Ti, which is said to feature a GA104-200 GPU with 4,864 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6 memory (14Gbps). The card is said to have a 256-bit memory bus and offer 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It is also said that such a card will appear around the same time as AMD's Big Navi announcement. Game On

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards sold out immediately through the company's website and retail partners, so the launch of Nvidia's Ampere has been a hot topic for the past few weeks. And on October 15, we speculate that the same will likely happen with the GeForce RTX 3070.

Two weeks later, on October 28, AMD will officially announce the Radeon RX 6000 series based on the same RDNA 2 architecture as the custom GPUs in the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. suggested that it will not be.

There is no doubt that Nvidia has a strategy to counter AMD's announcement, if the RX 6000 series brings performance on par with Ampere cards at a competitive price point. the folks at Videocardz have heard from two sources that the next entry in the GeForce RTX 30 series have "confirmed" that the next entry in the series will be the 3060 Ti.

Here's where such a card would fit into the existing hierarchy:

Of course, this is not a complete list.

We can only speculate on the final results as to the performance that the RTX 3060 Ti will be able to deliver; once we are able to test the RTX 3070, which is scheduled for release in October, we will have a fuller picture of what further cards in the RTX stack will We will be able to speculate on how it will relate to Turing-enabled cards.

Regardless, it will be an interesting addition to the RTX 30 series, and with the 3070 occupying the $499 space, the 3060 Ti will debut somewhere south of that, perhaps at $449 or $399. Ti pricing has been tight in the past and usually comes in at a lower price than non Ti cards, but they often appear later than Ti cards, but never before or alongside Ti cards.

There are also a smattering of other additions to the RTX 30 series, including a 20GB memory version of the 3080, the 3070 Ti, and the regular 3060. [With the 3060 Ti in the mix, Nvidia will be expanding its arsenal to steal some thunder from AMD's Big Navi event, but it doesn't leave much room for the company to work for future SKUs in the future. The same could be said for the prospective 20GB RTX 3080, which would certainly take away from the already limited user base of the RTX 3090.

There is probably more to these rumored GPU specs than meets the eye, as Nvidia and AMD are often keen to play games with their competitors. These two GPU behemoths will surely clash at the end of October, whatever that means for the humble PC gamer.