We might be seeing some more midrange GeForce cards in the channel based on a bigger NVIDIA GPU.
Now, for those unfamiliar, NVIDIA has been using a particular naming scheme for its graphics processors for better than a decade now. These are codenames for the GPU chips themselves, not to be confused with model names for graphics cards. In other words, we’re talking about this “GA103” name, not “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti”. This is, to our knowledge, the first time NVIDIA has produced a GPU with the “103” nomenclature. Typically, GPU series start at 100, and then proceed down through even numbers, with sometimes a 107 in between 106 and 108. That makes GA103 unusual, but then, we live in interesting times. That its first appearance is in a mobile GPU is even more interesting. Assuming that this isn’t simply a typo—and it probably isn’t—that implies the existence of an RTX 3060 Ti based on the relatively-new GA103 GPU. Unfortunately, that’s the only hard detail we have at this time. However, we can infer couple of things and then speculate a bit for fun, so let’s do so! Second, we can infer that we’re likely to see a new batch of RTX 3060 Ti cards hit the market. Even if you’re a GPU market doomsayer (which is understandable), that’s still good news, because more product on the market means more demand is being served, which in turn means that the extremely-starved GPU audience will be just that little bit less hungry.
