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.
