3070 Ti, 3080 Ti available this month … well, in theory
Nvidia announced two more GPUs this week: the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. These represent its latest “gaming flagship” hardware. The 3080 Ti will be available starting June 3 at $1,199, and the 3070 Ti will go up for sale a week later on June 10 for $599. Actual pricing may vary, depending on demand and location. The Ti is short for titanium and means the card is a bit better than the non-Ti version. As such, there isn’t too much of a difference between the 3080 Ti and the 3080 launched last year. Both cards are the same size and have the same features. The 3080 Ti, however, has 10,240 CUDA cores compared to the 8,704 cores on bog-standard 3080, and 12GB of GDDR6X memory compared to 10GB. Visuals should appear slightly crisper due to the added oomph, though they won’t be as good as what you can get from the beefier and more expensive 3090. The 3090 has, for one thing, twice as much video RAM as the 3080 Ti.
