The internet's convinced that Nvidia are cooking up an RTX 3090 with 24GB of VRAM

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RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX 3090, FIGHT!

Rumours about the upcoming line-up ofNvidia AmpereRTX 3000 graphics cards have intensified this week, as the latest internet gossip suggests that the expected RTX 3080 Ti won’t be the graphics card sitting at the top of the Ampere foodchain. Instead, it’s going to be theRTX 3090, according to new leaks from German tech siteIgor’s Lab, which is apparently going to have a massive 24GB of GDDR6X memory.

According to the leaked specs, the RTX 3090 will be built from the same underlying GPU chip as the RTX 3080 Ti (or Super, because who even knows that these cards are going to be called until Nvidia makes a proper announcement about them) andRTX 3080, but will have 24GB of double-sided GDDR6X memory, a 384-bit interface and a massive TDP of 350W.

The RTX 3080 Ti, meanwhile, will apparently have 11GB of regular GDDR6X memory, a 352-bit interface and a TDP of 320W, while the regular RTX 3080 will have 10GB of GDDR6X memory, a 320-bit interface and the same 320W TDP as its Ti sibling. That’s according to Igor’s Labs' specs, anyway, but we won’t know for sure until Nvidia hold their own launch event for them. It’s not uncommon for Nvidia to re-use the same GPU for multiple cards, so that part of the leak is more likely to be true if there really is an RTX 3090 in production.

The Titan RTX isn’t really a consumer graphics card as such, what with it costing upwards of £2450 / $2500 and all, and is instead geared toward 3D rendering professionals who need that extra horsepower. It’s possible that Nvidia might be in the process of repositioning their Titan cards as more consumer facing GPUs in an effort to persuade the hardest of the hardcore to part with even more cash than they know what to do with - a bit like what Intel have done with their Core i9 CPUs, for example - but again, there’s no way to know for sure until Nvidia say something more concrete.

Either way, it sure looks like it’s going to be an interesting couple of months as we wait for Nvidia to release their RTX 3000 cards, especially when AMD are due to launch their flagship ‘Big Navi’ cardsbefore the end of the yearas well. The newBig Navicards will utilise AMD’s 2nd Gen RDNA 2 architecture, and will also have ray tracing support for the very first time. Who will be sitting atopthe best graphics cards thronecome the end of the year? Only time will tell.