It seems one more rumor about NVIDIA’s RTX 30 Series could be put to rest soon. For most of 2020, we’ve heard about the possibility it could be omitting the Ti branding during this generation. This was being considered due to potential confusion among consumers with having SUPER, Ti, and other variants all in the market at the same time. Well, VideoCardz is reporting that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a thing and set to be released in October.
It is not exactly a huge surprise that NVIDIA would do this. Only a few days ago, the latest Steam Hardware Survey was released. It showed how both the GeForce GTX 1060 and GTX 1050 Ti still dominates much of the PC market. Considering the performance level and competitive pricing strategies we are already seeing with the RTX 30 Series cards, NVIDIA is probably banking on many of those owners looking for an upgrade. Currently, only AIB factory-overclocked versions have been reported on, but there’s enough information to get a general idea of what to expect.
Potential Overclocked Specs
Here we can see it will use the same 8 nm GA104 die found in the GeForce RTX 3070. It also shares a number of other things in common. It seems it will feature the same GDDR6 14 Gbps 8 GB memory and 256-bit memory bus found in the RTX 3070. The transistor count remains the same as well. However, as is normal, some things have been disabled resulting in 1024 fewer CUDA cores. There are also 32 fewer Tensor cores along with 8 less RT cores. These overclocked reference design boards are also reported as using a single 8-pin power connector. This makes perfect sense considering the lower power requirements.
NVIDIA has not officially announced this card yet, so the Ti branding is not set in stone and could still be changed. Another possibility is that it is waiting to see what AMD is planning. Between Big Navi and Ampere, things are expected to get extremely competitive for this particular market segment. It should also be noted these purported specs place it very close to the specs for the GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER. That particular Turing card was often referred to as the best value for the previous RTX generation.