Rumor: Third-Party NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs Will Have Up to 20 GB of RAM

[Tsing]

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Last weekend, the first alleged benchmark for the GeForce RTX 3080 surfaced with a 2.1 GHz max core clock and 10 GB of RAM. Now we’re hearing that certain variants will boast twice that amount of memory. According to leaker kopite7kimi, the PG132-SKU20 part/PCB is an RTX 3080 from one of NVIDIA’s add-in-card (AIC) partners with 20 GB of GDDR6X RAM.



PG132-SKU20 is RTX 3080 20G from AIC.— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) August 18, 2020



What’s really interesting is that this increased memory allotment is exclusive to third-party RTX 3080 models. kopite7kimi claims that...

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[Riccochet]

But can it use it? Or is it 20 GB of VRAM as a marketing point.

 

[northrop]

But, can it run Crysis in 8k?

 

[Niner51]

But can it use it? Or is it 20 GB of VRAM as a marketing point.

I was thinking this as well.

 

[Riccochet]

I was thinking this as well.

I'm thinking it's bullshit. I game at 1440p and have never seen all 11GB of VRAM used on my 1080Ti. Maybe those 4k textures use a lot more.

 

[northrop]

I'm thinking it's bullshit. I game at 1440p and have never seen all 11GB of VRAM used on my 1080Ti. Maybe those 4k textures use a lot more.

Either that, or they are trying to appeal to the professional crowd (or rather, a hobbyist content creators) and make this a "budget" offering with an added benefit of making it a gaming card. Their Quadro line offers 48GB GDDR6... but it's also $5,500. Not many hobbyist on the tight budget will go for it, but many would be happy to jump on this at sub $2k.

 

[Burticus]

 

[Armenius]

VideoCardz confirmed with their AIB sources that the 3090 will have 24GB of VRAM, while the 3080 only gets 10GB. Seems like the 3090 may be the new gaming Titan card, with room slotted in between both for a 3080 Ti to launch at a later date.

https://videocardz.com/newz/confirmed-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-has-24gb-memory-rtx-3080-gets-10gb

 

[Grimlakin]

I'm down for a 3080 if it's around 700-800 bucks.