After several delays, NVIDIA will finally release its new RTX 3080 Ti graphics card in May according to various sources. A source has provided a first photograph of the new Ampere GPU.
As previously reported, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU is based on the GA102-225 GPU, and this variant will feature 10240 CUDA cores paired with 12GB of GDDR6X memory. It's speculated that it will have a hash cap to discourage Ethereum mining , but it appears that the first leaked models do not.
The first benchmark of the RTX 3080 Ti is mining Ethereum
Reportedly by a leaked version of the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti, it appears that the graphics card is not recognized by the driver because the sample being tested is dated before NVIDIA introduced its alleged cryptocurrency mining limiter. Before this was reported to the AIBs, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti rating samples did not have the limiter. This was revealed by the Igor'sLAB portal.
It is not known which rating sample was tested by the leaker, or whether this rating is true. But it is possible that the mining performance depicted in this leak belies the inclusion of the limitation that NVIDIA promised.
Based on the screenshot, this particular GeForce RTX 3080 Ti sample would deliver an ETH mining hash rate of 118,9 Mh / s after optimizations like lowering the TDP to 278W and the memory clock to 21,4 Gbps. This makes the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti highly desired by miners.
This benchmark based on a leak also reveals clock speeds of the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti of 1365 MHz and increase of 1665 MHz. That makes it lower than the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The 6 GB GDDR12X memory appears to be set to 1188 MHz by default, confirming a speed of 19 Gbps, just like the regular RTX 3080.
Source: Videocardz
