Rumor: NVIDIA delays GeForce RTX 3080 Ti launch to May

According to a new report from Chinese outlet ITHome, NVIDIA has pushed back the launch of its RTX 3080 Ti graphics card from April to May.

The report points to a slight shift in NVIDIA's plans, marking the fifth delay of the updated RTX 3080. Originally, the RTX 3080 20GB was slated for a December release to take on AMD's Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT. However, NVIDIA scrapped those plans at the last minute, postponing the 20GB version indefinitely before killing the idea entirely.

Rumors then surfaced that NVIDIA was planning a January 2021 launch for an RTX 3080 Ti with 16GB of VRAM, but those plans were eventually pushed to February.

Since then, the RTX 3080 Ti's rumored specs have shifted, dropping the CUDA core count to 10,240 and cutting the VRAM to 12GB. The latest and most credible rumor points to a May release with this 12GB configuration.

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Next month, NVIDIA will host its Graphics Technology Conference (GTC 2021). CEO Jensen Huang will deliver his trademark keynote on the latest graphics tech and will likely showcase some updated products, though consumer graphics cards rarely debut at GTC, making a hardware reveal there highly unlikely.