NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to feature cryptocurrency mining limiter

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti not for miners

According to new information, all future GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards are to feature ETH mining limiter.

A known leaker who revealed NVIDIA Ampere specifications months ahead of the initial launch has confirmed that the next installment in GeForce RTX 30 series, the RTX 3080 Ti will also feature a crypto mining limiter. According to a tweet posted by @kopite7kimi, NVIDIA will be implementing the same mining limiter that debuted with GeForce RTX 3060 for their next high-end model.

This information should not be a surprise to anyone, because NVIDIA hinted that future RTX 30 releases may have this technology built into the firmware. We already independently confirmed that NVIDIA has recently provided this update on RTX 3080 Ti to AIBs. What Kopite did not post yet is that this feature will also launch for (as it is now listed in the roadmap) GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is now rumored to launch with GA102 GPU with 10240 CUDA cores. From the originally planned 20GB GDDR6X 320-bit memory, NVIDIA has changed the specifications to 12GB GDDR6X 384-bit. So far there has been no update on the specs.

According to our information, NVIDIA will be focusing on RTX 3080 Ti as soon as it releases. The card is not expected to replace the RTX 3080, but the focus will be on the Ti variant. NVIDIA expects that the mining limiter will be a big factor that will ultimately discourage miners from buying this model.

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Ti is still scheduled to launch in April, but it’s worth noting NVIDIA has changed the date three times. Initially, the plan was to launch RTX 3080 20GB in December, then RTX 3080 Ti 20GB in January, but the current schedule has not changed since late January.

2021 NVIDIA & AMD High-End GPUs
VideoCardz	GeForce RTX 3090	GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	GeForce RTX 3080	Radeon RX 6900XT	Radeon RX 6800XT
Picture		[ to be leaked ]
Architecture	NVIDIA Ampere	NVIDIA Ampere	NVIDIA Ampere	AMD RDNA2	AMD RDNA2
GPU	8nm GA102-300	8nm GA102	8nm GA102-200	7nm Navi 21 XTX	7nm Navi 21 XT
Transistors	28.3 B	28.3 B	28.3 B	26.8 B	26.8 B
GPU Clusters	82	~80	68	80	72
FP32 Cores	10496	~10240	8704	5120	4608
RT Accelerators	82	~80	68	80	72
Tensor Cores	328	~320	272	N/A	N/A
Texture Units	328	~320	272	320	288
ROPs	112	~112	96	128	128
Base Clock	1395 MHz	TBC	1440 MHz	1815 MHz	1825 MHz
Game Clock	N/A	N/A	N/A	2015 MHz	2015 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	TBC	1710 MHz	2250 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory	24 GB G6X	12 GB G6X	10 GB G6X	16GB G6	16GB G6
Infinity Cache	N/A	N/A	N/A	128 MB	128 MB
Memory Clock	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	19 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Bandwidth	936 GB/s	864 GB/s	760 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit
TGP/TBP	350W	TBC	320W	300W	300W
MSRP	$1,499	TBC	$699	$999	$649
Release Date	Sep 24th, 2020	April 2021?	Sep 17th, 2020	Dec 8th, 2020	Nov 18th, 2020