A member of the Hardwareluxx forums user forums has confirmed the existence of the NVIDIA GA102-250 GPU, which was intended to be the RTX 3080 Ti, prior to the specification change for this GPU.
This chip was discovered when disassembling a GeForce RTX 3090, on which you can clearly see two labels, the GA102-250 crossed out and the other GA102-300. I mean, Nvidia is relabeling the chips that were meant to be the RTX 3080 Ti as for the RTX 3090 graphics cards. This is also evidence that the original RTX 3080 Ti was going to use the same chip as the RTX 3090, only with some features cut out.
The GA102-250-KD-A1 GPU was never confirmed and was on the record in some rumors from the beginning of the year. Now, this chip is confirmed as real. It seems that Nvidia has decided that it could use a smaller GPU to power the RTX 3080 Ti, leaving the GA102-250-KD-A1 chip to be reused in the RTX 3090. The GA102-250-KD was expected to be -A1 will feature 78 SM drives and 9984 CUDA cores, while the RTX 3090, with its GA102-300-A1 GPU, features 82 SM and 10496 cores.
What we know about the RTX 3080 Ti today is that it will use a lower GPU, the GA102-225-A1, which has 10,240 CUDA cores in a total of 80 SM drives. The amount of memory will be 12 GB of GDDR6X RAM with a speed of 19 Gbps, somewhat lower than the 19.5 Gbps of the RTX 3090 model, which has 24 GB of VRAM.
The RTX 3080 Ti is expected to launch in mid-April with a retail price of $ 999.
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