Oh the joys of rumors, leaks (and/or) fake news … who cares! All I want to know is, when will I be able to get one!
Taken from Videocardz … A Chinese content creator “Big hardware player” has allegedly got access to an engineering sample of the GeForce RTX 3080 with 20GB. According to the screenshot that has been posted by the leaker, the graphics card was manufactured by Colorful, the subsystem ID reveals. The GPU-Z information is actually quite confusing, as the graphics card allegedly has clock speeds of RTX 3090 model of 1395 MHz base clock and 1695 MHz boost clock, but the software clearly recognizes the graphics card as RTX 3080, which seems strange considering that this SKU does not exist yet and TechPowerUP have not updated the software to support it.
The graphics card could either be the unreleased GeForce RTX 3080 20GB, which was scheduled to launch in December, but eventually canceled due to the launch of Radeon RX 6000 16GB with memory, or the upcoming Geforce RTX 3080 Ti, which was expected to offer both, the 10496 CUDA core count (same as RTX 3090) and 20GB memory (twice as RTX 3080). According to the leaker, the graphics card has the same TDP as RTX 3090 which is 350W.
The leaker appears to be using some kind of engineering driver for the graphics cards. It is very uncommon for a driver to work this early with unreleased hardware, which adds further doubt to this leak.
Source: Videocardz, Bilibili via @9550pro
