The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 will be announced in early September. However, the card of note may be the Ti version, which is rumored to feature a large 20GB of video memory.

On the Chiphell forum (via Videocardz), a hardware leaker named wjm47196 claims that the RTX 3080 Ti will be a ridiculously powerful graphics card with 20GB of VRAM. We don't know if this GPU will be a GeForce RTX 3090 or an RTX 3080 Ti, but the name won't matter much as long as the performance could be enormous.

Earlier reports suggested that the next generation GeForce cards based on Nvidia's new Ampere architecture will have 24GB of VRAM. However, that card could be a follow-up to the very high-end Titan RTX GPUs, which are not really designed for consumer use.

However, given that the current top-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has 11GB of VRAM, this means that the RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3090's 20GB will likely destroy not only rival cards but also their predecessors. Unless, however, the AMD Big Navi GPU, which is touted to be an "Nvidia killer," really delivers great performance.

AMD's high-end GPU, the Radeon VII, has 16GB of VRAM, so if it is to challenge what is likely to be the best of Nvidia's next-generation GPUs, it will need to build on that. However, there is a catch that AMD can take advantage of.

Current GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards are not cheap, with the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti often hitting the $1,000 mark, and Ampere is building on the foundation laid by Nvidia's Turing architecture to offer higher performance at There were rumors that it would offer higher performance at a lower price.

However, memory prices are currently quite high, and the more VRAM a graphics card has, the more expensive it can become, especially if it uses the latest video memory technology. So an RTX 3090 or RTX 3080 Ti with 20GB of VRAM is likely to be quite expensive and aimed at hardcore PC gamers with deep pockets, if the AMD Big Navi can deliver massive amounts of performance and still be significantly below the next wave of high-end GeForce, it could be a winner.

The flip side of this is that something like the GeForce RTX 3060 could be cheaper than its predecessor, the RTX 2060; given that the PS5 and Xbox Series X will help promote ray tracing, Nvidia is giving PC gamers a ray GPUs that are capable of ray tracing. And an RTX 3060 at a price that offers impressive performance may just be the ticket.

With only a few weeks to go before Nvidia announces its new generation of graphics cards, we can't wait long to see what the future holds for GeForce GPUs.