Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 is slated to be a powerful graphics card, but it could also be joined by a rather impressive smaller sibling.

This is according to hardware leaker kopite7kimi, who revealed the specs of the GeForce RTX 3070 and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti on Twitter, reports sibling site TechRadar. These two GPUs are intended to offer graphics cards that will likely cost around $500, while the RTX 3080 and the purported GeForce RTX 3090 will cost close to $1,000.

The GeForce RTX 2070 Ti is expected to use the GA104-400 SKU, a lower-spec version of the GA102-200 that the RTX 3080 may feature. It is also set to have 3,072 CUDA cores and use 8GB of GDDR6X video memory. [kopite7kimi claims that the GeForce RTX 2070 will use GA104-300 SKUs and have 2,944 CUDA cores, which TechRadar notes is the same number of cores as the current high-end GeForce RTX 2080. It will also have 8GB of video memory, but will use slightly slower GDDR6 VRAM.

It is worth noting that kopite7kimi's tweet has no source. As such, we encourage a healthy skepticism of these specs.

However, the idea that there are two versions of the RTX 3070 that sit below the RTX 3080 seems quite legitimate. For the current 20-series RTX GPUs, Nvidia has the GeForce RTX 2070 and RTX 2070 Super, which sit below the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Super.

The GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 aim to provide the most powerful graphics possible, while the RTX 3070 and RTX 3070 Ti may aim to offer high-end performance at a price that won't break the bank of dedicated PC gamers.

Given Nvidia's history of releasing cards at lower price points, it would not be surprising to see a GeForce RTX 3060 somewhere down the road. This GPU will meet the needs of mainstream PC gamers who are looking for a powerful graphics card for the next generation of games that the Xbox Series X and PS5 will usher in, but do not want to spend more than $1,500.

Previous leaks and rumors suggest that Nvidia will announce its next-generation GeForce graphics cards based on the new Ampere GPU architecture around August or September. The latter month is also when AMD is expected to announce a powerful graphics card that will kill the GeForce.