Rumors about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 continue to circulate, the latest spurred by earlier leaks that the next-generation graphics card will be released this September. And this may not be the only GPU Nvidia is preparing for release.

The rumor comes courtesy of Igor's Lab and appears to be based on a release timetable allegedly provided by a reliable source. Apparently, Nvidia will begin mass production of the new RTX graphics cards in August and will be ready for public release the following month.

A September release would mean that the next generation of GeForce cards would be just over two years after the current generation of Turing graphics cards. graphics cards will appear a little later in the summer or September. This would be consistent with the way Nivida worked on the Turing architecture in 2018.

Igor's Lab also reinforces the rumor that the more powerful GTX 3090 will launch at the same time as the RTX 3080. This is because Nvidia tends to release three types of high-end but still reasonably mainstream graphics cards, with the top-of-the-line cards usually having a "Ti" suffix. The company's more powerful graphics cards tend to be announced a little later.

However, it is possible that Nivida is planning to create a new high-end tier to its GeForce product line. Alternatively, the RTX 3090 could simply replace the top-of-the-line Ti graphics card.

Recent rumors suggest that the RTX 3080 and its supposed stablemate, the RTX 3090, will have double-sided PCBs with dedicated co-processors to power ray-tracing graphics. [Raytracing support is coming soon to the console world with the PS5 and the Xbox Series X.