The technically unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti could be officially announced on May 18, according to the latest release date leak. It is then said to be released on May 26.

This fresh rumor comes from tech site IT Home (spotted by Wccftech), which claims that we won't have to wait too long to see the upcoming Nvidia RTX 30 series GPUs in person. This rumor is also supported by the same tech site, HKEPC, which has also set May 26 as the release date for the RTX 3080 Ti.

Despite earlier reports that pallets of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti have already been spotted in the wild and that the card will sell for $1,099, Nvidia has yet to officially confirm the GPU's existence. This latest rumor suggests that this will change in the coming weeks, when it will finally become clear what the RTX 3080 Ti can do.

While we may have to wait for official insight into the RTX 3080 Ti's power, leaked information from last week may give us a peek at the card's spec sheet. According to this report, the card is expected to feature an Ampere-based GA102 GPU with 10,240 CUDA cores. The 12GB of GDDR6X video memory supporting these cores is expected to be controlled by a 384-bit memory interface. For the non-tech-savvy, this basically means that this will be a very powerful graphics card.

While these specs are quite attractive, they confirm previous leaks that suggested the card would be downgraded from the originally planned 20GB of video memory. Nevertheless, we should be pleased with the suggestion that mining measures will be taken, as this should make the card less attractive to duffers. [Of course, similar anti-mining features seen on the RTX 3060 proved surprisingly easy for cryptocurrency miners to circumvent. However, according to a TechRadar report, Nvidia seems to have reinforced this point with a new hash rate limiter that halves mining performance. This is good news because we no longer need technology products that are basically impossible to purchase. [Cards like the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 have been basically impossible to buy since their launch; cards like the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 have been basically impossible to buy since their launch. This is thanks to a huge number of miners, opportunistic duffers, and the ongoing global chip shortage that is affecting everything from gaming consoles to smart cars.

Unfortunately, it seems almost certain that the RTX 3080 Ti, like the PS5 and Xbox Series X, will be extremely difficult to purchase for the rest of the year.