Nvidia RTX 3050, 3070 Ti and 3090 Ti reportedly launching in January

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Updated: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 could launch with two desktop versions in January .

GPU supply may be so tight that Nvidia has resorted to reviving the three-year-sometime RTX 2060 in a new configuration, but that apparently won't stop the company from launching three new GPUs in January, co-ordinate to a new report.

The information comes from Videocardz, which claims to have obtained a list of dates for desktop GPU announcements and subsequent launches.

According to the site, the outset bill of fare out the door will exist the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16GB card, which will be announced on December 17 earlier condign available to buy on January xi 2022.

Then both the entry-level RTX 3050 8GB — previously rumored as Nvidia'southward defence against the upcoming Intel Arc Alchemist GPU — and acme-of-the-range RTX 3090 Ti 24GB cards volition follow at the end of the month on Jan 27.

Interestingly, of this pair, only the 3050 has an announcement engagement listed: January iv. That date could be very significant, given it too happens to be the day that Nvidia is scheduled to deliver an Executive Keynote at CES 2022 in Las Vegas.

The site likewise mentions a 12GB RTX 3080 card, but so far has non been able to ostend dates. Merely information technology is possible, therefore, that Nvidia volition actually reveal four RTX thirty cards in January.

Evidently, all of this information should be taken with a compression of table salt, just every bit the alleged proclamation of the RTX 3070 Ti is just eight days away, we should know how seriously to take the rest of the intel shortly enough.

But mayhap a better question is whether information technology will make a cloth difference to your chances of getting a new GPU or not — and the respond is, unfortunately, "probably not."

The perfect tempest of chip shortages, Covid based supply chain disruption and the enduring appeal of high-end graphics cards to cryptocurrency miners means that cards are bought the moment they hit retailers' virtual shelves — ofttimes by bots perpetually scanning them for possible additions to mining rigs. Even the RTX 2060 re-release has gone out of stock instantly, so it's not similar lower-level cards are immune to the massive supply and demand imbalance.

And while the state of affairs has gotten and then bad that the US government could intercede, realistically it's a hard-to-solve trouble without whatsoever obvious finish in sight. Indeed, Nvidia's own estimates say that supply isn't expected to ease until 2023, by which indicate fifty-fifty these as-notwithstanding unannounced cards are rumored to have been superseded by the Nvidia RTX twoscore series.

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