Nvidia might be getting ready a brand new spin on the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti going by the newest leak regarding Group Inexperienced’s graphics playing cards.

This one was aired by distinguished leaker @harukaze5719 on Twitter (as highlighted by Wccftech (opens in new tab)), who noticed a brand new RTX 3070 Ti variant listed by Gigabyte with the EEC (opens in new tab) (Eurasian Financial Fee).

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Amongst of bunch of listings for another playing cards – primarily present fashions, however there might be a twist on that, we’ll come again to that later – there’s one for a ‘GV-N307T GAMING OC ST-16GD’, which interprets to a Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC graphics card with 16GB of VRAM.

As you might bear in mind, the RTX 3070 Ti model that at present exists is restricted to 8GB of video RAM – the identical quantity because the RTX 3070 – so this attainable refresh on the graphics card is doubling that up, a serious reminiscence improve.

Apparently, we now have seen Gigabyte beforehand file an RTX 3070 Ti 16GB model with the EEC, proper again at first of the 12 months. Clearly that by no means occurred, however it appears just like the plan could also be again within the playing cards…

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That earlier EEC submitting underlines why we must always all the time be suitably skeptical round leaks like this. Simply because a graphics card mannequin seems on the EEC – one thing that usually occurs when the product is near launch – doesn’t imply it’ll essentially hit the cabinets. Generally speculative filings are made with the group, placeholder entries that don’t come to fruition, as we noticed with the earlier 3070 Ti 16GB from Gigabyte.

That doesn’t imply it received’t occur this time spherical, after all, and the large ‘nonetheless’ right here is that we just lately heard chatter on the grapevine a few refresh of the RTX 3070 Ti which makes use of the GA102 GPU (the higher-end chip which is the engine of the RTX 3080 and 3090), reasonably than the GA104 which drives the RTX 3070 Ti at present.

And when rumors again one another up like this, they acquire a bit extra credibility – though we’re nonetheless remaining very cautious on this one. It’s additionally value noting that the earlier rumor means that the brand new spin on the RTX 3070 Ti might be restricted to 1 area, maybe (China perhaps). Moreover, the previous leak didn’t point out upping the VRAM both (although we may even get a model with doubled VRAM and that new GA102 chip).

That final rumor additionally pushed the notion that Nvidia is readying not simply an RTX 3070 Ti variant, however an RTX 3060 with 8GB of VRAM (reasonably than 12GB). Now, the EEC submitting from Gigabyte doesn’t present this purported refresh – there’s a new 3060 card listed, however nonetheless with 12GB. So, make of that what you’ll, however there was additionally discuss of an RTX 3060 Ti with quicker GDDR6X reminiscence – 8GB on this case, which is the usual loadout with the present graphics card – and a brand new RTX 3060 Ti mannequin is listed right here. So perhaps that’s a model with the aforementioned pepped-up VRAM.

Finally, we will’t make certain about any of this, however what we will say is that rumors are more and more pointing to Nvidia no less than placing out one or two recent variations of its present Ampere graphics playing cards (probably as quickly as subsequent month).

This may seem like a part of the general close to future GPU rollout technique for Group Inexperienced, as the corporate has stated that it intends to layer current-gen choices with next-gen. And with high-end RTX 4000 graphics playing cards coming first, doubtless the RTX 4090 and 4080, it is smart that the RTX 3070 and 3060 can be the layered refreshes to tide issues over till their Lovelace successors flip up, perhaps not till 2023.

The RTX 4060 definitely isn’t anticipated till subsequent 12 months, and the extra we hear, the extra we’re considering this is perhaps the case for the RTX 4070, with Nvidia purportedly contemplating pushing out two fairly totally different variations of the RTX 4080, one in every of which might be in lieu of the 4070 in idea. Admittedly, that’d be one thing of an odd transfer, however we received’t have lengthy to attend to search out out if it’s true – Nvidia’s massive reveal for next-gen Lovelace GPUs is just a few days away now.

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