Even amidst the ongoing pandemic which, among other factors, has caused global shortages of hardware, companies like Nvidia are still looking to push out new products into an uncertain market. Earlier this month, there were speculations that the RTX 380 Ti may be launching at the end of this month. In a recent development on this idea, a tweet has been posted to the company's official page which may hint at the new GPU being unveiled very soon.

The post, which was uploaded to the Nvidia GeForce Twitter profile a couple of days ago, simply contains the words "get ready" and has an 11-second video embedded into the tweet. The video and tweet reveal nothing concrete, though at the end of the clip it does show the date May 31 and a time of 10pm PDT, indicating the company's upcoming livestreaming event.

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Sources speculate that this could be in relation to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. As well as this, Nvidia may also be about to announce the arrival of the RTX 3070 Ti, which has been rumored since last October when a leak suggested that the company had scrapped the original in favor of making a more powerful GPU. Of course, nothing has been confirmed as of yet, but with just days to go until the Twitch and YouTube event, fans will find out soon enough whether the new cards will be shown off.

The RTX 3080 Ti will, as many will have gathered, be an improvement on its 3080 predecessor. Launched in September last year, the 3080 has 10GB GDDR6X VRAM although, the 3080 Ti is expected to have 12GB of memory. This places it in between the 3080 and the much more powerful, and thus expensive, 3090, which has 24GB GDDR6X VRAM and more than 10,000 CUDA cores. While there is no confirmed price as of yet, sources indicate both the 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti could be around $1,000 each.

One thing that many will agree upon is, whatever new products are about to come out, they will likely include limiters that make them less useful for cryptomining. In a bid to prevent people bulk-buying GPUs for the sole purpose of mining for cryptocurrency, Nvidia announced not long ago that new GPUS would likely ship with limiters as standard to prevent them from being used by miners. It stands to reason that, if they are announced at the end of this month, there's no reason why the RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti wouldn't have these limits as default.

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Source: The Verge