Nvidia's RTX 3080 Ti looks bigger than expected

YouTube YouTube
Watch On

Cooking videos have never been more popular as they are right now, with celebrities battling the quarantine blues by showing off their culinary skills. Or lack thereof in some cases. It's not just thespians and athletes getting in on the action, either—there's a video showing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pulling "the world's largest graphics card, fresh out of the oven," and placing it on an impressively massive wooden cutting board. What's he chopping on that thing, great white sharks?

Our first collective reaction to the video was, holy hell, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is absolutely massive! There's no two ways about it, you're going to need a bigger case. And a beefier power supply. Oh, and it's definitely going to sag, reinforced PCIe slots or not. But hey, can you imagine the rays this beast can trace?

We kid, of course. Jensen might very well be showing off an iteration of Nvidia Ampere, its next-gen GPU, but not in consumer form. We started to analyze the setup for clues, then got distracted by the kitchen and, well, the conversation took a bit of a detour.

Rather than turn this train of thought around, we figured it would be a good opportunity to lift the curtain and give you a peek at the kinds of hard hitting analysis that goes on in our hardware division. It went like this:

Alan: I have watched Jensen take that out of the oven now far too many times.

Dave: Surprised by his tiny oven, that's defo not his house.

Jacob: His house is huge though, it's a giant polygon.

Alan: Where is his leather jacket? Does not wear it ALL THE TIME???

Dave: It's probably in the backup kitchen for the bathroom.

Alan: He definitely has SLI kitchens.

While this was going on, I was hitting the web for some equally insightful research. I think you'll be impressed. Notice the time on the oven says 2:39. Coincidence? I think not! When performing a search on Google for "239 Ampere," the first result is a Zillow listing at that address. Even Bing came up with the same result.

The house is 3,245 square feet and was built in 1926. Add those together and you get 5,171. Could those be CUDA cores? For reference, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti sports 4,352 CUDA cores. That's precisely the same number as another Zillow listing for a house on Turning Leaf Ct. Or should I say, Turing Leaf Ct? Clever attempt to cover your tracks, Nvidia, but not clever enough. Perhaps this is a 3080 Ti after all (not really).

Zillow estimates the mortgage on the Ampere home to be $1,500 per month. Obviously this is meant to reflect that the 3080 Ti will come in a little bit higher than the 2080 Ti, which debuted at $1,199 (for the Founders Edition). Bummer, though actually reasonable on a price per square inch basis.

I know what you're thinking, how does Zillow have anything to do with this? The answer's obvious—it already has a working relationship with Nvidia, so naturally it's a goldmine for GPU rumors.

Questions? Send them to Dave.

Anyways, make sure to tune in for Huang's GTC keynote on May 14, 2020 at 06:00 Pacific time (14:00 BST) where the leather-clad CEO is expected to announce the Nvidia Ampere GPU architecture.

[Edit: An earlier version of this article mistakenly listed the number of CUDA cores for a 2080 Ti as 2,944, which is actually how many the non-Ti model has. The rest of the analysis is sound.]

TOPICS
Paul Lilly

Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).

Latest in Graphics Cards
A side by side comparison of two Asus Q-Release systems, with the original design on the top and the bottom showing the apparently new design.
Asus appears to have quietly changed the design of its Q-Release PCIe slot after claims of potential GPU pin damage
A Colorful RTX 5080 and its box
Three lucky folks in India can win the dubious honour of buying an RTX 5080 GPU at Nvidia MSRP
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Group allegedly trying to smuggle Nvidia Blackwell chips stare down bail set at over $1 million
Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
AI will be crammed in more of the graphics pipeline as Nvidia and Microsoft are bringing AI shading to a DirectX preview next month
Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards alongside an RTX 4090
Nvidia says it's sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I'd bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition
AMD Radeon RX 9070/9070 XT graphics cards with artistic renders of reference design cards circled
Looks like a reference design AMD RX 9070 XT card has shown up in China, but let's not get carried away with thoughts of MBA cards just yet
Latest in News
Man facing camera
The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'
Will Poulter holding a CD ROM
'What are most games about? Killing': Black Mirror Season 7 includes a follow-up to 2018 interactive film Bandersnatch
Casper Van Dien in Starship Troopers
Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
Assassin's Creed meets PUBG
Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed and other big games
Resident Evil Village - Lady Dimitrescu
'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021
Storm trooper hero
Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam