MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti VENTUS 3X OC with 12GB is now shipping?!

It was only a few weeks ago that I was writing about GIGABYTE reportedly having no less than 12 custom GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards with 12GB of GDDR6X -- and now MSI not only has its own custom RTX 3080 Ti cards, but they're already on their way to the USA.

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An entire shipment of MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti VENTUS 3X OC graphics cards are headed to LA right now, alongside other custom GeForce graphics cards from MSI including custom GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080, the even lower-end GeForce GTX 710, and the Radeon RX 580.

If there's one thing we can take away from this it's that we kinda now know that NVIDIA will have 12GB of GDDR6X memory on its new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card -- sandwiched in-between the 10GB of GDDR6X placed on the GeForce RTX 3080 and the monstrous 24GB of GDDR6X on the flagship GeForce RTX 3090.

• Read more: GIGABYTE has 12 new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti cards with 12GB GDDR6X teased
• Read more: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti now expected in May, GPU yields very low
• Read more: NVIDIA 'indefinitely postpones' new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card

NVIDIA is expected to use the GA102-225 GPU packing 10240 CUDA cores inside of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, with a release sometime in May -- and it looks like reviewers like myself should be getting cards very, very soon.