Rumors about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 continue to circulate, the latest spurred by earlier leaks that the next-generation graphics card will be released this September And this may not be the only GPU Nvidia is preparing for release

The rumor comes courtesy of Igor's Lab and appears to be based on a release timetable allegedly provided by a reliable source Apparently, Nvidia will begin mass production of the new RTX graphics cards in August and will be ready for public release the following month

A September release would mean that the next generation of GeForce cards would be just over two years after the current generation of Turing graphics cards graphics cards will appear a little later in the summer or September This would be consistent with the way Nivida worked on the Turing architecture in 2018

Igor's Lab also reinforces the rumor that the more powerful GTX 3090 will launch at the same time as the RTX 3080 This is because Nvidia tends to release three types of high-end but still reasonably mainstream graphics cards, with the top-of-the-line cards usually having a "Ti" suffix The company's more powerful graphics cards tend to be announced a little later

However, it is possible that Nivida is planning to create a new high-end tier to its GeForce product line Alternatively, the RTX 3090 could simply replace the top-of-the-line Ti graphics card

Recent rumors suggest that the RTX 3080 and its supposed stablemate, the RTX 3090, will have double-sided PCBs with dedicated co-processors to power ray-tracing graphics [Raytracing support is coming soon to the console world with the PS5 and the Xbox Series X