The latest information on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti suggests that the graphics card may have simply been scrapped, or at least recycled, rather than delayed to mid-May.

As reported by Neowin, Hardwareluxx forum user isoO recently disassembled an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition and found that the original die marker, GA102-250, had been erased and another GA102 -300 was found to replace the GA102-250, which was strongly rumored to be the chip driving the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, indicating that Nvidia is reusing the chip to produce the RTX 3090 GPU instead.

Those of you who have managed to find a buyer for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 will not have to worry too much about getting a graphics card that is weaker than others of the same type. The GA102-250 is a GA102-300 with certain features disabled. It was always thought to be just that. Thus, Nvidia was able to re-enable these features to bring it back to GA102-300 levels, even though the GA102-250 chips were "lower binned" (and thus of lower manufacturing quality) than the GA102-300.

However, this does not look like particularly good news for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: if Nvidia were to repurpose such a critical component for another product, production of the RTX 3080 Ti would at best be significantly delayed or at worst cancelled entirely. At best, production of the RTX 3080 Ti will be significantly delayed, or at worst cancelled altogether. With the graphics card shortage continuing, Nvidia may have thought it wiser to ship an additional RTX 3090 rather than spread its attention across another high-end GPU.

A tweet from VideoCardz suggested as much, citing sources that Nvidia's entire stock of GA102-250s has been or will be repurposed for the RTX 3090.

Nevertheless, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti could still see the light of day; one leak reported by VideoCardz detailed a replacement GA102-225 chip, which has more in common with the GeForce RTX 3080 than with the RTX 3090 chip It has more in common with the GA102-200, including the fact that it comes with 12GB of GDDR6X memory instead of the originally rumored 20GB.