For the past several generations of graphics cards, Nvidia has held off announcing a "Ti" variant until it's fleshed out its product stack. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, for example, arrived in March 2017, whereas Pascal made its debut on the consumer side in May 2016. We would expect a similar timeline with Turing, though several purportedly leaked images of a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SKU suggest otherwise. The question is, are they real?

Let's just say we are skeptical. At first glance, the supposed press renders posted by Videocardz appear legitimate. They show the retail packaging for GeForce RTX 2080 Ti cards from several of Nvidia's hardware partners, including Gigabyte/Aorus, MSI, and Palit. MSI actually has two SKUs, one a Gaming X Trio card and the other with its Duke branding.

Part of what makes us skeptical is that each of the renders are identical to the GeForce RTX 2080 renders, which Videocardz also posted, except for the addition of "Ti" on the box and amount of video memory. Those details would be easy to Photoshop.

If the SKUs are indeed real, it's interesting that Nvidia is again going with 11GB of memory (GDDR6 in this case). That was sort of a weird amount on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and doing another 11GB product strikes us as odd, to say the least.

We're not willing to completely rule it out, though, as It's also feasible. So is releasing a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with a whopping 24GB of GDDR6 memory, same as the Quadro RTX 6000. Or Nvidia could reserve the larger memory allocation for a future Titan RTX card to rule them all. There are a lot of potential scenarios, in other words.

For what it's worth, Videocardz is reporting the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will have 4,352 CUDA cores, 11GB of GDDR5 memory, a 352-bit memory bus, and 616GB/s of memory bandwidth. The RTX 2080 meanwhile supposedly has 2,944 CUDA cores, 8GB GDDR6, and a 256-bit bus for 448GB/s of bandwidth. GPU clockspeeds remain unknown, though we expect them to be similar to the Pascal series (1500-1800MHz).

We'll find out if these are real soon enough. Nvidia is planning to announce its new consumer cards on Monday, August 20, a day before Gamescom 2018 kicks off. The event will be livestreamed on Twitch.