An engineering sample of an RTX 3080 Ti has surfaced in the second-hand market, according to a post on the Nvidia subreddit. The Reddit user says that he unknowingly bought two GeForce RTX 3080 Ti cards that turned out to be unreleased engineering samples, showing that preproduction hardware from the Ampere era is still circulating years later.
The buyer, posting on Reddit under the handle Tommyjones91, said the cards were sold to him as standard RTX 3080 Ti units. After installing them, GPU-Z identified both boards as 20GB variants that was never officially released.
