Rumour has it that NVIDIA has scrapped the RTX 3070 Ti, which would have slotted in below the RTX 3080. The card was supposedly based on a full-bore GA104 GPU. The RTX 3060 Ti is still on for a mid-November release, though.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-scraps-the-GeForce-RTX-3070-Ti-as-RTX-3060-Ti-remains-on-track-for-a-mid-November-release.497459.0.html