Recap: Keep in mind when Nvidia gave us a glimpse of the long-rumored RTX 3090 Ti throughout its CES keynote? The corporate stated that it could present additional particulars on the monster GPU “later this month,” however you’ve most likely seen that we’re now in February and are nonetheless ready for more information concerning the Ampere flagship.
Rumors of an RTX 3090 Ti stretched again to Could 2021 when a list in Zotac’s FireStorm software program recommended the corporate was assured one would arrive sooner or later. A number of experiences adopted that claimed the cardboard would launch in January, one thing that appeared probably when Nvidia confirmed its existence throughout CES.
Nvidia Senior VP Jeff Fisher revealed some particulars concerning the RTX 3090 Ti (or tie, as he nonetheless insists on calling it) at CES. The cardboard has 24GB of GDDR6X reminiscence working at 21Gb/s, beating the 19.5Gb/s on the RTX 3090. It additionally boasts 40 shader teraflops, 78 RT teraflops, and 320 tensor teraflops of efficiency and is anticipated to return with a 450W TDP alongside a 16-pin energy connector.
For comparability, the vanilla RTX 3090 affords 36 shader teraflops, 69 RT teraflops, and 285 tensor teraflops.
With extra particulars promised in January, some have been hoping we would even see the RTX 3090 Ti launch final month. Sadly, we obtained neither. So what’s occurring? One of many major causes behind the silence might be the reported issues discovered within the card’s {hardware}, prone to be the PCB, and the GPU’s BIOS, which might have an effect on manufacturing given how late they’ve been found. And that’s not even taking the worldwide chip scarcity into consideration.
However even when the cardboard does launch in February, it’s not going to be exempt from any of the issues plaguing the business proper now. It’s anticipated to have a $1,999 MSRP. Contemplating that the majority graphics playing cards are nonetheless round double their recommended retail value, you is perhaps paying near $4,000 for one—and that’s the Founders Version; high-end third-party variants might go for much more. Nvidia, in the meantime, stays suspiciously quiet.
As regards to the graphics card disaster, Intel lately responded to the scenario by promising to ship “thousands and thousands” of Arc Alchemist GPUs yearly.
h/t: Tom’s {Hardware}