Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti could be in the works — here’s why

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti could be in the works — here'south why

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Equally if graphics cards weren't already expensive enough, in that location may be a hyper-premium Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU on the way.

Every bit reported by PC Gamer, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti was mysteriously listed aslope the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in Zotac's FireStorm overclocking software. If real, this card would likely supervene upon the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 equally the near powerful gaming GPU on the planet, though FireStorm's listing is also the first we've heard about it.

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That's in stark contrast to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, neither of which have been officially announced yet but have leaked extensively and believably: for case, MSI listed the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti amongst its GPU products.

This could mean ii things: either it was a uncomplicated mistake on Zotac's part, or that the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is only further away from completion and release than its lower-tier brethren. As PC Gamer points out, there'southward still a little more juice that could be squeezed out of the GeForce RTX 3090's GA102 processor: it merely uses x,496 of the GA102's 10,7752 CUDA cores, every bit well as 82 of the GA102's 84 SMX (streaming multiprocessor) clusters.

So again, it'due south difficult to come across how unlocking those last few cores and clusters would produce a meaningful functioning advantage over Nvidia's incumbent top-end carte du jour in current-gen games. As a GeForce RTX 3090 owner myself, I can attest information technology's already overkill for much of my Steam library, and even a decent performance bump may non entice PC owners to spend whatsoever more than than the GeForce RTX 3090's monster $one,499 MSRP.

And information technology's not similar y'all tin can hands notice new graphics cards at their normal pricing as it is. With huge ongoing stock shortages and increased demand from cryptocurrency miners, fifty-fifty non-scalper retailers have been raising their GPU prices. The cost of a card like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, in this environment, doesn't bear thinking about.

Our advice? If yous're still holding out hope for picking up a new, powerful graphics card, keep your attention on the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Recent whispers suggest a May 31 announcement followed by a full launch early in June.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Stone Paper Shotgun, but before that was Sound Editor at Tom's Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes dissonance. A PC enthusiast, he too wrote computing and gaming news for TG, usually relating to how hard it is to detect graphics card stock.