NVIDIA Remains Silent on GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Despite Earlier Promises

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NVIDIA had promised that it would be sharing more details regarding the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti before the end of the month, but it appears that the company’s plans have changed, as the date is now January 31 and the flagship graphics card remains as mysterious as ever.



The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti was initially confirmed by Jeff Fisher (senior vice president of the GeForce business) during NVIDIA’s CES 2022 Special Address in early January, in which he teased some of the “monster” GPU’s specifications and performance targets, such as 78 TFLOPS for ray tracing. Fisher had claimed that NVIDIA would be sharing more details “later this month,” but it seems that GeForce users may have wait a little longer for crucial details such as clock speeds, power requirements, and recommended pricing.



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[Brian_B]

I’m not holding my breath. Only took a year and 3 months for my turn in the queue for the opportunity to overpay for the original 3090; this doesn’t have me excited enough to even go look. It seems to just be a stock price pumper product.

 

[Grimlakin]

We get mad that they further dilute their chip availability to span more models. Then we get mad that they are not making more models they had talked about before.

If I were Nvidia I'd just make good cards and release models as I see fit. Because it's clear no matter what they do the users will complain and moan all while buying whatever they make.

 

[Dan_D]

It's likely that the RTX 3090 Ti is little more than RTX 3090's that are the best bins of the silicon. I'm expecting a very small difference in performance versus the old model.

That's just my guess anyway.

 

[Riccochet]

doesn't matter. It'll be priced way out of range of 99% of people, and availability will be limited to like 10 people and 3-4 youtuber's. I'm sure we'll all get to see J2C with half of dozen of them.

Otherwise you can go buy your $250 RTX3050 right now for the low low price of $699.

 

[Brian_B]

We get mad that they further dilute their chip availability to span more models. Then we get mad that they are not making more models they had talked about before.

I think it's just more frustration that they don't seem to be addressing the biggest issue: accessibility, which I will loosely use to combine both supply and price issues. A 3090Ti release does nothing to address any of that -- they still haven't been able to fill all the 3090 orders yet. Sure, more performance is better, but when you are still rocking a 970 - there are a lot of upgrade options that should be available (but aren't) before needing to jump straight to a 3090Ti to get there. Until more people can get their hands on stuff that is current gen, upgrades from current gen are really a moot point (unless it also addresses the issues of accessibility).

nVidia is focused on one thing: their stock performance. And as a publicly traded company, I think that's appropriate. However, it was gamers that got them to where they are now, and that is the market they are taking for granted right now. I hope it comes back to bite them, because karma is a bitch, but I don't want nVidia to die because we need some market competition and that market is too small as it is.

 

[Dan_D]

Honestly, given that 6900XT's are far more available I'd opt for that right now over other high end GPU options. I'm not a fan of losing what I'd give up versus an RTX 3090, but if I had anything less than a 3080 at this point that's the play I'd make.

The whole hash rate limiter thing was nothing more than a PR stunt to make gamers think NVIDIA gives a **** about them. The fact is that NVIDIA doesn't give a **** who they sell their GPU's to. Right now, they are selling every GPU they make at a nice profit margin.

 

[Grimlakin]

We are in an age of unchecked profit for manufacturers for everything from tablets to automobiles.

They can sell their product at a price that insures profitability as long as they can get the parts to make them. If the market is going to stay at these inflated prices then they've got to being the workers up where they have broader affordability unfortunately today that will just lead to increased prices. It's a vicious cycle that only having providers from mlthe raw materials space and out normalize pricing. But as long as Demand is as high as it is and the backlog of product exists we will continue to see constrained product and very high prices.

We are making less for more as a market than we ever have. The market is going to implode when this flips.