Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Nvidia missed the memo – GeForce RTX 3090 Ti”.
Gpu prices are falling is what I would say, if not for the RTX 3090 Ti Nvidia’s latest and ho-ho greatest.. Look at this thing.. It is massive.. Just look at the cooler., It’s like three slots, maybe three and a half and I think, there’s like eight separate heat pipes. Here.
It’s bound to be the most powerful consumer card ever.. But this time we don’t wan na be a part of the hype machine that sells these things.. Let me explain what I mean., But first let me tell you about our sponsor. SmartDeploy.
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It also boasts an extra 2.4 % more GPU cores that are, thankfully clocked 10 to 12 percent higher and draws a staggering 29 % higher total graphics power at 450 watts. To achieve that, Nvidia has resorted to a triple 8-pin-to-12-pin dongle, with a hefty 850-watt power supply. Requirement., They recommend a kilowatt., Just hoping our GPU test bench can handle that kinda load. In “, F1 2021”, we’re looking at a roughly eight or nine percent improvement over the RTX 3090, with ray tracing disabled, of course, which translates into about ten fps..
When we enable ray tracing, the extra cores work their magic for a good 13 % improvement, keeping things much closer to 60 fps maxed out at 4K. “ Far Cry 6” sees a slightly less impressive result at around five or six percent with ray tracing disabled and Just a little bit more with ray tracing turned on. Like the RTX 3090 Nvidia says that 8K gaming is one of the 3090 Ti’s strong suits, but when I tried it out, “ F1 2021” chugged at around 30 fps. So I didn’t bother testing any further.. Maybe productivity will show us a better example of how the power of the 3090 Ti will improve. Your life. Blender doesn’t seem to think so. We’re looking at a few seconds at most, depending on what renderer, you’re using. V-Ray gives the 3090 Ti a slight lead too. Although the RTX result is over 100 points, more so hooray a whole four percent. Lead. Octane renderer gave us a similar kind of situation to these as well. It’s whatever.. Moving on to power, we ran five laps of “ F1 2021” as a typical gaming load, and we saw a power draw spike as high as 480 watts.
Wait. That cannot be right., 480 watts Really Holy ( beeps ) Yeah and the average was over 400. Not much lower than the peak wattage, the RTX 3090 drew in the same test. To be fair to Nvidia, while that’s an absurd amount of power. More than an entire PC with a low-end GPU might draw it’s roughly inline with the performance improvement.
We saw in that game., So you’re getting frames proportionally in exchange for the extra juice. If the rumors are to be believed, we’ll see even more power draw in search of higher frame rates when the next generation rolls out., Speaking of which, why is this GPU? Only launching now, when the 40-Series Ada Lovelace GPUs are supposedly right around the corner. Well, I’ve got a few theories.. Maybe this is an indication that Ada isn’t right around the corner and Nvidia’s trying to make-do with what they’ve, got. Or maybe the 3090 Ti was delayed for so long during the silicon shortage that it’s launching way later than they planned.
Or maybe they just had high-binned Gpus kicking around that they wanted to clear out before Ada hit later this year., Our screwdriver and backpack are hitting later this year. Too. Sign up at lttstore.com to be the first to know when they’re ready., The GPU clear-out angle, is a very likely one. Imo. Nvidia’s existing A40 a data center GPU shares most of its spec sheet with the 3090 Ti, albeit with a significantly lower board power and more but slower, memory. Sure enough. The Nvidia Control Panel even has an ECC memory. Support toggle, like you, might find on one of those cards..
While I don’t have a problem with this in principle, I do have a problem with the price they’re asking for it and I’m not comfortable with how much power this thing is capable of drawing. Starting at $ 2,000 US MSRP, the EVGA one. We tested costs 2,200. You’re, looking at a 25 % premium or more over a GPU that is already priced like a Titan and already is not proportionally faster than the next card down.
The stack for the money. Nvidia wants us to compare against the Titan RTX a card that already wasn’t worth the price when it launched and which didn’t even live up to the Titan name, with its crippled FP64 performance.. That card like this one, has more. In common with the Titan Xp, a card that also had crippled FP64 performance and launched at $ 1,200 US $ 300 less than the RTX 3090..
That is the RTX tax. In a nutshell, and calling this a $ 500 price drop from the Titan RTX is a slap in the face to anyone who thought that the 3090 itself was already making that comparison.. It’S one thing to have a halo product for the die-hards, but when even that product gets eclipsed in terms of pricing, that’s when we journey into the absurd.. If many people thought that Nvidia had jumped the shark with the RTX 3090’s $ 1,500 price tag, then they’re now trying to see just how big a shark they can clear with the 3090 Ti., Especially with competition from AMD and Intel on the horizon and with the Rtx 3090 coming back down to earth in price.
It feels like a cynical cash grab, no matter what their intention was. You’d be forgiven for losing track of just what GPUs even cost anymore, with how crazy pricing has been over the past couple of years.. After all, as recently as this month, RTX 3090s were going for over three grand, sometimes over four easily double the original asking price.. Now that’s finally changing.
The RTX 3090 is routinely going for 2K or less.. Someone even got really lucky on this one. And so Nvidia read the room full of wary, gamers and professionals trying to catch a break and with a straight face bragged to their investors that people were paying more for new GPUs while slapping an astronomical price tag onto This thing., As for power yeah, I get that just releasing an A40 with 24 gigs of VRAM for the consumer market wouldn’t be very impressive next to the 3090, but this is just ridiculous.. The EVGA card even has a thankfully unpopulated.
Second ATX 3.0 power connector, which would theoretically give this thing access to over 1,200 watts of power.. It’S a chilling look at a world where watts don’t matter as long as you’re getting frames.. You’Ll. Note, however, that we didn’t do very many benchmarks to find reasons for this thing to exist.. That’S because we didn’t get our card until two business days before embargo-lift, and even if we got it sooner, the driver was only made available two days before that.. The final version of the reviewer’s guide was uploaded. Yesterday.
Nvidia clearly did not want us to look too closely at the RTX 3090 Ti and that’s okay, because I’m not sure how much more I need to see. The worst part about all of this. Is that there’s nothing that I can say or do that will prevent people from buying it.? The RTX 3090 itself is already nearly half a percent of the Steam Hardware Survey..
That is twice as many GPUs than the RX 6700 XT, and nearly so for the RTX 3050 Ti.. If you expand it out the desktop GA102 GPU that powers, everything from the RTX 3080 to the 3090 Ti – represents a combined total of nearly 2 %, a big enough portion to put it in the top ten. People want the big boy, and I think we deserve Some of the blame for that kinda like how we deserve blame for our storage going haywire. Get subscribed. So you don’t miss our data recovery adventure by the way.. But if you want this thing, if you’re one of the people that Nvidia says want the absolute best, then I don’t know what to tell you..
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I just I know it’s not for everybody, but I don’t like what this represents. Maybe go. Grab a palate cleanser with our recent video on the GRAID GPU-accelerated NVME solution. That one’s actually really cool .