The RTX 3090 Ti will reportedly launch by the end of the month-March 29th to be exact, according to a recent rumor.
PCGamer reports that aside from news about the rumored release date, reviews for the card will also come out on the same day. This is different from what NVIDIA has done in the past, when they'd put a product out and keep it under a review embargo for days until reviews are permitted to be posted.
The information regarding the rumor was first spotted by VideoCardz, who say they saw it on the Chiphell forums. NVIDIA has also reportedly provided new embargo information to AIBs (add-in board partners), which could also mean that custom models from the likes of Gigabyte, ASUS, etc. will also be revealed on the same day.
But while the RTX 3090 Ti will likely be released soon, NVIDIA reportedly had to make a compromise. For one, VideoCardz says that the company has canceled the 16GB variant of the RTX 3070 Ti. The leaked information about the 16GB 3070 Ti also came from the Chiphell forums.
Nevertheless, even a rumored release date can be considered good for what could be the best-and obviously last-Ampere series graphics card. That's because NVIDIA promised to release more details on the card shortly after its announcement at CES back in January, but never made true on it, according to a report by The Verge,
Various speculations exist to try to explain the info blackout, though. Some people assumed that the GA102 silicon, which the RTX 3090 Ti uses, was suffering from supply chain issues. There were also rumors that the card's GDDR6X memory had temperature and power draw problems, which could be bad.
For now, it remains to be seen whether the rumored release date for the card is accurate or not.
RTX 3090 Ti Specs
What kind of hardware can we expect from such a GPU? The short answer is simple: absolutely premium.
PCGamesN reports that the die will be a full fat GA102 chip with no compromises whatsoever. It will have a total of 10,752 CUDA cores, which is up from the already beastly 10,496 of the base RTX 3090.
Aside from that, the card will feature the same amount of memory as the 3090: 24GB of GDDR6X clocked at 21Gbps on a 384-bit bus. But this will come with a different configuration: instead of 24 individual 1GB chips, it will have 12 2GB modules on the PCB. This design choice could likely help with temperatures under load, but there's no way to know for now until the card is launched.
To round off the specs, the card has a total of 84 ray tracing cores, 336 tensor cores, and a base clock of 1560 MHz. With all of this hardware, you'll need a pretty beefy power supply because the card's TDP is a massive 450 watts. Perhaps a 1000-watt PSU will be the minimum.
As for the price, let's not even try to comprehend how expensive this thing will be.
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Written by RJ Pierce
