Much has been made of Nvidia's upcoming RTX 3090 Ti, which is likely to be the fastest graphics card ever made. It went through multi-month delays, and there's been much speculation about not only how it would compare with AMD's upcoming RX 6000 refresh, but also how much it will cost; at the height of the GPU pricing crisis, it would likely have closed in on $4000. Now though there's more rumors of its performance, and it's a little underwhelming.
We don't have official specifications for the 3090 Ti just yet, but it's thought likely to have a few more CUDA cores than the 3090, but also have a much higher clock speed and faster memory. You'd think this would lead to a big uptick in performance -- it'll certainly pull a lot of extra power for its spec bump. But it may be that the card is actually as little as five percent faster than a 3090. It might be closer to 10 percent in some games, but that's still not much of a leap almost two years after the original 3090's release.
Some performance numbers RTX 3090 vs RTX 3090 Ti, first impression!
Ti ~10% faster at 4K
450W power
2GHz boost@BauduinSven @3DCenter_org @VideoCardz— CapFrameX (@CapFrameX) March 25, 2022
This information comes from some leaks of first-hand testing of the new card, and it will reportedly pull as much as 450W when boosting, with its clock speed just cresting 2GHz if it has adequate cooling.
One plus side of these rumors though, is that Nvidia may be aggressively pricing the new card as low as $1,500 -- matching the original RTX 3090 launch cost and potentially lowering the prices of its other RTX 3000 cards. That seems unlikely considering the monstrous profits it's made off of this generation, but it wouldn't be a bad way to lock a few more gamers into Nvidia's exclusive features before the launch of the RTX 4000 generation later this year.