Thursday, September 10th 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Looks Huge When Installed
Here's the first picture of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition card installed in an tower case. The triple-slot card measures 31.3 cm in length, and is 13.8 cm tall. Its design is essentially an upscale of that of the RTX 3080. The card still pulls power from a single 12-pin power connector, with an adapter included for two 8-pin connectors to convert to the 12-pin. The typical board power of the card is rated at 350 W. This particular card in the leak, posted on ChipHell forums, is pre-production as VideoCardz comments, given that some parts of its metal superstructure lack the chrome finish of the card NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled on September 1. The RTX 3090 launches on September 24.
Sources:
VideoCardz, ChipHell Forums
122 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Looks Huge When Installed
In fact if anything they should be lauded for their power efficiency, as it's Turing IPC and shaders with 1/3 less power consumption, probably down to the node shrink and more conservative core/boost clocks plus like you said "beefed" up RT and tensor cores
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Ignore the ones that have just "2020" as Release date. Those are just placeholders.
Although FE card is never sold in my country.
I'll take awesome fps in 4k for $1499 Alex.
You get more execution hardware (AVX2), with more cache bandwidth to not starve it.
Let's assume most enthusiasts right now game at 1440p/144 Hz, and that Nvidia is doing a strong push for 4K/144 Hz. OK, so far, so good. But even then, we know that 4K doesn't need 24GB of VRAM. They say the card is capable of "8K", but this is with DLSS upscaling, so we are not talking about actual 8K native resolution rendering. Regardless of IPC improvements or not, I absolutely don't believe we have the processing power to do 8K yet, and even if we did... We're gonna do 8K on what exactly? After all, this is a PC GPU - how many people are going to attach this to a gigantic 8K TV? And let's not even mention ultra-high resolution monitors, the very small amount of them that exist are strictly professional equipment and have 5 figure prices...
So, considering that 1440p is 3.7 Mpixels, 4K is 8.3 Mpixels and 8K is 33.2 Mpixels, perhaps a more realistic application for the 3090 is triple-monitor 1440p/4K @ 144 Hz? 3x 1440p is 11.1 Mpixel, which is slightly above one 4K display's resolution, so it shouldn't have any trouble driving it and with DLSS, triple 4K is about 25 Mpixel, which seems somewhat possible - perhaps then the 24 GB VRAM would come into play?
But even then, where are the 4K monitors - at the moment the choice is very limited, and let's be honest, 4K on a 27" panel makes no sense, and there are a few monitors at 40+", which again, for a triple monitor setup doesn't really work either. So, either a wave of new 4K/144 Hz monitors at about 30" is coming or... The 3090 doesn't really make much sense at all... And I'm not even talking about the price here, it's irrelevant. The question is - why does the 3090 actually exists and what is the actual application for it - Titan replacement or not, Nvidia is strongly pushing the card as a gaming product, which is all fine, but I fail to see the scenario where the 24 GB VRAM is relevant to gaming. Regardless, in about 2 weeks, benchmarks will tell us all we need to know. :D
with half vram, cheaper 3090 i think 12gigs just enough for me, 49" 32:9 1080p or triple 16:9 1080p/1440p racing setup..
I can wait till nov/des after all Navi & 3070 16gb / 3080 20gb released to decide
-t owner of LG OLED55C9 TV
So that's what I was thinking originally, if we assume that the 3090 is targeted towards multi-monitor 4K gaming at 120-144Hz, where are the monitors suitable for that? IMO, the ideal desk implementation of 4K is 30-34", and pretty much all the ones available, that we can call 'gaming' monitors are 40+", and some are even straight up TVs without the TV tuner (the BFGDs)... So I kind of don't really get what exactly the 3090 is supposed to do. If you want to do big screen gaming in the living room, the 3080 can easily do that (allegedly), so then what even is the purpose of the 3090? It's not professional or scientific research for sure, since Nvidia is pretty much pushing it as the top-end gaming card. But to me it seems that if you try to figure out what it's supposed to do, it just comes out as a slightly bigger chip than the 3080 with a strangely large amount of VRAM, just so Nvidia can say "look what we can do, lol".
I'm personally fine with Nvidia rebranding big chungus Ampere from Titan to a xx90. I had issues with Titan series, only reference coolers meant it got outperformed by nonref cooler xx80Ti's at half the price, and also available only from Nvidia store which is not available in my country.
But here I can just buy a nonref tripple slot monstrosity and have a peace of mind for a couple years that for all the unoptimized Ubisoft garbage I can set all the graphics sliders to the right and get a minimum of 4K 60FPs, something 2080Ti was not capable of. And if it has twice more memory than I will ever need for 4K gaming... I can live with that.