Yesterday, I shared one leak/rumor on the pricing of some of the Custom GPU models from the Colorful brand. Now we are hearing rumors that the reference ‘Founders Edition/FE’ RTX 3090 GPU might cost a minimum of $1399, though expect a premium of 100 USD as well, which should make the Founders Edition card cost $1499 USD. Nvidia has done this in the past with the RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition GPU.
This latest rumor comes from a Chiphell forum user Wjm47196 who has a strong track record of leaks/rumors in the past which mostly turned out to be true. According to him, and as mentioned above, NVIDIA’s upcoming Ampere GeForce RTX 3090 card is going to feature a starting price of $1399 USD.
The previous flagship Turing RTX 2080 Ti GPU had a price tag of $1199 USD for the Founders Edition, which means the new RTX 3090 card will cost $200 more. The Turing RTX 2080 Ti GPU also had variants starting at $999 USD, with some of the custom AIB Models costing up to $1999 USD. NVIDIA charged a $200 USD premium for the Founders Edition RTX 2080 Ti variant.
There appears to be a price bump of at least 40% if we compare the minimum base price of the RTX 3090 GPU with RTX 2080 Ti, whereas the Founders Edition pricing would see a 25% bump. The reason behind this price jump is simple. GDDR6X memory is brand new and is likely expensive to manufacture, and we have heard rumors of a 24GB variant for the RTX 3090 card as well, which is double the Memory frame buffer of 11 GB GDDR6 found on the RTX 2080 Ti. This new GDDR6X memory interface also sports higher clock speeds for higher bandwidth, along with a wider bus width too. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 will make use of the GA102 GPU core, and we can expect a 40-50% performance jump over the RTX 2080 Ti.
Nvidia appears to have priced these new GDDR6X Ampere variants at a higher cost margin than the Turing lineup. So expect some of the custom AIB cards to cost north of $1500+ USD. Nvidia is hosting a Geforce Special Event on September 1st, and we expect the company to announce the next-gen Ampere Gaming GPUs.
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I’m definitely supporting AMD for my next upgrade. The current Navi cards have had their issues, but they’re genuinely good products that serve as a solid architectural foundation. RDNA 2 is looking like it’ll be a very nice upgrade in terms of performance, power efficiency and features.
I would say I’m cautiously optimistic than enthusiastic. I’m hoping that the last round of driver issues game AMD enough of a kick in the teeth that it won’t happen again with RDNA 2. For what it’s worth, most of the driver issues have been fixed, and they completely overhauled the way users report issues and how they internally investigate and identify them.
DLSS is a game changer for Nvidia owner so if more game can utilize it, pretty sure many will buy the new RTX card regardless of the price.
Only stupid fellows will burn money on the high end RTX card.
how is genshin impact like zelda?
“The reason behind this price jump is simple”
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I cant believe im gonna say it but maybe this time i might go back to amd if rdna2 will deliver in term of performances and affordability, my last amd gpu was an ati radeon 4870 1gb.
Amd gpu users i have a quick question:how are amd drivers nowadays?
AMD drivers still have issues. Sometimes I get a random black screen, and screen blackout, losing MONITOR signal, while doing any work, or while Gaming. I’m 100% sure the driver is to be blamed here.
I put my old GTX 960 GPU in the same PC, and everything runs like a breeze ! Zero issues ! What gives ?
I just want them to get their sh/t together in GPUs as they did with the CPUs, then Nvidia would think twice about selling cards at this ridiculous prices.
RTX TITAN coming next… for $4K !
Nvidia in press conference trying to justify the price – “You pay a dollar for each pixel you want”
Nvidia needs to be DOUBLING performance from generation-to-generation for these prices.
Welcome to NexT GEn!!!
150GB + 2PB streamable games (stable launch not guaranteed), prices like never before…. and yet still unable to maintain 4K / maxed out settings with 60-120 FPS (wanna some more? huh).
You asked for it, you got it.
Literally nobody asked for this lmao.
Graphics are expected to improve across generations.
Sure, graphics are going to be more demanding, but I think we will reach a saturation point after which only minimal improvements can be done or expected.
But does this mean the hardware vendors will keep on jacking up the prices of next-gen products ?
That’s up to us. AMD has consistently offered cheaper prices for their GPU’s. If we as consumers refuse to buy cheaper, higher value products, NVIDIA can keep getting away with increasing prices.
Actually, that’s the problem. There are foolish gamers who don’t mind spending a fortune on a Gaming GPU, so why should Nvidia reduce the prices, when the sheep is ready to buy ! lol
Those people that have loads of cash are the minority of gamers. I doubt many people buy GPUs using bank loans at least in the Western countries.
I’ve got bad experience with AMD gpu at least in the old days. Mine was very very hot, then dead not even 1 year of using it. Then i got GTX 960 that i still use today, don’t have any problem. The temp very low too. Not sure if the new AMD gpu now better or not.
That sounds like a faulty GPU. It’s unfortunate that it happened to you but most GPU’s (AMD or NVIDIA) do not have that issue.
The newer ones are definitely better in almost every way.
Which AMD GPU are you talking about ? Previous older GCN arch cards were not that efficient than today’s new GPUs. They used to consume a lot more power, and run hot as well.
My previous R9 390X card was an example. AMD has improved on the performance per watt ratio, as well as heat output and efficiency. Was that a custom AIB card, or some blower-type reference GPU ?
How hot did the GPU get ? More than 80-90 C ?
I can’t remember what Radeon Series it is unfortunately. That was a long time ago. Performance is good,but the GPU got very hot, more than 80 C. When I switch to GTX 960, it’s difference in temp is like day and night. I dunno, probably i’ve got faulty GPU or something. Nevertheless it makes me wary regarding AMD GPU. But the price is tempting though, NVIDIA is very pricey.
Yeah, AMD GPUs are slightly cheaper than Nvidia. Even the mid-range/low-end cards from Nviida are priced a bit reasonably in some countries, but not all.
Only the high-end NV cards are overpriced ! I’m using an RX 480 4GB GPU. I’m not sure whether I will upgrade or not. I don’t feel the need to do it, since I’m on 1080p/60Hz screen setup, and my Intel i7 4790 CPU is also sufficient for gaming for now.
I mostly play OLD PC games though ! 😀
The last decade we cried how games are looking like sh**, how games play the same etc. We except too much in a short period of time…..
And now…… look at this Real TIme Raytracing for example… its way too demanding but most people dont reallize that they (developers) still dont use the full potentional of this raytracing, add to that advanced AI, physics like never before, destructable environment, open world etc. and then you will see/realize how much demanding our games could be and even the best GPUs avaliable would feel like an toy for that task. And still we (most gamers) cry (RTX OFF – RTX ON speech). What did we exypected, its friking REAL TIME!
Look at some older games, you will notice how in many older games there are decent reflections (ok maybe fake, maybe real time but not raytracing, or “fake raytracing” how some are calling it etc.) but in new games, they basically make the games look “bad” (low – medium settings), remember that the minimums are GTX 680/690 and similar and on high/ultra with real time raytracing it looks good. Sometimes newer games feel blurry, with washed out textures etc. on lower settings, it feels like some older games look better (remember the same older games which are less demanding). The thing is, you can archieve similar things with some other techniques, you dont nessesary need to use real time raytracing for everything. Sure, its not the best but it can look pretty decent.
They make the games look worse (on lower settings) to make the real time raytracing look good or should I say better than it actually is (even if they dont use the full potential yet) and thats called marketing.
This was expected with this new Ampere card. that memory is surely gonna add up the cost further.
I’m pretty sure Nvidia will release SUPER variant SKUs as well, apart from the usual Ti branding, if we assume the company is following the same policy/roadmap as previous gen cards.
This whole thing is getting insane every year though. High-end PC gaming is slowly getting expensive, though all hope is not lost. I am more worried of the MINING scene craze which has again bloomed recently. These will jack up the prices, and clear the current inventory of cards.
Nvidia will still retain the high-end ‘flagship GPU’ performance crown with Ampere, IMO, unless AMD’s RDNA 2 cards are a killer, which I pretty much doubt. But I hope I’m wrong.
Though, RDNA 2 arch does look very promising, boasting several improvements over RDNA 1 and better efficiency (performance per watt).
When its 7 nm RDNA architecture debuted in July 2019, AMD achieved a nearly 50% gain in performance/Watt over the previous “Vega” architecture. At its 2020 Financial Analyst Day event, AMD actually made a big disclosure: that its upcoming RDNA2 architecture will offer a similar 50% performance/Watt jump over RDNA.
We all know that the new RDNA2 graphics architecture is expected to leverage 7 nm+ (7 nm EUV), which offers up to 18% transistor-density increase over 7 nm DUV, among other process-level improvements. AMD could tap into this to increase price-performance by serving up more compute units at existing price-points, running at higher clock speeds.
AMD has two key design goals with RDNA2 that helps it close the feature-set gap with NVIDIA: real-time ray-tracing, and variable-rate shading, both of which have been standardized by Microsoft under DirectX 12 DXR and VRS APIs.
AMD also announced that RDNA2 will feature dedicated ray-tracing hardware on die. On the software side, the hardware will leverage industry-standard DXR 1.1 API. The company is supplying RDNA2 to next-generation game console manufacturers such as Sony and Microsoft, so it’s highly likely that AMD’s approach to standardized ray-tracing will have more takers than NVIDIA’s RTX ecosystem that tops up DXR feature-sets with its own RTX feature-set.
The GPU storys on this site are the best. This is like getting a next gen console. I am not getting a new video card unless it has 24gb for sure. It sounds pricey but imagine how many years you can get out of it. Unless it dies on you… A 24gb card would last you a solid decade or more
Someone needs to stop these F**KRS from being so bullish about their prices! C’mon AMD, for F* sake make a decent high-end GPU!
Just get the Cheaper model you dunce. You don’t need the bleeding edge get the cutting edge.
if the top end price increased the other models price will increase too
Only one dunce here, and it ain’t Warrior88…
Sadly they too busy beating Intel to death. but GPU is more important for pc gaming and has more direct effect in gaming.
I’m disgusted…i’m a relatively happy owner of a MSI RTX 2080 Trio X,and if these prices for the new GPUs are real, I will never buy any Nvidia product again in my life! they have already squeezed us consumers to death ….. realistically I will sell the 2080 to buy the much talked about and awaited BIG NAVI.
If this is true then I can no longer support NVIDIA and this flagrant attempt at artificial inflating price gouging. AMD Big Navi FTW
no upgrade this year.
They are going to release the 3080 as well silly.
no i already have a 2080ti
That was money well spent :p
aehm….nope! those cards will become obsolete very soon….my advice is to sell it just right now man
It was sarcasm as turing has been such a let down.
Sell it.
The GPU storys on this site are the best. This is like getting a next
gen console. I am not getting a new video card unless it has 24gb for
sure. It sounds pricey but imagine how many years you can get out of it.
Unless it dies on you… A 24gb card would last you a solid decade or
more. I might be in. But still… my 12gb card is going pretty solid.
DAFUQ are these prices I was planning to upgrade but no thanks now.
well,its time for.;;; Nividia
never
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This outrageous price gouging deserves to have a criminal investigation be opened on nvidia and its greedy boss!
Buy this retards, kkkkk to Play Flight Sim kkkkkkkkk, jokes
Video cards are killing PC gaming.
Maybe if people did not give into Nvidia with the 2080 Ti these prices would not be what they are now. And I am pretty sure AMD will not have anything that competes with the 3090… Yet alone the 3080 Ti.