It appears that the first picture of Nvidia’s flagship Ampere RTX 3090 card has been leaked by a Twitter user @GarnetSunset. From the photo we can clearly see that the RTX 3090 is a massive 3-slot GPU.
The GPU design appears to be much bigger, and it will require three slots on your Motherboard. This model appears to have the same irregular shaped PCB which was leaked before. My guess is that this is the reference Founders Edition graphics card sample.
The fans appear to be bi-directional, and both fans seem to be placed on opposite sides of the card which might help push the air in different directions. The heat sink is also curved, and we can see that the card features an irregular V shaped PCB. This time the full GPU shroud/design is in black. The I/O bracket clearly has 3 fingers, and this model appears to be bigger and wider than the RTX 2080 GPU which is also pictured along with this card. Like mentioned above, the RTX 3090 will occupy three slots on the motherboard. The RTX 3080 GPU which was leaked before was a 2-slot card.
3 slots. 2000$. pic.twitter.com/ZgKsPUQ1U4
— James (@GarnetSunset) August 21, 2020
The card’s backplate appears to have the RTX 3090 label, though it is not clearly visible. The expected price/MSRP of this card is around $1400 USD according to the leaker. The full specs are not known at this time, but this GPU is supposed to feature the ‘GA102’ GPU die, having at least 5248 CUDA cores along with 24GB of GDDR6X memory (based on speculation).
Though, please make a note that the pricing is also not confirmed yet, and Nvidia can do last minute changes before the official launch/embargo date, so the final retail price might differ.
Nonetheless, the same leaker also shared the pricing of some of the upcoming Ampere GPUs. According to him, the RTX 3090 will cost $1399, the RTX 3080 around $799, and the RTX 3070 will have a $599 price tag, and lastly the RTX 3060 GPU will retail for $399.
3060 400
3070 600
3080 800
3090 1400— James (@GarnetSunset) August 21, 2020
NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 3000 series Ampere cards are rumored to be built on the Samsung’s 8nm process node. Nvidia has also recently ceased the production of the RTX 20 series of GPUs to make room for the Ampere lineup. 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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Boy, this thing is f** huge !! I bet this will come with more power consumption as well !
Whos ready to shell out $1399 !?
$1399 is the paper launch price you can’t get that lower than $2000
Oh man, that sucks pretty bad if true !
RTX 2080 Ti is EOL and you can’t find good AIBs under $1500
Nah, I don’t think this will cost 2K USD. I think around 1500-1700 Max. Custom boards may cost this much though, not founders edition IMO.
But anyways this Price gouging from Nvidia is getting insane each year.
AMD better do something FFS ! Else, we are stuck with no other option . If you want HIGH-end, buy Nvidia, else you are a peasant if you go for AMD, lol
That has been the motto since this trend started. Not my own opinion
All the RDNA 2 leaks indicate it should be very good. Maybe not beating the 3090, but competitive with the rest of the lineup.
… and that in turn will lower the costs. I don’t care what color the logo of the gfx card have, both side makes good cards nowadays…
The problem i have is with nvidias is the prices in the enthusiast space. They will keep them sky high if there wont be any real competition there, they can charge what they want and get away with it.
real talk here . a 5700 xt would be enough for 1080p 60FPS , what is ok for gaming . and high resolution and high frame rate wont make a game better .
1080p is great for 2007 Get real. 1440p is sweet spot for last gen 4k with dlss at 144 is completely doable this gen.
This.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b5b340db07b3c427291de9c46e00ecf4b65590935a811330e28a80ad9cabbe4b.png
According to steam a lots of ppl ( steam users) still use 1080p. If you u have the money go for itand get a what ever you can afford. . I could get a new gpu and a 144hz 1440p screen. But i wont cuz it wont game the game better
those are mostly third worlders and bots though. those are those f2p tfe accounts that spam you with “buy gold at real good us dollars amounts” im al the f2p mmo`s on steam
No. Actually 1080p is the most widely used gaming resolution. There were other independent hardware surveys done before as well, apart from Steam, and the majority of gamers voted for 1080p.
What
1080p is great and will be the standard cheap great entry point for a ton of people. But damn… I will never go back to it. I’ll stick to 1440p till my monitor breaks
The majority of people play console games at 30fps. Doesn’t make it suck any less.
Totally agree.
I have a G-sync monitor so buying AMD is not an option, i’m not paying for a freesync monitor.
AMD Developed the chipset for the Xbox Series X. I wouldn’t really call them peasant. That thing looks like a beast. Even tho I have never owned anything AMD I have a feeling they are gonna come out strong with these next gen GPU’s
I wasn’t calling AMD peasant though. No. I was talking about the trend gamers have towards those who buy and own AMD cards.
We are being called “peasants” if we chose AMD for our gaming PC.
Also, that weird PCB design kind of scares me ! Two fans on opposite side as well. I’m worried about the air flow inside the cabinet with these bi-directional fans !
Time to grill some bacon and egg on a $1400 videocard!
Looks ugly and will need a nuclear power plant to power up.
thats a Hummer, in in the market for a tesla
Being so huge + coupled with high TDP. The strain on the PCB will increase greatly. I expect alot of melting Vram’s and artifacting.
we’ll leave that to shills to beta test that for us.
I guess I will buy 3080 instead of 3090.
how reliable is this guy, i mean has he leaked anything else before or what?
welcome to the day that a 60 card is costing 400$ & AIB models probably costing 450$ & above
thanks to everybody who went out and bought 2080ti & 2060 & 2070 & 2080, thank you very much, for showing nvidia that they can charge whatever they please and still get the best selling cards title
Nvidia is getting those 8nm wafers from samsung for fraction of the cost compared to TSMC, 192-bit/256-bit bus cards with 6/8 gb of GDDR6 shouldn’t cost 400$ & upward
you shouldn’t let Nvidia get away with it this time around if u have a gpu keep it don’t buy any RTX 3000 cards let them rot, & if you don’t have a gpu don’t buy either, don’t give nvidia ur money, buy something second hand
I don’t plan to get a new card till this 12gb breaks. By then both companies cards will be out and we can see what the better deal is
980Ti is on the shelf. 1070 is in my laptop. 1080Ti FTW3 is my current card. 2000 series was skipped due to the poor DXR performance. So here I am itching to upgrade, but the one thing that puts me off is the power usage, or more to the point, the heat these cards will put out.
Expect a high power consumption all thanks to Nvidia’s monopoly and Huang’s Greed !
3000 won’t have a good DXR performance either. If 3080 will be equal in performance to 2080Ti – that basically means you can get 60 fps in 1080p on a $800 videocard. Which is ridiculous.
Wait for RDNA2 to come out before pulling the trigger, AMD might surprise with power/efficiency.
3 slots ? lol, mine is an ITX mid tower cabinet.
I expect some of the custom boards to come in 2 slots though. We have seen mini itx GPU variants before as well
Same here. Its not just ITX, many mATX cases are also dual slot too.
Last year i bought an RTX 2080Ti for €1200 i am happy witht the card but im unhappy with so many unoptimised PC games, and most are from Ubisoft. Assassins creed – series, Watchdogs 2 to name a few, dont run well at all ( CPU limited ) its a shame that these days more games are relying on the CPU than the GPU.
Im an ULMB lover and 85hz is the absolute minimum i demand from my card but in those games the card is just sitting doing nothing. Its the last time i think im going to throw so much money for a “flagship” card.
You play games on 2K or 4K ?
It sounds like youre playing at 720p or 1080p which would be your bottleneck. If youre using a 1440p or 4k display, your gpu will be over 70% usage in 99.9% of games
Stop playing at 1080p that’s your problem, it’s 2020 not 2001.
i play on 1024 x 768 or 1440 x 1080
Thanks for reminding me to use ULMB I completely forgot about this awesome feature. Gonna play some doom eternal at 120hz now
The unreleased Voodoo 5 6000 actually measured around 12.3 inches, or 312mm:
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No. That model is Voodoo 5 6000.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/voodoo5-6000.c3536
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/v/3dfx_collectors/collectors_goldleader/Voodoo5+6000s/3dfx+Voodoo+5+6000+AGP+RevA2+2600+Front.jpg.html
This one shown below seems to be the 9000 model, the same one in your picture. From this angle it looks even more bizarre and wacky !
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=661888
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LOL that is insane
32 way SLI. Incredible.
F*k 3 Slot cards
Yo the 3090 PCIe port is much larger than the 2080, you can’t actually use it on any motherboard. Fake??
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/49b122e9d5d53076ebd66ce3d6eed41ce9e891bcce629d70c50bf99ee80cae38.jpg
Not fake. These cards def need new compatible motherboards. They def won’t just pop in to what you are running now
Any idea on the ports? I need at least 6 DP and 2 HDMIs.
Well that definitely won’t fit in my tiny NZXT build. On a side note… before doing a whole new build… I really just rather wait and see how these perform for people once they are out in the wild. I got weird feelings about them for some reason
Hopefully the 3000 series coming out at it’s higher prices means Nvidia knows AMD’s Big Navi will be somewhat competition. I have a funny feeling when Big Navi comes out months later Nvidia 3000 series prices will drop by 300+ for the 3090 for example.
That looks ridiculous.
these cards aren’t just 2k. You also need a new compatible motherboard and probably a bigger power supply lol. This isn’t just a GPU upgrade. If you want a new GPU you gotta take into account a whole new pc setup LOL https://media3.giphy.com/media/PkVpoRawXYW5i/giphy.gif
I figured the Ampere’s would be priced higher than Turings. I guess we will get a repeat from Mr Huang about how the Ampere’s aren’t meeting sales expectations just like he said about the Turings unless the Ampere’s are really something special.
I remember buying a GTX 980 Ti and thinking $675 was a little high. I guess those days are gone for good.
I’m being put off with the idea that these cards may turn my PC in to a heater.