NVIDIA has just published a new blog post detailing the performance of the upcoming flagship RTX 3090 GPU, which Nvidia refers to as the ‘BFGPU’, aka big, ferocious GPU. Some official performance metrics have been posted.
According to the green team, the GeForce RTX 3090 flagship GPU is only 10-15% faster than the RTX 3080 in 4K gaming. Nvidia claims the card is designed specifically for gaming at ultra-high resolutions such as 8K, and it is also the fastest GPU for professional applications. What this means is that the RTX 3090 is basically a prosumer-class product.
Since the official unveiling, the GeForce RTX 3090 has been advertised as a TITAN GPU replacement. The company claims that the card was designed for the most demanding users, and not just gamers but also professionals and content creators alike, who can benefit from the massive horsepower this card has to offer. This GPU would be more useful for applications such as data science, AI research and to render next-generation cinematics and movies.
The RTX 3090 appears to be a great choice for creators making cinematic content, and also researchers who can harness the AI performance of this new flagship GPU. Though, Nvidia also claims this GPU is an 8K-capable gaming card, which was already shown in some videos as posted by LinusTechTips and MKBHD recently. LG’s Signature ZX 88 inch TV was used for 8K gaming.
Since Nvidia is now advertising the RTX 3090 flagship TITAN-class graphics card for productivity, while at the same time promoting it for 8K gaming as well, so this may raise some slightly controversy within board partners, reviewers, and gamers alike.
Like mentioned before, the RTX 3090 is only 10 to 15% faster in 4K gaming, when comparing it with the RTX 3080 GPU. But the performance of the card appears to be much better in synthetic and productivity workloads. According to Nvidia, the RTX 3090 is up to 50% faster than the Titan RTX graphics card. Nvidia has also shared a chart which shows the GeForce RTX 3090 to be twice as fast as the Titan RTX in professional applications such as Luxmark, Blender, V-ray, and Red Shift, as shown below.
To quote Nvidia’s official Blog:
“For gamers pushing the limits, the GeForce RTX 3090 is also the first GPU that lets you connect, play, capture, and watch in 8K HDR. That’s an insane 4x the pixels of 4K and 16x the pixels of 1080p.
For 4K gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 is about 10-15% faster on average than the GeForce RTX 3080, and up to 50% faster than the TITAN RTX.
Since we built GeForce RTX 3090 for a unique group of users, like the TITAN RTX before it, we want to apologise upfront that this will be in limited supply on launch day. We know this is frustrating, and we’re working with our partners to increase the supply in the weeks to come.”
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 has a starting price of $1499 and will launch on September 24. This makes the RTX 3090 the most expensive gaming-grade graphics card currently in the market. Yes, it’s expensive but this graphics card is for aspirational gamers, content creators, and pro consumers.
The RTX 3090 is based on Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, which uses Samsung’s 8nm process node. The new card is capable of delivering 36 Shader-TFLOPS, 69 RT-TFLOPS for ray tracing, and 285 Tensor-TFLOPS for critical AI-related tasks such as deep learning super-sampling (DLSS).
The GPU comes with 24GB of GDDR6X memory, which Nvidia says is the fastest memory at the moment. The RTX 3090 has a staggering 10,496 CUDA cores and will run at a boost clock speed of 1,700MHz. The monster GPU requires 400W to power it. As per Nvidia, the RTX 3090 uses a redesigned cooling solution with dual fans and a new 12-pin power connector.
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This is so weird. Where does this put the alleged 20 GB version of the 3080? It can’t be much more expensive than the 3080, since it’ll likely only be 5-10% better than it, but it can’t be much cheaper than the 3090, because then the 3090 becomes completely obsolete.
I doubt it’s gonna be that cheap, but my point still stands. Why would anyone pay $1500 for a 3090 when they can get a card with pretty much the same performance for maybe $1000? It doesn’t make sense for Nvidia to release a 3080 with 20 GB.
You’re still not getting my point, which is that it doesn’t make sense for Nvidia to release both the 3090 and the 20 GB 3080, since they’re basically gonna be the same card with hugely different prices. Of course the 20 GB 3080 will sell like butter, but if that was Nvidia’s plan all along, why release the 3090 to begin with? With both of them on the market, who’s gonna pay $500 extra for 5% better performance?
But the 3090 and 3080 are not the same GPU/card. The 3090 has 1792 more CUDA cores than the 3080, 56 more Tensor cores, 14 more RT cores and a 384 bit Memory Bus versus the 320 bit Memory Bus on the 3080 and the 14 GB more VRAM.
That is why I think Nvidia will release a 3080 Ti with 20 GB VRAM even though that amount of VRAM is overkill during the lifetime of the card (maybe 2 generations or 4 years) and more CUDA cores than the 3080 (but not as many as the 3090) and will keep the same 320 bit Memory Bus on the 3080 Ti. There has to be something left to the 3090 that the 3080 Ti won’t have in order to not cannibalize sales of the 3090.
This is so weird. Where does this put the alleged 20 GB version of the 3080? It can’t be much more expensive than the 3080, since it’ll likely only be 5-10% better than it, but it can’t be much cheaper than the 3090, because then the 3090 becomes completely obsolete.
But Nvidia always mentions how the 3090 is the 1st GPU to produce playable 8K gaming! I am just shocked they are not charging $8K for it
But Nvidia always mentions how the 3090 is the 1st GPU to produce playable 8K gaming! I am just shocked they are not charging $8K for it
This Ampere series is a complete joke.
The series as whole is spectacular success, this card is ridiculously overpriced
This is a budget workflow card being sold as a high end gaming card to maximize sales. Don’t fall for it.
Happy with my RTX 3080. ?
Ah yess. Bots are getting the 3080 sooner
Yep!
I saw the announcement and it was clear that bots receive their cards first.
Humans will have to wait.
Or get scalped on sites like Ebay.
And yes, they started marketing this thing for gamers and some will actually buy it next year when it will actually be available.
10 – 15% is just the Nvidia numbers and as we have already seen their numbers aren’t trustworthy anyway.
10% for more then double the price and more Vram… So amazing…
Sooo. Nvidia pulled an Intel move.. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/19a5f19117ae479a3e4e31f070ed2da1e2db818bf5e345078ee83b6f750730a5.jpg
If it isn’t a Titan, how is it a Prosumer card?
Cries in FP16
This card really is not even worth it unless you have cash to burn.
well this isn’t Dark Side of Rendering. So as a gaming response on a gaming website.. It’s not worth it!
Its marketed for gamers and gamers will buy it.
Its a gaming card.
From the beginning (Kepler Titan for $1,000) to this day Titans were marketed to gamers but I don’t think they are worth it unless they also serve some purpose for work as well.
10% to 15% gain in gaming performance at over twice the price of a 3080 is silly for strictly gamers. We will see what the 3080 Ti price will be when released. My guess is around $1,000
It’s NOT worth it at all.
Haha talk about a bad deal. This card is totally not worth it. Might be worth it to someone who uses it purely for work and hes rich, but for the normal people out there = huge NOPE
I guess there will be some strictly gamers who will buy it to boast about having the fastest card on Earth.
If I were going to buy an Ampere then I would buy a 3070 when they finally do become available but then I’m not chasing after 4K because it’s not worth it to me. 1440p is fine for me.
Remember these words boys – once this card is out, we will still see people buying them and complaining.
Some people will buy them. I will never forget a guy on TechPowerUp that bought a dual GPU Titan Z for $3,000 6 years ago and was on the forum complaining that Nvidia wasn’t supporting his drivers well when Maxwell released. He said that Nvidia should fully support his card for 10 years because of how much he paid for the Titan z.
Well that’s not how it works. The Titan Z is way past obsolete even a couple of years ago. Developers have all but abandoned SLI. There is no such a thing as Future Proof in gaming and there never will be.
Just a quick look and I see 3080 for avg price $900 (Google shopping), and the article says 3090 goes for $1500 but only performs 10-15% better.
Kind of crazy I’d say. What else is strange is Nvidia really doesnt address that, instead says the card is really good for 8k. Only 15% better in 4k, but somehow it’s stellar at 8k performance? Maybe Im missing something.
None of what Im seeing and hearing justifies the price for the 3090.
“None of what Im seeing and hearing justifies the price for the 3090.”
Hey it’s Nvidia, have their prices ever made sense?
Nvidia:
8K non native, with DLSS x9, it means it’s reconstructing from 1440p.
I’m tempted just for the RT performance. Have a Asus 3080 TUF OC on order. Doubt it will arrive before the 40 series :p
So the price is 10-15% higher, right?
Not with Nvidia.
Lol, that’s a good one!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/32bd9aef768c393e3e004d11214426fde6479ad294dadc362816c442b51152ff.jpg
Twice as expensive though. Well worth it I say….
AMD to Destroy Nvidia? Do you live in a parallel universe?
One of the things that I like about TechPowerUp reviews is that W1zzard does performance per dollar charts. The RTX 3090 and RTX 2080 Ti are the worst performance per dollar spent. You will have to click on the chart in order to read it.
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It’s horrible for overclocking too. He only managed to get a 3% gain in Unigine Heaven.
I wonder how the 3080 Ti / Super will perform. Probably having more VRAM and a lower price than 3090 makes it a better choice even for those who have money to spare, imho.