A ChipHell forum user has recently posted a screenshot which appears to be taken from an insider account, and it provides us with some info on the expected pricing of the upcoming flagship RTX 3090 GPU.
The user has shared some details of a custom AIB RTX 3090 GPU from the COLORFUL brand, along with the estimated price. It seems Colorful is releasing two custom high-end variants of the RTX 3090 Ampere GPU; one is the Vulcan Model which is air cooled, and the other one is a Neptune SKU featuring a hybrid water cooling solution.
According to the post the estimated price for the VULKAN OC model is around CNY 13,999 Chinese Yuan, and CNY 12,999 for the Neptune Model. This might be the offline selling price. The JD is listed as 14,999 for the Neptune, and 15999 for the Vulkan Model. After conversion it roughly translates to $2,000 USD for the Vulcan X OC, and $1875 USD for the Neptune SKU.
Do note that these are custom high-end Models, so the price of other low end/mid-range custom AIB cards and the Founders Edition GPU should be slightly less than $2000. There appears to be some more info on these custom GPUs. For the Vulcan GPU model heat dissipation performance is greatly improved, and the frequency is the highest in the 30 series lineup. The Vulkan SKU also supports two-way lighting effects, and the graphics card comes with a 5V interface, That is, the motherboard can synchronize the lighting effects of the graphics card, and can also output the lighting effects of the graphics card to the motherboard.
My guess is that the RTX 3090 GPU will replace the TITAN branding and these might target professionals, content creators, and developers alike. The RTX 3090 shouldn’t be considered as a normal gaming GPU. Nonetheless, you should treat this whole article as a rumor, and take it with a grain of salt. But we expect the RTX 3090 to be the next TITAN GPU.
Full translated text (coming via TechPowerUp Forum user @ xkm1948):
“ Today’s headlines, Huang Renxun JensenHuang c 6 days ago·Quality digital creator.
“Enlarge your video memory, enlarge your monitor!”
The colorful RTX30 series flagship — VulcanX and Netpune upgrade details were exposed by the Northeast District General Generation. The voice burst in the post bar shows that this generation of colorful Vulcan Water God has been improved in these points where it is visible: 1.Fire God: the graphics card screen is larger and more beautiful than the previous generation; 2.Vulcan: heat dissipation performance is greatly improved, and the frequency is the highest in the 30 series flagship; 3.Vulcan: supports two-way lighting effects, and the graphics card comes with a 5V interface, That is, the motherboard can synchronize the lighting effects of the graphics card, and can also output the lighting effects of the graphics card to the motherboard; 4. Water God: The heat dissipation scheme is fully replaced, and the temperature will be very beautiful. Regarding the price: The purchase price of Vulcan is 12,000, and the purchase price of Water God is not mentioned, and the purchase price may be a little lower. Vulcan and Water God will have the same pricing at the beginning of the listing, but the Water God will reduce the price in the later period, because the 20-series Water God has never made money and is making up for it with the income of Vulcan. Lao Huang expects:
• RTX3090 VulcanX OC is priced at 13,999 offline, JD | 15999; •RTX3090 Neptune is priced at 12999 offline, JD is 14,999. #Computerdiy#
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So true. The days of “Haha you need a 1000$ to run games on a computer” are long gone. Now 2000$ is just the video card alone lol, theres also ram.. CPU and other stuff too.. oh boy.
well yeah. this is for the titan equivalent.
I will probably get the RTX 3060 which should be more than enough for gaming for my needs, with a much lesser and reasonable price.
High-end cards are always too expensive, and its Nvidia we are talking about.
Same, with DLSS technology improving I don’t feel I need the highest end card anymore to get the resolution and performance I want.
Count me in, lol
Midtier has been the smart way (if you don’t mind upgrading every 5-7 years…along with every new console kinda) to spend money on PC imho.
I’ll probably splurge to get a 3070. I got a 1070 instead of a 1060 and that turned out to be a really wise choice.
Even other ampere cards are going to be expensive for sure.
I heard from Chinese (HK) people that these are regular prices for Nvidia cards. 20xx were priced the same apparently.
I would never spend more than 800$/750 euro on a gaming gpu
Does NVIDIA expect to sell many of these?> Because I’m not about to drop that kind of money on a card. Even though I can afford it, does not mean I’m foolish enough to spend that kind of money. Utterly incredible if this is true about the pricing.
Buy the 3080 that is going to go for like 1200 – 1300 or the 3070 for like 700-800. I’m considering it especially if I can sell my card now.
Buy the 3080 that is going to go for like 1200 – 1300 or the 3070 for like 700-800. I’m considering it especially if I can sell my card now.
$2000 ?! Thats crazy.. imagine dropping that money and a game like Assassins Creed which uses more CPU than GPU drops your performance waaaaay down.. just sitting there and only 60% GPU use ..How would you feel..
People that can burn that much money on a videocard probably wont even care about it as long as the game runs “fine” on ultra.
This is me. I will drop the cash to have all settings on Ultra. Mad graphic hoe here. A game just feels so much more immersive when it looks insane/amazing. But the upgrade is minimal here for the price. Not even worth it
I get that a big part of the appeal in a game are visuals nowadays, even when i think framerate contributes a lot more on the experience. But what im trying to say is that most times, you can get a similar experience (let’s be honest, the usual ports we get from consoles don’t use the whole potential of a graphics card, even when is an unptomized port and PC only games, while impressive, they are so few), with a mid-high tier at half of the money more or less you will spend on a single card. but if you can and don’t mind…of course, aim for the best.
Im just comparing value vs increase in noticeable advantages.
I respect that you’re upfront about bein’ a hoe
You can play 4k down sampled from 8 on that bad boy. It is gonna be sick. Who cares. You can always resell it anyways for basically no loss.
Computers are becoming Iphones! Instead slowly raising specs for same price, they are just jacking up prices ffs!
Atleast computers feel justifiable for the money. I can’t justify $1000 on a phone. Forever buying a used phone that lasts for years.
Because there are braindead zombies that jeep buying it!
If it’s replacing the Titan $2000 is pretty low considering a Titan cost $2500.
But it’s not. Or, it would be called the Titan. Expect a 3K plus titan.
3K+ Titan for an extra .5GB VRAM/.10GHZ of extra performance LOL
that’s nothing guys, like 2 John Wick coins. lol
Kkkkk 2000 dollars to Play Horizon 1 Pc Bug Race
All you do is insult pc users based on your comments. Why do you even come to this site? Such a garbage human. Thank gawd there is a block button. Won’t have to see you again. Peace!
He’s a garbage human because he made fun of over priced graphics card and sh*t ports………. talk about fanboy mentally to the max. It’s like he personally insulted you and your loved ones huh. Oh no he said something bad about pc gaming……. what a horrible human being he is. Grow the f up. 99% of the people here sh*t on others just for liking something they don’t. Blocked.
You think that people that buy that high end card would do it just to play games, specially crappy ports like Horizon? LOL
If you have PC why are you on a PC site? Oh yeah, you’re a stupid troll with no life.
take my money!!
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Nvidia never learn
If the 3090 is the replacement for the Titan then that’s $500 less than the present Turing Titan but $2,000 is still very, very high for a Titan considering that the past Titans ranged from $1,000 to $1,200.
If the 3090 ends up being the replacement for the 2080 Ti then 4K gamers are going to get punched in the gut with the price to continue chasing after 4K.
For me a 3070 would be plenty for my 1440p and a 3060 should be plenty for 1080p for several years.
I don’t expect to play every game at the highest possible settings. Some games are so poorly optimized that it’s strains even a high end GPU to keep up at lower than 4K max settings.
“If the 3090 ends up being the replacement for the 2080 Ti then 4K gamers are going to get punched in the gut with the price to continue chasing after 4K.”
People are just gonna switch to consoles
“People are just gonna switch to consoles”
yeah people have been saying this since the age of dinosaurus along with the
so called “Death of PC gaming”
No one is saying “PC is doomed”. But if next-gen 4k graphics are to require a $2k GPU, you can bet a lot of people will indeed just buy one of the new consoles instead, since they will offer 4k for a lot less.
Wait…
Sounds extremely weird given the context that they will have to compete with new generation consoles that will be going for 500-600 for a full system…
Capable of raytracing and all.
Was thinking the same. Unless Nvidia wants to help the console sales…
Or force people to use their streaming service for the rest of their lives
Can only agree. I will surely consider a Ps5/AMD over an RTX 3080 if Nvidia goes full on Wallet Ripoff mode
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BUY MORE! SLAVES! HAHAHAHAHA!
Vulcan model for $2000? Nvidia intends to live long and prosper!
As somebody that doesn’t have kids or car payments so I can have a nice computer… I will still just gladly keep and use my 12GB Titan xp that is 3 years old. Im not seeing any reason to upgrade really. Sure I don’t have RTX but whatever. Not spending $2000US on a meaningless upgrade. Here I was thinking these new video cards were going to be 24GB LOOOL.
Rumor has it that Nvidia is releasing 2 different variants of the RTX 3090. One with 12GB and the other with 24GB.
We expect the 24GB to be called as Titan, or as a replacement for the Titan branding. The 12GB card should land up as a consumer Gaming card, though nothing is confirmed yet.
I heard those rumors too about a 24GB card. But my hope was that card was going to be the one that is $2000 which I for sure would drop the cash for. But jeez… expecting that card to be way too overpriced. Really hoping AMD has something up their sleep to get some competitor pricing wars going. I just want to buy a nice video card and run all my games at ultra settings everything for the next few years. What a dream!
FULL low level description of RDNA2 – Toms Hardware from HotChips
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-xbox-series-x-architecture-deep-dive
Another article about RDNA2 – Anand Tech from HotChips 2020
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15994/hot-chips-2020-live-blog-microsoft-xbox-series-x-system-architecture-600pm-pt
Really want to see the performance leap from rtx20 vs rtx30.
Ampere prices: Stupidly high
Record breaking economic depression in history: “What am I to you?”
Gotta go after the whales who will pay literally anything to get a tiny bit better performance.
This was to be expected really, when there’s no competition+rising R&D costs+new more expensive cooler.
And people think AMD’s BigShat will save them. Ffs get real. AMD is fkng done for. They are probably aiming to beat the 3060 at least.
All that crypto money wasn’t enough for Jensen
Wow, at that price I’ll grab two !! /s
“The more GPUs you buy, the more money you saved”
Soon we gonna have to remortgage our house to buy a gpu wtf
Rofl 2K to play at 4K smoothly.
No thanks. Thats insane, especially in 2020. If they keep doing that, it will end up like the smartphones. Galaxy note 20 is 1300. Long gone are the days of the 1000$ phone. Just like the days of the $500 video card are gone.
Whats next Nvidia? $2500 for the 4090? $3000 for the 5090? Yeah no. Sad part is, they will still sell like hot cakes even at 3k per card.
Thx but i will stay at 1080p. Cuz 4k wont make a game better