Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti is the world's most powerful gaming GPU - but will anyone buy it?

Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti is the globe's most powerful gaming GPU - simply will anyone purchase it?

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Well, the rumors were correct, Nvidia has appear the super-high-terminate GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at CES 2022.

As a super-charged upgrade to Nvidia's flagship RTX 3090, the RTX 3090 Ti is now the well-nigh powerful gaming graphics card Nvidia has ever made. The question is - who's going to purchase it?

For a start, unless you're aiming to play the very latest games at 8K resolution, then the RTX 3090 Ti volition likely be overkill. No games currently properly stress the RTX 3090, and the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3080 are enough capable.

So, as Nvidia's most powerful - and likely near expensive - gaming GPU, the RTX 3090 Ti volition be for people who are happy to pay for performance they won't need for a while. That's even if you lot can observe i in stock - GPUs are withal really hard to go hold of.

Still, we always love seeing new GPUs, especially ones that really push the envelope, and the RTX 3090 Ti looks set to exercise just that. It's a" monster GPU" according to Nvidia's Jeff Fisher.

Sadly, nosotros didn't get much information about the RTX 3090 Ti, except that it has 24GB of GDDR6X memory with 21GB/due south bandwidth, which is the same amount of memory every bit the RTX 3090, but much faster bandwidth. According to Fisher, it's "the fastest ever."

He too threw out another stats, including that the RTX 3090 Ti will come with forty shader teraflops, 78 RT teraflops and 320 tensor teraflops, but that doesn't mean a whole lot until we actually PLAY with this thing.

According to Fisher, we'll take to "tune in later this month for more details," so hopefully we'll discover out what kind of price tag this thing has.

Assay: Who is this for?

The RTX 3090 was already a niche product due to its power and price tag, so who is the RTX 3090 Ti aimed at? Gamers playing at 4K or below volition probable be meliorate off buying a cheaper GPU.

Yet, if yous're looking for a GPU for gaming on, and doing some serious content creation, so the RTX 3090 Ti could be for yous. It'll no dubiety be expensive, just all the same cheaper than Nvidia'southward professional GPUs, and it doesn't look like we'll go a proper follow-upwardly to the terminal-gen RTX Titan.

As we've establish with the RTX 3090, 8K gaming is at present a possibility, though with some compromises. If the RTX 3090 Ti can do 8K even better without those compromises - such as toning down graphical effects - and then this is going to be a GPU for enthusiasts that desire a hereafter-proof GPU for 8K gaming.

Also, with the release of the RTX 3080 Ti, Nvidia narrowed the gap betwixt its more than affordable gaming GPUs and the RTX 3090, with some people arguing that the RTX 3080 Ti makes the RTX 3090 redundant for 4K and below gaming. The RTX 3090 Ti, then, widens that gap in one case once more. Will it be of utilise to nearly gamers? No. But we still tin can't await to test information technology out.

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