Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti’s price looks very painful for GPU hunters

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti'south cost looks very painful for GPU hunters

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Nvidia first announced the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at CES 2022, with the promise of more than details at the finish of January. That borderline came and went without any additional information, and the speculation is that Nvidia is struggling to produce the card in meaningful quantities, prompting indefinite delays.

While nosotros expect for confirmation from Nvidia about what's actually going on, retailers are filling the vacuum with their own listings for the upcoming card — and the prices aren't encouraging, fifty-fifty in a world that's used to GPU inflation.

The latest listings come from an Estonian retailer's listings tweeted by @momomo_us. With a currency conversion, all three cards come in at effectually $4,000 with the tax removed.

The cheapest of the lot is the Asus TUF RTX 3090 Ti at €4,332.eleven (or around $3,968). That seems pricey until you go onto the other two — a €4,413.85 (around $4,043) overclocked version and €4,577.40 (around $4,193) liquid-cooled ROG Strix model.

As our sister site Tom'south Hardware points out, this is highly unlikely to be the actual MSRP for the RTX 3090 TI. The vanilla RTX 3090s currently sells for effectually $ii,600 on Ebay when the price should exist $1,499 new. Assuming a similar level of gouging here, that would propose the actual price to be around the $ii,300 marking. Probably closer to $2,000, as you'd imagine there'due south an boosted premium here for the new and shiny.

That'south all the same hugely expensive, apparently, but the GPU volition reportedly go some manner to justifying it with truly enviable specs. Nosotros've heard talk of a fully enabled GA102 core with 24GB of upgraded GDDR6X memory offering a total of 10,752 CUDA cores. All of this power will obviously come up at an free energy cost, though, with the menu reportedly having a total power draw of 450W.

But when the new graphics card will emerge is anyone's guess. With Nvidia missing its own borderline to reveal more at the finish of concluding month, we're at present in a state of limbo equally to when it'll really appear, making these possible prices something of a moot point.

While the specs listed above will make the RTX 3090 Ti an enviable GPU for many years to come, it'due south worth remembering that Nvidia is rumored to be unveiling the RTX 40 series before the year is out — and with price gouging and shortages being what they are, many will be tempted but to sit this generation out and see if things expect amend in 12 months time.

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing most tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional mag as well. When non weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his e'er-growing games excess. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.