Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090: Everything we know so far

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Here’s all you need to know about the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090, the world’s most powerful graphics card.

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GeForce RTX 3090 is one of Nvidia’s most powerful graphics cards, perfect for 4K gaming on extreme settings and devouring graphics rendering jobs.

It’s a shame that $1,499 isn’t only out of reach, but also so hard to come by. The Nvidia RTX 3080 and Nvidia RTX 3070 are also available, but they’re not much simpler to locate. If you’re looking for restocks or purchasing recommendations on the high-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, see our guide.

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 requires a lot of money and a strong PC to take use of. You may anticipate PC gaming paradise at high frame rates and outrageous resolutions if you have such a setup.

GeForce RTX 3090 release date and pricing information

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 was released on September 24th, 2021, however it is now available for purchase if you can track it down.

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It’s Nvidia’s most expensive gaming GPU to date, costing $1,499 in the US and £1,399 in the UK. Due to a lack of supplies and scalability, this graphics card is very difficult to locate, much alone purchased at significantly inflated pricing.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 specs  

Nvidia RTX 3090 Nvidia RTX 3080 Nvidia RTX 3070
Starting Price $1,499 $699 $499
Nvidia CUDA Cores 10,496 8,704 5,888
Boost Clock (GHz) 1.70 1.71 1.73
Standard Memory Config 24GB GDDR6X 10GB GDDR6X 8GB GDDR6
Memory Interface Width 384-bit 320-bit 256-bit
Maximum Resolution 7680×4320 7680×4320 7680×4320
Ports HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a (3x) HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a (3x) HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a (3x)

Don’t worry if you thought the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090’s pricing was outrageous; it has the specifications to back it up.

The GPU has a memory bandwidth of 19.5Gbps and a 384-bit memory interface. We wouldn’t be shocked if Nvidia’s memory bandwidth was close to 1TB/s, but they haven’t publicly said it. As well as the 10,496 CUDA cores, the GeForce RTX 3090 also has a boost clock speed of 1,700MHz.

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Moreover, the Ampere architecture promises higher performance and economy, thus the GeForce RTX 3090 is no surprise in beating out the RTX Titan and prior RTX 2000-series cards, as well.

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Since few people have 8K displays, this translates to the ability to play games at a frame rate of 60 fps in real life. The RTX 3090’s third-generation Tensor cores and second-generation deep learning supersampling (DLSS) will help decrease the performance effect of ray-tracing on games running at high resolutions, and the RTX 3090’s second-generation ray-tracing cores promise a significant improvement in that performance.

RTX cards built on the Ampere architecture can give ray-tracing performance up to two times greater than RTX cards built on the Turing architecture.

GeForce RTX 3090 is intended to be a benefit for those who make movies and use high-fidelity digital materials, effects and rendering methods outside of gaming.

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The GeForce RTX 3090 from Nvidia is a behemoth of a video card. It’s also massive in size and has a three-slot dual-axial, flow-through architecture that effectively silences the graphics card. As a result, it can offer all of its claimed performance at a lower temperature of up to 30 degrees Celsius and up to a 10 times lower noise level than the RTX Titan. RTX 3080 will not fit in a small PC case, so don’t get your hopes up.

A peek at the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 will set you back $1,499 if you’re a serious PC player or a devoted game streamer. The RTX 3090 from Nvidia, on the other hand, is the top of the line when it comes to GPU technology.

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Apart from the RTX 3090 Ti, the GeForce RTX 3090 has no direct competitors in terms of pricing and specifications. AMD may find it difficult to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 3090 at this ultra-high price point, since it looks to have pushed the goalposts significantly.

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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 is a graphics card that gamers and digital content makers will want to own. Playing the finest PC games just became a whole lot more enjoyable thanks to it.

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