Nvidia's new ultra-enthusiast RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is out now
After a delay of a few months, Nvidia has finally released the RTX 3090 Ti—the new ultra-enthusiast class graphics card from the green team. Described by its creators as «a monster of a GPU», we can attest to that after seeing what third-party manufacturers have stuck on the full GA102 GPU within to keep it cool.
The RTX 3090 Ti is similar to the GeForce RTX 3090 in many ways, but it does offer a 2.4% increase in CUDA Cores: from 10,496 to 10,752. That brings with it another two RT Cores and eight more Tensor Cores, for a slight increase in ray tracing and machine learning performance.
Instead you'll find the majority of the performance of this card comes from faster clock speeds. The RTX 3090 Ti runs at a base of 1,560MHz and will boost to 1,860MHz as standard. Chunkier third-party models, such as the Colorful iGame Neptune—a GPU with its own liquid cooling loop attached—will boost a further 45MHz.
We've been playing with the Asus TUF RTX 3090 Ti OC card, and that's rated, in OC Mode, to run at 1,950MHz. Though it's actually been running faster than that in our benchmarking—hitting an average of 1,990MHz in our 4K Metro Exodus torture test. And at 1080p the Asus card will run above the 2GHz mark on average.
The 24GB of GDDR6X memory on the RTX 3090 Ti will also run at 21Gbps, a step-up from the 19.5Gbps memory on the RTX 3090.
Though these speed boosts are thirsty work, and every RTX 3090 Ti model we've heard of from Colorful creeps up to a whopping 480W. Though models from other manufacturers may sit at 450W. That's a serious step-up from the RTX 3090 at 350W, and will commonly require an 850W PSU in order to run, though Asus is suggesting a 1,000W PSU as a recommended spec.
The higher-end OC models can crank up to
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