Nvidia’s Long-Awaited RTX 3090 Ti Gets Release Date and Price

After announcing the card at CES 2022 and remaining silent in the weeks following, Nvidia has finally shared pricing and release date information for its new flagship graphics card, the RTX 3090 Ti, which is available starting today.

Designed to be the new flagship in the RTX 30 series, the RTX 3090 Ti features 24Gb of 21Gbps GDDR6X memory. Like the RTX 3090 announced a few years ago, Nvidia touts its new high-end GPU as a capable graphics card for gaming in 8K resolution. It claims that the RTX 3090 Ti will let you play, capture, and watch games in 8K HDR with DLSS Ultra performance mode enabled. It will also support HDMI 2.1.

The RTX 3090 Ti includes 10,752 CUDA cores, 78 RT-TFLOPs, 40 Shader-TFLOPS, 320 Tensor TFLOPs, and like other graphics cards that belong in the RTX 30 series, it uses Ampere architecture. In other words, it supports real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing, Nvidia’s supersampling tech DLSS, and a suite of additional RTX applications created by the GPU maker.

Performance-wise, Nvidia claims that the RTX 3090 Ti will deliver a “top-of-the-line” performance for people looking to have a powerful rig. The RTX 3090 Ti will reportedly run 64% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti, and 52% faster than the Titan RTX. If we compare it to the company’s previous flagship, Nvidia claims that the RTX 3090 Ti is faster than its non-Ti variant by nine percent.

The Founder’s Edition of the RTX 3090 Ti will retail for $1,999, but depending on the OEM you purchase from, you will most likely be paying more as the price of Nvidia GPUs has been marked up from their debut price. However, it appears GPU pricing is starting to calm down. Asus announced yesterday that it would be marking down the costs of its graphics card SKUs by up to 25%. MSI announced pricing for its RTX 3090 Ti SKUs, with its three SKUs ranging in price from $1,999.99 up to $2,199.99.

Although Nvidia says sales of the RTX 3090 Ti, the company warned that the GPU availability will be impacted due to “the latest COVID surge and shutdowns in China,” though the company anticipates that supply will improve throughout the next month.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

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