nVidia is straight up trolling consumers with the RTX 3090 Ti
Extra performance, power consumption, cost and timing are all so bad they just beg the question “why?”
There will always be people claiming that “in a free market where there’s demand, there should be a product or service to meet it” but… does it actually work that way in the real world, regardless of circumstances or other factors that can and should be taken into account? nVidia is now seemingly challenging PC owners to think about that with its latest graphics card, the RTX 3090 Ti: a product so extreme, so pointless, that the company’s decision of launching it at all is called into question. Otherwise, most of us will come to the conclusion that nVidia is just… trolling us?
The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is “the complete version” of the previous flagship nVidia graphics card, the RTX 3090, meaning that all its processing cores are active (10752 vs 10496) while its base clock, boost clock and memory clock are all higher. It sports the same amount of VRAM (24GB) at the same memory bandwidth (384-bit), as well as the same number and type of ports. It goes for $1999 — that is the official RRP, obviously — which is a price point no other consumer graphics card had ever hit at launch… up until now. No, do not comment on the current situation regarding…
