A recent listing found on ZOTAC’s Firestorm overclocking software has led to speculation of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Igor Wallosek has reached out to other board partners regarding this leak and believes that the listing is likely a placeholder or joke, as it shares the same specs as the much more expensive NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000. Such a card would invalidate any desire for professionals to purchase the cheaper Quadro RTX A5000. None of the board partners he contacted had any information about a possible GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, either.
The leak represents a full GA102 configuration like the Quadro RTX A6000 with 48 GB GDDR6X, which would be possible per se as a chip, but would still be unlikely. In addition, there is the utopian memory expansion, which is also unrealistic (and probably cannot be cooled) due to the non-existent 2 GB modules of the GDDR6X memory. The card would also contradict NVIDIA‘s own strategy to push a more affordable version of the RTX 3090 into the professional sector with the Quadro RTX A5000. You will hardly cannibalize yourself upwards.
Source: Igor’s Lab