NVIDIA users who have been waiting to pull the trigger on green team’s newest flagship graphics card might want to head over to Best Buy.
The retailer is currently selling the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition for $1,599.99. This is a $400 discount on the MSRP of the graphics card, which NVIDIA launched earlier this year for $1,999.99.
Availability of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at Best Buy will depend on location, as the graphics card is only available for pickup. Delivery doesn’t seem to be available.
None of the other GeForce RTX 30 Series Founders Edition models appear to be on sale, but Best Buy continues to be the only retailer that sells them based on the listings provided by NVIDIA’s own GeForce shop.
The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is a big ferocious GPU with TITAN class performance. Powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture—it doubles down on ray tracing and AI performance with enhanced Ray Tracing Cores, Tensor Cores and new streaming multiprocessors. Plus, it features a staggering 24GB of G6X memory, all to deliver the ultimate experience for gamers and creators.
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is the first GeForce graphics card to feature the new 12VHPWR power connector, which can deliver up to 600 watts of power. It features a 450-watt TDP, and manufacturers have recommended that the GPU be paired with power supplies rated 850 watts or higher.
The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has been described as the “fastest GeForce GPU for the most demanding creators and gamers.”
Source: Best Buy
(and if you believe that one...)
(*as long as crypto doesn't come roaring back before then)
It's always idiotic to buy a flagship card at the end of a generation. The only time they ever come close to making sense is if you buy them right at the start of the gen, as soon as they are launched. At least that way you can spread that insane price point out over several months to over a year of dominating performance, instead of having something faster and cheaper come along in only a couple of months.
Who cares about an Fe with you can get a liquid cooled factory OCd card for the same price. This a beast of a card and right now it comes with the NV Face Your Demons 4-game bundle.
I was psyched to see that the Hybrid 3090 Ti I just ordered is only ~788mm in length and 2 slots wide since it's going into a mid-size case that's more suited for ATX. I'm not sure how one would work for an ITX but coming from a HAF I'm pretty excited.
It will be all of those things... on paper.
It will be a few months before mere mortals can get their hands on them. It only took, what, almost 2 years for the 3000 series to finally get to the point where a regular non-bot, non-miner willing to pay 2x, non-influencer given a review copy, non-lucky person who happened to get hot through a queue or drop was able to get their hands on them at anything near the original announced pricing.
Now, I admit, that was something of a perfect storm. But Pascal was very similar. So was Maxwell, iirc. Turing wasn't as bad, but Turing also didn't have nearly as large of gain numbers on initial launch - just really brought RTX/DLSS stuff, and rasterizing wasn't hugely improved (that, and Pascal was just a really good product with some longevity).
I believe that we all have seen that usually, the current gen flagship is replaced by one tier below in the next-gen, not two or three down. Maybe NV will offer some kind of price-corrected near top-tier card but then how is that going to affect the rest of the stack? Are they in a position to drop all the prices down as inflation and other supply chain-related issues persist and if so will bots still be used to scalp them? If bots do make a return will NV step up with its purchasing process to prevent them? Like I said earlier, there are still a ton of what-ifs regarding the next releases.
I remembered pre-launch how the 3070 was essentially being marketed as a cheaper 2080 Ti, but I don't actually recall if it even got close to the 2080 Ti's performance. Honestly all I remember from this past generation is how the pandemic, miners, and scalpers/bots took all the supply, and how prices were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay the f*ck above MSRP. That's probably all I'm ever gonna remember this generation for. I'm hoping things go very differently with the next generation of graphics cards.
$400 is a lot closer to a more appropriate price for an X070-class card though.