This time around, we're getting 82 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM), making for a total of 10,496 CUDA cores, along with 328 Tensor cores and 82 RT Cores.Īt first glance, the small bump up from the 72 SMs on the Nvidia Turing-based Titan RTX seems like a minor improvement, but one of the most groundbreaking differences with the Ampere architecture is the ability for both datapaths on each SM being able to handle FP32 workloads. Just like its little sibling, the RTX 3080, the RTX 3090 is built on the Nvidia Ampere architecture, using the full-fat GA102 GPU. Outputs: 1 x HDMI 2.1, 3 x DisplayPort 1.4

Stream multiprocessors: 82 (128 CUDA per SM) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090: Features and chipset The GeForce name suggests that this graphics card is aimed at gamers, but the specs and pricing suggest that it's more geared towards prosumers that need raw rendering power, but aren't quite ready to jump into the Nvidia Quadro and Tesla worlds. Given the present market and the previous generation of professional-grade graphics cards, the RTX 3090 exists in kind of a middle ground. And while that card had comparable gaming performance to the RTX 3090 in some games, it fell behind in others and got absolutely crushed in creative workloads. The Gigabyte card in our AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT review, meanwhile, cost $1,299 (about £1,040 / AU$1,820). However, the card in our Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti review launched at $1,199 (£1,099, AU$1,899), which isn't that much cheaper than the RTX 3090. Compared to the Nvidia Titan RTX, it's a massive price cut, where that card cost an outrageous $2,499 (£2,399, AU$3,999) for similar, albeit last-generation, specs. It's hard to pin down whether this is a price increase or a price cut over the previous generation. However, this will be the first time Nvidia has opened up a Titan-level card up to third party graphics card manufacturers like MSI, Asus and Zotac, which means you can expect some versions of the RTX 3090 to be significantly more expensive. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is available right now, starting at $1,499 (£1,399, around AU$2,030) for Nvidia's own Founders Edition. The redesign of the PCB on the RTX 3090 requires a whole new 12-pin power connector.

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