Monday, February 14th 2022
NVIDIA Provides a Statement on MIA RTX 3090 Ti GPUs
NVIDIA's RTX 3090 Ti graphics card could very well be a Spartan from 343 Industries' Halo, in that it too is missing in action. Originally announced at CES 2022 for a January 27th release, the new halo product for the RTX 30-series family even had some of its specifications announced in a livestream. However, the due date has come and gone for more than half a month, and NVIDIA still hadn't said anything about the why and the how of it - or when should gamers hoping to snag the best NVIDIA graphics card of this generation ready their F5 keys (and bank accounts). Until now - in a statement to The Verge, NVIDIA spokesperson Jen Andersson said that "We don't currently have more info to share on the RTX 3090 Ti, but we'll be in touch when we do". Disappointed? So are we.
While the reasons surrounding the RTX 3090 Ti's delayed launch still aren't clear - and with NVIDIA's response, we're left wondering if they ever will be - there were some warning signs that not all the grass was green on the RTX 3090 Ti's launch. The consensus seems to be that NVIDIA found some last-minute production issues with the RTX 3090 Ti, which prompted an emergency delay on the cards' launch. The purported problems range from issues with the card's PCB, BIOS, and even GDDR6X 21 Gbps memory modules - but it's unclear which of these (or perhaps which combination) truly prompted the very real delay on the product launch.
Source:
The Verge
While the reasons surrounding the RTX 3090 Ti's delayed launch still aren't clear - and with NVIDIA's response, we're left wondering if they ever will be - there were some warning signs that not all the grass was green on the RTX 3090 Ti's launch. The consensus seems to be that NVIDIA found some last-minute production issues with the RTX 3090 Ti, which prompted an emergency delay on the cards' launch. The purported problems range from issues with the card's PCB, BIOS, and even GDDR6X 21 Gbps memory modules - but it's unclear which of these (or perhaps which combination) truly prompted the very real delay on the product launch.
31 Comments on NVIDIA Provides a Statement on MIA RTX 3090 Ti GPUs
From my perspective as a 3090 owner - and well aware of its issues and shortcomings - is this really surprising to anyone? TGP is too high. Everything is too high, and taken too far. Memory density has doubled so they could halve the amount of devices used, and the G6X controller on GA102 itself already came at pretty much its maximum as it was - 3090's 21Gbps memory shipped at 19.5Gbps to give end users an illusion that it could overclock, yet even the cards with excellent controllers (mine would count, probably) die off at exactly that 21 Gbps or thereabouts mark and begin showing very heavy signs that they are past their limit (the v/f curve shoots to the moon and it begins erroring out heavily).
Add extra power consumption that arises from the extra 2 SMs enabled and the jacked up clock speeds plus NVIDIA's hilariously bad automated power management system, this Ti card is a disaster. It will take a lot of adjustments, extreme binning and I would honestly not be surprised if this model ends up cancelled altogether.
... I'll see myself out.
I have a friend that owns a Strix OC 3090, he bought it about a month after I bought my TUF OC (that was on launch day), his card has a 105 watt higher power limit compared to mine (375 W vs. 480 W), and his card has pretty much always shown signs of instability and getting _very_ moody when running at the 450W+ mark or thereabouts, and that is because he runs a 1600 T2, next to which even my 1300 G2 is a low end PSU. It just isn't feasible, imo, to run these on aircooling or even ambient-temperature water at such high wattage ranges. They become unpredictable fast and even though some people might be able to get a stable system, I doubt they would pass the strict validation for 24/7 operation that the install-and-forget setting that NV goes for requires.
I just wish BIOS editors for these boards were released. I hate NVIDIA's GPU boost mechanism, it's a blight and it can never beat a human operator... the workaround for setting the boost target so low that it pretty much always operates in the highest bin is not really optimal, IMO.
That's a statement, No comment, we might later. Wtaf.
C'mon guys, is this wccftech now?
Instead, they're CROATOAN'ing that card.
I'm not sour - I just miss the days when <75 W meant entry-level, 75-200 W mid-range and >200 W enthusiast-class. I guess, it's still true in one sense, just model numbers have shifted towards x50-60 still being mid-range, everything above enthusiast-class, and entry-level completely disappeared. It's even sadder to look at it from here.
Please make the card run cooler and draw less power please, so that 3rd party doesn't have to mount triple slot coolers
But I believe they waiting until 6950 will be released...