NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is long overdue in all its glory and it looks like one crazy graphics card. Leaked out by twitter user @GarnetSunset, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 will offer the flagship in the Ampere gaming graphics card lineup and has a massive cooling design.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Flagship Amper gaming graphics card pictured in all its glory
The leak shows NVFIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 sitting right next to the GeForce RTX 2080. Just look at the map, the GeForce RTX 3090 looks insanely enormous and supports a triple slot form factor. This leak not only confirms the previous leaky heatsinks and cooling coil, but also confirms several reports that had stated that NVIDIA is going all out with its Founders Edition design on the higher end of Ampere GPU-based graphics cards such as the GeForce RTX 3090.
Looking at the map itself, the GeForce RTX 3090 seems to be the first reference graphics card to come in such a massive shape and size. It is a triple-slot behemoth with dual axial-tech fans placed at the front and rear in a push-and-pull configuration. The front of the card appears to have the exposed heatsink blocks with several fins placed on top of the PCB. There’s the aluminum bar that helps reinforce the reinforcement and even has a small NVIDIA logo on the metal frame.
The back of the card has a back plate with a matte black color and the same aluminum beam that reinforces the casing. Since the card also has GDDR6X memory on the back, as seen on a custom PCB, it makes sense to include a fan on the back to keep the thermals on both sides under control.
The name of the card is blurry and from its point of view the card is still in an early test phase given the marking ‘Config 1’ on the PCIe slot. The design of the Founders Edition is also expected with more than 20 power chokes, giving it a more premium design than the flagship of the RTX 20 series cards.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 leak coolers have a 2-slot design and a smaller design footprint than the 3-slot GeForce RTX 3090 flagship.
For comparison, the sleek NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition a few months back said a standard 2-slot design, so the 3-slot design seems to be exclusive to the GeForce RTX 3090.
The leaker also mentioned a price tag of $ 1400 US for the Founders Edition graphics card that is close to the rumors we heard last week. Earlier rumors had it that the price of the RTX 3090 would start at $ 1399 US, while the Founders Edition would cost an additional $ 100 US for $ 1499 US. This remains to be confirmed, but both sides would make the card a bit more expensive than the RTX 2080 Ti, based purely on the rumors.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 – The Fastest Ampere Graphics Card
According to leaked details, the GeForce RTX 3090 will have the GA102-300-A1 GPU. The GA102-300-A1 GPU is said to consist of 5248 CUDA cores and 82 SMs. Overall, this is a 20% increase in cores over the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. No details like clock speed, TMU / ROP counts are provided and we can not take the Ampere A100 die as a reference because gaming and HPC parts share a different configuration hierarchy.
Going to the memory side, things start to look interesting, as it is said that the card will get up to 24 GB of memory with faster GDDR6X pin speeds. Since that is a 384-bit bus that we are looking at, it will be able to offer almost 1 TB / s bandwidth.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 ‘Ampere’ Gaming Graphics Card Setup is expected to be announced on September 1 at a digital event hosted by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. We expect at least three new graphics cards during the event that will include the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (as RTX 3090), GeForce RTX 3080, and a next-generation Titan. There’s definitely a lot more to talk about on the Ampere GPUs, but we’ll have to wait until more information comes our way.
