If you were hoping to learn more about Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti graphics card, it looks like you’ll have to wait.
Nvidia was supposed to release more details about the desktop gaming GPU in late January. But with February just hours away, the company has yet to drop any new information, such as pricing or a launch date.
Nvidia hasn’t responded to a request for comment, but VideoCardz reports that the company had to delay the RTX 3090 Ti over BIOS and hardware issues. TweakTown also cites an industry source that claimed Nvidia told its GPU partner vendors to pause production on the RTX 3090 Ti.
The RTX 3090 Ti is expected to be Nvidia’s most powerful gaming desktop GPU to date. So far, the company has only said the card will contain 24GB of Nvidia's new "G6" memory type that promises to be the fastest ever.
But ironically, the RTX 3090 Ti is failing to excite most gamers. That’s because the ongoing chip shortage has made it nearly impossible to purchase the company’s other RTX 3000 graphics card at a reasonable price.
The RTX 3090 Ti will also do nothing to address the GPU shortage since the card will almost certainly cost $2,000 or more — far above the budget of a normal consumer. Instead, the GPU may be an attractive purchase for cryptocurrency miners, who’ve already been buying up Nvidia graphics cards to mine Ethereum. Hence, the RTX 3090 Ti may end up underscoring everything wrong with today’s market for gaming GPUs.