There’s only one week to go till Nvidia ends their Ultimate Countdown campaign within the run-up to the launch of their next-gen Nvidia Ampere playing cards, however it might seem that the highest graphics card of their new RTX 3000 household, the supposed RTX 3090, has already been snapped within the wild – and it’s positively monstrous as well.
The leaked photographs emerged on Twitter over the weekend from a cloud safety researcher referred to as @GarnetSunset, the place they handily included the present RTX 2080 for scale. And man alive, simply have a look at the scale of that factor. As the tweet beneath states, the RTX 3090 will doubtless be a triple-slot GPU somewhat than the standard two, though its obvious worth of $2000 was rapidly revised all the way down to (a nonetheless eye-watering) $1400 in a later tweet.
three slots. 2000$. pic.twitter.com/ZgKsPUQ1U4
— James (@GarnetSunset) August 21, 2020
As we’ve beforehand reported, it’s largely believed that the RTX 3090 will successfully be the brand new Titan-class GPU in Nvidia’s next-gen Ampere line-up, so in some respects, its huge measurement and equally huge worth aren’t that shocking. Indeed, Nvidia’s current RTX Titan card launched at an much more extortionate $2499 when it got here out in December 2018, so even the RTX 3090’s preliminary $2000 worth would have been thought-about an enchancment.
I imply, @GarnetSunset doesn’t precisely state the place they acquired their info, so it might all be a load of nonsense cooked as much as rile the bowels of the web. We gained’t know for certain till Nvidia’s September 1st GeForce event subsequent week, the place it’s largely anticipated Nvidia will reveal their full Ampere RTX 3000 line-up.
Pricing apart, the leaked footage do look as these they verify among the earlier rumours about Nvidia’s RTX 3000 playing cards, particularly its somewhat uncommon dual-sided fan design of its cooling shroud. While the leaked RTX 3090 above doesn’t have the identical fetching shade of blue because the beforehand leaked RTX 3080, it nonetheless has followers on the highest and backside of the graphics card, and an analogous array of cooling blades.
What the photographs don’t verify is the opposite long-standing hearsay about Nvidia’s RTX 3000 playing cards, and that’s whether or not they’ll require a brand new 12-pin energy connector. This has additionally been doing the rounds on-line for some time now, and can be fairly the ocean change from the present 8-pin connectors utilized in current-gen graphics playing cards.
Alas, it additionally appears to be like there’s some fact to this one, too, due to some new photographs which have emerged from PSU producer Seasonic. First reported by German web site HardwareLuxx, it appears to be like like Seasonic are at present making adapter kits that can flip current 8-pin connectors into a brand new 12-pin connector.
At the second, it’s not clear whether or not this new energy connection might be used on all Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics playing cards, together with third-party GPUs, or whether or not it is going to be a singular function of Nvidia’s Founders Edition playing cards. HardwareLuxx didn’t have any solutions for this, and we most likely gained’t discover out for certain till Nvidia’s massive GeForce occasion subsequent week.
Either means, the photographs definitely look fairly legit, so it might most likely be sensible to carry off constructing that new, next-gen PC you’ve received in thoughts till we all know for sure. After all, it wouldn’t do to purchase an costly energy provide just for it to be instantly defunct whenever you get it, though a minimum of adapter kits like this may assist to bridge the hole for these of us who don’t want an entire new PSU proper now.
With any luck, all might be confirmed on September 1st, so watch this area.
