Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti leaked pricing suggests a wallet-damaging GPU

Date:
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:15:42 +0000

Description:
If spilled prices from some European retailers turn out to be in the right ballpark, this could be one seriously expensive GPU.

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Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti pricing has leaked from some European retailers, and it seems the new flagship graphics card could perhaps take a chunkier bite out
of your wallet than you might expect compared to the vanilla RTX 3090 (although then again, you may well have prepared yourself for the worst anyway, if you were mulling buying this new top-end Ampere offering).

As VideoCardz reports, purported prices have been spilled from at least two Swiss retailers and a German outlet (or at least the site is in German), and converted pricing (from Swiss Francs or Euros) gives a range of price tags from about $3,500 (around 2,560, or AU$4,860) to $4,500 (around 3,290, or AU$6,240).

Admittedly, two of the four prices mentioned all of which are for MSIs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X, except in one case, where its MSIs Gaming X
Trio model are at the lower end of the scale, but clearly these are going to be costly cards if these retailers are correct.

Naturally, we must be very cautious around any pre-release pricing, because often these tags can be mere placeholders, or to put it another way, guesswork, really. Certainly in the past such leaked figures have turned out to be wrong, but that said, even if errant, they can still be a useful ballpark figure.

Rather than try to rely on generally shaky currency conversions, VideoCardz also observes that in the case of the German site, an RTX 3090 (from Zotac)
is listed for comparative pricing, and the 3090 Ti from MSI (Gaming X Trio)
is 31% more expensive. That could be a more telling comparison, but again, exercise a great deal of caution around all of this. Analysis: The specter of thin supply and price inflation looms again

We didnt really expect anything but a weighty asking price for the RTX 3090 Ti, of course, and its a fair guess that supply-wise, retailers likely arent going to be getting a large number of them what with Nvidias ongoing inventory and production woes that arent expected to resolve until the second half of this year so retailers will be looking to maximize profits on the stock they do receive. (Also, remember the most recent 3090 Ti news we heard, about purported production snags which may delay the arrival of the Ampere
GPU its expected, or was expected, to pitch up at the end of January).

If a price jump in the order of 30% does come to pass for the 3090 Ti
bearing in mind the caveats weve already underlined above the performance increase the card provides at these dizziest heights of GPU pricing isnt likely to add up. Particularly when as one VideoCardz reader points out in
the comments, for around the same money (in US dollars) you can buy an Alienware gaming PC with not just an RTX 3090, but a Core-i9 11900KF CPU and all the other trimmings (including 32GB of system RAM).

Such is the world of graphics card pricing we live in today, but that said, there will still be PC enthusiasts out there willing to pay whatever it takes to get the top dog Ampere card, no doubt. Find the best Nvidia GPU for you



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