Nvidia has revealed the release of its latest GPU, and the fastest GeForce graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. It’s also being dubbed the BFGPU.
Unlike the last time the “BF” prefix was added to an Nvidia-related product as a cheeky nod to Doom, this time it’s officially the short form for “Big Ferocious” GPU. Right.
The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has 10,752 CUDA cores, 78 RT-TFLOPs, 40 Shader-TFLOPs and 320 Tensor-TFLOPs. A lot of teraflops. It also has 24GB of VRAM- that’s four times more video memory than your humble RTX 2060- and makes use of GDDR6X memory.
Nvidia claims the RTX 3090 Ti is 60% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti before it, and 55% faster than the previous overly-powerful and overly-expensive GPU, the Titan RTX.
What all this power translates to is the ability to run games at 4K with ray-tracing on, or push up to 8K at 60Hz refresh rate by using Nvidia DLSS to supersample it to that ridiculous resolution.
Nvidia also is angling this GPU to other creators (not just gamers). The GPU can be utilised in extensive research for data science and AI, or used in the creative industry for making models or working with super high-resolution textures.
Given this is a top-of-the-line graphics card, expect to pay a lot of good cash to get your hands on one. The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is now available and priced starting at $1,999 USD, and we’ve seen local pricing for Malaysia for this card by OEMs starting at RM9,699.