Rumor mill: Is the long-awaited arrival of the RTX 3090 Ti only a few weeks away? The newest rumor concerning the card that Nvidia nonetheless hasn’t talked about since CES 2022 claims it’ll arrive on March 29. The similar poster additionally says that the RTX 3070 Ti 16GB has been canceled.
Nvidia confirmed the long-rumored RTX 3090 Ti throughout its CES keynote firstly of January. Senior VP Jeff Fisher introduced some particulars, promising that extra could be revealed earlier than the month was out.
But February arrived with none phrase on the upcoming flagship. Nvidia did ultimately give a press release concerning the state of affairs: a affirmation that it had no data to share and could be in contact when it did.
We’d beforehand heard that the RTX 3090 Ti would launch on March 1, primarily based on an inventory for one of many playing cards from Asus. But it appears that evidently was only a placeholder. The newest rumor comes from the Chiphell boards (by way of Videocardz), claiming the official launch date is March 29.
The causes for the RTX 3090 Ti’s delay—it was reportedly speculated to arrive on January 27—are believed to be over {hardware}/BIOS points. The Chiphell poster says it’s been associated to the 24GB of GDDR6X reminiscence working at 21Gb/s, and resulted in the complete reminiscence being changed to handle the issue.
The similar poster additionally claims that the RTX 3070 Ti 16GB, which we’ve been listening to about since every week after Nvidia revealed the Ampere line in 2020, has been formally killed off by the corporate. We noticed the identical rumor again in October 2020, so it does seem to be that card has been consigned to the unreleased-products graveyard.
If the RTX 3090 Ti rumor does show true, it’ll be one other enhance for a graphics card market that’s seeing indicators of restoration. Prices and availability in Germany are at their greatest ranges because the begin of 2021, our personal analysis exhibits enhancements for brand new and used playing cards, and extra GPUs are stated to be on their approach.
