New pictures have appeared on-line purporting to point out a prototype RTX 3090 Super graphics card (through Videocardz), and actually, I believe it is beautiful. I’m very a lot a fan of the design of Nvidia’s final two generations of Founders Version playing cards—although I do nonetheless discover the sheer scale of the RTX 3090, RTX 4090, and RTX 4080 completely ludicrous—however I believe I’d be much more down for this all-black design.
It is a world away from the unique Tremendous sequence of playing cards Nvidia launched for the RTX 20-series technology. These used the usual playing cards’ shroud, itself paying homage to a twin burner tenting range, after which added a mirror end and a inexperienced unfavourable area “tremendous” brand.
And I hated them. It wasn’t simply that they had been horrible to {photograph} for a assessment, however that mirror end simply made them look so damned cheesy.
If Nvidia had carried out the identical factor with the in any other case handsome RTX 30-series refresh I’d have been suitably unimpressed.
This is not the primary time we have seen snippets of the cancelled RTX 3090 Tremendous design, however that is completely one of the best look we have on the factor as an entire. And in my head I can not shake the comparability between Threepio and Triple-Zero from Star Wars in the case of the completely different Tremendous designs.
Ultimately, regardless of many rumours, Nvidia did not launch a Tremendous severe of refreshed RTX 30-series playing cards with speedier Ampere GPUs, as an alternative it opted to squeeze extra Ti playing cards into the vary. And so they all lined up behind the highest GPU on the town, the RTX 3090 Ti. Which was stupidly priced due to the chip scarcity and pandemic, and comparatively shortly outdated by Ada and the RTX 40-series.