You mean power as in actual wattage?
I guess it comes with it’s own power generator…? 
They already partially stopped production on the 20x line so that retailers can move stock at a higher price this refresh cycle. So that’s why the 20x prices are still freakishly high. GPU prices in the last 3 years have gone completely off the rails and I hate it. I’ll just stick to AMD as it’s the most performance for the lowest price.
Very Cool Design ,Putting all those fins around the circuit board to try to keep cool air moving around it. Clever 
We taking bets on how many peeps crack their monos mounting this massive beast?
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Chances are if your dropping 1500 on a video card, you’ve probably got a higher end mobo with the metal reinforced GPU slot.
If it really is a concrete brick, hopefully they include a support for it.
Yes, TDP is what i actually meant.
Me too, if they manage to produce a card that fits my performace/watt requirements. I only play at 1080p, so i don’t need the latest and greatest, but my 970 is starting to show it’s age (especially in the VRAM department). Still, i don’t want to cram anything that takes more than 150 Watts into my build.
it’s a huge monster!!!
i doubt they would make a card so different from the standard, half the buyers could not have space to fit it! Imho could be a fake!
Yeah…I don’t even think a 3000 series will fit in my slim MSI Trident case. Makes the decision to stick with the 2080ti easier… 
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[Nevermind. I think “mono” was intended mobo .]. Yeah it’s massive. This is not a hobby for the faint-hearted. Much, much cheaper to buy every new Xbox and PS that comes out. I have the money but we are approaching soul-sucking territory if this is going to be how wvery upgrade cycle is going to look.
I need the heating in the winter…
Haha ya mobo. Phone autocorrect.
I don’t know. Throwing double the VRAM in a board double the size and making eveything better cooled by a triple decker heatsink… Seems hardly the technological leap they are advertising… I mean feels like we waited for an year for a Bigger, hotter, better and more expensive version of the same. They already threw the RTX cores feature in the last lineup, how are they going to get away with it this year? Curious to see those benchmarks, but also curious to see what AMD will bring to the table…
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Official info release is on the 1st, so we should be able to stop speculating soon.
The high end gear will always bring a premium price. But if the low-mid tier can surpass the 8gb mark, it should be more game changing than the 24gb monster. Would really put 4k gaming and VR in the reach of the masses.
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You probably do.
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This statement makes me miss my old AMD Bulldozer FX. It surely was 1 to 2 degrees warmer in the room due to that thing.
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Why does that V-Card remind me of the Burger King Tripple Bacon and Cheese burger? You know you cant eat it but you like the thought of getting one.
Im with @PaulRix 1000% here.
In my PC 2080ti is good. DCS is optimizing the grafix enough for a great VR experience. On PC number 2, my TV on my (Now Old) 1080 (NON Ti) kicks butt! I even play Space Pirate and Beat Sabre in VR with this old card. I play MSFS 2020 on High with my 1080.
For the price and hardware demands of the 3090Ti I want the reviews to say things like “I was transported through space and time into the pit of my favorite plane. It smelled like avgas and looked like I was really there” Ok, maybe not but how about “DCS all sliders to the right in VR looked like 2k” Then I might pull the trigger.
We all dream of the Corvette. Then you get to the race track and realize that you will have Waaay more fun with the Go Cart and saved a Bunch of money too.
Cheers.
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Yeah well, a 1080 and your 2080ti are both nice machines, but my 1070 is really showing its age. It never was above bare minimum for VR. Come hell or high water, this fall it’s getting upgraded.
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IDK, I feel like my 1070 has been (surprisingly) workable, even in VR. DCS and BoX are both playable in VR, with decent settings. 4k gaming is doable at mid settings too. MSFS was the first time it feels my entire rig has truly been tested, outside the occasional AI-heavy DCS mission.
I’ll wait and see what the 3 series cards bring, but I’m debating holding on to the 1070 another cycle, and upgrading Ram/Mobo/CPU first.
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Given that performance generally moves up a slot each generation, the 2070 should be about the same performance as a 1080/Ti, with the addition of raytracing.
Don’t expect to see a used previous gen model for the same price (or more) as a current gen one step down.
In other words, a 1080 should be cheaper than a 2070 or people would just buy a 2070.
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