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Nvidia RTX 3090 vs RTX 2080 Ti: A titan to challenge the king

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The Nvidia RTX 3090 may not have Titan in the name, but it performs like one to put the RTX 2080 Ti in its place.
The Nvidia RTX 3090 is the new performance king. Until we see Super or Ti variants, it’s the best that Team Green is offering, and it’s not throwing a Titan label on it to classify it outside of the mainstream. So, while Nvidia seems to want to claim that this flagship-level graphics card isn’t a follow-up to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, that’s still effectively what it is – it’s just more expensive. And while we probably won’t see any Black Friday deals around the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 (or even the RTX 2080 Ti), there will likely be a lot of buzz around this top-end graphics card throughout the holiday season. So, we thought it would be a good idea to see how it stands up against its Turing predecessor, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Unlike the rest of the Nvidia Ampere cards, the RTX 3090 actually costs more than the RTX 2080 Ti. The RTX 3090 costs $1,499 (£1,399, around AU$2,030), whereas the RTX 2080 Ti launched at $1,199 (£1,099, AU$1,899). Neither card is exactly priced where it should be, though. High demand for Nvidia’s new Ampere graphics cards have made it hard to find them for sale at their retail prices, and a quick look around the market shows the RTX 2080 Ti still selling for more than its retail price in many cases. So, while the RTX 2080 Ti should be cheaper than the RTX 3090, it’s uncertain when or if you’ll be able to find either appropriately priced. In any case where the RTX 2080 Ti costs more than the RTX 3090, we’d say to go with the 3090. The RTX 3090 doesn’t leave much hope for the RTX 2080 Ti when it comes to specs. The new card features 10,496 CUDA cores compared to the older card’s 4,352 CUDA cores. That’s more than double, and still stands out even when considering the new design sees its cores split between FP32 (Floating Point 32)-dedicated cores and cores that can tackle either FP32 or INT32 (Integer 32) operations.

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