The xx90 isn’t made for gaming.
Before the 30 series, everyone knew RTX Titan was not a gaming card, but rather for compute/professional work.
Nvidia rebranded their Titan cards as 3090/4090 and people lap that up for some reason.
Before the 30 series, everyone knew RTX Titan was not a gaming card, but rather for compute/professional work.
Nvidia rebranded their Titan cards as 3090/4090 and people lap that up for some reason.
Two reasons people are gobbling these really expensive cards:
* Inventory constraints of the 3xxx series pushed people to buy any available card and it just so happens the 3090 was there waiting for them as the only available card (or within parts bundles).
* Streamers normalize overpriced setups. It used to be cool to be thrifty with pc builds, now its just all about "performance" as games become less and less optimized on launch.
It was literally double the price of a 3080, but was at most 20% faster, and usually only 10-15% faster.
nVidia's claim that "It's for 4K gaming!" was marketing bullshit. With a such a small performance premium over the 3080, I'd argue that if a 3080 can't handle a game in 4K, the 3090 probably can't either.
The "1%" who have unlimited budget for consumer purchases like this, are millions of people.