Zotac RTX 3090 Image Credit: Unbxtech
Zotac has released their own version of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and a listing for it has appeared on B&H which gives us the first idea of pricing of the aftermarket graphic cards. The B&H listing shows the Zotac GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity listed for $1,499. This is the exact same price as the Founder Edition GeForce RTX 3090 directly from Nvidia.
The Trinity series serves as Zotac’s mid-range and entry-level lineup for the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, and RTX 3070. Zotac has released three different variants for their aftermarket RTX 3000 series cards. They are the AMP Extreme, the Trinity, and Twin Edge series. The Twin Edge looks to simply be a two-fan version while the Trinity looks to be the Triple fan version.
The pricing of the AIB and founder edition cards look to be the same as each other. With Pascal, Nvidia stopped making reference models altogether and replaced them with more customized models called the Founders Edition. Nvidia launched these cards with higher clock speeds versus reference, and a heftier price tag competitive to that of higher trim aftermarket cards. However, with Ampere, we have yet to see an aftermarket card below the founder’s edition pricing, which was usually the case with previous generations.
NVIDIA revealed the RTX 3090 as the flagship card of the 3000 series. The RTX 3090 has a whopping 10496 CUDA Cores and 24 GB GDDR6X VRAM. The card has a boost clock of up to 1.7 GHz and has a bus bandwidth of 384-bit which allows data rate of 19.5 Gbps. The RTX 3090 consists of the GA102 GPU chip which is the fastest chip that NVIDIA has produced. The Card is based on a custom Samsung 8nm process and comes with Nvidia’s second-generation Ray Tracing cores and third-generation Tensor cores.
Both the Founder Editions and Zotac’s Trinity version is set to release in the second half of September.
