EVGA has launched its lengthy teased (opens in new tab) RTX 3090 Ti Kingpin Hybrid Gaming graphics card. As when you wanted any reminding after seeing its $2,499 price ticket, this isn’t a card with mass market attraction. Maybe cautious that potential consumers will keel over in shock, EVGA is bundling a 1600W Supernova PSU with the cardboard.
The EVGA Kingpin RTX 3090 Ti is certainly a lust worthy card. Every part about it’s excessive. It comes with a 14-layer PCB that packs in 24 energy phases and twin 16 pin energy connectors. While you add 2x600W to the 75W from the PCIe connection, which means the cardboard has 1275W of obtainable energy supply. It encompasses a increase clock of 1950MHz and it comes with 24GB of 21Gbps GDDR6X reminiscence. It’s cooled with a blower fashion cooler joined by a 360mm AIO—therefore the hybrid designation.
Different key options embrace a 176×48 pixel OLED show, triple BIOS, and an fascinating tethering cable for stopping GPU sag. The OLED show is connected on to the cardboard and can be utilized to indicate varied GIFs, or extra importantly for overclockers, actual time monitoring details about the cardboard.
This isn’t a card that’s designed for the common gamer although. Its high-quality elements and massively overbuilt VRM are overkill for many players. It’s designed for overclocking, notably with liquid nitrogen. Even with out ln2, there needs to be some headroom due to the 360mm Asetek liquid cooler. Should you don’t plan to OC, there’s at all times the EVGA 3090 Ti FTW hybrid for $2,199, or commonplace air-cooled playing cards for beneath $1,999 that can carry out at nearly the identical degree because the Kingpin card.
There’s little doubt that the Kingpin 3090 Ti is a really fascinating card, however is it too late and/or too costly? The launch of subsequent era playing cards attracts nearer (opens in new tab), and spending $2,500 on a graphics card when it will likely be outdated comparatively quickly makes it a tricky promote. In fact, for these with deep pockets, it gained’t matter, and Kingpin consumers will in all probability look to purchase RTX 4090s on day one anyway, after which change them with 4090 Kingpins just a few months later! A minimum of you’ll be capable of reuse that ‘free’ 1600W PSU with them.
Playing cards just like the EVGA Kingpin aren’t actually designed to promote in excessive numbers. They’re advertising instruments. Heck, I’m right here writing about it! They’re right here to indicate off the engineering prowess of EVGA, take some world data and plant a seed into the minds of players that EVGA makes the perfect graphics playing cards. ‘Common’ and ‘3090 Ti’ do not belong in the identical sentence, but it surely’s not like a daily 3090 Ti (just like the Asus TUF that we reviewed) is sluggish!
There are a handful of comparable god-tier playing cards available on the market, but when I used to be requested to suggest the perfect graphics card available on the market, it’d be arduous to go previous this one. Its design and value premium make little sense, however worth for cash doesn’t matter if you’re speaking about the perfect. For mere mortals, there are extra worldly choices to select from (opens in new tab).
