Nvidia's recently announced GeForce RTX 3090 will not hit store shelves for another two weeks. One in particular caught our eye: a promotional video from EVGA highlighting the upcoming GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 with iCX3 technology, which uses Precision X1 software to overclock the card to 2,105 MHz (just over 2.1 GHz). 2,105MHz (just over 2.1GHz) using Precision X1 software.

Nvidia's reference blueprints for the 3090 show a base clock of 1.4 GHz and a boost clock of 1.7 GHz, so running at 2.1 GHz is an attractive OC. In fact, the 3090 is the lowest clocked model (so far) in the GeForce RTX 30 series, with a boost clock of 1.71 GHz for the 3080 and 1.73 GHz for the 3070.

As in the CPU world, generally the higher the number of cores, the slower the clock speed, at least at the top end. In this case, the 3090 has 10,496 CUDA cores compared to the 3080's 8,704 CUDA cores and the 3070's 5,888 CUDA cores.

The 3090 is essentially this generation's RTX Titan, priced at $1,499, and Nvidia has now kicked the Titan brand to the curb (for now, anyway), opening its top shelf to AIB instead of keeping the SKU to itself. But to be fair, that feels like a bit of an afterthought, given that the RTX 2080 Ti was effectively a 20-series Ultra-Enthusiast Titan-class card.

Oddly enough, the screenshot in the video below shows a 500 MHz jump, but by my calculations it is a 410 MHz leap from 1,695 MHz to 2,105 MHz. Regardless, it is odd that EVGA would highlight a particular frequency if the shipping product also fails to achieve that speed.

Twitter user CyberPunkCat spotted a fascinating overclock at the 1:28 minute mark of EVGA's video. Here it is:

This is no guarantee that EVGA's upcoming 3090 will achieve this speed; it is possible that there was a miscommunication between EVGA's engineers and marketing department, or that this is purely a demonstration It is also possible that this is a mock-up image. Time will tell.

However, EVGA is not alone in suggesting aggressive overclocking; as Nordic Hardware pointed out, Zotac posted a screenshot of a 3080 overclocked to 1,933 MHz in their Firestorm software, fan speed is increased by 40%. In other words, Nvidia's AIB appears to be aggressive on at least some custom models.