[spott]

I was as well, until I saw the Linus Tech Tips review of it: the drivers are (were?) missing support for some Titan optimizations -- the Titan RTX significantly beat the 3090 for a few benchmarks.

If the card doesn't have these optimizations, I would expect that an actual 30 series Titan is coming at some point... But the marketing has been really confusing, so who the hell knows.

[nightski]

Not only that they gimped the tensor cores. While it has way more shading units it only has 60% of the tensor cores that the Titan RTX has. I'm not sure how much of a difference this makes in practice, but it leads me to believe this is not the titan level card.

[StrangeDoctor]

It’s typically problematic to compare cores across generations. They are pretty different in 30xx vs 20xx. Half as many but roughly twice as fast in most tasks.

[pbalau]

20xx had 2060 - low end, 2070 - mid, 2080 - high. The 3000 have 3070, 3080 and 3090. It looks to me that 3090 is the equivalent of 2080 (TI or super or what have you), not a step above (name wise).