I imagine plenty are waiting for the 3080Ti, however demand will be enormous I expect. That said given it will use the 3090 chip anyways, and we can see said 3090 being readily available, I do not expect the stock situation to be awful, but demand will make it seem so. Whole cycle has worked well for Nvidia to be honest, those who could not wait for the 3080Ti paid for the 3090. Same cores once they slow down selling in 3090 go into a 3080Ti rather then the cheaper 3080 which will make less margins for Nvidia. You can bet plenty at that point given backlogs of 3080 will jump ship to wait for a 3080Ti.
Indeed. The 3090 is already a near fully complete GA102 core. It has 10496 vs max of 10752. so a 2% difference. We have seen how the performance scales between 3080 and 3090 with a 21% core delta, so a 2% core delta will do nothing. More so given the 3090 is already at the limit with the TMU and ROP count.
You'll be waiting alright. Just like we are waiting for our 3080's... I can't see the 3090ti being anything other than a paper launch. On a more serious note, I heard somewhere the 3090 we have now is pushing the silicon as hard as its likely to go so for a 3090ti to be a thing, TSMC is the way to go and they are clogged up to in production of AMD / Sony & Microsoft chips as far as I understand.
Indeed. The 3090 is already a near fully complete GA102 core. It has 10496 vs max of 10752. so a 2% difference. We have seen how the performance scales between 3080 and 3090 with a 21% core delta, so a 2% core delta will do nothing. More so given the 3090 is already at the limit with the TMU and ROP count.