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.
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.
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.
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).
