ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 Ti TUF Gaming review

Posted on: 03/31/2022 04:56 PM

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don't agree with favorable comments about temperatures it's more like Apple they let them get hot

my modded skyrim which is more hardcore than any retail game or even benchmarks/stress test, other than playing borderlands 3 maxed maybe (above badass) with vsync off thats 200-350fps fyi which will hit the gpu power limit nonstop, not saying I play like this (I have vsync on) just saying it's a real test for the cooling unlike benchmarks

on an "obsolete" 380w limited 3090 I get fan speeds up to 2300rpm which is audible for 91°C gpu hotspot and 87°C gpu memory for I don't remember but something like 83°C gpu "temp"
that's hot very hot and man do the heat exiting the case proves it versus watercooled, the card used the "silent" bios
yesterday I tried to push the fans to the max with msi afterburner o_O omg an awful noise at 3000+rpm it sounds like the fans are going to dislodge from the card it's unbearable
can't wait for a waterblock on that one

nothing against Hilbert but when I see guru3d temps be it for the cpu or gpu we clearly don't stress test the cooling the same way
my way is more like a worst case scenario but for those who don't know back in the SLI days my psu exploded destroyed one of the gpus and parts of the motherboard so now I overdo cooling and power supplies, because it would be a very expensive mistake

personnally I do cinebench+kombustor at the same time, I saw afterwards that Linus does cinebench + furmark which is pretty much the same..if you want to see the real max power consumption and heat possible in your custom loop this will burn an air cooled PC don't even try it's like a virtual 150% cpu usage if you don't have a 1000+ psu also don't try as I easily hit 840w with a 5950x or 12900k +380w max gpu and when I had an oc 3960x threadripper I was at like 1100watts@socket
this is why I went from 1 to 2 to 3 rads in 2020 ^^ and replaced the 850w psu for a 1200w

I don't know about your ambient temperatures where you live, but here in South-Africa, we get blazing hot days, 34-40 Degrees Celcius, my ASUS RTX3070Ti TUF never got hotter than 75 Degree Celcius on the GPU and 87 on the memory, remember, this is GDDR6X memory, they get toasty. Before that I owned a Palit 3070Ti, suffice to say, 83 on the GPU, thermal throttled blah blah, the memory got to 105 Degrees Celcius and the thing broke after a heatwave.

All I can say is, not every manufacturer did a great job, but ASUS did something fantastic with their TUF lineup, heck it even overclocks itself to 1995Mhz on its own, the FAN curve has room to spare of 35% on the quiet BIOS, which I use, I for the funzies maxed out my fans, the GPU does not get hotter than 69 and the mem temp stays at 83, fantastic results and though it's audibly louder, it's not that much louder, the fan noise itself, is also not unpleasant to the ears, as you get fans with different acoustics and some of them can be annoying, even if they have a low dBA.

This was tested with Cyberpunk 2077 with everything on Ultra and RTX on, everything Ultra, with DLSS ofc.

Posted on: 03/31/2022 05:09 PM

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ouch :/ yeah no I have like 22°C currently (no aircon but a rainy day in winter and temps are going down to 0°C saturday) but I know what 38-48°C are like because that's what I had when I tried hardcore quality 4K encoding on the threadripper for 9h straight with cpu and gpu maxed lol
fun fact I drive "WRC Africa style" when I go on a race track with my car, heater on max to exhaust heat from the engine block, I've had 50-60°C inside on the nordschleife..it's rough >< and no I'm not opening the windows I don't have a rollcage (anymore)

hmmm my bad I didn't want to say they did a bad job, I'm saying the card aren't loud because they let them go hotter than previous gens if they had a same quality cooler which they often didn't
also I'm judging cooling with extreme cases you do not encounter unless you make them happen not regular gameplay especially not low fps gameplay I have no complaints playing raytraced 120fps forza5 or in 4K 60fps on my tv

Posted on: 03/31/2022 05:17 PM

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ouch :/ yeah no I have like 22°C currently (no aircon but a rainy day) but I know what 38-48°C are like because that's what I had when I tried hardcore quality 4K encoding on the threadripper for 9h straight with cpu and gpu maxed lol

hmmm my bad I didn't want to say they did a bad job, I'm saying the card aren't loud because they let them go hotter than previous gens if they had a same quality cooler which they often don't

Oh, I am not bashing you or anything, heck, you could have had a dud for all I know, there are many factors to consider, not just ambient temps, what case, what fans, orientations, push-pull configurations etc. I was just curious why you had such a bad experience. When I game, I game, so when I played Cyberpunk, I am talking 12 hours continuously easily, my temps remained magnificent.

I run an AMD 5900X with a Corsair 280 Capelix radiator within a Corsair 4000 Chassis with this ASUS RTX307Ti TUF, it's all a very tight fit but I configured my CPU radiator to exhaust from the top, the rear chassis fan also exhausts and the 3x fans in the front pull fresh air inside the case, it makes for a magnificent slipstream of cool air in and hot air out.

Anyways, best of luck with your GPU, just make sure nothing is loose, these coolers are so big and heavy, and not all of them come with support brackets, I read some places that peoples coolers tear away from their components and that is why they get such high temps. I am going to buy a support bracket for mine at the end of this month. I don't want any surprises, this thing has to last me a long time for the price I had to pay for it, at least 2 more generations.

Posted on: 03/31/2022 05:58 PM

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Posted on: 04/01/2022 12:46 AM

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Having 24gb of Vram is wasteful atm but i'm still hoping that it'll get used better in future game titles.

I think the most i've seen yet is about 12-13gbs of gpu memory used but most games use less than 10gb.

I'm unsure how it works but does it still use all the Vram chips or only half of them.

Say i'm gaming and my gpu memory usage is 12gb so half the 24gb is that all the chips running @ 50% or half the chips running @ 100%?

I doubt anyone here even knows the answer to this question. Maybe ManuelG knows how the Vram is used.

I wish it was the latter in other words all the chips are used @ 50% in this scenario and not the other scenario where only 50% of the chips are used @ 100%.