ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 Ti TUF Gaming review

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Ive got the 6900XT version of this card and to be honest the cooler on the 3090Ti looks almost the same size, no idea if its noisy as put a block on it straight away.
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pegasus1:

Ive got the 6900XT version of this card and to be honest the cooler on the 3090Ti looks almost the same size, no idea if its noisy as put a block on it straight away.
me too i went with the phanteks block as it comes w/ backplate (and typical argb) for less than $200 with tax but this IS bigger just bc of VRMs/power rating, the heatsink may be the same but if so the one on our 6900xt was overkill
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tunejunky:

me too i went with the phanteks block as it comes w/ backplate (and typical argb) for less than $200 with tax
Same here, normally i go with EK blocks but for a reason i cant remember i went with Phantek.
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Can we just once again acknowledge the fantastic job ASUS has done with their cooling solutions on the RTX3000 series? It works so well, so well, bravo. The memory stays cool, GPU stays cool, even on their silent preset BIOS and it's well, quiet.
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don't agree with favorable comments about temperatures it's more like Apple they let them get hot EDIT : I meant they allow them to get hotter than older generations, which isn't "bad" they are doing the best job they can considering the crazy watts with my modded skyrim which is more hardcore than any retail game or even benchmarks/stress test, other than playing borderlands 3 maxed (above badass) that is with vsync off on a 3090 it goes to 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, if your ambient temp is relatively low try it you'll quickly feel a heatwave coming out of from your pc it's wild I get with 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
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kakiharaFRS:

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.
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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
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kakiharaFRS:

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.
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Hilbert Hagedoorn:

It's been boiling and baking for a while now inside NVIDIA's kitchen, a GeForce RTX 3090 'Ti'. The 3090 flagship series now gets even faster memory, more shaders, and a TGP passing 450 Watts. This... Review: ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 Ti TUF Gaming OC
Very interesting in that they are only doing a liquid cooled Strix version of the 3090 ti, and the TUF uses the same cooler as 3090 strix, just restyled, rather than the same cooler as the 3090 TUF.
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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%.
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Reddoguk:

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%.
Depends on your use case - at 8k many games are using 16-18 gb. Some even close to the full 24gb. https://i.imgur.com/UfrCeIm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nrcO3PE.jpg
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Undying:

Not that anyone plays at 8k but even at 4k most newer games are using 10-12gb vram with raytracing effects even more.
Well... clearly i do xD Several games are very playable at 8k, provided that you have sufficient vram 🙂 But yes, even at 4k, i do see games getting up there.
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Dragam1337:

Well... clearly i do xD Several games are very playable at 8k, provided that you have sufficient vram 🙂 But yes, even at 4k, i do see games getting up there.
Try Deathloop i've heard its a vram hog. 😀
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DCS at 4k was maxing out the VRAM of my 1080Ti, il have to see what it does to my 6900xt but it also loves system RAM, 32gb is deffo a requirement.
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pegasus1:

DCS at 4k was maxing out the VRAM of my 1080Ti, il have to see what it does to my 6900xt but it also loves system RAM, 32gb is deffo a requirement.
DCS ?
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DCS - Digital Combat Simulator World - mainly a militar flight simulator (one of the best i think), but not only...
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pegasus1:

(80) DCS WORLD | 2022 AND BEYOND - YouTube If you have the hardware, and the patience its an absorbing game, and as mentioned is becoming a lot more than just a flight sim.
do you have to know actual military systems or is it like COD that's more realistic? the photorealism looks amazing, i have the hardware to push it, i'm curious about the learning curve
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tunejunky:

do you have to know actual military systems or is it like COD that's more realistic? the photorealism looks amazing, i have the hardware to push it, i'm curious about the learning curve
The systems on the aircraft are as realistic as its possible to be, ie the F16 which is still in beta has most of the systems that the version does in real life (i think its a 2000 versions), Actual f16 pilots have said the recently released patch has made the physics around 5% away from the real thing, and yes its as complex as you want to make it. Some aircraft are harder to learn than others, some more difficult to actually take off, fly and land but the biggest thing is to make it worthwhile you need decent flight contols and Track IR or VR. No, its not like COD, like COD is not like actual warfare ha ha ha