NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Graphics Card

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It's strange to give the RTX 3090 credit for its value proposition, given that its such an expensive card, but considering that this is much more of a prosumer/professional card, this is downright cheap for a workstation-class GPU. The RTX 3090 is an expensive graphics card, without question, so if it is just a little bit too expensive for your wallet to bear this time around, give the RTX 3080 Ti a look. It has comparable specs and performance, with a more accessible price. When it comes to gaming performance, we're going to just come out and say it – the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is just 10-20% faster than the RTX 3080 at more than double the price. That increase in performance, if all you're looking for is a gaming card, is absolutely not worth it, and that's ok.

These Tensor Cores do more than just power DLSS, however. They're also the technology that enables Nvidia Broadcast, which is by far one of the most underrated features released for this generation. The RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is 8K / UHD compatible. HDMI 2.1 makes it possible for 8K resolution to be displayed via a single cable. What’s more, you can also capture up to 8K HDR footage with GeForce Experience ShadowPlay. What PSU does the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti require? However, we have to talk about power consumption. At its peak during our testing, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 consumed a maximum of 357 Watts. That's a lot of juice, especially if you're pairing it with a powerful processor. Nvidia recommends a minimum power supply of 750W, but we would go further and just recommend a full 1,000W PSU with this card, just to be sure you don't run into any random shutdowns if your power supply isn't running at peak efficiency. Given the present market and the previous generation of professional-grade graphics cards, the RTX 3090 exists in kind of a middle ground. The GeForce name suggests that this graphics card is aimed at gamers, but the specs and pricing suggest that it's more geared towards prosumers that need raw rendering power, but aren't quite ready to jump into the Nvidia Quadro and Tesla worlds.From playable 8K gaming to absolutely jaw-dropping performance in creative workloads, the RTX 3090 can do just about anything with best-in-class performance.

If what you're looking to do is dive into the wonderful world of 4K gaming, then honestly the RTX 3090 might be overkill, especially for the price. The RTX 3080 gets 4K@60fps pretty easily and consistently for about half the price of the RTX 3090, so if you're just looking to game, you can save yourself some real money by dropping down just a bit to the next lowest tier. Up to 4k 12-bit HDR at 240Hz with DP1.4a+DSC. Up to 8k 12-bit HDR at 60Hz with DP 1.4a+DSC or HDMI2.1+DSC. With dual DP1.4a+DSC, up to 8K HDR at 120Hz

This comes with a sizable 3-5% performance loss, but otherwise provides a good glimpse at what 8K gaming performance looks like. As you may be able to discern from the charts above, the RTX 3090 doesn't provide the straight 8K 60 fps experience in the most demanding games on PC. But like most things, it's complicated. NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 cards are fully capable of delivering high framerate 4K resolutions. Will an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 fit in my case? But you can bet your bottom dollar that we threw this graphics card into our personal machine and tried it across a wide spectrum of PC games, both at 4K and 8K DSR to see how it performs. Where the RTX 3090 really shines, however, is in 3D Rendering and encoding, making it hugely compelling to creative professionals that need this level of performance without investing thousands of dollars in a Quadro or Tesla card. Just like its little sibling, the RTX 3080, the RTX 3090 is built on the Nvidia Ampere architecture, using the full-fat GA102 GPU. This time around, we're getting 82 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM), making for a total of 10,496 CUDA cores, along with 328 Tensor cores and 82 RT Cores.

It’s so powerful that it’s taken the place of two of the best graphics cards of the previous generation, the Nvidia Titan RTX and the RTX 2080 Ti. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 has filled their shoes admirably. While there are going to be some elite gamers out there who are going to buy this card more for status than performance, this is much more of a creative professional's graphics card. As such, it does for professional workloads what the RTX 3080 does for 4K gaming at a compelling price (relatively), making this the best graphics card for creative professionals.

The RTX 3090 is an impressively huge graphics card, thanks in large part to its incredible cooling solution that keeps this powerful GPU running at a safe temperature, but that does mean that a lot of cases won't be able to fit it.

Just like the RTX 3080, the Founders Edition of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is hands-down the best cooler design Team Green has ever shipped itself. While this is an absolutely massive graphics card – the thing is 12.3 inches long, is a 3-slot card, and weighs, well a lot. Look, we don't have a scale, and Nvidia doesn't list the weight, but it's easily more than 7 lb.

Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital (UK) PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Financial Services Register no. 704348. The register can be accessed through http://www.fca.org.uk The RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is 4K / UHD compatible and is ideal for gaming with high FPS at 4K resolutions and beyond. Is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 8K compatible? The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 requires a minimum power supply of 750W with 2x PCIe 8-pin connectors, but we would recommend choosing a 1000W PSU for any overheads. What games can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 run? A Founder’s Edition RTX 3090 requires a minimum space of 313mm x 138mm (L x W) and will occupy 3 PCIe slots. What PSU do I need for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?