Wed Sep 30, 2020 12:08 pm
I hope this wouldn't be considered necro-posting, but just as an aside from an RTX 3090 with only a few hours into testing so far, I can say some things with confidence now. First off, the PNY 3090 XLR8 version I have is the VCG309024TFXPPB version, not the plainer looking one. However, both cards, according to PNY are perfect reference cards exactly to Nvidia's reference card spec. Considering it's PNY, the makers of Quadro and Titan, reference perfection only makes sense from them.
It is not a factory overclocked card at all, not only is the PCB reference, so are the clock speeds and pretty much everything else. Which, in itself is a great thing as I'm not going to overclock it or mod it or anything, gonna run it as is out of the box. And on that note, with a good amount of gaming and synthetic benchmarking have shown pretty consistent temperatures in the 75C range with AC on and windows closed, but edged up to 80C with my air conditioning off and windows open, but that was under heavy heavy load for awhile. It did get a noticeable sound to the fans when temps hit that, but not any worse than my previous Gigabyte Aorus 1080 Ti, about the same in fact.
Clock speeds as measured by GPUz are averaging in the mid-1900's, though some apps incorrectly have reported up to 2100mhz, but GPUz logging showed 1995mhz when that happened, so was a false reading by the benchmark itself. Performance is AMAZING overall. I won't throw out the raw numbers as they are not super exciting in comparison to reviews of 3090 due to my CPU being an i7 7700K and a slight amount of bottlenecking is happening, but is exactly where it was expected to be and that generally puts it at double what my 1080 Ti could manage as an average, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, but approximately double overall.
Older games and benchmarks show less improvement, newer ones do tend to show more.
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