With the caveat that my PC case’s side panel was off, thanks to the displaced CPU cooler, core temperatures maxed out at 70°c, which is actually a very healthy level. 450W for a single component! And it had better be a relatively high-end PSU with extra cables, as it needs three PCIe eight-pin connectors to slot into the included power adapter, not the usual one or two.Īt least in the AMP Extreme Holo’s case, some excesses have been curbed. It even out-chugs the RTX 3090, for which Nvidia recommends a 750W PSU to fuel its 350W rated power usage: the RTX 3090 Ti instead wants an 850W PSU, and is rated at 450W. The RTX 3090 Ti’s power demands are steep, too. Never has checking one’s GPU clearances been so important. The Founders Edition isn’t too excessive – it apparently measures the same as the RTX 3090 Founders Edition, 313mm – but this Zotac card I’ve got is an immense 356mm long, enough that I had to detach my test rig’s CPU cooler radiator and fans before it would fit in the NZXT H510 case.Īnd it’s not just Zotac: Gigabyte, MSI, and Asus all make RTX 3090 Ti variants that exceed 320mm in length. After trying to find the money for it, this may prove to be your second problem with ever owning an RTX 3090 Ti: a lot of models are so long that they’ll struggle to fit inside a lot of conventional mid-tower cases. It’s fast, basically, and here Zotac have made sure all those bunched-up cores don’t get too toasty with a massive triple-fan cooler. Both cards come with 24GB of GDDR6X memory, far too much for any PC game to need, but the RTX 3090 Ti claims a slightly faster memory clock of 21Gbps to its junior’s 20Gbps. That's 256 more than the RTX 3090, which also has a lower stock boost clock of 1695MHz. This model overclocks the GPU’s already sky-high boost clock speed to 1890MHz, and because this uses a completely unrestrained version of Nvidia’s GA102 processor, it can take advantage of all 10,753 cores. That £1879 starting price gets you Nvidia’s own Founders Edition ( $2000 in the States), and the customised Zotac GeForce RTX 3090 Ti AMP Extreme Holo that I’ve been testing is just a snip more at £1899 / $2084. I’ll say this for the RTX 3090 Ti, though: it’s not hard to find in stock, even if you can probably guess why. Boost Clock Speed: 1890MHz (as tested, stock is 1860MHz).While I am a sucker for go-faster gear, the RTX 3090 Ti is just too far of a stretch, with its sometimes imperceptible performance differences to the £13 and a tendency towards impractically gigantic partner card models. “Tell evvvvvvveryone these frame rates are totally worth £1879.”īut I can’t. “Recommend meeeee” it whispers, coasting through another maximum settings benchmark. What better characterisation for the latest tippity-top-of-the-line GPU from Nvidia, who’ve already produced the best graphics card for 4K in the RTX 3080? But rather than be overwhelmed by its power, I personally feel more like the RTX 3090 Ti is trying to trick, tempt and seduce me, Old Testament-style. You could fairly think of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti as a big, stump-necked brute of a graphics card.
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