The Ada Lovelace RTX 4090 Owners Thread

mrk · 19 Jul 2023 at 21:27

gjbf1 said:
So no performance penalty?

See for yourself! I ran a quick Cyberpunk bench with frame gen turned off for maximum GPU taxing:

Path tracing bench, Ultra preset, Psycho SSR, Frame Gen off, DLSS Auto // 80% Power Limit

Path tracing bench, Ultra preset, Psycho SSR, Frame Gen off, DLSS Auto // 100% Power Limit

4fps, trivial

Still makes me lol seeing 80+ fps with path tracing, without even using Frame gen lol.

gjbf1 · 19 Jul 2023 at 21:30

mrk said:
See for yourself! I ran a quick Cyberpunk bench with frame gen turned off for maximum GPU taxing:

Path tracing bench, Ultra preset, Psycho SSR, Frame Gen off, DLSS Auto // 80% Power Limit

Path tracing bench, Ultra preset, Psycho SSR, Frame Gen off, DLSS Auto // 100% Power Limit

4fps, trivial

Still makes me lol seeing 80+ fps with path tracing, without even using Frame gen lol.

Very nice! And what fan speed? Do you hear it at all?

gjbf1 · 19 Jul 2023 at 21:31

JediFragger said:
Yup, my 4080 Trinity is mint and even overclocks well

JediFragger said:
Had the TUF the FE the Trinity (same cooler) and the Gigabyte Gaming OC and the Trinity is my fave

Thanks for the replies. Zotac is winning a reputation.

mrk · 19 Jul 2023 at 21:32

GPU fan speed? Shown right at the top, the last values are the fans rpm, ~1100rpm at all times when gaming using the quiet VBIOS mode. You cannot hear them when gaming. You can only hear them a bit when back on the desktop for a minute before they enter 0rpm mode after quitting out from a game :cool:

gjbf1 · 19 Jul 2023 at 21:36

mrk said:
GPU fan speed? Shown right at the top, the last values are the fans rpm, ~1100rpm at all times when gaming using the quiet VBIOS mode. You cannot hear them when gaming. You can only hear them a bit when back on the desktop for a minute before they enter 0rpm mode after quitting out from a game.\

Thanks. Do you game with headphones?

Hostile_18 · 19 Jul 2023 at 21:58

So you Zotac guys don't have this fan noise? Because Zotac claims its normal and nothing wrong. Lots of people in the comments saying the same with regards to the poor fans (along with two members here, albeit a while ago).

ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme (Fan Noise) AIRO

"Thank you for contacting ZOTAC Technical Support.We are not hearing anything unusual with the video that you have provided. This product was not advertised ...

www.youtube.com

mrk · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:02

Not sure if it's the video audio but I had to put my amp to -18dB to hear it properly, sounds like bearing noise? What model is your one? Mine doesn't sound like that, just ambient fan noises at bootup and then the quiet fan hum at 1100rpm when gaming or doing anything that is GPU intensive and they spin up for a bit.

gjbf1 said:
Thanks. Do you game with headphones?

Sometimes, but not always. More often gaming through the speakers.

Here's a quick video showing the noise (or lack there of lol) when running Cyberpunk, with speakers on and then speakers muted.

JediFragger · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:02

gjbf1 said:
Thanks for the replies. Zotac is winning a reputation.

@Raiden85 also loves his 4090 Airo and had the 3090 Strix before

JediFragger · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:03

Hostile_18 said:
So you Zotac guys don't have this fan noise? Because Zotac claims its normal and nothing wrong. Lots of people in the comments saying the same with regards to the poor fans (along with two members here, albeit a while ago).

ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme (Fan Noise) AIRO

"Thank you for contacting ZOTAC Technical Support.We are not hearing anything unusual with the video that you have provided. This product was not advertised ...

www.youtube.com

You still faffing around dude? Just ****ing order one and try it!!

gjbf1 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:05

The Zotac is looking increasingly tempting.

Hostile_18 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:07

Yeah it's not mine. I can't decide. Here is my deductions;

FE: Great looks, high fan noise (by 4090 standards).
Gig: No coil whine, only "ok" fans, looks like crap.
Asus: Great quality, great fans, High coil whine.
MSI: Great quality, great fans, Moderate coil whine, no vapour chamber (apart from Suprim, which is almost gone and super expensive in the UK now).
Zotac: No coil whine, poor fans.
PNY/Pallit: Cheap build quality... only "ok" fans.

So yeah lol!

mrk · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:08

I would discount that noisy fan noise video purely on the fact that the person has put the GPU sag bracket in the wrong place

Just get the Trinity (non OC model) like I did and be done with it lol.

Hostile_18 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:10

mrk said:
I would discount that noisy fan noise video purely on the fact that the person has put the GPU sag bracket in the wrong place

Honestly the Zotac seems so mixed with regards to its fans. Almost like there's variance between units.

Hostile_18 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:16

mrk said:
Not sure if it's the video audio but I had to put my amp to -18dB to hear it properly, sounds like bearing noise? What model is your one? Mine doesn't sound like that, just ambient fan noises at bootup and then the quiet fan hum at 1100rpm when gaming or doing anything that is GPU intensive and they spin up for a bit.

Sometimes, but not always. More often gaming through the speakers.

Here's a quick video showing the noise (or lack there of lol) when running Cyberpunk, with speakers on and then speakers muted.

Your unit seems substantially better. This is a dilemma lol.

Here's from a member here, posted a few months back.

Zotac RTX 4090, faulty fans or all like this?

I thought my fun was over with the 4090s after finding one with hardly any coil whine, but now I am unsure if the fans are faulty? Do all Zotac 4090s have su...

www.youtube.com

gjbf1 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:18

Hostile_18 said:
Yeah it's not mine. I can't decide. Here is my deductions;

FE: Great looks, high fan noise (by 4090 standards).
Gig: No coil whine, only "ok" fans, looks like crap.
Asus: Great quality, great fans, High coil whine.
MSI: Great quality, great fans, Moderate coil whine, no vapour chamber (apart from Suprim, which is almost gone and super expensive in the UK now).
Zotac: No coil whine, poor fans.
PNY/Pallit: Cheap build quality... only "ok" fans.

So yeah lol!

Is the FE noisy too?

Hostile_18 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:21

gjbf1 said:
Is the FE noisy too?

It's not what I would call noisy. But like the Gigabyte it is audible. The MSI and Asus are completely inaudible (unless artificially raised). I should know... I've had them all! lol.

gjbf1 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:28

Hostile_18 said:
It's not what I would call noisy. But like the Gigabyte it is audible. The MSI and Asus are completely inaudible (unless artificially raised). I should know... I've had them all! lol.

Which would you choose between the Zotac and FE?

Hostile_18 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:29

gjbf1 said:
Which would you choose between the Zotac and FE?

Given the cheapest I can find the Amp Extreme is +£160 I'd defo go with the FE. It will also hold the most value outside the Strix and Suprim.

Raiden85 · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:29

My Zotac 4090 Airo Extreme runs much quieter and cooler than my Strix 3090 did, plus it's such a unique design over the rectangles everyone else uses. Fans after months of use have been fine with no annoying buzzing/grinding noise at least for me even with the case 5ft from me, and no coil while is the icing on the cake after years of coil whining GPUs. Most games the fans rarely ever exceed 40% to 50% while the GPU sits at about 65c even while running at 99%/100% load doing path tracing. Using an Evolx X case so its quite a restrictive case for air and still manages to stay impressively cool.

Games like Destiny 2 running maxed out at a locked 4K 120fps, the GPU is only at 60% to 80% usage so the fans almost never exceed the base 30% and GPU temp sits between 53c to 60c most of the time while sucking down far less power than my Strix 3090 and being very silent in that game.

I'd have no issues buying this GPU again if I had a choice of all the brands in front of me.

mrk · 19 Jul 2023 at 22:31

Hostile_18 said:
Your unit seems substantially better. This is a dilemma lol.

Here's from a member here, posted a few months back.

Zotac RTX 4090, faulty fans or all like this?

I thought my fun was over with the 4090s after finding one with hardly any coil whine, but now I am unsure if the fans are faulty? Do all Zotac 4090s have su...

www.youtube.com

I would say fan noise for the GPU at this level is trivial really. You are gaming when the fans are on, and you can't hear them over the game whether on headphones or speakers, so it's a non-issue mostly anyway. The only time the fans are on during desktop use is if a GPU intensive workload passes by the GPU core and even then it's only on for about a minute before returning to 0rpm mode.

I think the best option to go for is the one with the least coil whine, as that is more noticeable and annoying since its resonant frequency is more audible for the ear than the bearing noise of these fans.

For me , compared to the 3080 Ti FE I had, even with an undervolt and power limit that thing was noisy and was audible over games, so to be able to get 60% more performance, with fans I can't hear in games and retain the same power draw is basically magic in my eyes lol.