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The Ampere RTX 3090 Owners Thread
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Soldato
i bought one
Impressive for a card only launched 3 hours ago. Where from as OCUK havent even listed them yet.
It's been 7 months since some of us got our cards, how we finding it so far? Did many of you keep it or side grade to a 6900xt? Sell or buy something cheaper?
I'm still in shock at how much they fetch on the secondhand market compared to a few months ago...
I'm still in shock at how much they fetch on the secondhand market compared to a few months ago...
Soldato
Glad I went with the 3090 in the end. Looking at new prices now they make the £1575 i paid for the Asus Strix 3090OC seem like a bargain,.
However I regret selling my two watercooled 2080ti for £550 each. they seem like a steal now and I would have been able to get more for them now.
I've had mine since January, after giving up getting a 3080 and noticing the 3090FE's were actually available for several hours.
I was very lucky that I had a bonus from work, so I could afford it, but even then I really had to consider very carefully about getting one (especially after posting on this forum that I thought they weren't worth the extra over a 3080 for most uses, and that I'd wait for a 3080ti!)
As each day passes I'm more and more glad I took the decision to get one. Supply has got worse, not better, and prices are rising exponentially. Not having to jump on every stock alert is much better for my nerves! Also the 3080ti was delayed, and it looks like it too will be unavailable and probably scalped for more than I paid for my 3090.
And of course the increase in performance over my 1080ti is incredible. The 3090FE is such a beast and it's very well built (apart from the RAM cooling, which isn't much of an issue unless you're mining).
Soldato
Other than just "buying the best", what tasks do you guys find that genuinely required a card better than the 3080? What do you do that justifies your purchase of the 3090?
I am assuming super high textures or crazy res that would have just beat on lesser cards, or some application that benefitted.
I am assuming super high textures or crazy res that would have just beat on lesser cards, or some application that benefitted.
Soldato
Well for starters, availability lol!
Soldato
Lol...well there is that
I was hoping for owners happy stories. A lot of times people get salty about others spending money on high ticket items because they might not be the best value, so hearing some feedback for others on why owners are genuinely happy with the 3090 would be really cool.
That's the biggie!
The second is VRAM, which is more of an issue with PC VR games that are getting more and more demanding. Modded Skyrim VR uses > 11gb on my 3090. The slight increase in speed also helps to ensure a consistent framerate which is more important in VR, as jittery framerates can make you feel ill.
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Have had my 3090 Strix OC since the middle of December and have not regretted it for even a second. I came from running 2x 2080 Ti FE cards in SLI so I wanted the fastest single GPU available plus selling the older cards offset the ridiculous price a bit so i didn't mind spending £1700 and considering what a card like that now costs at the moment it makes a seem cheap, though I wished I sold them a bit later as I let one go for £400 as I could have doubled that now
. I only game at 4k with everything maxed out apart from AA unless it's a an older game and even then the 3090 in in games like AC Vallhala just about manage to get by with 60+fps but can dip below that so a 3080 would be worse. And when you start running ray tracing which I love even the 3090 can struggle to hit 60fps at 4k.
Plus the extra VRAM is nice to have even though 24GB is ridiculously overkill, after owing 1080 Ti's and 2080 Ti's with 11GB there was no way after 4yrs at that capacity was I downgrading my VRAM when it's now that games are going to want more VRAM especially now that the new consoles are here with their high capacities.
Have had my 3090 Strix OC since the middle of December and have not regretted it for even a second. I came from running 2x 2080 Ti FE cards in SLI so I wanted the fastest single GPU available plus selling the older cards offset the ridiculous price a bit so i didn't mind spending £1700 and considering what a card like that now costs at the moment it makes a seem cheap, though I wished I sold them a bit later as I let one go for £400 as I could have doubled that now
I only game at 4k with everything maxed out apart from AA unless it's a an older game and even then the 3090 in in games like AC Vallhala just about manage to get by with 60+fps but can dip below that so a 3080 would be worse. And when you start running ray tracing which I love even the 3090 can struggle to hit 60fps at 4k.
Plus the extra VRAM is nice to have even though 24GB is ridiculously overkill, after owing 1080 Ti's and 2080 Ti's with 11GB there was no way after 4yrs at that capacity was I downgrading my VRAM when it's now that games are going to want more VRAM especially now that the new consoles are here with their high capacities.
Wow a rare person who had SLi 2x 2080 Ti. I had 1080Ti in SLi but one card died and the other is also dying (random crash every now and then). I think its the VRAM that has overheated as it was running on a custom loop. How is the performance from 1080ti to the 3090? Current 3090 prices are telling me not to buy them sadly.
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The jump from a single 2080 Ti to 3090 was extremely noticeable so going from a 1080 Ti will be a massive jump at high resolutions. Just going by this video the 3090 is getting very close to double the 1080 Ti performance without the SLI drawbacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIuei6zWcIk
Decided to drop SLI just before Nvidia announced their lack of support going forward at least for gaming after running it on every Ti card since the 780 Ti, so that was perfect timing. Never had an issue personally but the lack of support in the last few years and the insane price of new cards is now just not worth it. Kept using SLI for a long time as the games I enjoyed did support SLI and at 4K I needed it to hit 60fps+ but now that a single high end card in those older games can hit 60+ at 4K with ease two cards really has no place now unless your benching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIuei6zWcIk
Decided to drop SLI just before Nvidia announced their lack of support going forward at least for gaming after running it on every Ti card since the 780 Ti, so that was perfect timing. Never had an issue personally but the lack of support in the last few years and the insane price of new cards is now just not worth it. Kept using SLI for a long time as the games I enjoyed did support SLI and at 4K I needed it to hit 60fps+ but now that a single high end card in those older games can hit 60+ at 4K with ease two cards really has no place now unless your benching.
Soldato
i just wanted it for something new and there was nothing else out there glad I got my 3090. i play games at 4k everything max.
Looking for some advice. I was lucky enough to pick up a 3090 FE last week from Nvidia. It's a thing of beauty, runs quiet, no coil while to speak of, seems to be able to overclock reasonably well (+220 core and +1300 mem can do a Timespy benchmark) BUT the GeForce RTX logo leds don't light up (top ones do).
I've tried reseating, using iCue, putting in other PCIE slot etc but it just won't light up.
Should I return for a new or leave it? I'm not that fussed about the actual look but for a £1400 card you obviously want it perfect.
Best on Timespy so far is 21,123 (gpu score) with a stock 5600x in an old NZXT case. Geekbench 5 OpenCL around 222072 with max power but no overclock.
I've tried reseating, using iCue, putting in other PCIE slot etc but it just won't light up.
Should I return for a new or leave it? I'm not that fussed about the actual look but for a £1400 card you obviously want it perfect.
Best on Timespy so far is 21,123 (gpu score) with a stock 5600x in an old NZXT case. Geekbench 5 OpenCL around 222072 with max power but no overclock.
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I think quite a few of us bought a 3090 just because of availability - me included. If the 3080 had been available with more ram than my outgoing 1080ti I did have been happy with that