GIGABYTE Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 ATX Video Card GV-N309TGAMING-24GD

Pros: – Card works – Still works after 6 Month… long term TBD. – Great performance increase from my 1080 – Runs games 4K at decent frame rates Cons: – Thermal throttles during gaming – Pay for a 3090 and get 3080 performance due to thermal throttling of Memory – Probably will fail shortly out of warranty due to excessive heat resulting in shorter component life like Caps. (90-105C memory) Overall Review: Was lucky to get a this card during lunch so i cant complain of having a graphics card during these times. It does run games at 4K at decent frame rates. Compared to last gens cards this is a great improvement and makes games look and run great on my widescreen. However the card thermal throttles during gaming. Thermal throttling is due to excessive temperature of Memory not the GPU and probably due to poor choice in thermal pads on the Memory chips. GPU temps are ok (normal displayed by games and temperature programs) but using program like HWinFo64 etc to display Memory temperature one finds temperatures consistently at over 90C and often in the 95-105C during gaming. They could have sent 10$ more per card to use decent pads and this card would be great. I would not recommend this card. You can take the chance and spend an additional 60-100$ and a few hours to upgrade thermal pads or go with someone else. I got a 3080 TI from EVGA with no thermal issues that outperform this 3090 before replacing thermal pads. Used to have all Gigabyte components but this 3090 experience had me very disappointed to the point where I decided to write a review and consider looking at other manufactures going forward first.

Overall Review: This card was sold as new but was far from it. It had no seals. There was hair strands inside the box. Odd for a new card.

Pros: No RGB Cons: 4 slots Overall Review: Upgrade from 2080 ti and Ill wait for the 5090 ti

Pros: Can run any app and does it below 68°c Cons: None so far Overall Review: Would recommend to anyone who doesn’t mind the price tag.

Pros: No fanfare: No lighting and all black constructions looks like it means business Great performance: runs my games at Ultrawide 3440 x 1440 100hz + older titles (e.g. Witcher 3) upscaled to 5160 x 2160 easily Noise: Despite its size, it’s actually much quieter than expected and maintains good component temps Cons: Heat: While the card maintains good temps, there is considerable heat generated. Adequate ventilation is a must Power Draw: My average power draw during use hovers around 430 watts Value: We all know this is a meme SKU Overall Review: This card is certainly amazing. It’s an enormous product around 2.5 inches in width and 13 inches in length. It just manages to fit in my ancient Corsair 300r case and takes up 3.5 slots. I play games on a 3440 x 1440 ultrawide monitor at 100 hz. It easily achieves the 100 hz threshold on most games. More graphically intense games with ray tracing run great especially in conjunction with DLSS enabled. I can even upscale classically taxing older games like Witcher 3 to 5160 x 2160 and hit the same threshold no problem. Most importantly for my needs, 1% low dips are nearly imperceptible in every game I’ve played, which has been a novel experience for me. As stated, the cons include the heat and power draw. This thing sloughs off heat like crazy. You need to have adequate ventilation to move the heat through your system. Power draw also reads around 430w average for me. Power spikes have also been reported, and while NVidia recommends an 850w PSU, I went with a 1000w one for good measure. All in all this card has checked all the boxes for me. Big and beefy.