NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Graphics Card

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I bought this for a young ML Engineer on our team and he loves it :) He is right now training an deep network powering an entity matcher for an entity resolution model. He finds it performs very well for representation learning and for fine tuning representations for supervised learning tasks. He can use more layers and parameters and more costly hyperparameters. Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital (UK) PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Financial Services Register no. 704348. The register can be accessed through http://www.fca.org.uk It’s so powerful that it’s taken the place of two of the best graphics cards of the previous generation, the Nvidia Titan RTX and the RTX 2080 Ti. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 has filled their shoes admirably.

The games we selected for testing are there to push the GPU to its limits, so we can compare the performance delta between different graphics cards. They provide easily repeatable benchmark scripts, so we can be sure the exact same workload is applied to each graphics card. You'll need an adapter to get power to the 12-pin connector on the RTX 3090, but fortunately it comes with the card. (Image credit: Future)However, we have to talk about power consumption. At its peak during our testing, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 consumed a maximum of 357 Watts. That's a lot of juice, especially if you're pairing it with a powerful processor. Nvidia recommends a minimum power supply of 750W, but we would go further and just recommend a full 1,000W PSU with this card, just to be sure you don't run into any random shutdowns if your power supply isn't running at peak efficiency. While there are going to be some elite gamers out there who are going to buy this card more for status than performance, this is much more of a creative professional's graphics card. As such, it does for professional workloads what the RTX 3080 does for 4K gaming at a compelling price (relatively), making this the best graphics card for creative professionals. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 requires a minimum power supply of 750W with 2x PCIe 8-pin connectors, but we would recommend choosing a 1000W PSU for any overheads. What games can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 run?

This comes with a sizable 3-5% performance loss, but otherwise provides a good glimpse at what 8K gaming performance looks like. As you may be able to discern from the charts above, the RTX 3090 doesn't provide the straight 8K 60 fps experience in the most demanding games on PC. But like most things, it's complicated.It should be noted that the NVENC encoder is the same here as on the RTX 2080 Ti, which means performance doesn't change much generation-to-generation. However, now that this encoder is supported in Adobe Premiere, nearly the entire video production workflow is now accelerated by the GPU, which makes a dedicated GPU incredibly beneficial to video editors. Encoding a video using the NVENC encoder, rather than through software cuts the time in half – even when we're using the 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 3950X paired with 64GB of RAM running at 3,600MHz. In games like World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth and Destiny 2, we were able to get a steady 60-70 fps at this extremely high resolution, but with quality settings at high, rather than having all the eye candy turned on. This isn't as big a loss as it sounds, as the 24GB of VRAM is enough so that we didn't have to turn down textures. Just like its little sibling, the RTX 3080, the RTX 3090 is built on the Nvidia Ampere architecture, using the full-fat GA102 GPU. This time around, we're getting 82 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM), making for a total of 10,496 CUDA cores, along with 328 Tensor cores and 82 RT Cores. The basic design of the RTX 3090 is similar to other Nvidia Ampere cards, only this card is much bigger. (Image credit: Future) As we mentioned in our RTX 3080 review, both the Tensor cores and RT cores that Nvidia has made such a huge deal of these past couple graphics card generations see big improvements, too. Namely, throughput of RT cores has doubled with the second-generation ones present on RTX 3000 series cards.