Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3090 Ti Xtreme Waterforce Review

1. Introduction2. Aorus RTX 3090 Ti Xtreme Waterforce3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Memory Temperatures10. Acoustics11. Noise-Normalised Temperatures12. Power Draw13. Overclocking14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

We measure system-wide power draw from the wall while running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

Total system power draw is very high, approaching 700W. This is still slightly below the MSI Suprim X, but for any RTX 3090 Ti you are going to want a very solid PSU.

We also use Nvidia PCAT to measure power draw of the graphics card only, with readings from both the PCIe slot and the PCIe power cables combined into a single figure. This provides us with significantly more accurate data to work with as it is measuring only the GPU power, and not total system power which is a fundamentally imprecise measurement.

As for graphics card-only power draw, the Xtreme Waterforce has a 480W power target and it is pretty much bang on with that figure when testing in Cyberpunk 2077, so interestingly it is actually slightly more efficient than the MSI Suprim X.

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