Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti Review ft. MSI & Palit

1. Introduction2. MSI RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X3. Palit RTX 3090 Ti GameRock OC4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing7. Assassin's Creed Valhalla8. Cyberpunk 20779. Dying Light 210. F1 202111. Far Cry 612. Forza Horizon 513. God of War14. Horizon Zero Dawn15. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy16. Red Dead Redemption 217. Resident Evil Village18. Total War: Warhammer III19. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)20. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207721. Ray Tracing: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition22. Ray Tracing: Resident Evil: Village23. MSI Suprim X vs Palit GameRock OC24. Clock Speed25. GPU Temperatures26. Memory Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Noise-Normalised Temperatures29. Power Draw: 1080p30. Power Draw: 1440p31. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)32. Performance per Watt: 1080p33. Performance per Watt: 1440p34. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)35. Total System Power Draw36. Overclocking37. Closing Thoughts38. View All Pages

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled. A reading under load comes from running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

As for noise levels, one consequence of the 3090 Ti being such a high power GPU is that all of the cards we tested were audible under load. Some were quieter than other, with MSI's Silent BIOS delivering the lowest noise levels, but at 38dBa it was still audible to my ear. It's still not loud of course, but you may just have to adjust your expectations – to cool over 450W of power is going to require higher fan speeds than if this were just a 350W GPU, for instance.

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