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

As for the Palit RTX 3090 Ti GameRock OC, this also ships in a white box, with the GameRock logo emblazoned on the front – I always get a blast of nostalgia for Guitar Hero whenever I see this font…

On the back, Palit highlights different features of the cooler and design of the card.

As for the accessories, Palit includes a quick start guide and, oddly, a calendar, along with a support bracket (that just needs assembling) and an RGB extension cable. We also find another power adaptor for the PCIe Gen5 plug.

Looking at the card itself, we can see the same overall design as the RTX 3090 GameRock OC that we reviewed last year. That means we have easily the most ‘blinged-out' shroud design I have ever seen, with almost the entirety of the shroud acting as a big RGB LED diffuser – be sure to watch our video review to see this in action.

We can also note three 90mm fans used to cool the heatsink, while the parts of the shroud which aren't emitting RGB lighting are made of a grey metal.

Palit has also upscaled its design however to deal with the extra heat of the GPU – the GameRock OC measures 314 x 137 x 65 mm, and weighs in just under 1.9KG on my scales. It's not quite as large as the Suprim X, but it's not exactly Mini-ITX friendly…

The GeForce RTX and GameRock logos are visible on the top side of the card, and also on the full-length metal backplate, which features several large cutouts at the far end. Palit also includes a dual-BIOS switch right next to the I/O bracket, with a choice between the P (performance) and S (silent) BIOS. The former has a 460W power target, while the latter has a 450W target.

We get another look at the new PCIe Gen5 power connector that Palit uses here, though do remember an adaptor is included. Display outputs are also standard, with 3x DisplayPort 1.4 and 1x HDMI 2.1.

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