Zotac RTX 3090 AMP Extreme Holo Review

1. Introduction2. Zotac RTX 3090 AMP Extreme Holo3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. 4K Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Memory Temperatures10. Acoustics11. Noise-Normalised Temperatures12. Power Consumption13. Overclocking14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

Driver Notes

• All Nvidia GPUs (except RTX 3080 Ti) were benchmarked with the 466.47 driver.
• RTX 3080 Ti was benchmarked with the 466.54 driver supplied to press.
• RTX 3070 Ti was benchmarked with the 466.61 driver supplied to press.
• All AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 21.5.2 driver.

Test System

We test using the a custom built system from PCSpecialist, based on Intel's Comet Lake-S platform. You can read more about it over HERE, and configure your own system from PCSpecialist HERE.

CPU	Intel Core i9-10900K Overclocked to 5.1GHz on all cores
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Wi-Fi
Memory	Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3600MHz (4 X 8GB) CL 18-22-22-42
Graphics Card	Varies
System Drive	500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2
Games Drive	2TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5″ SSD
Chassis	Fractal Meshify S2 Blackout Tempered Glass
CPU Cooler	Corsair H115i RGB Platinum Hydro Series
Power Supply	Corsair 1200W HX Series Modular 80 Plus Platinum
Operating System	Windows 10 21H1

As the AMP Extreme Holo features dual-BIOS, for all of our gaming benchmarks we used the default Amplify BIOS. For the thermal, noise and power testing, we tested both the Amplify and the Quiet BIOS, and these will be labelled on each chart accordingly.

Comparison Graphics Cards List

• ASUS RTX 3090 TUF Gaming 24GB
• Gigabyte RTX 3090 Eagle 24GB
• ASUS RTX 3080 TUF Gaming 10GB
• Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti FE 12GB
• Nvidia RTX 3070 FE 8GB
• Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE 8GB
• Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti FE 11GB
• AMD RX 6900 XT 16GB
• AMD RX 6800 XT 16GB
• AMD RX 6800 16GB
• AMD RX 6700 XT 12GB

Software and Games List

• 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
• 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
• 3DMark Raytracing Feature Test (DXR Synthetic)
• Assassin's Creed Valhalla (DX12)
• Control (DX12)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
• Days Gone (DX11)
• F1 2020 (DX12)
• Gears 5 (DX12)
• Hitman 3 (DX12)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)
• Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (DXR)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulkan)
• Resident Evil Village (DX12)
• Total War Saga: Troy (DX11)
• Watch Dogs: Legion (DX12)

We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values across our three runs.

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