NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card - Titanium and Black

First, I need to give props to Best Buy: Thank you for keeping these at MSRP price, we truly appreciate this as GAMERS. Secondly, this is perhaps the most exciting GPU for me in the last couple of years I have been building gaming RIGS. Can't say I have ever camped outside a Best Buy the night before for ANYTHING! Not even for a Black Friday sale! But for this BFG, my only viable option was to camp the night before an inventory drop as paying 100% over MSRP is just plain ridiculous. On games: I play Call of Duty and Battlefield at 1440p, on 35 inch ultra-wide screens. This card is off the charts on performance, FPS and gaming experience. I've never experienced this performance before. Truthfully, you can experience great gaming on a 3080 or 3080 TI too, however, that would be boring and with this, you get an extra 5-10% on performance. EVERYTHING is just SMOOTHER, CLEANER, NO DRAMA in my opinion and experience so far. Pros: - 1440p gaming is smooth - 170+ FPS - 24 GB memory (great for multi-tasking, rendering etc.) - Low to Mid GPU temperatures - Easy to overclock - Best Buy sells these at MSRP - Size Cons: - Inventory (of course) - Size (for those with small Cases) - Power hungry (don't use a 750 W psu on this, 850 W is just barely enough, I highly recommend a 1,000 W PSU) My machine: => CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X => CPU Cooler: 140mm Enermax Aquafusion white edition => Mobo: ASUS Tuf Gaming x570 Plus => Case: NZXT H510i Elite white case => GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 FE (BFG) => RAM: 32 GB Dominator Platinum RGB @ 3800 MHz => SSD: M.2 2280 1TB drive => PSU: Seasonic Focus GX-1000W PSU => Mouse: Steel series Rival 600 mouse => Monitors: Viotek Ultrawide 35-inch, Asus Tuf Gaming 32-inch => Headset: SteelSeries - Arctis 7 Wireless DTS Gaming

I was previously running a 5700xt, but I decided to upgrade from 2560x1600 to a full on 4k display and quickly hit frame rate issues in World of Warcraft @ Ultra settings and Deus Ex:MD @ Ultra. Couple this with the new Shadowlands game engine being Ray Tracing (RT) enabled along with patiently waiting for CyberPunk 2077 now due in December and I decided to take the plunge. A nifty, "THE WAIT IS OVER!" in stock email popped up in my box and I was lucky enough to score one before it almost immediately went out of stock again. Hardware wise, I'm running an EVGA Z390 FTW coupled with 9900k @ 5.2ghz and 32GB (4x8GB) of G.Skill B-Die @ 4000. This card is pretty massive and expensive, but it gets the job done providing roughly 60fps everywhere @ 4k ultra with RT on high and shadows to high. I never knew WoW could look this good and be this beautiful. Seeing as this is my main game I play (and have played since Vanilla), RT is mandatory now for all my GPUs. The custom FE heatsink and fan keep the card at 65 or cooler at all times while staying relatively quiet (my CPU fans get louder especially during raids). Even a mild overclock still keeps it relatively cool in the 60's. I absolutely LOVE the thick, industrial slab look of the FE heatsink with the lit up "GEFORCE RTX" on the top. Is this card price:performance optimal? No, not even close. The 3080 is clearly the best price:performance spot within the Nvidia family even with the 3070 now here and as always, let your software determine your hardware; but if you want the best RT card on the market, right now this is it. Everybody has their own idea of, "what's worth it." For some reason, people tend to have this odd, annoying habit of trying to tell others how they should spend their disposable income. For me, I wanted top notch performance and now having enabled RT in the game I play the most and at 4k, RT is mandatory now for myself and all future cards.

The holy grail of gpu’s. What more can I say. Actually I have more. It’s huge, and that’s an understatement. It runs wicked hot. If mining the thermals need replace. But its 3.0 backwards compatible so if you have a pc from the past 10 years you’ll be good and the 24gb ram is more than enough for anything. Waited 13 hours in line abs so happy I was able to get one.

I have many 3090’s including the kingpin. The fe card is the best value with the gpu shortage. It can be bought fairly easy at 1499 msrp. In todays times people are paying over that for 3080’s. Vram gets warm if mining gaming is fine though with good air flow. I put waterblocks on these and they are awesome small PCB is cool!

Amazing card, obviously! After months of being out of stock, I snagged one when Best Buy dropped cards in the stores back in July. Runs anything you want as long as you're not bottlenecked anywhere else. You need the right display for this card, or you're wasting your money. 2k (1440) resolution at least. Oh...also, this baby weighs 7.2 lbs and doesn't require any sort of gpu mount due to the internal metals holding it up, just make sure you snug up the screws before letting go of this thing when you snap it into your PCI express slots. Runs quite and cool stock but I still can't wait to get it water cooled!

Absolutely amazing card. Do not waist your time with the 3080 ti (way over priced). I’m running this on a 48” lg oled and it runs everything at 120 fps (tv max frame rate). The build quality is the best I have ever seen with a gpu. The card is a beast… HUGE! Get a gpu bracket/support bracket for added long term security and pease of mind. Having this said, there was no sag when I installed this card. Shocking since my 1070 and 1080 both sagged. Got to the store at 5am to pick up this card. I was happy to see they passed out tickets per card. Therefore, I knew before getting in side the store the card I wanted was available.

I upgraded my 1080 ti even though I didn’t need to. I am glad I did though because now I have incentive to upgrade to PCI E 4 and get all the other features like more USB 3.0 , ddr4 and m2 4x4 ssd. This card right now is hooked up to my 2nd gen i7 2700k at 4.5 ghz, 16gb ddr3, sata 3 ssd, etc. For such an old system it still can push this card at 1440p ultra but I do know I’m bottlenecked by the cpu but not for long. I am just deciding whether or not to go intel again since this 2700k just won’t quit even after years of being Oc’d or AMD since I have heard good things about them recently.

Aside from the obvious availability issues plaguing this generation, the RTX 3090 is everything I could ask for in a GPU. Loads of VRAM for TensorFlow and potentially next-gen games, 10496 Cuda cores and 82 RT cores chew through everything I throw at them, whether it be CyberPunk or Control. While Nvidia didn't explicitly market the 3090 as a successor to the 2080 Ti, it's obviously not truly a Titan card (lacking the certified drivers), which places it in a weird spot as far as gaming goes (double the price of the 3080 but only 15% better on average). Physically, the card is about the same size as the 3080 FTW3 Ultra Gaming I had previously, and performance is only about 10-15% better on average. Still, if you need the 24GB of VRAM and the beefier cooler, and can swallow the steep price, you won't be disappointed with this card. Running on my Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor, Cyberpunk and Control both hover around 70-80 FPS with all settings on Ultra using Ray Tracing and DLSS. The card stays around 67-68 Celsius and is barely audible, which is a welcome improvement over previous generations of Founders Edition cards. Still, I would highly recommend an undervolt for daily use. I'm able to maintain clock speeds of 1920MHz at 837mV and the power usage stays around 350-370 watts in Control, and 250-270 watts in AC Valhalla. Overall, very satisfied with this card, and can't wait to get a waterblock on it and see how far it can be pushed.