Nvidia Asus rog strix RTX 3090 review

RTX 3090 review - At this point, Everybody pretty much knows that any GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards won't offer good value, if you can even find one to buy that is, but nevertheless.

I know for a fact that there are at least a few of you out there looking to buy or to preorder one for yourself.

Because if you put that value aside, the RTX 3090 is currently the fastest graphics card in the market.

And now if you follow that logic, anyone that's willing to pay for an RTX 3090 is probably also willing to pay even more for the best version of it.

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Best Gaming RTX 3090 review

Now ROG Strix cards have the reputation of being the best out there, and they also carry a price tag to suggest, nothing less than that.

But unfortunately, I can't talk about prices nor availability right now, as you guys know how this launch went from day one with no virtual staff to speak of.

The previous Strix cards I think we can safely assume that this will be one of the most expensive articles 3090 variants so let's make this nice and quick and see what you get for all that money.

Designs, Build Quality, Dimensions, RGB

Asus RTX 3090 review : In terms of looks, Asus did not disappoint. I know that looks are very subjective, but I think Asus yet again managed to make their card look very desirable.

Nvidia Asus rog strix RTX 3090 review 2021

It's a fairly big three-slot card it is heavy. It has a beautiful metal backplate and it combines that gray-black color scheme that works well with most motherboards elegant way.

It just looks and feels well put together.

Unlike the tough cars, our districts do have a lot of RGB but it's implemented in a very decent way.

It is not too over the top it's not in your face, but it's more visible than on the 20 series Asus rog graphics cards.

Features, Connections

RTX 3090 review: As you would expect from their top 10 models, all the usual features are there as well.

There's a fan STOP mode when the card is idle, or why to use, you get the dual BIOS functionality, and you get an extra HDMI 2.1 connection for a total of two alongside three DisplayPort 1.4 connections.

Power Connectors, PSU Guidance

RTX 3090 review: Now you will need three 8 pin power cables to connect it and Asus recommends at least an 850-watt power supply.

Now, if you're not going to overclock this card you should be fine with a good quality 750-watt model, but since you should be able to push this car to 480 Watts and 150-watt power supply is probably smart if you possibly want to try overclocking, in the future.

Performance (Boost Speeds, Game FPS)

Now when it comes to performance, I will primarily focus on the default OC bios, but in the graphs, you will see the quiet mode as well, because the main difference is that it runs a little bit quieter because of a higher temperature target so it doesn't change the power limit as you would see on some other cards, and making performance, very similar between the two.

I will also show the result with a power limit said 222% which pushes this car to run 420 Watts, which is 70 watts over in videos-based TDP, and that is something you can easily do yourself in the software without really manually overclocking.

Now in its default BIOS, the Strix ends up with the second-highest clock speed average of 1957 megahertz, which is well above the card spec.

In second only to the pallid gamer card which has a very high 420-watt power limit by default.

But when you raise the power limit of the Strix card. It will also get closer to that two gigahertz mark the memory speeds are the same for all of these cards, meaning that none of these have their memory overclocked in the factory.

In actual benchmarks, the ROG graphic cards do take the lead with the highest times by score, and it's at the top of the chart when testing games.

The only real problem here is that the difference between the fastest and the slowest graphics cards is so small that you won't be able to tell the difference while just playing games

But the variance is easily a frame or two only so even though this card is consistently a bit better. it still doesn't mean that much.

You can also see that when I raised the power limit where the average time spy and Far Cry score dropping a tiny bit.

And the shadow of the Tomb Raider is one of the few games where you see a little bit of a benefit, but again I would say it's too small to notices.

Thermal & Noise Performance

So, If you ask me, none of these performance differences justify spending more on a premium RTX GPU over an MSRP one.

But let's check thermal and noise results. He says the default profile focuses on winning the core temperature graphs as it targets a very comfortable 63 degrees Celsius.

Now if you consider how powerful the RTX 3090. That's a really low temperature.

And while managing that it does end up being a bit louder than the MSI Gaming Xtrio, for example, now it is far from loud, giving off only a little fat breeze during gaming, but you can hear it a bit, the gigabyte car runs similarly cool but slightly louder, MSI is quieter but warmer, and the palace runs a bit warmer, and a bit louder.

If you prefer your car to run a bit quieter you can you know just change it to deploy your biases that, then you will still get completely reasonable temperatures, and end up with one of the more silent 3090 cards.

So I would say very nice results both ways.

Noise Normalized Performance

If I normalize the fans to 40 decibels to compare temperatures at a similar noise level, we can see that Asus offer forms and palette to being just ahead of the gigabyte card and just behind the MSI Gaming X trio card.

Now that might not sound too impressive for Asus but you do have to remember that this card is doing that with a higher power limit and higher power consumption.

That also generates more heat so it is fair to say that the ASUS cooler design is probably still the most efficient, out of the bunch.

Talking about the RTX 3090 review in General

But in general, aside from a very poor availability right now, I can see two problems for the RTX 3090 here.

So the first one is that the 3090 doesn't look good compared to a 3080 for gamers.

because as I said in my 30-day review 10 to 12% performance increase for more than double the price.

Just impossible to justify making the 3090 only viable for anyone with so much money to spend that you just don't care about value.

Or for a very specific line of work where you really need a GPU with so much memory, and if that is you also made it's great that this graphics card exists, but for the rest of us, the 3080 still has that sweet balance, much, much better.

Why "Factory OC" means very little anymore

The second one is that with Nvidia's built-in boost feature and very limited real-world gains from higher power limits.

It is just really hard to make any card stand out in terms of gaming performance.

So the RTX card does look good compared to others, but none of the cards have bad tests, and you quickly end up with a conclusion that, you might as well just buy whichever card you can, or whichever is the cheapest or whichever has the looks or the features that you want, it doesn't matter.

These high power limits will only benefit people that are looking into extreme or competitive overclocking, in my opinion.

Conclusion -Asus rog strix RTX 3090 review

So, what does it mean for this Strix RTX 3090, knowing that it will be more expensive than most others?

So in terms of features:

It is really good.
It has all the usual ones.
It has dual bios and an extra HDMI port.
It has a fenced-off feature. The performance is great as well.
It runs cool, it is fairly quiet.
It is efficient and there is a lot of room for overclocking.

But those features can be found on cheaper cards as well, and once you're gaming, you probably won't tell the difference between this more expensive rug card, and any of the alternatives that are closer to the MSRP.

So, the reasonable thing here would be to just go for the cheaper one right, but remember we are talking about an RTX 3090 After all, which isn't reasonable, to begin with.

So, if you already decided to spend a fortune on a 3090 I cannot disagree if you want to spend even more to get the strictest one looks, and it feels exceptionally well built, which has always been the focus of high energy cards.

If you do get one for yourself, you'll get a premium product that matches its premium price.

So, that's it for today RTX 3090 review, thank you so much for coming to this blog, and don't forget to subscribe and click the bell to never miss a future post, see the next one, guys.