At CES 2022 at the beginning of the year, NVIDIA added a new graphics card to the top and bottom of the RTX 30 series product line, one is the RTX 3050 and the other is the RTX 3090 Ti.
The RTX 3090 Ti was originally scheduled to be unbanned at the end of January, and then for some mysterious reasons, it was delayed by two months, until a few days ago, NVIDIA finally put the RTX 3090 Ti on the shelves, and everyone could finally see this belated 30 series of new card kings.
Compared with the specifications, the positioning of the RTX 3090 Ti is a new generation of Titan-level graphics card, using the GA102 complete core, but the addition of two sets of SM units can not bring significant performance improvement, so NVIDIA directly from RTX 3090 on the 350W, pulled to the horror of 450W, graphics card Boost frequency to 1860Mhz, it can be said that many top platform users' power pressure doubled.
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What's more terrifying is that unlike the previous Titan graphics card, this RTX 3090 Ti is not only the FE public version, but also the non-public version launched by AIC manufacturers, and the RTX 3090 Ti taught by many manufacturers has run out of a higher frequency than the public version, and the core power consumption will be further improved.
The Sotime GeForce RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO graphics card (hereinafter referred to as "Sottech RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO") reviewed today is a non-public card emperor that has been overclocked.
Exterior analysis
Students familiar with the product line of Stacker King should know that the PGF Player Power series has always been the flagship main model in So thailand, and the AMP series is the main model of SOTA for overseas markets, of which "AMP EXTREME HOLO" is the top flagship model, positioning the same level as the PGF series.
Different from the gorgeous appearance of the PGF series, the exterior design of the SOTEI AMP series is more concise and bold, at the same time, the length of the entire graphics card reaches 355.9mm, and it is necessary to pay attention to whether the internal length of the chassis can be accommodated when installing.
As the air-cooled flagship of the pressed RTX 3090 Ti, the front of the graphics card is equipped with three large 100mm fans, with a blade design, each fan is equipped with eleven blades, and the middle of the fan is the LOGO of the Sotel + AMP series, which will refract different CD textures with light.
The strip-like design of the fairing both guides the fan airflow and takes into account the aesthetics.
The back panel and tail of the graphics card can be seen to leave a large area of hollow design, the advantage of this is to form a fully penetrating air duct with the front, which can accelerate the air flow speed, reduce the time of heat stay on the fins, and significantly improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the graphics card.
The new 12VHPWR auxiliary power supply interface, RTX 3090 Ti is the first batch of graphics cards to eat the crab of the new interface, the most significant change is that the size of the interface is greatly reduced, and there is no longer a need to insert three 8Pin power cords when connecting high-power graphics cards.
In the past two years, gradient colors have occupied the back cover of most mobile phones, and Sotime has boldly applied this design to graphics cards, officially known as "HoloBlack Holographic Aurora Design", and the aurora-like gradient color runs through the side of the graphics card, so that the entire graphics card is attached with more sci-fi colors.
After the machine is lit, the gradient area will reveal a cool ARGB magic light effect, with the words ZOTAC GAMING on it.
The combination of the aurora gradient and the ARGB lights made the cyberpunk DNA in my heart move.
Dual-card crossfire for today's players is obviously a little strange, but for professional users, this is still the best way to quickly build a high-performance workstation, equipped with NVLink 3.0 high-speed GPU interconnection port above the graphics card, with the latest NVLINK bridge can form SLI dual card, the combination of the two card emperors is not only a performance improvement, video memory is up to 48GB super capacity, such as professional computing and large data processing such professional-level fields, RTX 3090 Ti SLI delivers speed-up performance like a tiger.
At the same time, the decorative module in front of the interface adopts a detachable design, if the bridge height is not enough, it can be slid and removed for easy installation.
In terms of video output interface, the graphics card is equipped with 3 DP1.4a interfaces and an HDMI 2.1 interface, which can support video output of up to 8K resolution, of course, with this RTX 3090 Ti graphics card with 8K TV, experience a wave of 8K games, the experience must be quite comfortable.
Graphics card disassembly appreciation
The Soté GeForce RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO can be called quite innovative and bold in terms of design, so is the material used inside the graphics card worthy of the title of card king?
It can be seen that the PCB of the Sotime RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO is a non-public design scheme, customized based on NVIDIA's public version scheme, and the PCB tail adopts a very unique square skeleton design.
There is no memory particle on the back of the PCB, this time the RTX 3090 Ti is equipped with a higher capacity density of video memory, from the perspective of use, there is no need to worry about the back of the graphics card because of the heat of the video memory caused by the problem of high temperature.
In the middle is the KAO body, the GA102-350-A1 core, produced in the 50th week of 2021, surrounded by 12 GDDR6X video memory from Micron, with FBGA number 2DU47-D8BZC and a single memory capacity of 2GB.
In terms of power supply, Soteceter RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO is equipped with an 18+3 phase SEP power supply system to ensure the stable output of graphics card performance, and the material used for each phase of power supply is also quite luxurious, DrMos chip uses MPS MP86957, and the single-phase chip can output 70A of current.
PWM control chip using MPS's latest MP2891, the current official website has not been able to find the relevant parameters, the front and back of the PCB also have a uS5650Q collaborative control.
The PCB is also equipped with a voltage monitoring point, which allows enthusiasts and maintenance personnel to quickly detect the supply voltage of the graphics card.
The Sotime RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO is equipped with the Polar Ice Storm Cooling System 2.0, which is optimized for the Kawang RTX 3090 Ti, bringing higher cooling performance.
Like the core part of the use of VC heat vapor plate for thermal conduction, so that the core heat can be evenly dissipated, and the power supply, video memory components are pasted with high thermal conductivity thermal conduction stickers, so that the core components are maintained at the appropriate operating temperature.
A 360° three-dimensional heat dissipation system consisting of 8 ice vein heat pipes connecting a large area of fins in series, of which 6 heat pipes run through both ends of the fins, and 2 are U-shaped designs, which can quickly export the heat of the core.
The heat pipe is reinforced by a reflow soldering process, and the fin fin process is used between the fins to make the gap more uniform and achieve better heat dissipation efficiency. Overall, the radiator worked quite well.
Support intelligent start-stop cooling fan, the fan will automatically stop when low load, to achieve a noise-free experience.
The three 100mm fans are all from APISTEK, the model is GAA8S2U, and the working environment is 12V 0.45A.
The back panel is also affixed with a high-coefficient thermal adhesive that assists in thermal conductivity.
Test platform
This test is the choice of i9-12900K + Z690 D5 motherboard, with DDR5-6000 memory and 1250W power supply, to ensure the performance of the entire platform and sufficient power margin, the graphics card part of the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Ti for horizontal comparison.
Theoretical performance testing
According to the information displayed on the GPU-Z, as well as the specifications of the graphics card. The default core power consumption of the Sotecté RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO is 450W, and the Boost frequency is higher than that of the public version, reaching 1890Mhz.
In fact, this is not the ultimate strength of the graphics card, VBIOS setting, the maximum power consumption setting value is 495W, which means that we have the opportunity to further improve the performance of the graphics card, which is a pity without an overclocking test.
Of course, in order to show the original strength, the previous test graphics card is still kept at the factory default frequency.
The theoretical performance section uses the test software 3D Mark to run scores, including the DX11-based Fire Strike, the DX12-based Time Spy, and the ray-traced test Port Royal. With a full-blood large core and higher level of power consumption, the Sotera RTX 3090 RTX 3090 is one notch ahead of the theoretical performance, and the performance gap between the three graphics cards is in a relatively average range.
Game frame rate test
Next is the game testing section, we selected 8 of the more popular AAA games at present, and tested the game in 2K and 4K resolutions and high image quality.
The test results are basically no suspense, the solté RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO frame-count performance is better than the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Ti, and the leading amplitude of the frame-count is basically in line with the gap between the theoretical performance.
Conventional 2K resolution can run ultra-high frame rate performance on the RTX 3090 Ti, even the more stressful 4K resolution can run to an average of more than 100 frames. As a Titan-level monster, the Soté RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO is basically perfect in terms of gaming.
Media performance testing
In terms of media performance, the workstation performance test software UL Procyon, PugetBench Media Performance Test and V-Ray are tested, and the media creation performance of graphics cards is measured through a unified benchmark.
It can be seen that the leading range of RTX 3090 Ti is not very large, but RTX 3090 Ti has a video memory ECC function, if it is a professional workstation solution that pursues stability, choosing RTX 3090 Ti is indeed more cost-effective than choosing a professional card, but if it is an ordinary user, the performance of RTX 3080 can actually meet the needs.
Platform performance testing
PC Mark 10 comprehensive performance test, the test project includes the common basic functions, productivity, media creation and games four aspects, can be considered for the performance of the entire platform.
In terms of the overall performance experience of the platform, the use experience based on the i9-12900K+RTX 3090 Ti is quite powerful, and the daily use is naturally not under pressure for top graphics cards such as the RTX 3090 Ti.
Graphics card stability test
In an environment of 23 degrees at room temperature, the stability grill test of the graphics card can be used to test the stability of the graphics card, which can consider the heat dissipation ability and power dissipation of the graphics card.
After 15 minutes of grill testing, the data of the graphics card is read by GPU-Z, and the power consumption of the Sotec RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO overall grill is stable at 448.2W, of which the core power consumption reaches 335.8W, the video memory power consumption is 101.2W, and the default power consumption setting of the graphics card has been fully run.
In terms of temperature, under the suppression of the polar ice storm cooling system 2.0, the core heat dissipation and thermal dissipation capabilities of the Sotecet RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO have good performance, indicating that this cooling system can maintain good cooling efficiency in the face of performance monsters such as RTX 3090 Ti.
It is worth mentioning that after upgrading to the new memory particles, the oven temperature of the memory is much lower than that of the RTX 3090, and the power consumption has also decreased.
Graphics card overclocking test
From the graphics card stability test, the Soté RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO has a margin for heat dissipation and power consumption, so finally we will overclock the graphics card to see its extreme performance.
After debugging, we increased the core frequency by 100Mhz, and ran a score of 22502 in the 3D Mark TimeSpy test, an increase of 3% compared to the default score, while the graphics card core ran to a high frequency of 2160Mhz.
In the case of the core frequency of +80Mhz, the Sotecté RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO ran a 99.3% thermal stability in the TimeSpy stress test, indicating that the high-frequency capability of the RTX 3090 Ti is quite good, and under the blessing of the efficient cooling system, the graphics card has room for further pulling high performance.
Review summary
In general, upgraded to the full blood big core RTX 3090 Ti, driven by higher power consumption, the performance and RTX 3090 and open another level, and the new high-speed video memory not only makes the thermal pressure of the graphics card reduced, but also improved in the equivalent memory rate, adding ECC function is more friendly to professional users, this wave of "Ti" upgrade is still quite in place, that is, if the release time can be earlier, it is better.
The Sotecté RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO, as the top flagship graphics card with the same level of power as the PGF players, adopts a refreshing holographic aurora design in terms of appearance, and is supplemented by a high-specification polar ice storm cooling system in terms of heat dissipation, which suppresses the temperature of the RTX 3090 Ti quite stable, while the 18+3 phase SEP power supply module helps the core impact high frequency.
In real-world tests, both in terms of theoretical performance and gaming and media, the Sotecté RTX 3090 Ti AMP EXTREME HOLO performed best among the three flagship cards, and the higher power wall setting helped users to impact stronger performance. The price of 14999 yuan is obviously more valuable for the RTX 3090, which is currently the same as the e-commerce price, and this top performance card is worth putting into your purchase list.