What's the hottest thing in the digital world lately? That nvidia rtx30 series of new cards is definitely the first! A while ago, rtx3080 was sold out as soon as it was sold, and many merchants were still facing the dilemma of not being able to ship; and the scalpers and merchants who had spot in hand were even more speculative in price, casually selling to more than 7,000 yuan (the first one was only 5499). Although rtx3080 is enough to make everyone laugh to the explosion, please do not forget that this year's real card king "rtx3090" has just debuted.
And the first price is 11999 yuan, the price is more than twice the price of rtx3080, how powerful is it? This issue of the review will be for everyone to find out!
First of all, it is necessary to briefly introduce to you the film we got in our hands, yingchi rtx3090 graphics card, as a non-public version of the rtx3090 product, its initial price is 11999 yuan, and the price of nvidia rtx3090 national bank is consistent, and its product positioning has been clearly revealed, that is, the main "cost-effective", In fact, the word cost performance is not very appropriate to describe high-end products such as rtx3090 (after all, people who can afford this card generally do not care about cost performance), but in recent years, high-end non-public products have generally sold a lot more expensive than the public version, and the pricing of Yingchi rtx3090 is still quite pleasing.
First of all, let's take a general look at the appearance of this card, the front of the pure black deflector surface is attached to a layer of metal-like armor, the surface layer is brushed to enhance the texture; it comes with some gun pattern patterns, and there are 4 bullet holes on the side for decoration (although it looks like a nozzle), which looks generally highly tech-like.
All metal backplane design, the tail has been fishtail type hollowing treatment, can be used for the graphics card to convey through the air flow, strengthen the heat dissipation effect; see here I found that the original pcb of this card is not as long as imagined, a long period of time from this heat dissipation fin and deflector cover, the heat dissipation specifications are so exaggerated, in fact, how will the machine heat dissipation effect be? A little bit of anticipation.
The top integrates a "galax" rgb logo lamp, which can be customized with the shadow chi light control software magic disk xtreme tuner to meet the individual needs of users;
In terms of external power supply, Yingchi rtx3090 general did not follow the design of the public version, but changed to the current more general 8+8pin power supply interface, and the location of the power supply interface happens to be the end of the PCB.
rtx3090 supports multi-card sli, so it retains the nv link interface, but because we do not currently have a second rtx3090 and nv link bridge, so this time we can not show the performance of dual card sli, waiting for later to be revealed;
I/O, Yingchi rtx3090 will give 3 dp 1.4a and 1 hdmi 2.1 interface, and the public version is consistent, can support the output of 8k/60hz movie-level screen, but unfortunately, this generation of rtx30 series graphics card to the previous generation of existing usb-c interface cut off (is this in the opening interface of the unified reversing?). Laughs).
At the same time, considering the problem of chassis compatibility, Yingchi RTX3090 will also be equipped with an additional dual-slot I/O bezel, which can be replaced by the user as needed, which is very intimate;
Among the accessories that come with the card, there is also a combination graphics card bracket made of acrylic material, although this card focuses on the "cost performance" in the high-end, but what the user thinks of is thought of, and what should be given is also given.
So after talking about the appearance, let's simply take a look at the specifications of this product, Yingchi RTX3090 will use nvidia's new ampere architecture, Samsung's 8nm process process, core code name ga102, built-in 28 billion transistors, 10496 cuda core, main frequency 1395mhz, boost frequency set at 1695mhz, using 24gb magnesium gddr6x super capacity video memory design, memory width provides a complete 384bit The bandwidth has also been greatly improved compared to the rtx3080, reaching 936Gb/s. Although from the current official chip architecture diagram, the RTX3090 is likely not to be a complete ga102 core, but there is no doubt that the most powerful single-core game card king is none other than him!
Below we will perform a simple disassembly of this graphics card, taking you to take a glimpse of the true face of rtx3090.
The first thing to remove is the heat dissipation module of this graphics card, the heat dissipation module of The Shadow Chi rtx3090 is mainly composed of two parts, one is embedded with three 9cm diameter cooling fans, and the other is a large piece of heat dissipation fin with a length of nearly 25cm, of which the cooling fan is composed of 11 static frost fan blades, which is special in that it adopts a tri-fold design, which presents the shape of a gyroscope surface when rotating, which can provide sufficient wind power for the graphics card while maintaining low wind noise;
The internal heat dissipation module consists of 6 nickel-plated composite heat pipes with an increased area direct-touch base and numerous heat dissipation fins;
In addition, this card also adopts an integrated metal die-casting thermal reinforcement middle frame design, which fully covers the video memory and power supply parts, improving the overall structural stability of the graphics card and helping to dissipate heat, killing two birds with one stone.
After removing the middle frame, the true face of the entire RTX3090 pcb is revealed in front of us, and the Yingchi RTX3090 general adopts the public version pcb design, and there is a huge ga102 large core in the middle surrounded by 12 pieces of magnesium gddr6x video memory;
The back is also posted with 12 video memory, a single 1gb, composing 24gb of video memory capacity, you can see, there is no slightest waste of space on the PCB, densely planted with a variety of electronic components, it is really useless; 12 layers of extremely optimized form factor, equipped with 9 + 5 + 4 phase digital power supply, for the ga102 core and gddr6x video memory to provide sufficient and stable power, to ensure that the core is stable in high frequency operation.
After the disassembly, finally to the much-awaited performance test link, first of all, a general introduction to our test platform, in order to try to ensure that other hardware does not cause bottlenecks to the graphics card, we chose to support pci-e 4.0 amd Ryzen™ 7 3700x + Asus rog crosshair viii hero wifi motherboard combination.
The Inchi hof pro 500Gb m.2 ssd, which also supports pci-e 4.0, was also used for loading system and test projects.
And considering the increased power consumption of the RTX30 series, I chose an Antic hcg 1000 extreme 1000w gold medal full module power supply to match it, ensuring that every hardware of the platform is fed.
Additional hardware information is shown in the figure above.
Compared with the 3dmark theoretical performance test score, it is not difficult to find that the rtx3090 compared to the previous generation of flagship rtx2080ti is about 41%, compared with the recently unblocked rtx3080 performance increase of about 10%, presumably see such a performance everyone must still have some small disappointment, but don't worry, this is just the performance of traditional test items such as fire strike ultra/extreme, time spy, etc. Let's take a look at dlss again;
At 4K resolution, after turning on dlss, the performance of rtx3090 seems to be completely released, leading rtx3080 by 56%, and even doubling on the basis of 2080ti, the performance is very amazing! Let's take a look at how it performs in the actual game.
When running 3a masterpieces such as Tomb 11 and The Division 2 under the full opening of the 4K resolution special effects, the rtx3090 can reach more than 100 frames, especially in the game "Doom: Eternity", which has reached 187 frames, and it seems that the 4k high-quality and high-refresh rate game experience can be truly realized on the rtx3090.
However, due to the fact that we currently have not many games that support dlss and light chase, and most of them do not have their own benchmarks, so this time we have not been able to add the dlss + light chase game test to it for comparison, please understand, if we have the opportunity to follow up, we will do a separate issue of this part to discuss with you.
In terms of power consumption, after using aida64 for half an hour of single card copy testing, we found that the power consumption of the platform at this time has soared to 426w, and maintained above 420w for a long time, please note that the CPU is still in an empty state at this time, it seems that the RTX30 series high-end new card has high requirements for power supply is really not a joke;
At this time, take a closer look at the data monitored by each sensor, you can find that the GPU core power consumption has reached 337w, and the surprising thing is that the video memory power consumption has actually gone to 94w, it seems that the heat generation of gddr6x video memory must also be very touching, this year's non-public graphics card is afraid to make more efforts in terms of video memory heat dissipation; at this time, we noticed that the core temperature of the GPU reached 71 ° C, and overall, the shadow Chi rtx3090 will perform well in this heat dissipation scheme!
Here is a few digressions, a few days ago and a few old drivers in the circle chatted just talked about the heat dissipation problem of rtx3080/3090, one of the manufacturers said that the gddr6x display running temperature is actually very high (factory measurement results), but because the video memory itself does not have an integrated temperature sensor so it has not been intuitively seen, this generation of graphics card radiator will not be able to appear the video memory temperature is too high to pull the GPU temperature together with the phenomenon, so I estimate that such as 3090 / The split water scheme of high-end cards such as 3080 may sell well after that!
In terms of noise, under the test of running a fully loaded copy machine, Yingchi rtx3090 will be radiator bare platform noise of 48 decibels, not too noisy, acceptable, put into the chassis Noise will be further reduced;
Finally, I will give you a review of this product rtx3090, I believe that many small partners will definitely ask me whether 3090 is worth buying? My answer is: look at people.
First of all, if you are a gamer and crave 4K high quality, then rtx3080 will be your better choice, in the current 4k is not yet fully popular in the game environment, spend at least twice the price of rtx3080 to buy a piece of rtx3090 will not get any qualitative improvement for you, 3090 is suitable for those who will really use 8k monitor to play games of the top enthusiasts, In this way, its 24GB of large video memory and more than a thousand CUDA cores will really come into use.
But if you are a film and television post-production worker or a professional worker with a high demand for graphics card computing power, then 3090 may be able to help you a lot, first of all, like Leonardo da Vinci, the large number of video memory occupiers is simply a nightmare for small video memory graphics cards, with a piece of 24gb mad cow-level graphics memory rtx3090 can fully meet its needs, and then improve your work efficiency. Of course, I believe that the advantages of this card must be far more than this, otherwise only rely on this 10-20% game performance improvement Lao Huang does not dare to sell twice the price of 3080, its real potential has yet to be tapped, if you think there is anything very suitable for the application scenario of rtx3090, you may wish to leave us a message in the comment area, maybe we will personally test it in the next review, to give you an answer one by one.