$1800 Video Card Review: EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra vs. Founders Edition - Thermals, Noise, OC

The EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Gaming video card is among the most expensive we've ever benchmarked, and as such, its usefulness is limited to an extremely small userbase.
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Watch our original NVIDIA RTX 3090 Founders Edition review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgs-VbqsuKo (this will help you make more of a decision on whether the 3090 is worth it, in general)

The RTX 3090, in general, is not something we recommend for most people. There are definitely use cases in 3D art -- where you don't need Titan drivers -- and those use cases benefit greatly from the expanded framebuffer; that said, the usefulness of a board partner card is potentially lost to those users as cost balloons for features which prove useless to 3D artists and animators. That then potentially sidelines the card into a different audience, and it's one for extreme overclockers and overclocking battles. On its own, this audience can leverage these higher-end RTX 3090s, but it is a niche audience that doesn't represent the average user. That doesn't mean the card doesn't do well for that audience (this one does), just that the value in all the OC features may not prove worthwhile to, say, a Blender user who's been bumping against framebuffer limits. The EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra is more expensive than the Founders Edition card, but just application benchmarks aren't good enough to determine the differences. We're looking at quality of life features, like noise-normalized thermals, ICX sensor value, acoustics, auto profile behavior, RPM response, and more.

Watch our RTX 3080 TUF OC review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGIiFfUwLs
Our Gigabyte RTX 3080 Eagle review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivWfdJs4BU
Our NVIDIA 3080 Founders Edition review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTeXh9x0sUc

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Expensive GPUs for Limited Use Cases
01:20 - ICX Cooling Usefulness vs. Gimmicks
04:18 - EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Power vs. Founders Edition
05:17 - High PCIe Slot Power Draw
06:12 - Out-of-Box Noise Levels vs. Fan Speed
07:04 - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Thermals vs. RPM
07:41 - Noise-Normalized Thermals on 3090 FTW3 vs. FE
08:45 - EVGA 3090 GDDR6X & VRM Temperatures
09:54 - Validating EVGA ICX vs. Our Own Probes
11:06 - ICX Power Temperature Measurements
12:06 - EVGA FTW3 Frequency vs. Founders Edition
12:52 - 3090 Game Benchmarks (Tomb Raider)
13:45 - Red Dead Redemption 2 RTX 3090 Benchmarks
14:49 - Rainbow Six Siege RTX 3090 Benchmarks
15:14 - Hitman 2 RTX 3090 Benchmarks
15:46 - Conclusions

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Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
Additional Testing: Mike Gaglione
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman

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