RTX 3090 Reddit Verdict: VRAM King or Aging Risk?

3090 is an excellent card. Don't worry. It will last many years but you may start struggling with 4k games in the future. 1440p it will keep up well.

3090 all the way. It has double the vram and has the same performance as a 4070ti lol.

If you're seriously video editing 10 bit 422, you can't be looking at anything other than 50 series cards. They've finally added dedicated encode/decode for 10 bit 422 with this gen. A 5070 would get you so much further than a 3090 in this scenario.

I would go 3090 for $50 cheaper. 3090 is around 10% faster than 4070. 3090 has more VRAM than 4070.

A 3090 can not max out modern 4K games at 60 fps (never mind higher fps). So it's already turning down settings.

Your use case and budget scream '3090'. Yeah, they're older GPUs now, but... I got my 3090 for the same reason, and while it's not perfect at 4K 144Hz anymore it certainly holds up, and for the price it's really hard to beat for your AI workloads as well.

The performance is going to be better on the 3090, not hugely better, but a good chunk better, it's almost on 4070TI level. On the other side you don't have frame gen on the 3090. People can say whatever they want about it not being real frames, but it's amazing and there is no reason not to use it for single player, story based games.

If a 3090 second hand is cheaper than a 4070 second hand then it is a decent buy for gaming. Especially if you play at higher resolution where the extra memory bandwidth and vram help or if you are into modding. If you do any AI stuff the vram is also great. Just be aware though that the 3090 gets much hotter and uses way more power than a 4070 for example.

yeah, I reckon the 3090 will end up like the 1070ti - not quite as long lasting as the 1080ti but a solid card for a while now. It's still a borderline 4K/90 card for most games anyway.

Sold my 3070 for $500 and picked up a 3090 for $700 back in 2023, honestly loved the looks of the EVGA far better than any of the 4000 series cards and the 24GB was an added bonus for stuff besides gaming. Running a 240hz 1440p monitor and holds up nicely.

4070. I know everyone will say get the 3090 because of the higher vram but DLSS will take care of that. I have a 4070 and been playing at 4k high settings getting 160fps. DLSS is sick.

3090, unless you have an aversion to heat, then the 4070.

3090 100000000% Everytime. Double the vram. Bigger bus. More powerful.

I have the 3090 at the moment and i can say without a doubt it is still a beast of a card, even now. especially with the 24gb of VRAM. Handles everything i throw at it. I play in 1440p, so not 4K so i cant speak to that but at 1440p it performs amazingly. I play games for hours maxed out settings for the most part, I edit and animate regularly on it as well as do 3d animation within unreal engine.

The 3090 could have been used for mining or the fans could be worn out, it could have been installed sagging in a PC for years in a smoker's home. The 5070 comes brand new in a box with a warranty, the latest generation, it's available in stores near me, it is smaller, and uses way less power than a 3090.

The Asus RTX 3090 Turbo is what I would pay a premium for, because I can easily use it in a dual or quad GPU system for deep learning. 3090, with 24GB of VRAM, is highly sought after among ML engineers/scientists. For gaming, you might be better off with a used 3080ti or 4070ti.

I'm a huge fan of blower cards for deep learning workloads in a rack or compact server situation. The main concern with blower-style cards is the sound. They're louder than open-air cards.

I bought it for 600€ (less than a 4070 super) it is a really really good GPU, for me it runs absolutely everything in 2k. And that 24gigs of ram is so nice to have.

I own a MSI Ventus 3x 3090 in my rig I built back in 2021 but I recently picked up a used 3090 FE for $650 for my gf's rig I'm building her. Found it on facebook marketplace and I'm pretty happy about that purchase, as it's not like i was getting a 4070 Ti Super for $650 anywhere.

If it's cheaper than a 4070 and you don't care about the big power draw I'd say it's worth it, yes.

I would get the 4070 without question. You will get warranty with it, and support for Frame Generation, and a comically lower power consumption. The 3090 is a 350W card, while you can run the 4070 at higher than stock performance at just 150W. Less heat and power usage will result in lower power bills, while games that have frame generation support will run effectively 20-80% faster.

The 3090 is about as good as the 5070 with more VRAM and less tech, so it would be a solid choice if you were looking at 5070's but need more vram. The main issues of the 3090 is that it is very inefficient by today's standard and would require a bigger PSU, the lack of frame generation, if that is important to you, and the risk of it being used for crypto mining as its an older card.

I have a 3090 and with the new DLSS preset K I run most games at max settings on balanced/performance DLSS on a AW3425DW at 3440 x 1440. I'm just waiting until I can get a 5090 at retail. But until then the 3090 works well.

I'm running a 3090, managed to get 1 on eBay back in 2023 for €700, and from my experience with it I don't feel like I'm going to need to upgrade for a good while yet. The 24GB VRAM is hard to beat for longevity and even though cards in the last few years have more raw power, the 3090 is still a beast of a card for around €800.

Been running the 3090FE since early 2021 and until they put 64+GB VRAM on a card that costs under $2k I won't be upgrading.

With your use case being primarily AI, you are simultaneously locked to both NVIDIA cards only, AND as much VRAM as you can get. With your budget, 3090 is by far your best bet.

The mental thingy about underwealming upgrade of 'just one generation' is just that, a mental thingy. The 3090 is around 65% faster and has more than double the vram. I just bought a 3090 yesterday to replace a 3080 12gb for 3d work, with almost zero gains in performance, but I got it for 550 and I can sell the 3080 for 400, so I'm paying 150 for 12gb vram.

I have a 3090 that I use for 1440p gaming and it definitely meets my needs. Can run pretty much anything with decent performance other than a small handful of the newer UE5 or full path tracing games.

With the embargo being lifted from 5070ti reviews, it's clear your choice will be the 3090. 1000 USD for an actual 60 class card is just absurd and shouldn't be tolerated.

3090 just don't forget undervolt it. Will drop temperature and get you extra performance. I just did that with my pny clocks went up power and temp down.

I still use my 3090 FTW3 since 2021. Still goes hard at any AAA in 4k. Especially if DLSS is enabled.

For CAD and Game Dev the 3090 is stupidly good, there's nothing that competes with it for under thrice its price tag. Large studios would likely purchase quadros instead, but for lower budget studios and/or 3d artists in the industry for personal rigs the 3090 is incredible.

Commercial colorist here. My 3090 is an absolute BEAST still. I've never felt like I needed more unless I'm doing something especially heavy with a lot of NR or an unholy amount of intensive nodes on heavy footage.

Currently using a 3090ti I got for $450. And love it! I play at 1440p and it does great with AAA titles.

I'm on a 5950x and a 3090, gaming, editing, creating. All absolutely fine and I will not be touching a 50 series card. The 3090 is a beast mate. I game in 1440p 240hz monitor not 4k though.

I play mainly VR and my 3090 runs everything on max details with great fps. Only struggled with modded Skyrim with 1000+ mods but even a 4090 struggles with that.

1440p it will do very well for years to come... I have it and have a 1440p ultrawide and it smashed every game I play. I can imagine 4k being an issue later as games get more harder and harder to run.

It's still good it just sucks down a ton of power to run. The 4070 Super is about on par with the 3090 gaming performance wise with half the vram and pulling around 220w vs 350-400w. But considering you have a use case for the extra vram (editing and AI) you kinda have no choice outside of the 7900XT/XTX or pay a shit ton for a professional card.

I recently purchased a 3090 for 1440p gaming. Initially I regretted my decision, as once I started doing anything remotely graphic intensive, the card sounded like a jet engine. I looked up some videos about taking the gpu apart and changing the thermal pads and paste. The process was successful and now it's mostly quite and runs very well.

For LLMs the 3090 is king for under $1,000 because it's Nvidia and has 24 GB VRAM. CUDA was the foundation for modern AI. AMD 'may' get ROCm for Windows but it's barely even a thing for AMD to run LLMs, and still in the very early stages.

I got a 3090 on Facebook market place for a high rated seller. He had it for $800 and got him to bring down the price to 600. The 3090 is still incredible! After I undervolt it I'm getting more power with less power consumption and heating. Incredible card.

I run 9800x3d/3090 xc3. I'm still happy with the card and the current landscape of things (every newer card being a horrendous value) will keep me using it for a while longer. I game at 2k 360hz, picked up the card for $500 from an ex miner sometime in 2022.

3090 is a great way to get 24g of VRAM. It's an older card so many of them have degraded performance because of poor heat dissipation. Make sure it's had a service (redo the thermal paste and pads) and it will go like new.

The 3090 was a headache due to its thermal solution and the fact that half the memory modules were on the back of the PCB. A backplate was incapable of cooling GDDR6X properly. Try to get a 3090 TI if possible if you really need the vram.

3090s are risky to own. They use a lot of power, more than 4090 even generally, so there will be a lot of stress on the power delivery circuit and oems cut all kind of corners during covid and crypto boom to get these out there. Memory failure is also common because lack of cooling.