RTX 3090 Ti Reddit Verdict: AI Beast or Gaming Relic?

I suspect it has to do with the current boom in AI. VRAM is critical, at least for stable diffusion resolution and running multi-controlnet.

Vram + cuda for professional workloads that needs lots of vram.

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.

I just don't get why anyone would buy this. It's too overpriced for miners to reach a zero net profit in a reasonable time frame. And it's 1-5% fps improvement over a stock 3090 for it to have any real value for 4K gamers.

You pay 33% more (msrp) for 7-10% more performance in the best condition. Plus, a 1000w recommended power supply. Dude a KILOWATT. this is getting insane. Just a big no no.

Might have been a bad deal.

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.

There are folks who do media production, rendering, AI, research, etc that could actually get a tangible benefit from this card versus the miniscule upgrade it represents to gamers.

3090 and 3090ti support NVLink so two of those appear as 48GB for AI/ML. 4000 series do not have NVLink.

Man the noise + heat output of these 3090Tis... Even the supposed 'reasonable' FE model is clearly pushing the limit. I really don't think anything past 400W makes much practical sense, even with the best custom loop you'll only fix the noise issue, you'll still be dumping about 700W/800W of heat in your room.

VRAM. That is all.

Unless you really need the vram no point at that price.

For gaming? No. For machine learning? Yes.

I'll stick with my 3080ti thanks.

All that power consumption for 1% more perf over the 3090....

It's essentially a 3090 with a higher offset OC and more power. If you have a 3090 AIB that already has a 500W bios, you're not going to get that much more performance as you manually OC your own card.

Considering Power efficiency I would rather go 4xxx. 3090ti is power hungry.

Same cooler as the 3090 with a minor change to the vapor chamber. No wonder it can't handle the extra 100W. Why bother with this version when for 100$ (5% of the price) you can get a cooler and quieter AIB version? This is the version you get only if you want to liquid cool the card from the start.

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 and 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 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.

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. In raw gaming benchmarks, it's as good, if not better, than a 3090.

Amd is not a viable option for AI workloads.

Literally 7-10% difference at most. Negligible in gaming, like most benchmarks was 5-6 fps or less.

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.

When I first saw this... I thought it was a pretty bad value. But if you aren't gaming with it, yeah that's a cheap card to run Ai models on for sure. Won't see this value till 5070TiS launches.

A strange release this one. Almost inexplicable. It's just a few months to the 40 series release. It's got very little to offer over the 3090. It's got 33% power usage over the 3090. That's massive.

Nope. Unless you really need that 24GB of RAM for AI/ML training workloads, there's no reason to look at a 3090ti. It's roughly the same price as the 4070 Ti Super, performs comparably, but draws a ton more power and runs a lot hotter and doesn't support the latest DLSS feature set.

I have it and initially had that buyers remorse. While it's still a blazing fast gpu, just a reminder that price gets you faster and newer card like 4070 Ti super. I have a thing for 80 Ti/90 class cards, if I were you, I would buy that and use it to its best purpose (machine learning) to get satisfying return of investment.

I plan to get into ML/AI and while those cards don't have the same instruction sets as the ones more designed for AI, 48GB of VRAM is nothing to scoff at when you start looking into bigger models. If you're just gaming, no it's not worth it. If for AI/ML consider it.

Depends on what you're using it for. Anything related to productivity then it's 110% worth it. If you are just gaming, it could be worth while looking into a 4070 super.

4070 Ti Super is 5% faster, newer and the same price. Unless the Vram is what you need, then pass.

For $1000? That's a good deal and the 3090 ti is still a very good performer... I mainly play FS 2020 and 2024 on high settings at 2K and it is a flawless setup.

For $1000, it's a great deal. Good specs, and will run games at 1440p well. 4K, you will need to use upscaling and lowering settings, but is still doable.

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.

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 just bought a 3090ti FE for 954 shipped including tax. Crazy times but I needed the 24 GB of VRAM.

Why? You could literally have spent a little extra money and grab a 5080…

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 quiet and runs very well.

3090 is a monster card. Productivity, gaming, it'll handle anything.