NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition

You’re probably gonna get ripped off if you want one of these in the first half of this year. Anyone can buy the latest cards to mine with, and thus they just don’t make sense at MSRP. Hold steady with what you’ve got if you don’t want to partake in the inevitable crappiness of supply and demand.

I upgraded from a zotac 2080 Ti to this card and the difference despite only being a generation apart is huge. All of my games run smoother, the more intensive games I can run at even higher quality, and some weird compatibility issues with the zotac card are gone. This card just works and it works incredibly well.

The only thing to note is that cards like these are all going for crazy high prices. I wouldn’t say that’s the sellers fault necessarily, just the state of GPUs in this economy. I looked up what a 2080 Ti is going for on Newegg and they’re going for $2,000. If you’re looking at buying between a 2080 Ti and this 3090, spend the extra couple hundred bucks and get the 3090. Otherwise I’d say wait for the prices of cards to come back down or just hold out for the 40 series cards.

i’ve bought several GPU’s for mining and all either come plastic wrapped from the manufacturer and/or sealed with the manufacturer’s tape. This box had neither and the first thing you will see when you open the box is – “a 50% restocking fee applies to opened boxes”.

The performance is garbage and i can’t get it above 105mh without risking serious damage to the chip. it runs consistently at 110C while mining without even pushing it which is incredibly dangerous. Even with the chip running with full clearance around it, while overclocking -450/+1,000 + 80-85% power and 100% fan speed, it STILL can’t get it under 106C while mining. It self throttles before going above 110C and burning out, but this alone makes me super skeptical that it’s new.

I know 3090’s run hot while mining but not like this. I have another 3090 that i bought new (that actually had manufacturer tape on it when i bought it) and it runs smoothly with pushed overclock settings at 125mh and doesn’t even hit above 90C. This is how out of the box 3090s should run when they’re new.

Ok fine maybe it’s just the founder’s brand that performs poorly, it should still benchmark decently right? Wrong. The last thing i did was benchmark the GPU and sure enough it doesn’t even perform above the 8th percentile in comparison to every other 3090 GPU out there. It is literally impossible for this product to be new with such a subpar performance, and most likely the result of heavy consistent use for months.

Guy keeps saying that it was sealed and he has a photo of it. Funny since i can use the exact same tape, “seal it”, take a picture and also say that it is brand new. The fact that he has the restocking fee threat when you first open the box tells me that he knows what he’s doing and now i’m fighting to get a refund… Buyer beware.

I bought this for a young ML Engineer on our team and he loves it 🙂 He is right now training an deep network powering an entity matcher for an entity resolution model. He finds it performs very well for representation learning and for fine tuning representations for supervised learning tasks. He can use more layers and parameters and more costly hyperparameters.

I mean uh… fast GPU 🙂 What else is there to say?

I use this for video editing and motion graphics design. I have been able to edit in real time with 6k footage in DaVinci Resolve with up to 8 nodes with no problems whatsoever. I will caveat that by saying I have raid setups and a powerful Gigabyte motherboard and Intel chip. That being said, I had a 1080ti in the same system and constantly had to pretender as I went and it really slowed me down. Since the upgrade I have not slowed down a bit. And more importantly, when I used the card to render out vs the CPU the difference was night and day. The CPU might take 20-30 minutes and the card took about 4 minutes. That’s when I laughed out loud. Very very expensive but if you need fast bad, this will do it. Keep in mind, DaVinci Resolve does not take advantage of SLI technology. I was trying to connect two 1080ti cards and that’s when I realized that and had no choice but to get this 3090. Glad I did.