The RTX 3090 Ti is incredibly efficient when limited to 300W

Colleagues at Igor's Lab recently published a very interesting article related to the MSI Suprim version of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, NVIDIA's latest top of the consumer range, which can count on the brute power released by the fully enabled GA102 GPU with 10,752 CUDA cores (compared to 10,496 of the RTX 3090) coupled to 24GB of GDDR6X, produced by Micron, connected via a 384-bit interface.



Photo Credit: MSI Despite a decidedly important power, Igor's Lab has thought to limit consumption to 300W and adjust the clock frequency curve through Afterburner, in order to check its efficiency compared to other products on the market. In particular, it was compared with the Suprim versions of RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090 for NVIDIA, while for AMD the MSI Gaming X editions of the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT were used.


Indeed, the two cards provided comparable performance, but, while the RTX 3080 Ti consumed up to 409W, the RTX 3090 Ti maxed out at 314W. This means that the RTX 3090 Ti had 30% better efficiency than the RTX 3080 Ti. Similarly, compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which recorded at most 319W, it managed to be 16% faster on average.



Photo Credit: MSI