1080Ti out, and in the 4090, OMG what have I done...

[Pilotasso]

Sometimes I am like that. I told you in another thread that I would get the RX7900XTX but I ended up ordering a 4090 instead  

It is Strix ASUS variant, was in stock but I have to wait them to ship it from central warehouse to the store which is more like a street quiosque.

Why?

There are both logical and illogical reasons I did that.

 

The Illogical:

- Recently I changed jobs with 50% upgrade of wage so I decided to treat myself with a little something something.

- Deep down I am crazy mad scientist type.

- Right now I'm more for the fun of it rather than practicality.

-A bit of impulse buy

- I am barely not married and have no one's wrath to answer for.

- kinda breaks my heart not to build a full red system.

The (barely) logical:

- I buy GPU's for the long run and milk them for what they are worth. My 1080ti is 5&1/2 years old. Legendary card but it starts to show its age.

- 4090 draws more watts than the 7900XTX reference but AMD partners side of things draw almost same as the 4090 anyway and those were the ones I was after. My intention was to tweak it's raster perf. to 4090 levels.

- 7900XTX has a bug that makes it consume 1000W on idle, I would end consume more than the 4090 over time, who knows when that will get fixed.

- Undervolting the 4090 while keeping performance is possible. Now I want to to the reverse of the abobe, tweak the 4090 to consume less than a partner 7900XTX while still keeping it the fastest card overall.

- 7900XtX hopelessly slower in any upscale or ray tracing tech. May not matter now, but remember I buy for the long run.

- 4090 is so far ahead in this tech that 4090 will still look good VS RDNA4, even if it gets beaten.

- FSR3 is still a promise, good or bad green team has their stuff working out of the box.

- I saw a local shop price the strix as the 2nd lowest partner card (INNO3D being the lowest), by a difference of 300€-500€ compared to others (depending on shop)... I couldn't believe it, maybe a mistake on their part (everywhere else its the most expensive by quite a substantial margin) and could not resist.  I will not tell you how much. Everything is waaaaaaaaaay over MSRP.

- Matching RGB scheme

 

I was in the market for a card for a while now, I skipped the 30/6000 series as I was not impressed with their perf and price, and at the time I was kind shorter on funds than I am now for reason I explained above.

Last month I upgraded my rig with a phanteks P600S and a SEASONIC Prime 1000W PSU (along with alot of RGB unicorn vomit) in preparation for a new card (in the pic below).

 I also ordered CABLEMOD's 12VHPWR RT series power cable, and signed up for their 90 degree power adapter launch.

 

 

 

The rest of my system specs are: 

CPU: AMD RYZEN 5950X
RAM: 32 GB 4266Mhz (two 2x8 kits) of trident Z RGB @3600Mhz CL 14 CR=1T
MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VI AM4
Cooler: Corsair iCUE H115i RGB Elite Capellix280mm AIO
Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2+6GB WD 6Gb red

Edited December 19, 2022 by Pilotasso
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[Pilotasso]

OK guys, here's the photos of the upgrade.

Installation went smoothly, although that 12V cable adapter rubs on the side panel.

Still testing the system, I will post some benchies. I noticed I got 3.5X more perf from this 4090 as compared to my older 1080Ti. BTW check out their sizes differences LOL.

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[Lurker]

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I am barely not married and have no one's wrath to answer for.

I would really like to know what barely not married means....

[Pilotasso]

Ran away from the altar  J/K

[EightyDuce]

I've been on the hunt myself (never thought finding a $1600 gpu in stock would be this difficult), figured easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Figured if it lasts me 5 years like the 1080ti did, it's not as big of a blow haha. 

[Pilotasso]

Here's a quick benchmark run, 1080Ti VS 4090 on a 5950X...on PCIE 3, not 4 (very old motherboard).

Look at them frame rates (focus on the GPU side of results ) 3 times faster.

 

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Edited December 21, 2022 by Pilotasso

[Pilotasso]

Just to compare a last gen 5950X on PCIE3 e VS Intel12900K on PCIE4

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Source: https://www.eteknix.com/amd-radeon-rx-7900-xt-7900-xtx-review/7/

 

 

 

Not much of a difference between PCIE3 and PCIE4

Edited December 21, 2022 by Pilotasso

[Droning_On]

how is the Ryzen 5950X holding up with the 4090 ??  running a 5600x at the mo and this looks like an interesting future upgrade path.  Curious to know how much perfomance of the 4090 is lost with that. CPU.