Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3090 Ti Xtreme Waterforce Review

1. Introduction2. Aorus RTX 3090 Ti Xtreme Waterforce3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Memory Temperatures10. Acoustics11. Noise-Normalised Temperatures12. Power Draw13. Overclocking14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

Following on from our stock thermal and acoustic testing, here we re-test the operating temperature of the GPU, but with noise levels normalised to 40dBa. This allows us to measure the efficiency of the overall cooling solution as varying noise levels as a result of more aggressive fan curves are no longer a factor.

We also tested noise-normalised thermals, with noise levels fixed at 40dBa, and as expected the Xtreme Waterforce is still comfortably the coolest-running RTX 3090 Ti we have tested, this time with a GPU temperature of 55C, and a hotspot of 69C.

Noise-normalised memory testing reveals that the GDDR6X is still running hotter than the other two cards tested, but it has at least dropped down by 2C, to 76C.

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