Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti Review ft. MSI & Palit

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.

Removing noise levels from the equation, we also look at noise-normalised temperatures, with fan speeds set to output 40dBa. The MSI Suprim X ran coolest here, but only by 2C when looking at the GPU hotspot temperature. We also tested both BIOS for the Palit GameRock, as the P BIOS does have a 10W higher power target, but even that didn't make a difference to thermals once we had set the same fan speed for both BIOS.

As for noise-normalised memory temperatures, once again both Palit BIOS modes performed the same, with the GDDR6X running 4C hotter than the Suprim X.

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