They always appear crazy in an effort to push their hardware to the maximum they can get and take them into extreme situations. And it seemed strange to us that the graphics card that consumes the most to date and at the same time the most powerful does not undergo the same treatment. Thus, they succeeded in arriving at a NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti until the 890W of consumption.
Graphics cards are limited by the amount of power supplied by the PCI Express socket, as well as the associated connectors. Whether it’s 6, 8, the new 16 pin or a combination of all. With this, not only the GPU or graphics chip must be powered, but also the accompanying video memory. However, that doesn’t mean that’s the limit a GPU can reach. This is why some manufacturers put additional connectors that allow the graphics card to take more power. Which allows them to achieve higher clock speeds.
In any case, we must not forget that each additional MHz reached after a certain point costs more to reach than the previous one. Because each time the necessary tension is higher and the consumption explodes. In any case, although it is possible to take some models of RTX 3090 Ti to 890W, we do not recommend doing so, because it could completely break it and nobody wants to have several thousand dollars invested in a press -paper. .
They manage to get an RTX 3090 Ti up to 890W
Don’t worry about them No RTX 3090 Ti released with 890W of consumption. Rather, it is an experience based on the use of a Non-NVIDIA graphics card BIOS and yet, ready for extreme overclocking. Which is used in extreme overclocking exercises where the use of extreme cooling systems is required. For example, we are talking about the use of liquid cooling not by water, but by liquid nitrogen.
In any case, taking into account that most RTX 3090s only use a PCIe Gen 5 slot, so outside of the base 75W they can’t get more than 675W as the maximum theoretical. In any case and in short, if we talk about the majority of the custom models of this graphics card: many of them cannot exceed 600 W and have cooling systems for the heat produced by a consumption of 500 W and no more. However, there are models with a dual 16-pin connector
Unfortunately, we don’t even know what clock speed can you achieve with extreme overclocking. Too bad because it could give us a glimpse of the limits of Nvidia’s graphics architecture in better conditions. So that might leave us with a clue as to what we can expect in the RTX 40, which will have the benefit of a new crafting node.
