ZOTAC RTX 3090 Unboxing Video
Added 2022-09-16 01:02:31 +0000 UTCThis week an unexpected surprise arrived: a brand spanking new ZOTAC RTX 3090 from The Amazon! This card was on sale for $1090 plus tax, and apparently a free copy of Spiderman Remastered was included. I didn't see a code, so I got in touch with Amazon and they apologised, couldn't find the code either and then gave me $150 in store credit. "Will this be acceptable Sir", the nice support representative asked.
Yesterday morning an email arrived, with a code to that Spiderman game - worth $60 (apparently). I was over the moon, and I'm super grateful for the present(s) 🙏🙏🙏
In this quick video I'll show how I unbox the card, and how I install it. I was trying to make this happen in under 60 seconds so that it would fly as a YouTube Short, but I felt a 1min 30sec version would work better. In the end I've made two versions, one you see above, and a shorter one in square aspect ratio (gotta be honest, I'm not into all that TikTok malarkey).
I've already put the card to good use with rendering an animation in Blender, and I'm currently rendering another one in Daz Studio. So far it seems the 3090 is about 2.2-2.5x faster than a single RTX 2080. It's a really nice speed increase for my system, and thankfully my power supply is big enough to let both of them render under full load.
I'll keep you posted on my experiences with this new puppy :-)
Comments
I hear you! The 3090 is 3cm longer than my 2080 was, thankfully it still fits into my case (the other one is dangling out which is... good for ventilation I guess). Rumour has it that the upcoming top end 40xx cards will draw a whopping 500W or very close to it! That'll require its own power supply. Sounds to me as if they didn't make them better through efficiency, just made them more resilient to extreme loads. We'll find out in the big NVIDIA event I guess.
Jay Versluis
2022-09-16 03:47:55 +0000 UTCCongrats! If graphics cards keep getting larger pretty soon they are going to sell them as their own case, you then put your other components into the graphics card/case. :D
Dreamlab Studio
2022-09-16 02:15:09 +0000 UTC
