EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Report

I joined the EVGA queue for a RTX 3090 back on October 5th. Finally was my turn to buy a couple days ago.

Picked up an EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra for $1799 + tax and Shipping.

System before upgrade:

Supermicro 7047gr-trf
2x XEON 2697 v2
256gb 1866 Mhz DDR3 system ram
3 x 1080ti
8x 2tb SSD raid 5
Decklink 4k 12G Extreme
Win 10
Resolve 16.2.8
Nvidia driver 460.89

Pulled the 3 x 1080ti gpus and replaced with the single 3090.

First impressions in Resolve so far:

- No more "Out of GPU Memory" errors in 4k timelines.

- The Fusion page is usable now. With the 1080ti the fusion page was laggy, buggy, and prone to crash. Now it feels like I can throw anything at it and it's very responsive.

Very happy so far with this purchase!

Gratz!!
How is the processing performance compared to the 3x1080Ti?

I thought the MSRP on those was supposed to be $1499. What gives?

I thought the MSRP on those was supposed to be $1499. What gives?

The NVidia FE version is $1499. Custom AIBs vary. This one is listed as $1800 from the EVGA store.

A colleague got two of these at the price of €2000 each for LW/Octane Renderer. The price seems about right.

Gratz!!
How is the processing performance compared to the 3x1080Ti?

I should have ran a series of benchmark renders on the old cards vs the new for an accurate % increase in processing speed. I was too excited when I got the card and immediately started tearing my computer apart.

I do have a VERY intense timeline using 5 frame Best NR and 4 X super scale. With the 3 x 1080ti I got 2-4 fps. Getting about 8.5 fps with the single 3090.

Anecdotally, the single 3090 feels faster in all tasks compared to the 3 x 1080ti.

When you do a lot of upscalling, Topaz Video Enhance AI might be the better program.

If you want near perfection, use Neatvideo for denoising and VEAI for upscaling.

When you do a lot of upscalling, Topaz Video Enhance AI might be the better program.

Good looking out! I'll look into it.

If you want near perfection, use Neatvideo for denoising and VEAI for upscaling.

I use Neat extensively! It's truly the best for noise reduction, but often the Resolve NR does a sufficient job and renders faster.

That’s right, I also use it for difficult footage only.
The same applies to VEAI, in some cases SuperScale is enough and it’s much faster.
BTW, VEAI can de-interlace now.