30xx Series Founders Edition

[GreatAuk]

the retailer is doing strange things with the 3090 FE. it's now listed on its own branded pages as in stock, yet not searchable afaiks. that's after yesterday listing it twice on different urls with nvidia branding. wtf?

I've noticed that for other FE cards too - they don't show up in searches and I can't see any direct links, so you literally have no way of buying one if you're not in a discord server that sends you direct links, even if you happened to be browsing the website when they come in stock! Very odd.

 

[adamg64]

I only recently upgraded from 16 to 32 gigs, looks like it was just as well going by the sudden increase in ram usage.

I was told numerous times 16gb would be suffice but found a great deal for some Corsair vengeance RGB 2X16gB 3600mhz so couldn't say no.

 

[mid_gen]

I've noticed that for other FE cards too - they don't show up in searches and I can't see any direct links, so you literally have no way of buying one if you're not in a discord server that sends you direct links, even if you happened to be browsing the website when they come in stock! Very odd.

They're linked to from nVidia's webshop.

 

[opethdisciple]

Arrived today!

Spoiler

 

[colincarter]

Yup, I'm going to miss how quick and sleek the amd software is, it really is lightyears ahead of nvidia imo.

at least the nvidia software is stable, unlike the amd drivers

 

[A2B]

They're linked to from nVidia's webshop.

Not for me, Nv 3090FE link still says "Out of Stock" but it's still live at the retailer?

 

[mart1985]

My RTX 3090 FE arrived today (hurray!). I mainly play Warzone and just tried it out and was achieving around 140 FPS at 1440p on max settings. I only have 16GB of RAM at the moment which may be limiting it, is there anything else I should be looking at as I have seen benchmarks achieving around 180 maxed out.

 

[gpuerrilla]

My RTX 3090 FE arrived today (hurray!). I mainly play Warzone and just tried it out and was achieving around 140 FPS at 1440p on max settings. I only have 16GB of RAM at the moment which may be limiting it, is there anything else I should be looking at as I have seen benchmarks achieving around 180 maxed out.

What CPU etc?

 

[Gerard]

at least the nvidia software is stable, unlike the amd drivers

Wrong.

 

[mart1985]

What CPU etc?

AMD R7 3700x
Gigabyte X570 GAMING X mobo
Gigabyte Aorus P750 Gold psu

All stock.

 

[SaBBz]

AMD R7 3700x
Gigabyte X570 GAMING X mobo
Gigabyte Aorus P750 Gold psu

All stock.

You’re bottlenecked by your CPU in Warzone. Check the GPU utilisation using the Afterburner overlay.

 

[JediFragger]

at least the nvidia software is stable, unlike the amd drivers

Fanboy alert.

 

[mid_gen]

Not for me, Nv 3090FE link still says "Out of Stock" but it's still live at the retailer?

Is it? Links I had were dead still...

 

[madindehead]

There are certain things I like about the Nvidia drivers. Like the 'Prefer maximum performance' option. Apparently that just does not exist in the AMD drivers.

 

[mart1985]

You’re bottlenecked by your CPU in Warzone. Check the GPU utilisation using the Afterburner overlay.

I'm only getting ~50% CPU usage compared to 80% for GPU.

 

[montymint]

So, coming from AMD I'd normally undervolt and use AMDs in built metric to watch power draw , clocks and temps.

Does Nvidia offer this or is it atill all third party?

 

[crazyDAJT]

I'm only getting ~50% CPU usage compared to 80% for GPU.

this suggests you are leaving performance on the table, your CPU although not fully utilised (as games are lightly threaded) isn’t fast enough.

Crank the setting more as your GPU should be at 98%+

edit: try enabling reflex with boost, this might help

Edit 2: I get around 100 FPS with a GTX 1080 and 3900x (but in a VM with only 6 cores) so should be very similar performance CPU wise. With mid settings.

 

[gpuerrilla]

I'm only getting ~50% CPU usage compared to 80% for GPU.

Yeah I think thats a bit of a factoid. My 3600 handles warzone OK and yours is better than that. I played WZ and its a bit hit and miss especially each Giga-patch they usually break something so would image its poor optimisation. As said though would be better to view the usage over time graphs and monitor the info to get a better diagnosis.

 

[greatash]

at least the nvidia software is stable, unlike the amd drivers

 

[mart1985]

this suggests you are leaving performance on the table, your CPU although not fully utilised (as games are lightly threaded) isn’t fast enough.

Crank the setting more as your GPU should be at 98%+

edit: try enabling reflex with boost, this might help

Edit 2: I get around 100 FPS with a GTX 1080 and 3900x (but in a VM with only 6 cores) so should be very similar performance CPU wise. With mid settings.

Ah ok, so I would need to upgrade my CPU as well as buy more RAM (currently only 16GB)?