Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is the most powerful graphics card you can buy today, delivering playable 8K gaming performance, along with jaw-dropping 3D rendering and encoding performance. However, you have to pay a high price for this level of power, and it's probably not worth the investment for a vast majority of people.

This frankly enormous graphics card is supremely powerful, but is more worthy of its Titan credentials than the GeForce branding. For your average gamer it doesn't deliver enough over the RTX 3080 to make sense, but for the pro-creator it's a workload-crushing card.

But it is formidable if you deliver it to the right circumstances. Would we recommend this product? Ehm no, you are better off with GeForce RTX 3070 or 3080 as, money-wise, this doesn't make much sense. But it is genuinely a startling product worthy of a top pick award, an award we hand out so rarely for a reference or Founder product but we also have to acknowledge that NVIDIA really is stepping up on their 'reference' designs and is now setting a new and better standard.

Obviously, the $1,499 GeForce RTX 3090 Founder's Edition isn't an overall value play for the vast majority of users. If you're a gamer shopping for a new high-end GPU, the GeForce RTX 3080 at less than 1/2 the price is the much better buy.

The Nvidia RTX 3090 Founders Edition is a great graphics card. It doesn’t make sense for most gamers based on the price alone, but if you’re a video editor, 3D modeler, or are dipping your toes into 8K content, this is simply the best consumer GPU on the market today.

Pero volvamos al tema económico, que al final no deja de ser el más importante, partiendo de que su valor es de 1.549 euros en la web oficial de Nvidia. La comparación que todos hacemos en primer lugar es frente a la RTX 3080, la cual ofrece entre un 10% y un 20% menos de rendimiento por menos la mitad de precio, 719 euros.

But folks like me who are simply PC Gaming enthusiasts might just find themselves better suited with the likes of the Ampere Flagship gaming card instead. If you're loaded up on a 24+ core Threadripper and 128GB or more of memory then you very well are likely to be in the group of unique users who can truly benefit from the flexible nature and performance that the GeForce RTX 3090 offers.

The extravagant GeForce RTX 3090 is a poor value for pure gamers, but a stunning value for creators who can use its massive 24GB of memory. Nvidia's Founders Edition cooler is exceptional.