Friday, March 5th 2021
GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 Hall Of Fame (HOF) Edition GPU Benched with Custom 1000 W vBIOS
GALAX, the maker of the popular premium Hall Of Fame (HOF) edition of graphics cards, has recently announced its GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Edition GPU. Designed for extreme overclocking purposes, the card is made with a 12 layer PCB, 26 phase VRM power delivery configuration, and three 8-pin power connectors. Today, we have managed to get the first comprehensive review of the card by a Chinese YouTube channel 二斤自制. However, this wasn't just regular testing being conducted on a card with factory settings. The channel has applied 1000 Watt vBIOS to the GPU and ran it all on the air cooler the GPU comes with.
In the default 420 Watt setting, the card has been running with a GPU clock of 1845 MHz and a temperature of 69 degrees Celsius. However, when the 1000 Watt vBIOS was applied to the card, the GPU core has managed to ramp to 2000 MHz and consume as much as 630 W of power. If you were wondering if the stock cooler was able to handle it all, the answer is yes. The card has reached a toasty 96 C temperature. While GALAX doesn't offer BIOS like this, the ID of the BIOS corresponds to that of a custom XOC 1000 W BIOS for EVGA Kingpin GeForce RTX 3090 GPU, which you can find in our database. When it comes to performance, the gains were very minimal at only 2-3%. That must have been due to the insufficient cooling, and the card could have done much better on water or LN2. The Firestrike Ultra and Firestrike Extreme results are displayed below.
Sources:
二斤自制 (Chinese YouTube Channel), via VideoCardz
In the default 420 Watt setting, the card has been running with a GPU clock of 1845 MHz and a temperature of 69 degrees Celsius. However, when the 1000 Watt vBIOS was applied to the card, the GPU core has managed to ramp to 2000 MHz and consume as much as 630 W of power. If you were wondering if the stock cooler was able to handle it all, the answer is yes. The card has reached a toasty 96 C temperature. While GALAX doesn't offer BIOS like this, the ID of the BIOS corresponds to that of a custom XOC 1000 W BIOS for EVGA Kingpin GeForce RTX 3090 GPU, which you can find in our database. When it comes to performance, the gains were very minimal at only 2-3%. That must have been due to the insufficient cooling, and the card could have done much better on water or LN2. The Firestrike Ultra and Firestrike Extreme results are displayed below.
36 Comments on GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 Hall Of Fame (HOF) Edition GPU Benched with Custom 1000 W vBIOS
These cards are NOT efficient when ramped up
Also I got more efficiency out of my Ampere card when undervolting it rather than overvolting it.
not much practical Use to overclock nowdays.
EVGA 3090 XC3 ULTRA HYBRID
trog
This is one of the reasons Nvidia "invented" their 12pin connector for the RTX3000 series, because by using a single 12pin micro connector from Molex they could ignore the PCI-E spec without breaking it. And because it wasn't part of the PCI-E spec they could claim it was rated for whatever wattage they felt like (as long as it didn't exceed Molexs own specs ofc). Had the 12pin connector been part of the PCI-E spec it would only have been rated for 100-150w.
this example has Dual GA100 chips, not GA102s
25523 (27679 Graphics) - Fire Strike Extreme
13879 (13970 Graphics) - Fire Strike Ultra
The thing is; the 3090 has so many little cores in there, a small increase can run into hundred of watts. AMD is right. The future of GPU's is'nt one big phat chip anymore, but multiple chips put together.
On an off topic note, AMD's 6700 XT is not going to be a reliable card. That card's base clock is at 2300+ MHz. Yes, base clock. That card will degrade super fast.