Packaging

The Card

There is no doubt that this is an EVGA GeForce 30 card. The design language is easily recognizable and looks stunning. While the front is pretty much identical to other recent EVGA cards, the backplate has been improved considerably. Gone is the red line I liked, and the backplate is now much thicker and heavier, with nice surface structure, making this one of the best backplates I have ever encountered.


Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 2157 g.


These GeForce RTX 3090 Ti cards are enormous in size. From top left to top right: EVGA RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra, Zotac RTX 3090 Ti AMP Extreme, MSI RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X, and ASUS RTX 3090 Ti STRIX Liquid Cooled.

See the small AMD card in the bottom left? That's the Radeon RX 6900 XT, the fastest card the red team currently offers. Also included is the GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition in the bottom right.$10,000 in graphics cards right there!


Installation requires four slots in your system.


EVGA is offering a triple BIOS with their card. You may select between "Performance" (default), "Normal", which runs lower fan noise, and "OC," which turns off the idle-fan-stop capability.


Near the back of the card is a fan header to synchronize a case fan with the fans of the graphics card, and a connector to synchronize the RGB illumination with that of your motherboard.


Display connectivity options include one HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a ports.


The RTX 3090 Ti introduces the new 16-pin power connector—note the four small pins above the larger 12 pins. This connector is specified for up to 600 W power delivery. All RTX 3090 Ti cards come bundled with a 3x 8-pin to 12-pin adapter (the four small sense pins aren't used). While the ATX specification states that the card should limit itself to 150 W if the four small sense pins aren't connected, NVIDIA made sure even the 3x 8-pin adapter scenario, which can provide up to 525 W (3x 150 W + 75 W from the slot), runs the card at optimal settings.


The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti supports SLI, but know that NVIDIA isn't supporting SLI as implicit multi-GPU (SLI as you know it), but explicit multi-GPU that's developed and supported by game and application developers. With multi-GPU game support being pretty much non-existent, this basically means SLI is dead.


EVGA is bundling the "eLeash" for free with the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra. It's such an amazingly simple, ingenious idea. Instead of trying to support your graphics card from the bottom, you suspend it.

The eLeash components are well thought out. You can hook it into the case's top openings for a radiator, or into fan screws if you have a radiator installed. Once the top part is installed, hook in the cable, attach the other side to the opening on your graphics card, adjust the length, and boom, you're done. Simple and effective at minimal cost.

EVGA has an installation video with additional details.

Teardown

EVGA's heatsink uses a large baseplate to spread the heat and eight heatpipes that quickly move the heat away from the GPU.


The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling. Note the mini-heatpipe that's integrated into the backplate.