Packaging

The Card

The card follows Zotac's GeForce 30 AMP Holo design theme almost exactly. The colors on the card are black with various shades of gray. Running along the top edge is a Spectra RGB lighting element, which creates amazing RGB effects. On the back, you'll find a high-quality metal backplate that curves into the sides.


Dimensions of the card are 36.5 x 15.0 cm, and it weighs 2085 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 three slots in your system.


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


Zotac has placed several voltage measurement points on the PCB, but they are impossible to reach without disassembling the card.


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 technically states that if the four small sense pins aren't connected, the card should limit itself to 150 W, NVIDIA made sure even the 3x 8-pin adapter scenario, which can provide 525 W total (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.


As you can see, a lot of space is wasted near the end of the card for a plastic cooler shroud that really doesn't add anything except to make the card longer, which complicates installation in some cases.

Teardown

Zotac's thermal solution uses eight heatpipes. The main heatsink not only cools the GPU, but also provides cooling for memory chips and VRM circuitry. The thermal pads on the VRM are 2.3 mm thick, and those on the memory are 2.0 mm thick.


The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.