Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3090 Ti Xtreme Waterforce Review

1. Introduction2. Aorus RTX 3090 Ti Xtreme Waterforce3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Memory Temperatures10. Acoustics11. Noise-Normalised Temperatures12. Power Draw13. Overclocking14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled. A reading under load comes from running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

Thankfully, the Xtreme Waterforce is nice and quiet, hitting just 37dBa on our sound meter. That was with the fans spinning at 39%, or 1115rpm, and to my ear there was no audible pump whining either, so we can no complaints about noise from any area of the card.

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