{"id":123640,"date":"2022-02-15T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123640"},"modified":"2022-02-15T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:58:21","slug":"the-big-ferocious-graphics-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/123640-the-big-ferocious-graphics-card","title":{"rendered":"GeForce RTX 3090 – The big ferocious graphics card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deciding which Graphics Card (GPU) to use in your PC is a crucial choice.<\/p>\n

Your graphics card is central to your PC’s capabilities and what games you’ll be able to run.<\/p>\n

With a good GPU, you\u2019ll be able to play games at a high FPS and clean visuals, but with a poor GPU, your experience will suffer.<\/p>\n

Therefore if money weren\u2019t an issue for purchasing a GPU, I would buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090.<\/p>\n

Referred to as a \u201cBig Ferocious GPU (BFGPU)\u201d on the Nvidia GeForce products page, the RTX 3090 represents everything you could want in a graphics card.<\/p>\n

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is a top-of-the-line GPU.<\/p><\/div>\n

The RTX 3090 focuses on ray tracing with enhanced Ray Tracing (RT) Cores, Tensor Cores and new streaming multi-processors.<\/p>\n

When combined with 24GB of G6X memory, the GPU can run just about anything at the highest possible settings.<\/p>\n

The focus on ray tracing is particularly noteworthy as many newer games use the resource-taxing feature to significantly enhance their visuals.<\/p>\n

As a result, many of the older graphics cards don’t support ray tracing and those that do don’t offer the same level of performance as the RTX 3090.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one of the most significant drawbacks of the RTX 3090 is the cards sheer size.<\/p>\n

The RTX 3090 is about as long as a PlayStation 2, which could\u00a0necessitate the purchase of a larger PC case.<\/p>\n

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The RTX 3090 GPU is a very large graphics card.<\/p><\/div>\n

A small price to pay for such computing power.<\/p>\n

What isn\u2019t a small price, though, is the card’s retail cost. Starting at around R50,000, the RTX 3090 is among the most expensive GPUs on the market at the moment.<\/p>\n

So if money weren’t a factor, I would pick the RTX 3090, but for most gamers, it’s exorbitantly priced.<\/p>\n

Then I\u2019d need to find a case, motherboard and CPU capable of running this BFGPU in my price range \u2013 a more challenging task by far.<\/p>\n

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Read:<\/strong> Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is free on Steam right now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If money wasn’t a problem I would buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":123641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2420,47,6292,45,25720],"class_list":["post-123640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-card","tag-nvidia","tag-rtx-3090"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123644,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123640\/revisions\/123644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}