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5.0 out of 5 starsTriple Screen 4K Gaming, Very fast card, much better value than new 3090 or 3090ti as of July '22
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2022
As others have reviewed this card did had slight coil whine when I first got it. PowerColor on the box recommends at least a 950W PSU and I only had an EVGA 850W Gold so I upgraded to a EVGA 1000W Platinum PSU and the coil whine went away and is even quieter than my wife's PowerColor 6800XT. This is a heavy card so I highly recommend using the included GPU bracket to prevent card sag long term and PCIE x16 socket stress. I play triple screen 4k games, (75% of 8k resolution) and stock card settings on COD Vanguard with ultra settings, triple 4k, FSR set to ultra quality, I get 85-90 fps with dips down to 75 so it keeps my 70hz 4k monitors well fed. Flight Simulator 2020 gets 22-25fps on high settings triple 4k so enough to fly but not ultra smooth, such a non optimized game. Far cry 5 triple is 45-55 fps on ultra so a bit lower. I should note these numbers are with Smart Access Memory enabled as well. Also for context my CPU is a Ryzen 9 - 5950x. I have found that AMD's eyefinity surround works much better and more consistent than nVidia surround. I did have an EVGA 3070 and had soo many issues with surround, like disabling monitors in windows after leaving surround mode. I like eyefinity's ability to go into surround only when playing games as this is my work-from-home PC so for premier pro, affinity publisher and the like I prefer the normal Windows scaling experience. This card pulls around 289W on stock settings and temps are decent (70c), enabling extra watts via +20% power makes this card pull 346 watts and gets very warm, (82c-85c). My case is a Thermaltake View 71 (Large Case) and my CPU is on a 360 radiator so there is decent airflow with my additional 5 case fans. I did buy a damaged box card (saved $150 buying from Amazon Warehouse) and the card has been great so far.
