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[Solved] Asus Rog Strix 3090 - Gaming mode vs OC mode?

KrazeyKami
Level 7
Solved: nothing wrong with the card. The Asus Rog Strix 3090 (non-oc) has a stock boostclock of 1695 mhz @ 350 TDP. This is low compared to other cards (e.g MSI Trio) which have a stock boost of 1785 mhz @ 370 TDP. It explains the difference in scores and reviews.
After adding 165 mhz Core clock and 112% Powerlimit (on par with Strix OC version), much better results: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/70540804 (GPU score 20367).

Hello everyone,

I was experiencing sub-average results with my GPU. At some point, I noticed that this card should have 2 modes:

Gaming (1695 mhz)
OC Mode (1725 mhz)

This is also mentioned on the specs: https://rog.asus.com/graphics-cards/graphics-cards/rog-strix/rog-strix-rtx3090-24g-gaming-model/spec

When looking at GPU-Z, it seems my card is strictly in the Gaming mode (1695 mhz):

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When comparing this to other cards, I see that they all have the default boost clock at 1695, where the gpu boost clock is set to 1725.

My question:
How can I enable this OC mode?
It seems that this is the reason why I'm having worse 3DMark gpu scores than a 3080 Ti.

P.S.,
Should the P vs Q switch be used to enable this? Since it is in Performance, but I don't see any diffences.
Thanks in advance!

EDIT:
Found the answer. GPU Tweak III is needed for this, which has the 'OC Mode' option.

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It's simply setting power to 106% and adding 30 mhz to the clock. Still feel my 3D Mark results are sub-average:

Default Mode: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/25366699 (GPU score 18 811)
OC Mode: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/25367015 (GPU score 19 277)

Shouldn't my results be closer to 20k GPU score?
A friends' 3080 Ti (FE) scores 19 307 at stock / default settings (https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/70096477).
Granted it's not the same card, but still...

Also, I find theres a rather large gap between my clock and average clock frequency, compared to similar cards:

Clock frequency: 1.965 MHz
Average clock : 1.736 MHz

Other cards /w same specs
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Nate152
Moderator
Hi KrazeyKami,

Welcome to the ROG forum.

You should be able to squeeze more performance out of your ROG Strix 3090 by manually overclocking it with GPU Tweak III.

Thank you Nate 🙂

While I can indeed squeeze more performance out of the card when overclocking, it still yields much lower results.
I'm actually looking for an explanation why it is below average in stock mode (I'm in the low 10-20%). The best I can squeeze out of it is 20609 GPU score, and that is with a high OC (https://www.3dmark.com/spy/25296286). And yet, it's around the same values I see other people reach with stock.

Especially compared to the premium price for this card, I wouldn't expect to see 3080s get better results at a much lower price.

Are there any other owners of this exact card (Asus Rog Strix 3090) who can share their stock results?

STARRAIN_ROG
Customer Service Agent
Hi KrazeyKami,
Do you use our motherboard?
May I have the model name and the bios version?
Which PCIE slot do you install in the graphics card?
Do you install other PCIE devices?
Thank you.

Hi Starrain!

Yes, I use the ROG Crosshair VIII Formula.
My Bios is 3703.
The Graphicscard is in PCIEX16_1.
The only other PCIE device I use is a M.2 Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB.

Also, today I installed a waterblock. It lowered my GPU temperature to 25c idle, 48c when benchmarking. Vram is between 35 (idle) and 56 (bench), while memory junction is 38c (idle), peaks at 82c (bench). I re-ran the benchmark, but the results aren't much better. In fact, not only does my GPU seem to run at a lower average still, but now also my memory seems to go lower average...

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/25412783/spy/25366699

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STARRAIN_ROG
Customer Service Agent
Hi KrazeyKami,
I'm afraid the benchmark score is for reference and it is affected by the hardware specifications, software, settings and versions.
If you have any issues while using the graphics card, please send RMA for further examination.
Thank you.

STARRAIN@ROG wrote:
Hi KrazeyKami,
I'm afraid the benchmark score is for reference and it is affected by the hardware specifications, software, settings and versions.
If you have any issues while using the graphics card, please send RMA for further examination.
Thank you.


Ok, thanks for the response!