ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 Trinity OC 24GB GDDR6X 384-bit 21 Gbps PCIE 4.0 Gaming Graphics Card, IceStorm 3.0 Advanced Cooling, Spectra 2.0 RGB Lighting, ZT-D40900J-10P

Customer Reviews (10)

1. 

   ~:TLH:~ – May 31, 2020

   Rated 4 out of 5

   This card is a bit pricey at the moment but in -line with current market. If you can wait you should.

   Performance boost over my previous AMD RX 6900 XT is marginal, but I had some diver issues with the AMD card. I also had driver issues with a 3090 OC card which is why I choose to give the 4090 a try.

   I still get some black screen issues with the graphics driver when my system comes out of sleep mode but a quick Crtl+Win+Shift+B resets the driver and takes care of the issue.

   I primarily went with this card for the VRam as I am working with AI models locally that require a large amount of VRam and Nvidia cards to run smoothly. The modeling performance increase is significant over the 3090.

   For gaming my CPU which is a AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is now the bottle neck of the system. I’ve pushed this graphic card to its limit and the heat and noise levels stay within the thresholds I have set without issue. This card is substantially quieter than the founders edition, and I have had no issues with the power connector heating up or melting as some cards and cables have been know to do.

2. 

   Cameron S. – October 28, 2020

   Rated 5 out of 5

   I understand the hesitance to shell out $2k+ for ‘scalper’ prices in the first days of the 4090 release, but for once in tech history I think it’s actually worth it. I paid $2150 for a $1700 MSRP variant Zotac Trinity OC edition 4090, yet I held out and waited for an RTX 3080 for almost a year after its initial release to find some sort of ‘good deal’ and never even considered the 3090/Ti series. The reason is because the pricepoints to performance almost never make sense in the flagship x090 series, they’re always just marginal bumps over the mainstream x080 (or x070) series for astronomically higher prices. The 4090 is different though. This thing is ~50% more powerful than the to-be-released 4080, and trumps the 3090Ti over 2:1 in many cases.

   Plus you get the added luxury of its expansive 24GB of VRAM (My 3080’s bottleneck was always that, I had a 10GB card and stuttering/detail settings had to stay stuck to where I wouldn’t exceed the 10GB limit- people may say “even 10GB is overkill!”, well play any modern title on ‘Ultra’ at high resolutions (1440P and above)+keep a sensor on your VRAM consumption and you’ll see how important that factor actually is (and how quickly it hits capacity in many, many games).

   My first Zotac was an RTX 2070 and I was pleasantly surprised by how stable and plug&play it was vs some of the competition with proprietary management software and weird, glitchy gimmicks (such as the Aorus Master series that has a really cool-in-concept LCD panel on the heatsink, but is a nightmare to maintain and keep animating/showing sensor info reliably). Just stick it in, and it does what it says on the tin perfectly. And I actually use Zotac Firestorm (their overclock utility) universally with all my GPUs now, it’s my overclocking tool of choice (used to be MSI Afterburner but Zotac is just more to-the-point and aesthetically pleasing), so from their HW to their SW this is one great GPU vendor.

   So this 4090 looked like a strong contender for a solid launch 4090, and I can happily confirm it sure is now owning one. Everyone knows about the power of the 4090, I don’t need to go into details there. But again, coming from my 3080, that VRAM bump along with the incredible Raytracing horsepower bump too, has let me go through every laggy/stuttery/low fps scene in every game I took note of (like indoor
   clubs in Cyberpunk 2077, heavy campaign scenes in MW2, overall performance in BF2042, etc) and runs it all like butter now.

   If you were willing to shell out $2k+ (even $3k at a point) for the 3000 series, or you were hesitant to ever get flagship GPU models because of their skewed value:performance ratio, this card has bucked both those trends entirely now. The value is unbeatable even if the pricepoint is eyewatering. We’re no longer in the 1st gen Raytracing era, so there’s really not a lot of risk being an early adopter like there was with the comparably anemic 2000 series when it first came out. If you can budget for this card, you should grab it.

3. 

   James Sovlinsky – February 22, 2021

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Stock, it’s a big card. It also needs some juice. Make sure your case and PSU are up to the task. I waterblocked mine, so it’s really not that big. The stock cooler works great, but I already have a Tower 900 and custom loop. Didn’t make sense to not integrate it.
   Stock HSF keeps it around 65-70C under heavy load. Under water mine hits maybe 52C as the highest I’ve seen, though that is with a 5800X3D dumping a substantial amount of heat into the loop as well.
   Full specs:
   Thermaltake Tower 900
   2X Thermaltake Pacific CL480 rads
   Thermaltake Pacific DIY LCS PR22-D5 300ml
   Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite
   2X Patriot Memory Viper Steel DDR4 16GB (2 x 8GB) 4400MH
   SABRENT 1TB Rocket Nvme
   2X Crucial MX500 4TB SSD
   LG C1 48″ OLED

4. 

   Adam Cohen – November 16, 2021

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Upgraded from an ROG STRIX 2080ti to this and a 13900k, and the performance bump is massive. Where previously I was hitting 40-45FPS with Raytracing on and High settings in games like Darktide at 3440×1440, I now hold at between 110-120FPS, with 1% lows of 80FPS, maxing out every setting. It is a brute force monster–games with complaints about poorly optimized performance will cause you no grief. Redfall hovers at 100FPS with every setting maxed. Fallen Order is at 80+. Atomic Heart is over 150.

   The cooler performs extremely well, rarely being audible over the sound of my case fans. At 99% GPU utilization, 80% VRAM consumption, and fans at 100%, GPU package temp maxes out at 85C, with VRAM modules usually being about 10C above package.

   I have two complaints about this card, and they are very minor. The first is that the “octopus” cable that’s included is pretty short. I’d have liked to hide the 4-into-1 spaghetti mess inside the PSU shroud of my case, rather than have that be so visible. If you have a PSU with the dedicated 12+4 connector, or don’t mind your cable management as much, it’ll be a non-issue.

   The other is with the card’s RGB. The Spectra RGB system Zotac uses requires an additional connection, rather than being managed through the PCI lane. Unlike ROG’s cards, you’ll need to connect this to a board header to get control of the onboard RGB, including turning it off. Otherwise, it remains “PC Blue,” which may clash with your color scheme if that’s a priority.

   Overall a great buy, and expect years of “Max Settings” gaming out of this card before it feels the pinch.

5. 

   Tyler – March 3, 2022

   Rated 1 out of 5

   Seller was an absolute horror to work with. I received a defective card (confirmed by two PC repair shops in my area). Seller ran out the clock on amazons “30 day return policy” and then refused to work with me any further. I wouldn’t buy a card through Zotac and specifically this sller – ever again – and if this review saves you from the same hell I’ve gone through over the last year then I consider it worth it.

6. 

   Stephan M. – March 19, 2022

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Hands down, by far, the best card I’ve ever bought (and at this price it had better be)

   i5 12500k
   32GB 3600 (OC’d) RAM

   Upgrading from a 6900xt to a 4090 has been provided an absolutely night and day difference. I’m running Ark at 4k DLS at 60-95fps. Previously running at 40-60fps at 1024×768 (1080p)

   170+ frames in Watch_Dog 2
   200 stable FPS (modified ini) in Smite
   150+ frames in Rust 4k
   190-300 frames in PUBG
   And – Because I’m old school – 225+ frames in Crysis.

7. 

   William K. Miller – May 23, 2022

   Rated 4 out of 5

   The card worked great, but it would not fit without removing both sets of HDD racks and I want my hard drives so that was unacceptable. I needed at least 2 more inches to make it fit.

8. 

   James P – September 2, 2022

   Rated 5 out of 5

   I ordered this item and paid waaay above MSRP, so I thought that this seller might be some kind of fly by night outfit. A good price was offered at the time, although not so good as to cause me to be concerned about the price being “too good to be true.” The price offered at the time of my order is irrelevant, as I am sure that in this crazy market for GPUs prices fluctuate daily. What is important to know is that my order was processed and mailed efficiently and timely. I ordered the item on Black Friday, and received it in 6 days. The GPU arrived undamaged and factory sealed. I plugged it in and it worked. I have only had a chance to update drivers and register with Zotac online so far, but I thought that I’d share that this seller appears to be legit and service was good.

9. 

   Robert Johnson – September 24, 2022

   Rated 5 out of 5

   I bought the Zotac 4090 Trinity OC to replace my aging GTX 1080 in my (back then) 10850k rig.
   I knew there would be a difference, but I couldn’t believe how big the difference really was even on the PCIE 3.0 Z490 board it was insanely fast!
   I kept watching videos showing scores better than mine though so I upgraded to a Z790 with an i7-13700k. Again, I couldn’t believe how big the performance gains were.
   If you are seriously looking at a 4090 and you have the money to get one – this one is super! I have had 0 problems with it. I am running a power supply that natively has the correct power connection on it.
   I have not overclocked it yet, but based on the temperatures it has a LOT of headroom for that sort of thing. There isn’t anything it can’t handle yet with its stock clocks and I don’t play anything competitively, so I left it alone. I am extremely happy with this video card. I know there are others that are faster out of the box, but this one holds its own with all of them and stays cool and quiet while doing it. The fans in my 280mm AIO are much louder than the GPU. 3dmark score from Sept 2023 was 37125 on a z790 /13700k rig. I am running DDR4 so it will do better on a DDR5 board. I got it for 1600 before the prices when up and I couldn’t be happier with it.

10. 

    Nate – December 10, 2022

    Rated 4 out of 5

    It is as advertised, but is not as feature rich as other cards. Zotac refuses to open up the tuning software with any kind of SDK so you can’t really sync the RGB with the rest of your machine unless you leave it a static color.