Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC Graphics Card Review

Acoustics

The acoustic performance of a graphics card is very important, it’s one thing for a graphics card to do a great job rendering your game, but if it sounds like a jet engine while it does it, it may detract from the gaming experience. Ideally, we’re looking for lower noise here, while still delivering great cooling performance. Lower noise levels mean there’s still overhead to push the cool harder while overclocking.

More performance, and less heat, but along with temperatures, we have to talk about acoustics, and again, it’s pretty decent. At 45.2 decibels during gaming, it’s the loudest card we tested, but it’s only less than 1 decibel more than the 3090 Ti Gaming OC, which I never found to be overly loud anyway. As you’d expect, during idle desktop work, the fans will completely shut off, and I’d assume that during gaming, you’d have headphones on, so it kind of becomes a bit of a moot point.