The card was bigger than I thought but thankfully fit well in my case so please do check the compatibility for your case! The build quality is impressive and I have no comments in that regard.

It runs fairly cool at around 50c - 56c on the core at max power and is virtually silent compared to the 3080 Ti I was running previously. Junction temps average about 80c with spikes to 84c, maybe a more aggressive fan profile would bring these down but I am happy with the standard fan curve.

It performs well for running local LLMs that can nicely fit into the 16GB VRAM capacity and handles 1440p gaming at Max settings well. It provided the memory I needed to run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 smoothly. It works great on Linux (Zorin OS) with Mesa and Proton and is virtually plug and play. Being able to natively run FSR4 in the games where it is supported is also a plus.

Great card, runs everything on ultra with ray tracing and runs more than 100fps smoothly, please note tho that if you are playing demanding titles, make sure you have a 850watt gold rated psu or higher

coming from a 1080ti,

Great Performance weird driver quirks nothing serious, I have 3 monitors ,1x27"(1440p) @60hz, 1x27"(1440p) @165hz, and a 40" (1080) tv @ 60hz, the tv is off for the most part but my 165hz monitor will blank for a second or two when turning the tv on (when the monitor is @ 165hz, dropping it stops this).

Idle power board power is around 40~50watts, system will drop 98watts after monitors go to sleep & are off, normal power usage is around 130watts with all monitors on, ~145w when watching twitch on 2nd monitor, gaming is around 350~450watts system power "at the wall"

-Its very quiet and cool compared to my old 1080ti(72c+), this card (PULSE) is around 53~54c, I have around 6 case fans 120/140mm, under load in games like Squad, Arc-radiers, EFT, APEX legends...and Cronos: new dawn

I'm on old AM4 cpu platform, (ryzen5 3600) 32gb of ram, some games cpus are limited but depends on the game, but other wise most games are between 60 to 165fps+

will notice mosfet/"coil" whine at 500FPS+

Solid performance, happily running everything I've thrown at it at 1440p High/Ultra. Even at full utilization, the card runs cool and quiet. I'm using a Lancool 217, and temps don't exceed 65c, with acoustics that don't sound like a jet engine (like my previous rig). Amazing value for money too.

Had to get a new case to cater for the size of the card, otherwise it was dead easy to install and setup.

Getting excellent performance running 4K at Ultra. Starfield, Conan Exiles, Enshrouded are the only ones I have tested so far and performance is great so far.

Note: I run on a PCIe 4 buss on a 750W PSU. Haven't had any issues so far.

Other machine specs that may be relevant: AMD 7, B650 MB, 64GB DDR5 M2 drives.

It has drivers that work.
It has power connectors that won't melt.
It has 16GB of RAM which helps future proof.
It can do decent ray tracing (if that's your thing)
It gives excellent performance.
Did I mention it has 16GB of RAM?!

The card maker has the name name as my ex, but this thing actually has 0 issues and doesn't (coil) whine, which is a plus in my book.

If you value any of the above, this is the card you are looking for.