RTX 4090 Coil Whine | ASUS vs Gigabyte 

Asus nailed it best coil whine ever. Pay for coil whine not frames.

I love my Bigabyte 4090 Gaming OC. Is it the flashiest looking card? No but I'm not into that stuff.

Yesterday I received Gigabyte OC and I can confirm that it is absolutely silent. Before that, there was ASUS TUF, enormous noisy. I'm glad I returned it and took Gigabyte.

Thank you for this video. I very appreciate the oversized coolers of this new gen because finally you can get decent temps and noise levels on air cooling, but what is the point of all this if coil whine in now louder than ever. I just returned PNY 4090 because of it. I wanted to try FE before going with Gigabyte because they finally showed up in my county, but they are already sold out haha.

Very nice video we need videoes like this more , can u compare suprim x or trio with gigabyte too ?

is the gigabyte aorus master 4090 or the gigabyte gaming oc 4090 better for zero coil whine? I'm done with the founders edition (i've gone through 3 and they all have coil whine - one even had a worse binned silicon for oc than the other 2).

Hi Im about to buy a new 4090 card and im a bit confused, i need it for 3d modeling and rendering and i don't get bothered by a laoud sounds. Just want to know which one is working better and its temperature doesn't go high ?

thanks for saving me

when got my ps5 i had this issue but i fixed with turning off the rest mode option, also I read some gigabyte cards come with coin whine for the first 30 minutes of use, im hoping asus may release a new firmware for their 4090 oc, I have read posts where people have returned their cards, but im going to choose to live in hope.

Is this the same for 4070 ti super ?

I have the TUF and I get electrical interference from it too, so the coil whine comes out of my speakers as well (: Going to be returning the card.

Unbelievable!

Holyy asus is like tractor there, still happy with gigabyte, when u close case all good?

This has been a running theme with ASUS over the last few generations whilst Gigabyte has not.

I really love suprim x design but i I really dont know what to do

Another reason why I use a Fractal R6 case with solid side panel and situated under the desk. You don't hear any coil whine at all then :)

Yup my gigabyte was very quiet in terms of coil whine. The fans are louder compared to strix 4090 but strix 4090 has very bad coil whine

My ASUS TUF has some whine but way less noisy (similar to your Gigabyte), so I won't bother to return it. Also I'm using an old PSU with an adaptor for GPU power. I hope newer PSU can actually solve the problem completely.

I was gonna ask if it wasn't perhaps a cable getting clipped by the fan, then I remembered I had a zotac 1030gt that literally did the same thing under any amount of load ^^;

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I had this after a driver update on my Arc A770LE. After the next driver update it was again completely gone. Now on my new Strix G16 (13980HX 4080) sometimes it has coil whine and sometimes not. Especially on battery power.

ASUS GPUs typically have the loudest coil whine. HW cooling measured Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC and it had one of the least pronounced coil whine of all GPUs tested by them so far. Add frame limit, some undervolt, maybe underclock slightly, and it will get even more silent. Especially in a closed case like Nanoxia Deep Silence 8. Well done Gigabyte! This generation MSI has a bit more coil whine (was a clear winner last gen), so it's good to have an alternative.

i have asus tuf 4070 ti has coil whine sounds like gigabyte 4090. Should i return my card?

What resolution monitor are you using? I mean when I used a 2K monitor before, the coil whine would be loud. After I switched to a 4K monitor, the coil whine decreased significantly. Want to know more about this test platform🥰

Asus has been known to have coil whine with their GPU's more than other companies. I don't know if it's a matter of quality control or design but it is an issue for some of their cards.

for those who still survey GPU brand related to coil whine. i can confirmed Msi Gaming x Slim has no coil whine at least for my 4060 ti 16gb. not sure about 4070-4090 model

asus have dropped the ball lately with their mobos and now gpus. as for coil whine, it's the only thing stopping me from buying these top tier gpus.

I really want the asus 4090 because of the two HDMI ports. Should I go with the tuf or strix?

I had to return my tuf 4090 oc because of this, felt bad for my cat lol gigabyte is suppose to be here today and I'm really nervous but I have a tuf 3080 and there is like 0 coil whine so I thought the tuf 4090 was an obvious win but nope. Idk how these 2k cards can have such flaws, or how this wasn't in any of the major reviews I watched.

unfortunately, i got this too, at least, i have my guarantee, should i use it or leave it like that until something happens? :"0

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So nervous cause I got a Msi liquid x and it was HORRIBLE whine also had pump noise, exhancging it tomorrow for the aero gigabyte 4090 and it’s a 90 minute drive there and back so really hoping I don’t have to come back again for a different one cause of coil whine. It’s either this or Zotac and heard a lot of issues with zotac coolers and fans. Also aero white matches my build

Think I have had 13 4090s in my house now...lost track. Now, some will say "Mine is silent" but this is how it stands. The worst coil whine is Asus Strix and MSI Suprim X. The best is Gigabyte Gaming/Master and Zotac Extreme. One of the reasons is that the high-end cards used 70a inductors, and the others went with 50/55a. Asus knows their cards have a bad rep for it, and their 4090s are the worst offenders. With the new Matrix card due out, they even say that they have addressed coil whine with that card.

I got the same Asus card and i also notice some coil whine. Though i must say it is abit less than what you have. And if i wear headphones with game audio then i don't hear it that much. Which is atleast something.

Kept the right card there, regardless of coil whine - the cooling solution on the TUF sucks, it doesn't have a height adjusted baseplate for the ram and VRM's so uses thick AF heat pads, so the ram gets cooked at much higher temps than the Gigabyte. It also has a weaker power limit (520w vs the 600w on the gigabyte). Its just not a good card when compared against the Gigabyte.

Does coil whine cause any damage to gpu?

Bought a gigabyte 7800xt, was disappointed as fans are loud and regretted that I didn't get a 7800xt tuf. After watching this video I'm relieved, I'd rather have loud fans than loud coil whine, can always turn down fan cure to make fans quieter but there's nothing can do when it comes to coil whine

i have the gigabyte 4090......... i dont hear anything out of mine really. great card. gigabyte 4090 gaming oc

I have the ASUS 4090 TUC OC and the coil whine is significantly worse than in this video. The pitch is higher and it varies a lot based on in-game activity, which makes it even more annoying. I think I'm going to return it, but I just don't know which card to get. I got the Gigabyte OC but it had problems with fan noise and the RGB logic on it is really stupid, so I sent that back.

Thank you. I have PNY on order. Let's see what i can do. Hopefully CW mostly free, if not I might try Giga OC as yours sounds very promising.

I try buy 6750xt / 6700xt / 6800 for my old setup. MSI X370 Gaming pro Carbon Ryzen 7 5700x PSU: XFX XTR2 850 W Gold (Sesonic) / this same result in CORSAIR Shift RM1000x 1000W 80 Plus Gold PCIe5.0 PowerCooler 6700XT Hellhund 12G - 2 sample coil whine Shapire RX 6800 Plus Gaming - 2 sample very bad coil wihne PowerCooler 6800XT Red Devil -1 sample very very bad coil whine Gigabyte 6750x Auros Elite - 1 samle ligit coil whine sound, but it is not annoying and can not be heard in a closed housing In my case every card has coil whine .I'm thinking of sticking with gigabyte. It seems to me that manufacturers should produce these coils with better attenuation

Would be asom to see same tests but with Watt amount showing

I just got a TUF 4080... awesome card but this coil whine sh!@t is insane! Out of all the cards and xx80 series I have previously owned I have never come across this problem. Really not sure what to do...I might return within the return period. Then read up on reviews for others that have less to no coil whine.

I sended back 4 rog strix 4090 because of choilwhine and i dont think i try a 5 time and unfortunatly cant buys Gigabyte because of cracking pcbs :(

0:09 - aah yes. The fakin' 90 card...

I have a inno3d 4090 x3 oc and a inno3d 4080 x3 both have zero coilwhine. and they are one of the cheaper models of the 4090...

ROG strix has a pretty noticable coil whine too

I shouldve stayed gigabyte. I had no issues with my 1080 from them. I got a asus tuf 4080 and that whine can be obnoxious sometimes. Oh well. Lesson learned.

I've got gigabyte gaming, and no coil whine. I was thinking about strix first. It might be that in Europe where I reside coil whine is not as pronounced due to different current, not sure. Gigabyte doesn't feel premium though, I don't like the backplate, feels like cheap plastic. Other than that, a nice mount, cool coolers rgb, quite quiet. Sometimes it starts like a jet, once a day or two for 10 seconds, I guess it blows out the dust. I like it though

The strix is even worse! I took it back and swapped it for the Gigabyte Master 4090... its WHISPER quiet in comparrison!!!

So what’s worse? Gigabyte pcb crackage or asus coil whine? Hard choice.

Same coil whine on AMD cards from ASUS, just return and buy somthing else so they start fixing these!

Test with aliens fireteam elite.. this brings out the worst in a coil whine offender.. my 4090 fes both have it bad..

tuf then rog, push quality of tuf behind then push the price of rog to the sky of universe, asus so smart

It seems true that Gigabyte has the lowest coil whine. God, listening to the Asus coil whine is giving me ptsd.

Hello Irish man

I know you're saying "Forty Ninety" but it sounds like you're saying "F**king Ninety".

Recently ppl are sharing pics about gigabyte’s poor build quality and cracks appeared in pcb

I always knew that Asus is such a company that produces garbage.

Guess I'm screwed then, the asus cards are the only ones with 2 HDMI ports :|

4090 FE here with open-style case and ek sandwich waterblock. I hear plenty of coilwhine, much more than 3090 with sandwich EK block or optimus block. pretty disappointing.

The old farty 90

Does he really pronounce 4090 as "fucky ninety"?)

They both sound bad as hell…the inductors or capacitors sound like they are about to break off from vibration fatigue.

Coil whine=RMA

Fuckin Ninety?

Asus is pathetic.

i Have no coil whine i can not even hear a card when is tdping at 480 watts.. I have asus Tuf 4090 and i had asus rog strix 4090 BOTH are oc model. And i did not bent the cable like you did.. Because i read manual ON be Quiet how to place the cable.. 4cm straight line must be before you can bent the cable.. Because of ELECTRICITY and overheat can be there when u bent under 4 cm cable to the gpu. No wonder you have loud system and coil whine.. I sold asus rog strix oc because i earnd money 575 euros because now there is no stock anymore and i buy tuf model.. FPS difference and gpu clock difference... is TUF model while gaming Hallo or cs 2 2925mhz no overclock settings default with no software added. With asus rog stric oc 2950mhz. So for 25mhz difference.. pointless.. Yes Temp is different by 4 c only. When i oc both cards.. Clock difference is TUF model 2810mhz on gaming. And asus Rog Strix oc 2850mhz.

I guess you can't please anybody now a days. I don't mind the noise because my noise cancelling on my headset is on anyway.

Coil whine is a natural phenomenon, especially noticeable with high powered, high quality devices containing a large numbers of chokes. i.e The more chokes, the higher the likelyhood of coil whine, if you want to avoid it purchase a lower powered and lower quality device!