Review: GeForce RTX 3080 Founder edition

Nope. The main thing putting me off that is the 1 year warranty on used cards and reduced RT performance. But I wouldnt have to upgrade my PSU or worry about finding it in-stock since I think miners are going to rush the new cards.

 

Thank you for this as it has been a concern.

 

Performance per watt graph would be nice. Quake 2 RTX too. Otherwise its really time to get rid of coil whine - its should be here in 2020, maybe it would be next major feature of next gen..

 

I'll skip to Hopper.

 

I agree , It seems strange to have all those transistors that seem to not do much in games , was this GPU originally intended for workstations ?

 

Powerful, yes, but thirsty and very hot it seems.

 

Oh hell yeah, it would still give me a nice boost, no doubt. But I'd rather upgrade the whole rig. I'm in no rush. My rig plays everything I throw at it very respectably.

I'll wait to see how Cyberpunk performs, but having experienced DLSS 2.0 and the performance boost it offers, I'm sure it'll be a doddle for my 2080. If for whatever reason not, I might just slot in a 3080 in this rig and then upgrade CPU next year. This way I would get another cycle out of my 32GB of RAM too, before going DDR5.

Cyberpunk is the only game I'm looking forward to in the foreseeable future, it really looks like everything I wanted TW3 to be just for it to turn out to be a massive let down. Oh and WoW: Shadowlands, but that will run fine on pretty much anything.

 

Based on reviews the GPU temperature under load is very reasonable.

 

We need faster CPUs.

 

I’m thinking the same thing as you with getting the 3080 now and maybe upgrading CPU down the line. Mine is a bit older (6700k) but I want to see how things run first, and I think they’ll be mostly fine on my 1440p144 monitor and 4k60 tv. Cyberpunk and Shadowlands are the 2 things I’m really looking forward to also. I think this card should give me a great boost in WoW over my 980 ti for sure, plus shadowlands will have ray tracing. I’m finally going to be able to replay witcher 3 at 4k60 as well, with fancy hair on too probably.

 

Yes, cod maxed out at 1440 uses 10gb for me

 

It allocates 10gb, that doesn’t mean it’s using 10gb. You’d need some kind of engine level diagnostic to see what’s actually being used.

 

Isnt it better having more allocated memory for more efficent use? Im sure there will better having more than being on the edge of smooth and stuttering.

 

CPU Scaling (sorry if been already posted)
https://www.tomshardware.com/features/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ampere-cpu-scaling-benchmarks

 

Nice performance gain have to admit, BUT man that 330W peak power consumption is a huge no no for me. Prices are insane where i live, 870Eur and up, thats an even bigger NO NO. Thanks for the good review Hilbert. Maybe you will do some Vram usage tests in different games.

 

I’m no expert but the talk with these cards is that the RAM is so fast it shouldn’t be as big of a deal as it was with past generations.

 

Shadowlands will still run great on 980ti until you come to a world boss where your fps will tank, regardless of what CPU/GPU you have. But perhaps, you'll be able to turn on RTX and it won't have much of an impact on the performance.

About TW3, actually looking at the charts, it's one of those games that doesn't get much of a boost, going from 2080ti to 3080. Go figure. But still, it's not like your CPU will bottleneck you there and you'll easily double your FPS.

6700k is no slouch by any means, for gaming anyway. Honestly the one thing my 7700k does better is overclocking, otherwise they're pretty much identical in performance.

 

If they were testing scaling why only do 2 generations and then one very old generation? Not a particularly useful test for many of us.

 

RAM bandwidth doesn't make up for capacity, that was a myth sold by AMD to get tech ignorant folk to buy Fury X's.

 

Performance in WoW on 980 ti actually isn’t great. In BFA zones I’m only getting 90-120 FPS and that’s with several settings turned down quite a bit. I’m hoping I’ll be able to crank everything up as high as it goes with the 3080 and get a higher frame rate on top of that. Oh and yeah lots of particles like at world bosses absolutely tanks performance on this card even with the setting turned down halfway.