NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review: Gaming, Thermals, Noise, & Power Benchmarks
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Date: 2020-09-16
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Prince
My plan
in 2010 I spent 3,000 for my PC build.
at the time I got the second fastest consumer desktop processr and the Fastest dual graphics card at the time.
specs
i7 970 6 cores
GTX 590
24gigs of DDR3 1300 MHZ
I only upgraded my power supply and graphics card.. in 10 years
yes I had my computer for 10 years ,,, I recently sold my GTX 1080 for 308
Because I knew the 3000 series was coming..
Now my mother board is pretty old , its only PCI-E 2.0 could have gotten a 3.0 but at the time 3.0 just came out that year of 2010..
I want to spend 3k again to last me 10 years again, I purpusly didnt upgrade my computer becuase I was waiting for the right time to upgrade and for tech to progress to give me a reason to spend 3k-4k...
I'm still waiting to see what intel does with their 10m,+ and 7nm processors next year and AMD RDNA 4... which I heard is suppose to be 5nm and support DDR5... and PCI-E 5.0 this is the main reason why i'm not upgrading this year for the RTX 3000 series..... i waited 10 years whats 1 more year.. So I will get the RTX 3080 now so I can play Cyberpunk and other games this fall... and than sell it for 650 when the 3080TI with 20gigs comes out next year ... and add that to my new Intel or AMD computer ... and that will be my build for the next-10 years... and yes if you spend big you dont have to upgrade everything each 3 years... yes I know with my old Processor there will be some bottle neck... but given how much performance I was getting with a gtx 1080... I should be fine with the 3080 for a few months...
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My plan
in 2010 I spent 3,000 for my PC build.
at the time I got the second fastest consumer desktop processr and the Fastest dual graphics card at the time.
specs
i7 970 6 cores
GTX 590
24gigs of DDR3 1300 MHZ
I only upgraded my power supply and graphics card.. in 10 years
yes I had my computer for 10 years ,,, I recently sold my GTX 1080 for 308
Because I knew the 3000 series was coming..
Now my mother board is pretty old , its only PCI-E 2.0 could have gotten a 3.0 but at the time 3.0 just came out that year of 2010..
I want to spend 3k again to last me 10 years again, I purpusly didnt upgrade my computer becuase I was waiting for the right time to upgrade and for tech to progress to give me a reason to spend 3k-4k...
I'm still waiting to see what intel does with their 10m,+ and 7nm processors next year and AMD RDNA 4... which I heard is suppose to be 5nm and support DDR5... and PCI-E 5.0 this is the main reason why i'm not upgrading this year for the RTX 3000 series..... i waited 10 years whats 1 more year.. So I will get the RTX 3080 now so I can play Cyberpunk and other games this fall... and than sell it for 650 when the 3080TI with 20gigs comes out next year ... and add that to my new Intel or AMD computer ... and that will be my build for the next-10 years... and yes if you spend big you dont have to upgrade everything each 3 years... yes I know with my old Processor there will be some bottle neck... but given how much performance I was getting with a gtx 1080... I should be fine with the 3080 for a few months...
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Chris
After Nvidia raised such high expectations during the presentation, I have to say that it is quite disappointing. Greatest generational leap ever - just to quote that again. But its not there. Not so much faster than the 2080ti and at the same time a more power consumption, despite the new architecture and better manufacturing. The promises of the slides during the presentation are consistently not achieved. 320+ watts are just too much for me. In terms of performance per watt, little has changed, despite years of development. Something's going wrong. And then there is the small memory configurations.
Waiting for AMD is the order of the day. Hopefully they'll come up with something better. Pls AMD dont let us down this time.
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After Nvidia raised such high expectations during the presentation, I have to say that it is quite disappointing. Greatest generational leap ever - just to quote that again. But its not there. Not so much faster than the 2080ti and at the same time a more power consumption, despite the new architecture and better manufacturing. The promises of the slides during the presentation are consistently not achieved. 320+ watts are just too much for me. In terms of performance per watt, little has changed, despite years of development. Something's going wrong. And then there is the small memory configurations.
Waiting for AMD is the order of the day. Hopefully they'll come up with something better. Pls AMD dont let us down this time.
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Belatar
suggestion for charts: currently youre giving the relevant information to viewers as spoken information and print the irrelevant information of fps and card details on screen. please invert that. put the relevant information of: card1 has x% advantage over card2 graphically visualised and very prominent on screen so that the graphics support and align with your voiceover.
if you want to keep the details, please tone them down in prominence so the eye picks up on the new and relevant info on screen immediately. reading up fps details can only be down when pausing the video anyway.
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suggestion for charts: currently youre giving the relevant information to viewers as spoken information and print the irrelevant information of fps and card details on screen. please invert that. put the relevant information of: card1 has x% advantage over card2 graphically visualised and very prominent on screen so that the graphics support and align with your voiceover.
if you want to keep the details, please tone them down in prominence so the eye picks up on the new and relevant info on screen immediately. reading up fps details can only be down when pausing the video anyway.
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Vuko
From the tests I've seen so far, 1080p increase in perf is not worth my money, as I am playing 1080p with RTX 2070 Super. But whenever I decide to upgrade my screens resolution, I might consider buying new GPU. Which means, for me, waiting for high-refresh rate 4k panels to get cheaper and FPS 4K high enough with new GPU. Until then - gonna stick with 1080P and RTX 2070 Super. I guess I'm gonna pass on nvidia 3000 series GPUs. Great job, as usuall, Gemers Nexus Team. Love your vids, keep up the great work you're doing. :)
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From the tests I've seen so far, 1080p increase in perf is not worth my money, as I am playing 1080p with RTX 2070 Super. But whenever I decide to upgrade my screens resolution, I might consider buying new GPU. Which means, for me, waiting for high-refresh rate 4k panels to get cheaper and FPS 4K high enough with new GPU. Until then - gonna stick with 1080P and RTX 2070 Super. I guess I'm gonna pass on nvidia 3000 series GPUs. Great job, as usuall, Gemers Nexus Team. Love your vids, keep up the great work you're doing. :)
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Kansu
So what I've understand from the review is there are some professional applications like you can get 2x performance but not in a single game!! Even with the DLSS and RTX on. It's a great card for the price but i wouldn't say it's a generational leap. And the most happiest guys with this reviews are the guys in Radeon department because it show there will be a huge change for AMD if they'll release a card not better than 3080 but the price is lower.
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So what I've understand from the review is there are some professional applications like you can get 2x performance but not in a single game!! Even with the DLSS and RTX on. It's a great card for the price but i wouldn't say it's a generational leap. And the most happiest guys with this reviews are the guys in Radeon department because it show there will be a huge change for AMD if they'll release a card not better than 3080 but the price is lower.
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rian
So basically we wait 2 years for a gpu are only 20% improvement than 2080ti , more power hungry , lower memory ,more power pins (in that mode they also force you to buy monster power supply) , well for me that 3080 is just an 2080 ti on higher power limits and just not worth the wait !!! LOL!!! What a flop !!!
I so sorry for guys believed rtx 30xx hype and they sell 2080ti for less than 500 .
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So basically we wait 2 years for a gpu are only 20% improvement than 2080ti , more power hungry , lower memory ,more power pins (in that mode they also force you to buy monster power supply) , well for me that 3080 is just an 2080 ti on higher power limits and just not worth the wait !!! LOL!!! What a flop !!!
I so sorry for guys believed rtx 30xx hype and they sell 2080ti for less than 500 .
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Saintbow
Gamer Nexus video title: Nvidia RTX 3080 review
LTT Video title: Nvidia you promised!
Bitwit video title: RTX 3080 Benchmark Ascend
Hardware Unboxed video title: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 x2 the 2080?
Gamer Nexus does not use or need clickbait titles since they are the Joe Friday of the tech world. Just the facts
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Gamer Nexus video title: Nvidia RTX 3080 review
LTT Video title: Nvidia you promised!
Bitwit video title: RTX 3080 Benchmark Ascend
Hardware Unboxed video title: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 x2 the 2080?
Gamer Nexus does not use or need clickbait titles since they are the Joe Friday of the tech world. Just the facts
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Bob
Only thing not covered by reviews so far is whether the room becomes a sauna after an hour (separate issue to the temperature of the card). Here's hoping it's in this review. I also don't like the power draw compromise on this card just so nvidia could save some money by not using tsmc, hope this review touches on undervolting.
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Only thing not covered by reviews so far is whether the room becomes a sauna after an hour (separate issue to the temperature of the card). Here's hoping it's in this review. I also don't like the power draw compromise on this card just so nvidia could save some money by not using tsmc, hope this review touches on undervolting.
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Jeff
Great work as always Steve . Thanks to you and your team . Have you ever gone back to look at some of your very old video's and compare to the way your testing methodology has changed over the years . Or see the way you used to do stuff and shake your head wondering what the hell you were thinking ? Love the new shirts btw
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Great work as always Steve . Thanks to you and your team . Have you ever gone back to look at some of your very old video's and compare to the way your testing methodology has changed over the years . Or see the way you used to do stuff and shake your head wondering what the hell you were thinking ? Love the new shirts btw
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dragonmares59110
As someone with a 1080 and playing at 1440p/60fps i guess i will wait for the serie 4000. I have the money for 3080 but it is not worth it yet in my opinion, i will wait to see when games will really start to need more power, i don't mind playing on medium for a bit.
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As someone with a 1080 and playing at 1440p/60fps i guess i will wait for the serie 4000. I have the money for 3080 but it is not worth it yet in my opinion, i will wait to see when games will really start to need more power, i don't mind playing on medium for a bit.
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