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don't buy that even at msrp that's a

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waste of money let alone during the skullpocalypse but rather than pitch you

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the equally unobtainium radeonrx 6900xt

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i've got something new gamers NVIDIA launched two important things today the

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rtx 3080ti a GPU as powerful as their

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previous king but at a significantly lower price

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and a refreshing change in attitude

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let's start with the elephant in the room NVIDIA would love for us to compare

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the rtx 3080 ti directly to the rtx 2080

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ti given that it is like the replacement

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but given how few people bought those i doubt it's a burning question for many

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of you besides the more interesting reference point is the rtx 3090 because

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it is so freaking similar

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by comparison the 3080 ti is missing a mere two and a half percent of the rtx

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3090's core count and memory bandwidth and runs at only a two percent slower

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boost clock same gddr6 RAM same total

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graphics power same n bank encoder same

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absolute unit of a GPU except for the

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main difference apart from the smaller cooler on the

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founder's edition cart it only has half of the memory at 12 gigs

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now that's less than AMD's competing 6900 xt which has 16 and it could be a

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problem if you're one of the eight people trying to game at 8k

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but considering how few loads benefit from 24 gigs of RAM it's actually more

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likely to end up being a major win for the 3080 ti since it should help bring

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pricing down more in line with team red's Radeon rx 6900 xt so without

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further ado here's our test bench we've got five gpus for your consideration

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today and i am i'm expecting a lot and my expectations

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are met metro exodus enhanced edition starts things off extremely strong for the 3080

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ti and it manages to keep within the on paper expected 2

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of the rtx 3090 in every parameter but the minimum frame rate and guess what

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that's the very worst news we have for you NVIDIA's new king i guess i have to

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call it that is actually straight up faster than the rtx 3090 in both f1 2020

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and forza horizon 4. perhaps as a direct result of it having less RAM that means

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more power for the GPU itself allowing it to opportunistically turbo more often

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and this same same but different trend continues with assassin's creed valhalla

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and cs go where the 3080ti proves itself

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to be a ridiculously capable gaming card which i mean of course it is it's

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basically an rtx 3090 except for the cut down RAM so what does

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the smaller frame buffer mean for productivity

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well for the most part not much and the rtx 3080 ti continues to show off its 30

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90 like prowess with nearly identical render times in blender in both the cuda

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and optics renderers and the same thing in v-ray where we are still within that

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two percent range in fact even creative cloud gives yet more favorable results

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with one percent being the most common delta between these cards so in these

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use cases unless your large projects require more RAM you're basically giving

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up nothing in davinci resolve however that veneer does begin to crack somewhat

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and we see a larger six percent difference that it's difficult to pin

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down exactly it may be that resolve either wants more memory capacity or it

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could be that it's more bandwidth sensitive but unfortunately accurately

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measuring resolves vram usage isn't really possible at the moment so we're

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not sure what we are sure about is our water

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bottles from ltdstore.com you can measure those 20 or 40 ounces for the

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same price whatever the reason for this result octane bench also sees a larger

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than normal performance delta and spec vue perf continues the trend with

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anywhere from 2 which we expect all the way to 21 in the

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case of the memory intensive energy benchmark which i guess we also expect i

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mean the rtx 3090's claim to fame is its

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massive high bandwidth frame buffer so what the real story is then is just how

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competitive the 3080 ti is without it

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as for thermals NVIDIA ended up reusing the same

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much smaller cooler as the rtx 3080 so

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we weren't really sure what to expect going into this thing i mean there's no

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gddr6x on the back of the pcb now so at

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least we don't have to worry about a repeat of the memory overheating

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problems we saw with the 3090 but we are still looking at roughly the same core

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count and clock speed and power consumption rating

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and yet thermals look spot on never

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breaking past 80 degrees throughout spec view perf the rtx 3090 of course did get

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better thermal results but that card is a triple slot beast and what's most

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impressive is that the 3080ti managed all of this at 11 watts less power draw

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and it didn't even throttle like core clocks were a solid 1.9 gigahertz

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throughout our heavy loaded testing which is just a hundred megahertz lower

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than the rtx 3090 all in all

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it's i don't know if it's a surprising result because we didn't really know what to

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expect but it definitely gives us some insight at least into just how power

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hungry and hot GDDR 6x can be

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which incidentally is now rated for 105 degrees on microns website i guess they

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got tired of all the inquiries about rtx 3090s overheating at 100 degrees of

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course i promise to talk about more than just a new GPU today so let's change

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gears and talk about the new straight talking approach that NVIDIA has taken

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around this launch given that this basically is a 3090 a

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card that they already can't make enough of to meet demand

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we asked NVIDIA what possessed you to release this GPU at a lower price

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and then instead of blathering on about loving gamers so huggy muggy much they

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just confirmed what we already suspected not only is a 24 gig frame buffer

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ludicrous for most gamers today it's also impacting NVIDIA's ability to make

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enough cards surely you didn't think micron was spared from the silicon shortage did you

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so with half the amount of memory compared to the rtx 3090 twice as many

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rtx 30 ti cards can be produced that is

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assuming there are enough gpus to go around not only that but part of the reason

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that NVIDIA was able to use a smaller cooler in the first place is that there

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isn't any memory on the rear of the pcb like the 3090 which also factors into

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its lower cost speaking of lower cost get subscribed

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because we're going to be revisiting our cheap versus expensive vr setups and

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trust me it's getting a lot less obvious than you might think

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NVIDIA was also refreshingly straightforward talking about supply of

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these cards which they admit is not going to meet demand this year as well

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as the difficulties that they've faced making their products available to gamers for msrp

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the target was 9.99 and the idea was to

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embarrass AMD with superior performance and features at the same price the

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features by the way they're not new but it is worth reminding you that NVIDIA's

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hardware video and code functionality and deep learning features like rtx

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voice and deep learning super sampling are very compelling selling points

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but due to the ongoing scarcity of components

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tariffs that are being thrown around willy-nilly these days not to mention

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predatory reselling practices even by some retailers the msrp is going to be

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higher than they would have liked now we're filming this before hearing the

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actual price so i'm gonna do a few different reactions and we'll put it on

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screen with the matching one

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so whatever it said down there you can expect to spend more than that unless

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you end up extremely lucky or you participate in the verified actual gamer

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program finally NVIDIA rather humbly

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acknowledged that you know what we weren't entirely wrong about their

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mining hashrate limiter i know i was shocked they also admitted

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that yeah it'll probably be hacked at some point so

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their new story then is that the main purpose of the limiter is actually

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pretty similar to what we're doing with the verified actual gamer program to

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just slow down the acquisition of these cards

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on mass by cryptominers see NVIDIA that wasn't so hard

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you didn't have to come out and say it was unhackable and split your product

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stack like that and pretend it's some kind of gift to gamers and you know what

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the truth is i still don't agree with the idea that consumers shouldn't be

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allowed to run whatever they want with their own hardware to the best of its

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capabilities but if this admission is NVIDIA

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foreshadowing a willingness to remove the limiter either officially or

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unofficially through a leak once supply catches up

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i'd be a lot more receptive to the idea there's no word yet on whether they

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would do something like that but i think consumers should demand it because it's

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a nice way to subsidize your purchase and NVIDIA has clearly just demonstrated

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a refreshing willingness to listen but let's bring it back to the card should

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you spend your money on an rtx 3080ti

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well if you can get one at msrp it's a no-brainer and if you're comparing it to

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an rtx 3090 it's cheaper is slightly

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less power hungry it has less overall heat output it's smaller in the case of

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the founders edition so compatibility will be better and presumably it will be

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easier to find in stock meaning it's a winner

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and while scalpers are likely to continue to price these things out of

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reach of many gamers the skelpocalypse isn't going to last forever and when the

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dust finally settles the rtx 3080 ti is

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gonna stand at the top of the stack for NVIDIA in competition with the rx 6900xt

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and it's gonna look pretty good doing this

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you enjoyed this video maybe go check out the build we did

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there's a 10 000 machine for playing roblox of all things and it had a 30-90

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in it and boy could it ever have been a lot cheaper with one of these

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sorry guys honestly we didn't know this was coming at least not for sure