don't buy that even at msrp that's a
waste of money let alone during the skullpocalypse but rather than pitch you
the equally unobtainium radeonrx 6900xt
i've got something new gamers NVIDIA launched two important things today the
rtx 3080ti a GPU as powerful as their
previous king but at a significantly lower price
and a refreshing change in attitude
let's talk about both of them and our sponsor aorus the z590 aorus
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let's start with the elephant in the room NVIDIA would love for us to compare
the rtx 3080 ti directly to the rtx 2080
ti given that it is like the replacement
but given how few people bought those i doubt it's a burning question for many
of you besides the more interesting reference point is the rtx 3090 because
it is so freaking similar
by comparison the 3080 ti is missing a mere two and a half percent of the rtx
3090's core count and memory bandwidth and runs at only a two percent slower
boost clock same gddr6 RAM same total
graphics power same n bank encoder same
absolute unit of a GPU except for the
main difference apart from the smaller cooler on the
founder's edition cart it only has half of the memory at 12 gigs
now that's less than AMD's competing 6900 xt which has 16 and it could be a
problem if you're one of the eight people trying to game at 8k
but considering how few loads benefit from 24 gigs of RAM it's actually more
likely to end up being a major win for the 3080 ti since it should help bring
pricing down more in line with team red's Radeon rx 6900 xt so without
further ado here's our test bench we've got five gpus for your consideration
today and i am i'm expecting a lot and my expectations
are met metro exodus enhanced edition starts things off extremely strong for the 3080
ti and it manages to keep within the on paper expected 2
of the rtx 3090 in every parameter but the minimum frame rate and guess what
that's the very worst news we have for you NVIDIA's new king i guess i have to
call it that is actually straight up faster than the rtx 3090 in both f1 2020
and forza horizon 4. perhaps as a direct result of it having less RAM that means
more power for the GPU itself allowing it to opportunistically turbo more often
and this same same but different trend continues with assassin's creed valhalla
and cs go where the 3080ti proves itself
to be a ridiculously capable gaming card which i mean of course it is it's
basically an rtx 3090 except for the cut down RAM so what does
the smaller frame buffer mean for productivity
well for the most part not much and the rtx 3080 ti continues to show off its 30
90 like prowess with nearly identical render times in blender in both the cuda
and optics renderers and the same thing in v-ray where we are still within that
two percent range in fact even creative cloud gives yet more favorable results
with one percent being the most common delta between these cards so in these
use cases unless your large projects require more RAM you're basically giving
up nothing in davinci resolve however that veneer does begin to crack somewhat
and we see a larger six percent difference that it's difficult to pin
down exactly it may be that resolve either wants more memory capacity or it
could be that it's more bandwidth sensitive but unfortunately accurately
measuring resolves vram usage isn't really possible at the moment so we're
not sure what we are sure about is our water
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same price whatever the reason for this result octane bench also sees a larger
than normal performance delta and spec vue perf continues the trend with
anywhere from 2 which we expect all the way to 21 in the
case of the memory intensive energy benchmark which i guess we also expect i
mean the rtx 3090's claim to fame is its
massive high bandwidth frame buffer so what the real story is then is just how
competitive the 3080 ti is without it
as for thermals NVIDIA ended up reusing the same
much smaller cooler as the rtx 3080 so
we weren't really sure what to expect going into this thing i mean there's no
gddr6x on the back of the pcb now so at
least we don't have to worry about a repeat of the memory overheating
problems we saw with the 3090 but we are still looking at roughly the same core
count and clock speed and power consumption rating
and yet thermals look spot on never
breaking past 80 degrees throughout spec view perf the rtx 3090 of course did get
better thermal results but that card is a triple slot beast and what's most
impressive is that the 3080ti managed all of this at 11 watts less power draw
and it didn't even throttle like core clocks were a solid 1.9 gigahertz
throughout our heavy loaded testing which is just a hundred megahertz lower
than the rtx 3090 all in all
it's i don't know if it's a surprising result because we didn't really know what to
expect but it definitely gives us some insight at least into just how power
hungry and hot GDDR 6x can be
which incidentally is now rated for 105 degrees on microns website i guess they
got tired of all the inquiries about rtx 3090s overheating at 100 degrees of
course i promise to talk about more than just a new GPU today so let's change
gears and talk about the new straight talking approach that NVIDIA has taken
around this launch given that this basically is a 3090 a
card that they already can't make enough of to meet demand
we asked NVIDIA what possessed you to release this GPU at a lower price
and then instead of blathering on about loving gamers so huggy muggy much they
just confirmed what we already suspected not only is a 24 gig frame buffer
ludicrous for most gamers today it's also impacting NVIDIA's ability to make
enough cards surely you didn't think micron was spared from the silicon shortage did you
so with half the amount of memory compared to the rtx 3090 twice as many
rtx 30 ti cards can be produced that is
assuming there are enough gpus to go around not only that but part of the reason
that NVIDIA was able to use a smaller cooler in the first place is that there
isn't any memory on the rear of the pcb like the 3090 which also factors into
its lower cost speaking of lower cost get subscribed
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trust me it's getting a lot less obvious than you might think
NVIDIA was also refreshingly straightforward talking about supply of
these cards which they admit is not going to meet demand this year as well
as the difficulties that they've faced making their products available to gamers for msrp
the target was 9.99 and the idea was to
embarrass AMD with superior performance and features at the same price the
features by the way they're not new but it is worth reminding you that NVIDIA's
hardware video and code functionality and deep learning features like rtx
voice and deep learning super sampling are very compelling selling points
but due to the ongoing scarcity of components
tariffs that are being thrown around willy-nilly these days not to mention
predatory reselling practices even by some retailers the msrp is going to be
higher than they would have liked now we're filming this before hearing the
actual price so i'm gonna do a few different reactions and we'll put it on
screen with the matching one
so whatever it said down there you can expect to spend more than that unless
you end up extremely lucky or you participate in the verified actual gamer
program finally NVIDIA rather humbly
acknowledged that you know what we weren't entirely wrong about their
mining hashrate limiter i know i was shocked they also admitted
that yeah it'll probably be hacked at some point so
their new story then is that the main purpose of the limiter is actually
pretty similar to what we're doing with the verified actual gamer program to
just slow down the acquisition of these cards
on mass by cryptominers see NVIDIA that wasn't so hard
you didn't have to come out and say it was unhackable and split your product
stack like that and pretend it's some kind of gift to gamers and you know what
the truth is i still don't agree with the idea that consumers shouldn't be
allowed to run whatever they want with their own hardware to the best of its
capabilities but if this admission is NVIDIA
foreshadowing a willingness to remove the limiter either officially or
unofficially through a leak once supply catches up
i'd be a lot more receptive to the idea there's no word yet on whether they
would do something like that but i think consumers should demand it because it's
a nice way to subsidize your purchase and NVIDIA has clearly just demonstrated
a refreshing willingness to listen but let's bring it back to the card should
you spend your money on an rtx 3080ti
well if you can get one at msrp it's a no-brainer and if you're comparing it to
an rtx 3090 it's cheaper is slightly
less power hungry it has less overall heat output it's smaller in the case of
the founders edition so compatibility will be better and presumably it will be
easier to find in stock meaning it's a winner
and while scalpers are likely to continue to price these things out of
reach of many gamers the skelpocalypse isn't going to last forever and when the
dust finally settles the rtx 3080 ti is
gonna stand at the top of the stack for NVIDIA in competition with the rx 6900xt
and it's gonna look pretty good doing this
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