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the rtx 3080 is the most powerful GPU

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we've ever seen at this price point but

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we've said that before and in fact we say it every time there's a new graphics

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card generation so what makes this one so darn special i mean the hype

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surrounding it was so huge that even we got caught up in it i mean look how

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excited this guy is it's infectious but

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as we all know hype disappoints and absolute hype

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disappoints absolutely

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you hear that it's rattling weird um while you read over our test

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platform let me get this off of my chest NVIDIA man you guys really went out of

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your way to set yourselves up here didn't you like i don't

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get it spoiler alert you're shipping the fastest graphics card on the market at

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half the price of the previous king why don't you just leave it there why

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push your luck with claims like twice as fast as rtx 2080 because it's not

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now to be very clear it's not like i'm

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saying you know burns 3080 biggest

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disappointment ever because right out of the gate at 1440p

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we're looking at a performance lead over not just the price comparable last gen

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2080 but even the 2080 ti

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and even with rtx disabled i mean this

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is a freaking awesome leap in raw

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horsepower overall we saw anywhere from a 20 to 75

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uplift over the 2080 with the biggest benefits coming in directx 12 and vulcan

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titles so then the only reason i'm disappointed at all

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is because NVIDIA told me to expect double the performance of the 2080 which

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as it turned out was anywhere from a small embellishment to a fish this big

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whopper but wait okay because perhaps there's more to this

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could our lackluster cs go performance numbers hold the key

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look how CPU-bound this game ends up even at 1440p so let's kick it up a

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notch to 4k where we're gonna leave out our rx 5700 xt so we can test out dlss

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NVIDIA's deep learning up sampling technology and ooh is that

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41 frames per second in microsoft flight simulator at 4k ultra no less holy sh

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i mean not only that but the minimum of 34 FPS

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that is perfectly playable in a game that's more focused on visuals versus

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fast movement which means that we can definitively say yes it can run flight

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sim 2020 like damn now in general we're still not seeing

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that 2x performance bump with results closer to 75

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but we're also still outpacing our rtx

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2080 ti by anywhere from 10 to 30 percent and at 4k cs go really lets the

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3080 flex its big gains in memory bandwidth thanks to its 10 gigs of

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gddr6x memory that is a very small drop

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in performance compared to 1440p so alright then while it may not be exactly

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what NVIDIA promised us the 3080 is still a gaming monster

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maybe productivity will give us a clearer understanding of what they meant

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by that whole double the performance thing

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and yeah okay that's double

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and well ahead of the rtx 2080 ti in fact in

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blender the rtx 3080's cuda score is so

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good that it rivals excuse me scratch that beats the rtx

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like excuse me pardon and don't even get me

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started on the 3080s optics times i mean this

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this is game-changing for students and prosumers and even professionals looking

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to build affordable and powerful 3d rendering stations spec view perf does

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bring us back down to earth somewhat with performance that's more in line

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with our gaming numbers which is a bummer but at least it gives us a hint

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as to where NVIDIA may have been focusing when they came up with that

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double figure interestingly though team red pulled off

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a couple of wins here too so while the 3080 tops the charts in most cases it's

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not all powerful and AMD's big navi announcement next month could extend

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some of those leads now part of the rationale for choosing a

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ryzen-based GPU test bench was so that we could test pci express gen 3 versus

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gen 4 starting with our review of the rx 5700 xt

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unfortunately we had some issues to exercise so that'll have to

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wait for another day get subscribed so you don't miss our deeper dive on pci

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express gen 4. for now let's look at power draw

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using NVIDIA's pcat tool we captured this data while running spec view perf

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on our NVIDIA cards here and we can see that the rtx 3080 is sitting roughly 100

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watts higher than the rtx 2080 ti impressively hitting a lofty maximum

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above 350 watts

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that is a lot of juice ladies and gentlemen and if the trend continues it

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definitely explains why NVIDIA felt they needed this new 12-pin connector this

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power draw translates into a significant increase in heat output as you might

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expect as well but it turns out the new founders edition

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cooler design is nothing short of incredible

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in spite of it drawing a hundred watts more our 3080 maintained lower

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temperatures in a closed chassis than our 2080 ti

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and boosted to roughly two gigahertz under full load throughout our testing i

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mean hey it's unconventional you know blowing

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air up here and sucking air up through there but gosh darn it it works at least

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for the GPU itself one small detail NVIDIA glossed over in

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their marketing is that all of this heat has to go somewhere and when we dug a

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little deeper well by jove we found it

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as it turns out dumping heat directly into your CPU and RAM makes them run

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hotter we even made this little graph where you can see system thermals

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climbing by 10 degrees in a gentle arc across the board indicating that it's

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not just spec view perf putting a load on these components or we'd be seeing a

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spiky graph similar to our CPU and GPU temperatures

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there is good news though when we ran the same test with a founder's edition

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rtx 2080 ti we actually got even worse

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results indicating that the more efficient

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system airflow that NVIDIA boasted about for their cooler actually manages to

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extend to the rest of the system as well so

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good job guys and there's more to the story here than

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performance and power alone NVIDIA has become

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laser focused on system latency as a way to market their products even going as

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far as to seed press with the internal tools that they use to measure it and as

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it turns out that's for good reason now more frames per second does result in

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smoother animations but since most

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gamers would probably say 100 FPS looks

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butter smooth it's clear that this smooth animations benefit has already

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hit a wall of diminishing returns what doesn't seem to have a limit yet

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however is the effect of higher frame rates on a gamer's actual performance

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last year we demonstrated a benefit in competitive play all the way up to 240

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hertz in this video featuring shroud mr grimms corey and paul's hardware so then

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if the reason for this improvement in gaming acumen isn't

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smoother animations well what is it it's the responsiveness of the system

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the more often the image updates on screen the less delay a gamer is going

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to feel between the movement of their mouse and the corresponding crosshair

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making it easier to track down opponents well NVIDIA reflex which is launching

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today as well takes this research NVIDIA's done and goes a step further

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than even the ultra low latency mode that's been enabled in both NVIDIA and

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AMD's drivers since last year and NVIDIA has worked with developers to improve

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rendering latency directly in the game itself with a CPU-bound scenario it's

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not exactly a big deal you're getting a very slight improvement in response time

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with a bit more consistency we're not sure what that plus boost option is all

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about but in fortnite anyway it doesn't seem to do much at least at high frame

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rates other games implementations may be better NVIDIA says that reflex works

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best in GPU bound loads anyway though and in that scenario latency goes from

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90 to 120 milliseconds to around 45 to

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80 with reflex enabled that's huge one

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of the biggest problems with a low frame rate is low responsiveness so the small

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sacrifice of one to two FPS ends up being a really good trade the best part

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is that this feature works all the way back to 900 series maxwell gpus

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great stuff also revolutionary is rtxio

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which uses the same direct storage technology that microsoft is integrating

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into the xbox series x and series x to

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allow the GPU to stream and decompress data directly from an NVMe SSD using the

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cuda cores from an rtx 2000 series card or newer now we can't test this feature

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yet because there are no games on the market that support it yet but we would

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expect gamers to see similar benefits to what sony showed off with their

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analogous technology with improvements to everything from texture resolution in

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game to even level design eliminating things like unnecessary elevator rides

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while the assets load in but wait there's more

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what we also can't test is the reports that all ampere-based cards support

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sriov at a hardware level for the uninitiated sriov allows a single GPU to

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be shared between multiple virtual machines never mind two gamers one GPU

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with performance like this you could run a whole freaking lan center off a single

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threadripper 3990x and like four of these i mean this would be a

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monumental shift from NVIDIA considering that they've locked down g-force and

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virtual machines since basically forever or at least it would

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be NVIDIA clarified with us that the reports of their change of heart were

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sadly overstated and as it turns out just because they can support the

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feature doesn't mean that it's enabled and sure enough when we fired up our

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3080 and Linux it didn't report any sri

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ov capabilities NVIDIA does say though that the final decision on whether to

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enable it or not has yet to be made so it is still possible they'll enable it

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maybe if enough people tweeted them jensen will get the hint wink wink not

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just please in summary then just like last time we have no way of

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testing some of the headline features and no time to test others like NVIDIA

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broadcast which we'll be sure to do a follow-up video on but unlike last time

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the raw performance and pricing are compelling enough story on their own

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even if NVIDIA overplayed their hand a little

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and unlike last time the big feature you

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know the one that's right in the name the hardware support for real-time ray

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tracing has had a couple of years to mature with a much longer list of

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supported games to go along with graphics cards that are now actually

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powerful enough to turn the feature on without tanking the frame rate to be

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clear it's still not the kind of thing that i would personally buy a new card

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over but as far as added bonuses go

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raytraced minecraft is pretty sweet

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