NVIDIA's top of the line rtx 30
90.
no no there's no time for that we've got to talk about this thing now
if you haven't watched our rtx 3080 review here's the background you need
rtx 3000 also known as ampere is what
NVIDIA is calling the biggest generational leap in performance in the
company's history now if you go back far enough i'ma press x here
but he's also not joking these cards
unlike the touring based rtx 2000 series
are smoking fast right out of the gate with our rtx 3080 reaching speeds in the
neighborhood of 75 to 100 faster than its predecessor depending on
the task that combined with NVIDIA's super
impressive dlss 2.0 upscaling technology
means that 4k gaming went from
someday to today
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but the 3080 is last week's news in my
hands right now is what jensen ceo of
NVIDIA lovingly referred to as the bfgpu
and spoiler alert he's right
this is an rtx titan for scale heck
here's an rod strix oc for scale this thing is easily the largest not to
mention heaviest conventional graphics card that i have ever seen which means
that anyone who buys one needs to also make some additional investments
first up you're gonna need a case with a solid GPU mount and enough clearance
being both taller and thicker than previous flagships it simply won't fit
in most small form factor cases that is unless you hot rod them
second you will need a fat power supply
rated at 350 watts of power consumption and with
NVIDIA's new 12 pin connector the 3090
could easily push your previous unit to its limits
last but not least you're going to need the fastest gaming CPU in the world
because quite frankly with anything else you are going to be leaving performance
on the table which is something you don't want to do when
you're paying 1500 us dollars for a
graphics card yes my friends compared to the rtx 3080 the world's first 8k gaming
GPU gets you more than double not to mention faster video memory 20 more cuda
tensor and rt cores and
even nv link support via a new connector
that was presumably shrunk to minimize wasted space on the physically cut down
pcb that makes NVIDIA's new flow-through
cooler possible but wait double the video memory
why well aside from giving it much better compute
capabilities and more importantly the ability to render much more complex 3d
scenes in software like blender as it turns out gaming at 8k also genuinely
demands this much video memory i mean
think about it ak is 33 megapixels at 32
bits per pixel that means to display just a single
frame 128 megabytes of video memory is needed
which doesn't sound so bad but add in
textures models screen space effects and of course rtx real time ray tracing i mean come on
and you've got yourself many times that ideally 60 times per second or more
wolfenstein youngblood clocked in at over 11 gigs of memory usage at 8k
sounds fun but at the end of the day it all boils down to performance doesn't it
so by request we built up a core i9 10900k test bench to minimize our CPU
bottlenecks and dug out our rtx 3080
along with a 2080 ti and titan rtx for
comparison starting off with minecraft rtx we're seeing about a 22 average
frame rate improvement over the rtx 3080 and a whopping 51 to 60 percent over the
titan rtx both with the lss on and off
not bad wolfenstein youngblood meanwhile gives us a much more modest performance
improvement over the 3080 at around 15
but while still pulling off a respectable 50 improvement over the
titan rtx a card that costs a thousand
dollars more so there you have it guys
buy yourself an rtx 3090 and a water bottle with all that money you saved am
i right lttstore.com csgo and microsoft flight simulator tell a very similar
story in 4k but interestingly the gap narrows
significantly for flight simulator at 1440p because of CPU bottlenecks
that's right despite the op CPU and
ultra graphic settings finally the parallel n64 emulator which
does most of the graphics and sound emulation on the GPU rather than the CPU
and recently added upscaling support shows us that the extra oomph brings us
up to 99th percentile frame times near
60 FPS that eight times upscale by the way
works out to more pixels than 5k emulated
but then there's the elephant in the room
8k gaming as tom's hardware reported NVIDIA's
demos only showed 8k aaa gaming with
dlss 2.0 in what they're calling
ultra performance mode now before dlss 2.0 offered performance and quality
scaling options with performance rendering at 1080p like the lss 1.0 and
quality rendering at 1440p before
upscaling usually to 4k now
ultra performance still uses 1440p
but instead of performing a reasonable
scaling jump up to 4k it's trying to take that data and go all
the way up to 8k i mean that's a lot of guesses to make in terms
of hmm what are those smeary pixels
so does it look any good well on a 4k display there's little
point in using it since the only real effect is similar to anti-aliasing which
can be had with less performance penalty in other ways
but if you are one of the privileged few with an 8k display today
here are some shots of what you can expect to see from 4k native versus 8k
dlss ultra performance versus 8k native
you can see clearly that 8k dlss ultra
performance delivers significantly more detail than 4k does
even if it isn't quite up to 8k native standards i mean check out the text and
distant details in this shop for example 8k dlss ends up much closer to 8k native
here even if it's still not perfect and the same deal with these grates on
the floor in this shot they're almost completely wiped out in 4k but dlss
restores that now performance is roughly 25 less than 4k but
that still puts us above the magic 60 FPS mark on average which is pretty
sweet if you shelled out for one of those new 8k tvs with HDMI 2.1
even better is that not every game even
aaa games necessarily needs to use dlss
we ran do maternal at native ak
with very high detail settings for what was honestly the most mind-bending
experience i've had with this GPU so far and we barely saw dips below 60 FPS also
impressive during that session with the 88 inch tv was HDR gameplay recording
with shadowplay now we had wanted to include a big section about performance
and image quality but the story is sort of already in the footage that you're
looking at it just worked the performance hit was
reasonable and it looks as good as you could expect given the 100 megabit per
second bit rate at such a massive resolution
our entire 8k gaming experience video yesterday was shot with it running in
the background without any hiccups whatsoever
great job productivity though is where the rtx
3090 both gets to stretch its legs and
also get a little bit dicey
going up against the titan and blender we saw anywhere from a 50 improvement
with the CPU optimized gooseberry render
all the way up past 100 more performance in the pavilion barcelona optics render
yes my friends gooseberry a benchmark designed for cpus can run on all of
these cards thanks to their ridiculous amounts of vram
other rendering benchmarks like v-ray redshift and octane bench all provide
similar numbers across the board with the rtx 3090 hovering around the
15 to 20 percent mark over the 3080 and
50 to 80 percent over the titan then there's spec you perf where we can
see that the rtx 3090 is sorry wait what no no go back to that
katia ran over 40 faster on the titan
how does that make sense okay so as it turns out
this card while it has more raw
hutzpah than the titan rtx and was
introduced as if it were a titan-ish
it isn't a titan when we spoke to NVIDIA they explained that there are driver
optimizations for the titan that have not been enabled for the rtx 3090 and
presumably won't and they confirmed that these results are 100 expected behavior
which kind of sucks because if this thing is
mostly just a giant overgrown
3080 ti at 1500
what's the ampere titan going to cost three grand anyway
back to spec view perf we did get several wins for both the rtx 3090 and
the titan rtx depending on the workload with siemens nx not even being in the
same area code let alone ballpark that's kind of rough for professionals who are
looking to juice up their workstation for cad work by day and gaming at 8k by
night which do they choose and there's more bad news remember that
bit about needing a new power supply well our test bench sure did even a high
quality 850 watt couldn't keep up with
our rtx 3090 routinely breaking
375 watts with NVIDIA's pcap power meter
connected throughout our testing with a peak power draw of over
450 watts the titan rtx meanwhile barely broke 300
watts the whole time thankfully the cooler as with the rtx
3080 was well up to the task and it didn't even break a sweat through spec
view perf with thermals never pushing past 70 degrees also core clocks were
ridiculously stable at around 2 gigahertz under load so i guess all that
weight and metal is doing its job and then some NVIDIA was clearly really
concerned with thermals this time around and they just did a great job there's no
other way of putting it and hopefully that means some overclocking headroom as
well early reports on the rtx 3080 seemed to suggest that the GDDR 6x
memory is pretty easily bumped up but
we've also seen reports that NVIDIA went for lower speed RAM due to thermal
limitations so as always stress test your overclocks
with a prolonged load before considering them tournament ready and speaking of
overclocking we have a video coming where we look at the differences between
aftermarket gpus so make sure you get subscribed so you don't miss it
for now these results leave me i mean there's no
real word for it other than conflicted about the rtx 3090 on the one hand it's
a beast of a graphics card but on the other hand
it's clear that NVIDIA is holding it back so they don't eat into their titan
or quadro lineups kind of like how Intel runs things with
xeon it runs really cool with a fan that's
not nearly as loud as the rtx 2000 series but it guzzles power and i can't
help feeling like a doofus for buying it for workstation or cad use knowing that
there could be a titan coming down the line that puts the 3090 squarely in prosumer
slash enthusiast territory so like super
high-end gamers content creators and especially 3d modelers are going to love
it which isn't a bad thing it's just
a niche thing and i can't help but feel that NVIDIA could have done more to make
the 3090 shine do you think that's fair
Anthony do you think that's fair yeah
how about you jensen i know you watch our videos
and i also know that you don't like it when you think i'm not being fair which
is kind of funny to me because i get to sit here imagining a man who
casually buys 40 billion companies and
changes computing as we know it who still gets butt hurt when some nobody
youtuber doesn't like his gaming widget enough
but on the other hand you know what jensen
i actually really like that about you it's that kind of passion that makes
NVIDIA so great so i've resolved
to keep making you mad because evidently when you got mad that i didn't like your
rtx 2080 ti we got the 30 80.
so i might go even harder on you guys just to see how far you can push pc
gaming no i'm just kidding jensen
sort of since i have your attention please unlock the titan driver paths and
sri ov at least for the rtx 3090 this is
a niche enthusiast card and it should really enjoy niche enthusiast features
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good stuff so thanks for watching guys if you're
looking for something else to watch go check out our review of the rtx 3080
where we happen to use a ryzen bench instead of an Intel bench does it
perform better with PCIe gen 4 i'll see you over there