Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (Ampere)

[cheesemp]

The bang4buck is interesting. Nvidia must be expecting AMD to put up a fight. Roll on big NAVI benchmarks (And the midrange cards I can afford!).

[Jonj1611]

Alot of these claims from NVIDIA seem BS, I think the 3070 at best would be around 2080ti, but I got my doubts, why did they not put the 3090 into the test?...

the 3090 would be what I would weight it all on, and also the card that has the most interest, especially if it seriously surpasses the 3080.

Possibly because the 3080 is out tomorrow and the 3090 isn't until next week, possibly NDA?

[Iota]

I'm guessing that the ASUS RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC (10GB) is going to be one of the reviewed cards, going by the chart on Gears 5

This seems like a very solid 4K card. Now I'm debating the RTX 3090 and a monitor upgrade.

[Friesiansam]

Interesting but based on some of those benchmarks I do wonder if the 3070 will truly be faster than a 2080ti. I do hope so

The drivers may be in need of optimisation for some games. The next couple of updates may well improve performance.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I made a review thread here:
https://forums.hexus.net/graphics-ca...ew-thread.html

Gamersnexus results are not that favourable when compared to the RTX2080TI!

[liquidflower]

Blimey! What game is that?

Guild Wars 2

any event with more than a few player models and skill effects will kill your graphics card

[liquidflower]

AdoredTv has his own take on the 30xx series here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXb-8feWoOE

[kalniel]

but Samsung's leading process has a similar transistor density as TSMC's popular 7nm

~64MTx/mm^2 vs as least 96MTx/mm^2? If that's 'similar' then I look forward to Hexus saying various graphics cards all perform similarly

[mattburnzy]

Blimey! What game is that?

Guild Wars 2

any event with more than a few player models and skill effects will kill your graphics card

If thats the case its most likely on ArenaNet for not optimizing their game. Nothing Nvidia can do about that.

[kalniel]

Also why no RT benchmarks without DLSS?

EDIT: But can it play Flight Sim?

[Corky34]

Would it be right to say that for AMD to stay competitive at the high end they'll need to release a card that improves on their best by 70-100%?

If they manage that it would be some achievement, if not then i guess we can say they've abandoned the high end market and they can't price any big Navi to close to the £600 asking price for the 3080.

[BigBANGerZ]

Looks ok to me, just need to watch out for the price gorging and FE availability

[Tarinder]

~64MTx/mm^2 vs as least 96MTx/mm^2? If that's 'similar' then I look forward to Hexus saying various graphics cards all perform similarly

Depends which source you look at. I've seen numbers of 65MT/mm² for Samsung 8nm, as used here, and 65-70MT/mm² for generic TSMC 7nm. It all depends which variant each (++) is used on a particular chip.

All that said, it's undeniable that Nvidia would have been better served by the latest iteration of 7 from TSMC. An opportunity for AMD.

[Zhaoman]

Would it be right to say that for AMD to stay competitive at the high end they'll need to release a card that improves on their best by 70-100%?

If they manage that it would be some achievement, if not then i guess we can say they've abandoned the high end market and they can't price any big Navi to close to the £600 asking price for the 3080.

The Series X GPU has 56CUs and the rumours point to it being a potentially 'mid-range' part delivering around 2080Ti performance. One of the main rumours that keeps being regurgitated surrounding Big Navi is that the flagship model will have 80CUs. Considering the 5700XT has 40CUs and there are expected (some say substantial) improvements in performance per CU between the generations, you can put that together and add as much salt as you like. But if 80CUs rumour is true then it's certainly not unreasonable to expect at least roughly 3080 performance from 'Big Navi'. And Nvidia have priced the 3080 competitively so surely they are expecting to be challenged in this performance range?

[kompukare]

So around 25% performance boost for 25% power draw increase? Am I reading that right?

Yes, that looks about right.
W1zzard over at TPU always does perf/watt charts and this has barely moved versus the last gen:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/n...dition/35.html
Guess it isn't a 1080P card as it's perf/watt looks awful there, but even at 4K the 2080 is at 85% of the 3080.
The good news versus Ferni is that the cooler is relatively quiet.

[kompukare]

Its like a GTX480/GTX470 - overhyped and huge power consumption.

So much for all the Nvidia marketing-lead sponsored nemes about Radeon furnaces.
Maybe AMD marketing can plant some stories too and get their revenge?