today marks the launch of nvidia's rtx
3000 series graphics cards more
specifically the founders edition
the aftermarket board partner cards will
be coming in about a day
so make sure you stay tuned for that one
but right here we've got the rtx
3080 founders with a fan on the bottom a
fan on the top
we checked out the cooling temperatures
and they were absolutely fine
the fan noise likes to sit around 50
percent out of the box on the auto fan
profiles
which makes the card pretty quiet in
operation
and going up to about 75 degrees c
honestly if you are loving the look of
this card and it is your choice
then i would honestly suggest out of the
box just leaving it as it is
because out of the box it runs really
well you don't need to overclock at the
performance
which we'll show right now is really
really good and looking at the 4k
numbers straight away this is what we're
going to go into
first going over eight different titles
here
it is just that league above not just
everything else
but its closest competition the 2080 ti
and i had to go back and check these
numbers again
because on average at 4k i was getting
roughly
40 percent more performance than the
previous predecessor of the 2080 ti
and so this card right here will offer
you that 4k
experience and what i'm calling the 4k
revolution
because they've put the hdmi 2.1
on the back and they've also got three
display port connections too
and so in my previous video i coupled
this graphics card
with a hdmi 2.1 cable and i hooked it up
to the lg
monitors or the gaming tvs that were 55
inch and 65
inch and they were rumored to have true
120 hertz 4k
support with their hdmi 2.1 and the
truth is
it did work and you were getting 120
hertz indeed at 4k
and quite simply this card right here
has the grunt
to be able to power 4k 120 hertz
properly
which is the most impressive thing i
think as a pc gamer i've been
in this whole industry for so long
and you just keep seeing the same tn
panels and va panels being thrown in
your face
and then of course it's all 1080p and
1440p
this 4k oled display coupled with the
power behind this thing
really is taking gaming to a whole new
level
to the point where i've gone and ordered
my own straight away off ebay i went and
ordered
a 55-inch uh cx oled tv
to couple with this gravis car because
my brother he had the c9
65-inch oled and i was just really
really enjoying my first experience at a
4k
120 hertz oled i was playing cs go
and even that game as old as it is was
so
enjoyable however i wanted to talk about
the 4k
gaming numbers first because i feel like
that's the person who's going to get the
most
out of the rtx 3080. if you're a 1080p
gamer especially if you've got hertz
monitor 240 hertz monitor
you might be better off just sticking
with what you've got or of course
looking on the used market
for a bargain to come up because these
cars are that powerful when we're
pulling up some of the 1080p numbers
here
we are becoming cpu bound in a lot of
cases and this is a 10900k
already running at 5 gigahertz and we've
got 32 gigabytes 3600 megahertz
cl 16 memory so basically we've got the
best setup you can get pretty much for
gaming
and at 1080p this gravis card is pretty
much
pushing the cpu to the point where it
can't provide
enough fps for this thing to process
however the flip side to 1080p gaming is
that some games
will be able to run really high fps and
so if you want to get a 360hz monitor
and put all the settings to ultra or
high settings
then this card will in certain games and
of course it depends on the game
will allow you to do that and moving
through the 1440p numbers
after the 1080p analysis and the 4k
analysis
they're of course somewhere in between
however i will note that if you want to
get say
a super ultra wide 49 inch monitor which
i believe has the base
vertical resolution of 1440 then this
card will provide
that fps where i think the total
resolution is coming close to that of 4k
so you will need a power hungry gpu to
power all those pixels
so the gaming performance numbers are
absolutely phenomenal
coming out of this graphics card now the
cooler itself it weighs in at 360 grams
i'll put the dimensions up here on the
screen for you
also the clock speeds in real time
practice testing at 4k
they went up to about 1980 megahertz and
then the memory is running at
19 gigabits per second effective though
the founders edition in particular will
pay attention to this little connector
right here
it does indeed need that 12 pin
connector which is included in the box
and then you plug that from two eight
pin connectors
and it does plug right into the middle
of the graphics card as shown
here and the one thing i see with this
is that they've got the rtx geforce logo
here
which lights up but then these cables
are pretty much going to cover it and
you kind of don't want to maneuver it
too much
because i feel like if you maneuver it
too much out of the way
over time you could bust the connector
or bust something so
the cable management with this cable i
feel like personally that is the only
little nitpick
i have with the card is that you're
gonna have a cable covering up your
beautiful side profile of this gpu but
of course
if you decide to vertical mount it
that's going to be absolutely fine
because i did end up throwing this card
into a case as well
and lo and behold the temperatures were
pretty much identical to the
test bed with 23c ambient temperatures
when i started testing so the one cool
thing about this cooler is one of the
fans will blow
a lot of the hot air out the rear of the
card and then the second fan on the back
will pretty much
get luke warm so it's not really going
to affect your memory
or your cpu temperatures a whole lot
however of course if you are
overclocking your ram
especially and you're getting seriously
high overclocks on your ddr4 memory
this fan may introduce that little bit
of extra heat so do be careful
and do keep that in mind though under
the power consumption numbers the 3080
this is a power hungry gpu with all that
high fps
you will need a good power supply to
power this thing and when i tested it 4k
shadow of the tomb raider i decided to
do 4k benchmarks to minimize the cpu
impact
but since the fps is so much higher than
all the other cards here
it will draw more power from the cpu and
the comparison
and that will in turn unfortunately skew
the results against the 3080
but that being said naturally it is
using more power
than all the other cards here despite it
being on samsung's eight
nanometer node though now it's time to
move over to ray tracing and also dlss
2.0 where both of these i feel go hand
in hand especially at 4k
though i will say one thing it
definitely in my opinion depends on the
game
if dlss 2.0 is going to be for you for
instance i did get around to testing
anthem but i ran out of login attempts
before i could complete the numbers on
that benchmark so i had to scrap that
whole
benchmark completely but i did get to
test out dlss 2.0 in that game
and i didn't think it looked as good as
say mechwarrior 5
where dlss 2.0 looked really good
in that game and also in fortnite i feel
like the dlss 2.0 solution
is really good to give you more fps
coupled with ray tracing
where they go hand in hand because ray
tracing will have an
impact to your fps quite significantly
though the ray tracing in mech warrior 5
as opposed to say fortnite they did look
different i think what they've done with
fortnite and the implementation
of ray tracing is a really good
job however it will tank performance on
the maximum
settings so you will want to turn on
dlss in my opinion
and maybe drop some settings on both the
graphical settings going from epic to
high for example and also on the ray
tracing maybe not turn it on maximum
but what it's worth the rt performance
wasn't leaps and bounds ahead
of the 2080 ti but it was pretty much
right in line
with the raw fps performance increased
numbers
of roughly 40 the last thing to go over
is the encoder and i'll just put up the
example here
for you guys where we've got the 1080 ti
versus the 2080 ti
versus the 3080 and i didn't notice
really any difference between the 3080
and the 2080 ti
but you do get three simultaneous
recording streams
out of the 3080 versus the 2080 ti for
example
though the quality difference between of
course turing and
pascal was a significant leap in terms
of recording quality but then going up
to the 3080 you've still got
really good recording quality and it's
going to be a really good solution
if you're streaming off your gpu which
in this case
you've got a lot of gpu horsepower to
stream off
and with all that out of the way we're
now at conclusion time
with the rtx 3080 and more specifically
the founders card
and at 699 us dollars or 1139 aussie
dollars
this card is just quite simply a
phenomenal buy
if you can afford it and if you can get
the most out of it
and i do say those ifs because if you
have a 120hz 1080p
monitor you're going to be wasting your
money on this card but if you
want to get into say 4k 120 hertz oled
gaming
then this card is going to take you
there and it's going to honestly
change your gaming experience when i
jumped onto the 4k oled at my brother's
house i was like wow
this is finally what i have been longing
for
as a pc gamer all these years where for
the last 20 years we've been throwing
lcds and there hasn't been much
innovation
4k oled is definitely where it's at as a
pc
gamer and your eyes will thank you later
but the thing is
this is the car that's going to get you
there of course the rtx 3090 which is
coming
but that's a significantly different
value play
than what this card represents right
here the 3070 that's gonna
from what i know performs similar to the
2080 ti
and so i feel like this for the extra
200 us dollars
over the 30 70 is going to be the one to
get if you want to get into 4k
gaming and you want to get really good
fps
and so i just can't fault the 3080 at
all i think if you go
with the founders edition or if you go
with the custom aib
board partners you're going to be
getting a really good gaming experience
though i will say about the founders
edition in itself it checked out okay
there was nothing i guess people were
worried about this cooler design
but at the end of the day it's two fans
on a heap of metal
and the faster the fans spin the more
heat they're going to dissipate so
that's exactly what these two fans do i
mean there's people on both sides
there's people that were really worried
about the design
there was people that were really
curious about it and for me personally i
was thinking to myself
how much better can it actually get
than just fans cooling metal and it
doesn't really get that much better
anyhow guys the rtx 3080 absolute
home run for pc gaming enthusiasts
that's you guys out there if you want to
get one of these
then i have heard rumors about the stock
levels
so you will really want to get in fast
if you really are serious about getting
one then you'll have to
maybe call up your local retailer find
out how you can get one of these
otherwise i heard there's going to be
more stock
at the end of october at least if you're
in australia so
the demand is definitely going to be
there for these cards
and especially after seeing the raw
numbers the demand is going to be even
more justified
and i mean look people are going to say
well the marketing team promised us 2x
performance
i mean the marketing team is going to
show you of course
2x performance in certain titles which
this card does
i'm guessing over the 2080 i tested
against 2080 super
but i mean a marketing team is just that
it's their job to market so
of course they're going to show you
their product in the best possible light
just like when amd showcased their zen 2
cpus
they did the exact same thing and you
wouldn't have heard any complaints from
me back then
you're not hearing any complaints from
me now with marketing
and this card though is the real deal
when it comes down to it all
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and we've got the aftermarket board
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excuse me if i do look a little bit
tired there's been a lot of testing
going on here because i did get my cards
really late they got held up in customs
and it's just such bad luck like this
card right here got held up in custom
for two weeks
so i this is why the reviews a little
bit late and i do apologize for that
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