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
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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
because we're going to be revisiting our
cheap versus expensive vr setups and
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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