hey guys i've got a job
really what's your job i get graphics
cards and i put them in a machine and i
press the play button yeah wow that
sounds like a pretty easy job i mean how
much money do you make um
make about seven dollars a day per k
well four dollars a cow
dude are you okay you're having a bit of
a break down here oh i just can't get my
money back
in a hundred days it's gonna take me 200
days
now
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nvidia said that the rtx 3060 is going
to be coming in from
329 us dollars now
we all know with the current situation
that that is going to be
a far cry from what it really is going
to cost
out there on the market so today's
review is going to be just like
the very similar review that i did on
the rtx 3080 colorful that came through
here a week ago
and that is that crypto miners are
ruining the prices of everything right
now
because honestly when i looked at the
360 ti and the 3070 when i first
reviewed them
you could buy them and they were coming
in at decent prices
in australia you could get a 30 60 ti
when it
just came out for 700 aussie dollars and
that was
just above what nvidia said it would
come out in australia for
but with the current situation in
bitcoin and ethereum and the prices
going
through the roof this card right here
does offer some kind of glimmer of hope
in that nvidia did promise that they
would nerf crypto algorithms
on these graphics cards in particular
now when i put this to the tests
here at the studio i used nicehash and i
enabled all the different
miners that they could enable and we'll
get this elephant out in the out of the
room just
we'll kick him out of the room right now
because i want to get onto the
gaming performance for a gaming graphics
card but it's important to know that i
don't think miners are going to be
desiring this card
as much as they would the other ones say
for instance the 3060 ti which
as it stands to this date the 3060 ti is
the best
not only price performance but power
efficiency graphics card for mining
so that's going to be very desirable for
miners where they can earn up to eight
dollars a day on that thing
or even more as opposed to this when i
put this through nicehash
it was earning up to around four dollars
a day that was the maximum profit it
could pull
now i did get um i had someone who sent
me a
leaked screenshot a while ago about the
30-60 mining right now it was nerfed in
uh
ethereum mining and that was true but
then there was some other videos that
surfaced where this thing could make
seven dollars a day and i don't know
where they got those seven
dollar a day figures from because i
tested it here with all those algorithms
and the best algorithm for it was like
octopus or something where
the cryptocurrency mining rates i still
believe on these other algorithms
are being pushed down and nerfed just
not as hard as they would on ethereum
but the thing is ethereum's making the
most money so
when you push down that ethereum
algorithm then that's the profits that
are syncing
for people who want to pick this up for
a mining graphics card and so what this
means is that this card right here the
rtx 3060 should be going into the hands
of gamers more than it would into the
hands of miners and
why this is is that those miners will
want to buy up all those 360 ti still in
30 70s
and they won't focus as hard on this
card as they will on the others
and so this card right here will still
suffer from a higher price i just don't
think
it will see as higher price as the
others like the 360 ti for example and
especially
the 3080 where the problem with the 38
is i haven't even
seen it in stock anywhere that thing's
been back ordered
for literally like months and months
where they're just trying to fill the
back orders and of course
you've got all these greedy miners in
the queue trying to get as many of those
as they can too so
this card right here does offer straight
away a glimmer of hope
for gamers now as i said i'm praying for
a cryptocurrency crash and if that
happens
we can just forget this whole intro ever
existed however
it's finally time to get into the meat
potatoes and i'll even throw in some
sausages in
for you guys in today's review where
we've got the 12 gigabytes of vram
on this cart in particular it's an
interesting configuration because
i know a lot of people out there are
thinking the same thing that i was
thinking
as why 12 gigabytes when the 360 ti and
37 are eight
then the 38 is 10. you've got more vram
on this
card than you do on the like sister
flagship card the 3080.
and i asked the video directly what is
the reason for this and they told me
straight up they said with the
configuration of the 192 bit boss
they could only either put six gigabytes
on or 12 gigabytes
so they opted to go with 12 gigabytes
even though it's fine today
might not be enough in say a year's time
so they did put the 12 gigabytes in
there
just to be a bit more conservative but
in terms of the gpu silicon itself
you've got less
cuda cores and you've got a smaller die
in general
than the likes of the bigger 360ti and
3070 for example so
it is a new card so to speak in its own
right
now going through the performance
figures you're like how does this thing
perform
let's pull up those numbers for you guys
where i tested 1440p
and also 4k numbers here to give you
guys an idea of how this thing
will perform and you can see from these
numbers it's roughly about half that of
an rtx 3080.
it does still beat out some of those
previous generation cards comfortably
and i mean look in due time if a crypto
crash comes
and prices return to normal at 330
dollars if you can pick up one of these
for around that in the future
then it's going to offer very good value
for money and when we look at the 3080
and what that was offering around msrp i
mean
albeit you couldn't really get one that
was giving good price performance in its
own right as well
you may notice up until this point there
are two graphics cards here on the table
and one is the eagle
and one is the gaming oc both from
gigabyte
and so there is no founders edition with
this model
as opposed to the 3060 ti and upwards
but what gigabyte sent out here was the
eagle which is apparently their entry
level
rtx 3060 and then they've got the gaming
oc which offers a bigger cooler
as well as supposedly more performance
but as we can see with these graphs
the performance isn't really anything
different from the eagle and i was kind
of surprised here i even reinstalled the
drivers
just checking and scratching my head but
sure enough the eagle and the gaming
ocrtx 3060s
were performing virtually identical
though where they do differ
and i will pull up this next graph for
you guys
is the temperatures and noise the eagle
did surprisingly
well but it looks like gigabyte are sort
of limiting the fan
speeds from going really loud and really
fast and they're just putting an
artificial cap that says a hundred
percent
when i do believe they could spin faster
but they're doing this to keep the noise
down so this card
out of the box goes up to 90 percent fan
speeds
that's for the eagle in a 28c
environment and the temperatures were
mediocre
the noise was actually very good but if
we step over to the gaming oc
if you're paying a bit more money for
the gaming oc versus the eagle this is
where you're going to see a big
difference where
the gaming oc was basically whisper
quiet even at 80
fan speeds and the temperatures were
actually pretty solid
though in terms of overclocking they
both overclocked to virtually the same
levels
an extra 120 so megahertz on the eagle
extra 130 megahertz on the gaming oc
and the memory overclocked also pretty
nicely to around a thousand megahertz on
both
though the under volting is the real
champion here where when i tested the
under volts we were dropping power
consumption by about 80 watts
which made this system even with a 10
900 k
32 gig of ram and all the other perks
this was using up 250 watts while we're
gaming
so the power consumption on this card is
ridiculously good
especially if you want to undervolt it
and on the eagle in particular since the
performance of the cooling
is mediocre under vaulting this will
then make a mediocre cooler
look like it's doing a fantastic job so
under vaulting on this model in
particular
can highly recommend it overclocking and
out of the box performance
it's decent but under vaulting is
definitely where it is at the movie with
both these cards
they are more lightweight in particular
where they're both coming under one
kilogram
looking on the back of the inputs and
outputs on both we have
hdmi 2.1 we've got two of those and then
two display port 1.4
a out so if you do want to hook these up
to a 120 hertz 4k screen but if you're
spending all that money on 4k oled you
might want to get the rtx 3080 or a 6800
xt but then you go online you check this
prices and scalpers we're not going to
go there
the final things to go over is the
aesthetics where you've got a little bit
of rgb they make a note of rgb fusion
2.0 on the box
but on the eagle it's literally like a
line and then on the oc it's just a logo
so
there's nothing to get excited about
with the rgb on these cards
we've got more of a gunmetal gray black
aesthetic on the gaming oc with
three 80 mil fans and then on the eagle
2 100 mil
fans and a more of a darker gray
dark grey transparent over the eagle
logo then you've got a plastic back
plate on both of these cards
with the flow-through design on the
coolers and i'm going to say one thing
i've noticed with these flow-through
designs that they've been implementing
on
these cards in particular yes it's going
to blow a little bit of hot air towards
your ram
but in general i found the coolers do
perform that little bit better
with this opening here to allow that air
to pass through directly especially if
you've got good air flow on your case
the cards and the cooler designs like
this are going to appreciate
that little bit of extra airflow through
your case anyhow guys it's now
conclusion time and i'm going to say
straight up
this is the first time i've reviewed a
graphics card on launch
where it's been launched into such a
messy market
things have just gotten worse since the
end of 2020
where crypto demand has made a launch
like this
just very uneasy on everyone in general
i think you've got
tension everywhere i mean i've made
videos and there's just people arguing
in the comments and
then i go to other videos and i check
the comments there and
people are frustrated and they're
frustrated because
of the fact that there's just not enough
supply and now we've got this massive
pent-up demand
coming in from miners and unfortunately
in regards to the miners
they're prepared to pay more i think for
these cards than the gamers
and so that's leaving gamers now
scratching their heads
with sort of value that's been all
messed up and the reason that value's
all messed up now
is because even the older generation
cards that their msrp
are probably looking like they're a
better buy even back when they bought
those cards
than the cars that are on the market now
for the available prices
so this basically leaves me with the
recommendation of if you can find one of
these cards
for close to that 330 msrp even close to
400 in the current climate it's going to
be a good buy
but you may have to go on to some of
these websites
where they're doing the raffle system
where you enter into the raffle
to get the chance to buy one and not get
ripped
off and so i'd like to see more uh
retailers
sort of partaking in this practice where
it does help get these cards in the
hands of gamers and in terms of the
cryptocurrency algorithm thing
i mean everyone's got different opinions
on that my
opinion is that if nvidia does have
poor yielding silicon and and in turn
push out some of the demand
that would otherwise be snapping up
gaming cards to miners that wouldn't
affect gaming graphics
card stock then that's a good thing and
so nerfing the cryptocurrency algorithm
on this
sort of does make a little bit of a
statement that they do want to get these
into hands of gamers
and yes guys i get it nvidia doesn't
care about
you corporation doesn't care about you
but one thing they will care about
same with amd and intel they will care
about
your business and that's one thing
nvidia do want to do
is they do want to care about your
long-term business they want to make you
a loyal customer
so when they're releasing gravity cards
in the future you're buying them as well
so people that seem to think that this
whole thing is marred with conspiracy
i don't think there's much conspiracy
here i think they want to keep the
gamers buying their graphics cards
because they know the cryptocurrency
miners aren't a consistent buyer base
as opposed to the gamers anyhow guys i
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us let us know in the comments section
below
what you think of the rtx 3060s
performance as well as this whole
situation right now
i know it's all messed up it's just like
one of these things where i'm
also sending these cards back to
gigabyte too i don't get to keep them
that's how bad the stock problems are so
i mean i'm just happy to take a look at
this thing and give you guys a video so
i hope you enjoyed this one
and we've got the question of the day
here which comes from gamer dad reviews
and they ask hi brian thanks for this
review
the 3080 looks boss but gg trying to
snap one up so this was from
our 3080 video he says can you advise me
please i just picked up a new lg cx55
oled
do you think it's worth trying to flip
my existing og rtx 2080
for an rtx 3070 or 3080 to make use of
that sweet hdmi 2.1
or should i just sit this gen out and
skip to rtx 3000
whenever that drops thanks for another
great vid my man cheers
thanks for the question and to answer
that directly you definitely will want
to get if you've got the lg 55-inch cx
you want to unlock that hdmi 2.1 port
so you can get 120hz 4k oled it looks
absolutely gorgeous
but you also get to unlock the true rgb
color or the 444 color even at 10 bit
and so those two things alone definitely
make it worthwhile an upgrade
as opposed to sticking with the rtx
2080. so what i'd recommend doing in
this current market if you can
try and find someone that's got an rtx
3070
and maybe they're just thinking about
selling it or something like that and
maybe put an ad
up where you offer to swap that and cash
their way
so they get an rtx 2080 and they might
have a bit of extra cash in their pocket
and then you get the rtx 3070 because
selling your card and then trying to get
one on the market might be a bit messy
but there are some people who generally
just want to swap and they need a bit of
extra money and they might not need a
30-70
and they just they'll be happy with the
2080. so that'd be my advice if you can
do
that you won't lose too much money and
you'll also be sort of getting a decent
price for your 2080 in the process
hope that answers that question and with
that aside if you guys have stayed this
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