everywhere you look right now rtx 3080s are sold out but i'm told
they are coming into stock very soon and if one of these
does land either for a pre-order or it's in stock at your local retailer
is it going to be worth considering that is zotac's
rtx 3080 trinity gaming edition card with three 90 mil cooling fans and
with the cooler individually weighing 900 grams is this
going to be enough to keep the rtx 3080 under control
well let's roll those benchmarks straight up getting into the 1080p
numbers and out of the box this card does
perform pretty similar to that of the founders
and also compared to that of the tough gaming which we recently had through
here at tech yes city but one thing that i will mention about
1080p gaming with an rtx 3080 card is that you might want to seriously
reconsider buying one of these cards if you're
going to go with 1080p gaming as we see in some of the titles we are
starting to get hit with a cpu bottleneck and this was
tested on a 10 900k which pretty much the best you can get
for gaming right now but if we move over to 1440p this is
where the differences do start to expand from the 2080 ti to the 3080 and the
good news is here is if you are an ultra wide gamer or a super
ultra wide 1440p gamer then you can definitely benefit even more so
than the regular 16x9 1440p numbers that you're seeing here now in
terms of the zotac versus the other two cards at 1440p
very similar story there's not a whole lot of difference
to be gained out of going over one card over the other that you see here in the
graphs though stepping things up to 4k it was
pretty much the same story as 1440p except minus pretty much all
the cpu bottlenecks that may occur at 1440p and so this is
where this card really does shine in terms of the 3080 standpoint itself
and that is 4k gaming and and also quickly throw up some rtx benchmarks for
you and quickly show the encoder versus the
previous two generations where i feel like the encoder this time
around hasn't been improved a whole lot over the second series rtx
2000 series cards but that was a pretty big improvement
over the 10 series card so if you want to use the nvidia encoder it's
definitely going to do a good job and you've also got av01 decoding now
built on to the 3082 speaking of the differences between this
and the founders and the azus tough this is going to be one of the most
important questions probably on your mind if you're looking
at this model in particular versus say the other models out there
now the tough gaming that came through and that blew me away
i'm not going to sit here in the review of the zotac card
and say that the tough gaming wasn't impressive that is the most impressive
card i have seen come through here and
especially hitting at msrp and being a cheaper entry-level card in
terms of pricing but then providing the performance that
did as well as the noise and the overclocking
that thing was really good extremely hard to beat
now this car doesn't unfortunately beat the tough gaming
in terms of noise as well as cooling but one thing that it does do
is does offer a bit of a smaller footprint if you're trying to fit it
into a different build which i will put the measurements
up on the screen here for this gpu in particular another thing
about the zotac gaming card is out of the box the fan profiles are
pretty much perfect you don't want to use
a different fan profile if you're gaming because it's going to either create more
noise or the temperatures will run a bit
hotter i found this magical level of 69 degrees
at 69 fan speeds was doing an excellent job
of not only keeping the noise at a sweet spot for this particular model card but
also keeping the temperatures just under that magical level of 70
degrees and even in one of the benchmarks i did
when i was playing around with under-volting we even got 69 fps
so what about the overclocks and for me personally more importantly
the under vaulting i'm going to say this card under vaults
well i think any 30 series card is going to undervolt
quite well and for me personally i've been using these cards and i do prefer
under vaulting them because it's going to save you a bit more power on your
power consumption in which in turn should save you money
on your power bill but it's also going to keep the card cooler
and it's going to run quieter which is an important thing and
you're not going to lose much fps at all this car did lose a couple of
fps in horizon zero dawn when i tested the
under vaulting and then on the flip side when i went on to
overclocking it was limited to around a megahertz core
clock but the memory did go quite high to around 500 megahertz so over 10
gigahertz on that display which does look pretty
impressive when you're playing your games but
when you do overclock it the power consumption does start to run
out of control and you're only really gaining a few extra fps
i think for these cards the 1800 megahertz
under volt is not just a sweet spot in terms of the efficiency curve for the
gpu itself but it's also a great thing for someone
who's going with a high-end power supply with low ripple suppression so you've
got to remember when they designed these cards
out of the box they designed them to work on pretty much
any power supply with the rating that they're recommending so they can say a
bronze rated 750 watt power supply is going to do the
job even if it's got a lot higher ripple than say a corsair
rmi 850 which will have a lot better ripple
suppression than a lot of power supplies out there
so when you're using a power supply like that you can then in turn
give this card a nice good undervolt with clean stable power
and it should respond pretty well and so that's why i recommend under volting
especially if you're going to get a car like this
and especially if you've got a good power supply anyway moving through the
card itself you've got two eight pin connectors so you don't need
the nvidia 12 pin to two eight pin splitter or of course
if your power supply has got that direct 12 pin connector then you're
going to need 2 8 pins so that's located roughly to
just off center of the card in the pcb itself which when we've taken
the cooler off we can see that this is using a very
similar design to the pcb of the founders card now
another thing is too at the back of the card for those who want to know about
the capacitors it does have six of the larger
capacitors so there has been a lot of drama surrounding the caps used
and the overclocks and the stability and when i
was doing all the benchmarks as well as playing a bit of modern warfare
which is a pretty strenuous game i do like to play that on all the cards
for quite a while this did not crash once
so whatever zotac is doing here they're doing a good job at least the sample
i've got here is pretty stable that being said however if you do have a
problem zotac say that they do provide an
extended four-year warranty at least for people in australia
so it's always good to have four years on an investment
like this which is pretty much what it is at this stage if you're getting into
high-end gaming and you want to drop this kind of money on this card
you definitely would want a pretty decent warranty so it's good to see that
they are backing the product with a solid warranty the
final thing to go over with this card right here is i was going
to say the rgb of course we've got to go over the rgb
we've got zotac gaming rgb on the side and on the rear which
you can control with their included software they call this firestorm
and you install the app and then you can change it and even sync it with other
rgb software if you want to and the good thing is with the software
you can do more than just tune the rgb you can tune the card itself
and another good thing is after you're done setting up your rgb
whether you want to turn it off completely or not you can then close
down and uninstall the software and your settings will be saved into the
graphics card itself which is a good thing
and going through the rear output of this card you've got one hdmi
2.1 which is essential for your lg oled 120 hertz 4k gaming experience if you
want to go that route which i do use personally and it's
really good then you've got three display port outs
too however the this is the standard design and the for
instance the board partners can implement more ports
where we did see with the tough gaming for example two hdmi 2.1 outs so this is
exactly like the standard founders output design if you want to get more
display outs then you might want to go with a
different card and with all that out of the way it's finally time
to give you guys the raw conclusion on the zotac
trinity and what do i think of it should this be the card
that you consider getting if you're after a 30 series card now
i've compared this to two other cards here so far
i've also got one more in the pipeline and the tough gaming is still coming out
on top for the 3080 series i'm not going gonna
sit here and if you just come out of the bush i'm
not gonna beat you up and put you back in the bush that's not me
not gonna beat you around the bush basically the
zotac trinity however what it does do good is out of the box
it does work the noise and the temperature levels
were mediocre i would like to see them come down but if this is a card
that's coming in at msrp and especially in australia if you can get this
for one of the cheapest sort of entry level rtx 3080 cards
versus the others out there then it will do the job and i think
that's what you've come here to know about the zotac trinity is it a card
worth buying and honestly if this was the only rtx
3080 card i could get then i'd be happy with it it does a
decent job but does have its limitations where it doesn't overclock that well
and also compared to the founders it's coming in with lower temperature levels
but does make a little bit more noise and for me personally when i'm looking
for gpus i'm usually looking for one that brings
in really good value so wherever you live around the world if
this is in stock say for instance for some other gpus that aren't in stock and
they may have a huge back order on them this one comes up you want to
know is it good yeah it's pretty solid it'll do the job
and if it's in stock and it's the right
price then i would definitely go for it if you've also got any questions or
comments about this rtx 3080 or anything in general then be sure to drop a
question down below or just a comment down below too
i love it when you guys comment love reading those thoughts and opinions as
always and speaking of thoughts and pieces
we've got the question of the day here which comes from
rooks and they ask a 650 watt power supply for
a 30 80 question mark i thought it needs at least 750 what
and the power supply thing is i think nvidia did the 750 watt because they
know how many mediocre 650 watts there are
out there there's i've seen 650 watts that are
really probably only a true 550 or 500 watt and that's even from
decent brands so i think they give the 750 watt just
to make sure that hey you're not going to have problems with a
cpu and a gpu that aren't overclocked out of the box
but the 650 watt power supply that i ordered in the other video
that's going to be absolutely fine for a 3080 and also
a uh the cpu the 10 700 f that i ordered as well
i mean from the top of my head this whole system will probably juice around
420 to 430 watts while we're gaming so 650 watt power
supply should be absolutely fine and the one we ordered is decent i have
tried it before in a video up here the 450 watt with a 2080 ti
and a 3950x and that passed with flying colors
and with all that out of the way i'll catch you guys in another tech video
very soon peace out for now bye
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