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every one of you guys for hitting that sub button and supporting us over the years though that said
that's the positive news let's get into what is going to be the most awkward product review i
have done up until this date because in my opinion there's now external forces outside of the tech
scene that's really messing up the prices and that is of course i've spoken about this in the last
few months a thing known as inflation and to break that down for you guys in a very simple manner
that is is when there's so much money being created especially out of thin air that then
devalues the currency that we use which is dollars in australia be aussie dollars in america it's
american dollars and then in the uk it'd be our great british pounds so when there's a massive
creation of money especially when it's backed by nothing and it starts circulating into the economy
suddenly everyone has more money to buy products and the price of those products in nominal terms
goes up and i believe we're now starting to see this effect come out in front of our very eyes
and that is with the 1199 usd msrp of the 3080ti especially when we compare that to the 699 msrp
that we got with the 3080 last year and in fact these cards in terms of their size and also
their weight and the cooler being used are almost identical in that they share the same footprint
i'll put the dimensions and also the weight of the 30 ti up on the screen for you guys but now back
to the pricing which we're going to be talking about this before we get into the numbers so if
you guys want to skip ahead to the gaming numbers i'll put the chapter in the description below but
i feel like pricing and supply is a huge factor here considering the little sibling the rtx 3080
is actually coming back into stock here locally where i am but it's pretty much double the msrp
of what it was when it's first released now nvidia are directly trying to address the pricing issue
themselves and they're putting on the 3080 ti what's known as a low hash rate limiter and this
is affecting the dagger hashimoto mining algorithm if you want to mine on a ethereum miner or if
you want a mine with nice hash then the rates of ethereum on this card have dropped significantly
versus that of even a 30 80. however the other algorithms are still available and they will mine
at quite profitable levels but as i've said in the past i'll put a link to a video up here the mining
profitability of these other cards if they were to get flooded by the sheer hashing power from the
ethereum market it would drop the profitability down significantly so i think that's why nvidia
have really only bothered to target ethereum mining with the release of their low hash rate
limiter which i'm also told is a hardware level solution so the low hash rate limiter imposed by
nvidia will help curb the problem but the problem will still exist regardless because miners will
pretty much target anything as long as mining profitability is profitable now there's another
group added in there of course that's the scalpers as long as supply is low scalpers will be doing
everything they can to secure a card especially close to that msrp price if they can get them
from retailers who are trying their best to keep prices low then they'll just go on ebay and resell
them too so now we know on these graphics cards there's three different types of buyers
that is the gamer the crypto miner and the scalper we can easily see that at current msrp levels
there is not enough supply to meet that demand so what this traditionally means would be either
two things and that is the buyer either gives up trying to buy one of these cards or there's supply
to alleviate the problem but then if we throw in the third problem that we spoke about before
and that is inflation we can see that we're met with a third external force that no one
seems to be talking about are these two and a half thousand dollar prices going to become a
new norm and that is really only something that the central bank themselves would know but in the
meantime i am holding on to my little friend who will protect me against that third factor
though let's get on to the 3080 ti finally and talk about the performance where this card will
come very close to that of an rtx 3090 looking at the 1080p gaming numbers we can see here this
card is nearly chart topping only slightly bested by that at the 30 90. moving through 1080p
the nvidia and amd cards do trade blows but that 3080 ti is coming out near the top and then over
to call of duty cold war this was more of a title for amd at 1080p in terms of its relative price
point versus the other price point of the cards at least at msrp and then on to f1 2020 i decided to
test this game at dx11 for nvidia because they get more fps and then dx12 for amd where they get more
fps over dx11 a bit of a weird dilemma with this game but the 3080ti yet again performs very close
to that of the 3090. and then the last title will go up here is shadow the tomb raider and i'm sure
at 1080p there are some cpu limitations starting to come into play especially at the highest
graphical settings though under 1440p we are at an in between here of course in between 1080p and 4k
and you can start to see that the memory bandwidth on especially the 380ti and 3090
does start to stretch its legs a little bit versus the amd counterparts as well as even
something like the 3080 which is where this car does have the same bandwidth available
as its big brother the 3090 also f1 2020 the performance is really solid especially if you're
playing at 144 hertz or 165 hertz and you want to leave the detail absolutely maxed though 4k
is easily where the party is happening on the 3080 ti now at the back of the card you've got
that hdmi 2.1 it's going to support full rgb 444 120 hertz 4k with that extra bandwidth and this is
where this card really does shine as well as the amd counterparts the 6800 xt and the 6900 xt they
do a great job of 4k 120 hertz too they're going through these four titles this is where the gddr6x
and the bandwidth on the 3080ti and the 3090 do start to pull ahead of the amd counterparts and
even that of the 3080 and what i'm going to show you guys here with the shadow of the tomb raider
was i'm going to include the overclocked numbers and the underclocked figures where the overclocked
numbers on this card were really impressive if you're into dabbling into overclocking a little
bit especially if you get a water cooled 3080 ti then you can really extract some really high
fps and in fact it was comfortably beating the 30 90 by a lot and if we contrast that to the
power consumption that you're going to use we can see here that the under volt is one to consider
two if you like to save power but you still want to get really high fps of 4k and of course that
overclock uses up a little bit more power but it's definitely going to give you some of the best fps
you can get period on pc gaming though we'll pull up some dlss numbers here as well as ray trace
numbers where in fortnite if we look at the ray tracing the 3080 ti does struggle a little bit if
it was one test i could pull up that does start to show that perhaps the 12 gigabytes of vram
is a limitation on the 38 ti versus the 3090 this would be the test where i did start to notice a
little bit more choppiness versus the 3090 but if we then turn on dlss both at the 4k native
and the 4k with ray tracing on we can see here the performance boost especially with the ray
tracing on is significant and it does push it into the realm of a smooth experience even with epic
settings and then moving on to call of duty this is with ray tracing on you can get a
smooth experience as well if you're happy playing at 4k 60 but if we're looking at 4k uh 120 hertz
or 144 hertz having the dlss on balance gave us a really nice picture but gave us fluid fps at 4k
so at the moment with ray tracing and dlss it does depend on the title for me personally
i really liked dlss and ray tracing in cyberpunk 2077 i thought that was when the two came together
but most the time i will leave ray tracing off and i use dlss on the balanced order quality profile
at 4k to get that extra detail but still get smooth fps now amd have recently announced their
fsr technology we'll have to wait and see how that performs in relation to dlss but hopefully
amd can get that out soon because at the moment when you turn the dlss on it does give nvidia a
massive advantage at 4k so now that we are done with the performance figures it's time for a
few critiquing points on the graphics card itself now the weight of the card is coming over 1300
grams but i feel like a card of a flagship of this nature you would want a bigger cooler where
i thought the 3080 was just cutting it but since this does use up a bit more power the noise and
i'll pull up the noise and temps the temperatures were getting a little bit high here going into 74
degrees and the noise was quite noticeable at 43 decibels so if you're paying a premium for a card
like the 3080ti i would like to see something in between the 3080 and the 3090 in terms of cooling
and the size of that cooler that's adopted because the 3090s cooling performance as well as the sheer
size that thing worked extremely well it was one of the best coolers i've seen on a graphics card
period and then the 3080 was okay but however this does use up a little bit more power and the
two 90mm fans even though the design does work as proof with the 3090 versus some other really big
3090 cards the 3080 does i feel need a bit more metal as witnessed with the 100 fan speed versus
80 fan speed as we can see a big drop there and basically if that drop from 80 percent versus 100
fan speeds isn't as big as it is here then that means the cooler doesn't need the faster fan
speeds which basically means there's enough metal on board to do the job also included in the 3080ti
founders is the 12 pin to 2 8 pin connectors and that's located in the middle of the card
and it goes on as such but it does block out your side profile a little bit
if you were to try and mount the 3080 ti i would suggest vertically mounting it and that would look
the best where the inside of cart has some slight led glow as well as the geforce logo lighting up
with a glow of its own ultimately the founder's card it does provide the fps and now it is time
to give you guys a conclusion and my thoughts on this card right here and if we're looking at the
1199 msrp you're going to see that versus the 3080 the 3080 at 699 msrp was a much better buy
and so the 3080ti it leaves it in that field of well we've just now got to look at street pricing
because i feel like nvidia have just said okay 1199 is what you can expect it to come in from
but we've got no idea when it will come in from that and i believe the 1199 usd price point we
all know the card is going to come in much higher than that and the market is going to pretty much
price this thing at possibly around 2 000 usd and in australia i'm predicting it to come in stock
around two and a half thousand aussie dollars and that's just being realistic based on what
i'm seeing especially in relation to the pricing of the rtx 3080. now industry insiders say
with the amount of current demand that basically you can expect this to go on even another year
if the supply isn't increased to match the massive amount of demand but i'm predicting prices could
go even higher if the money printing continues and as long as these massive six trillion dollar
stimulus bills are announced and interest rates stay near zero we're all going to be feeling
the pain of higher prices and i'm starting to witness this from anything from my local bakery
to things like bananas and gasoline prices here locally everything is going up and the
graphics card going up as well is just another side effect of that so what can one then do
in this environment and the answer to that would probably what i'm doing anyway if you want to save
that is save in something other than dollars and that's what i've been doing recently and actually
in the last four months i've been educating myself heavily on the topic because as a person who likes
to save rather than borrow i have been called out in a weird predicament during this whole
inflationary cycle that i feel is coming and is being especially under-reported by news outlets
anyway before i get on out of here i'm not going to sugarcoat anything this card right here the
pricing is just going to be completely messed up but if you can get one and i'd say if you can get
one closer to that msrp and you can afford it and that's what you really want then i would go for it
because who knows when all this madness will end i have no idea i don't have a crystal ball and again
i think the only people that can give you that answer are the central banks hope you've enjoyed
today's review if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us and if you've got any questions
or comments about today's review be sure to drop them in the comments section below but with that
said we do have here the question of the day which comes from jordan stride and they ask hey mate
how do you find these pcs so cheap i'm in brisbane and can't find any deals and answer this one
directly if you see a good deal especially in the current climate we're in in 2021 then you
have to be quicker than you've ever been before so when i see a good deal i pretty much sweep it up
as quick as i can and speaking of sweeping up a deal do you guys think if this card was priced
at say 1500 aussie dollars or 1200 usd would you sweep it up at that price point versus what it
realistically is going to go on to the market for love reading your thoughts and opinions as always
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