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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition
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) some time down the line especially if AMD can't come close to 3090 levels of performance &/or RDNA3 cards don't launch in a year's time.
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Price of 3090 in Aust. is around $3k Pricing of 3080s
I paid $1259- Aus back in Sept 2018 for my Asus 2080 Ti. Currently, the RTX 3080s are closer to $1500 as the $699 USD comes didn't come here for the exchange rate price of $920 but $1100-1200. Since Nvidia on sent a handful here the other branded ones start at the $1400 mark and go right up.
So, a RTX 3090 is closer to 3x the cost of my 2080 Ti. The RRP never seemed to exist.
Now that I have plonked a 366w bios on my card up from the 312w it still runs plenty cool. Testing both cards they now run at about the same power usage and get maybe a 10% difference. Then again, almost all reviews that have the 3080 I get the same or a bit better FPS in general. Just the 2080 Ti I am using is 15-25% faster than the ones they using.
The 3080 is a nice card, but I guess as it is closer to $1500 and a 3090 is $3000 the $1259 I paid prior to the price hike has a happy life. While I run at i7-10700k @ 5-5.1ghz even my old i7-4770k @ 4.4ghz with the 2080 Ti got close to 9600 points in Port Royal 4770k Port Royal when Nvidia and most reviewers have the 2080 Ti maxing out at 8600. Weird
I paid $1259- Aus back in Sept 2018 for my Asus 2080 Ti. Currently, the RTX 3080s are closer to $1500 as the $699 USD comes didn't come here for the exchange rate price of $920 but $1100-1200. Since Nvidia on sent a handful here the other branded ones start at the $1400 mark and go right up.
So, a RTX 3090 is closer to 3x the cost of my 2080 Ti. The RRP never seemed to exist.
Now that I have plonked a 366w bios on my card up from the 312w it still runs plenty cool. Testing both cards they now run at about the same power usage and get maybe a 10% difference. Then again, almost all reviews that have the 3080 I get the same or a bit better FPS in general. Just the 2080 Ti I am using is 15-25% faster than the ones they using.
The 3080 is a nice card, but I guess as it is closer to $1500 and a 3090 is $3000 the $1259 I paid prior to the price hike has a happy life. While I run at i7-10700k @ 5-5.1ghz even my old i7-4770k @ 4.4ghz with the 2080 Ti got close to 9600 points in Port Royal 4770k Port Royal when Nvidia and most reviewers have the 2080 Ti maxing out at 8600. Weird
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I got my 5700XT for $300 and I'm currently running a 1440p @144Hz "gaming monitor". 95% of games are not significantly subjectively improved by upgrading to 3080, given this monitor. But, reviews had me convinced that Ray Tracing was finally worth having w/Cyberpunk 2077, and, I wanted to experience what gaming at a steady 144Hz was like.
Ray Tracing maybe "cool" in CP77, but, once I start playing (rather than taking a break to just look around) I stop noticing the improvements brought by it.
I hope they add excellent undervolting support to Precision X as MSI Afterburner doesn't seem to 100% work w/EVGA's 3rd fan. Also, Afterburner's "Voltage Curve" editor is unintuitive to me, I think they got the Mhz/Voltage axises backwards and it's not clear to me how to set the voltage for very low speeds, such as when you're just doing light 2d work like web browsing.
Ray Tracing maybe "cool" in CP77, but, once I start playing (rather than taking a break to just look around) I stop noticing the improvements brought by it.
Aside from the $809 price (of the FTW3 Ultra, which is the cheapest I could find in stock), the power consumption was the hardest aspect for me to swallow - if I hadn't read about undervolting, I don't think I could keep this card.
I hope they add excellent undervolting support to Precision X as MSI Afterburner doesn't seem to 100% work w/EVGA's 3rd fan. Also, Afterburner's "Voltage Curve" editor is unintuitive to me, I think they got the Mhz/Voltage axises backwards and it's not clear to me how to set the voltage for very low speeds, such as when you're just doing light 2d work like web browsing.
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Awesome cooler design. Not a single visible screw and magnetic screw covers, plus two fans routing air two ways - very impressive!
One question though - is the back panel mesh any use in such a card? If I'm reading it right, no air should be passing through that mesh anymore(unlike a blower-type card or even a fan-based card which has *some* air passing through there).
One question though - is the back panel mesh any use in such a card? If I'm reading it right, no air should be passing through that mesh anymore(unlike a blower-type card or even a fan-based card which has *some* air passing through there).
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The fan closest to the rear I/O exhausts pretty much entirely out the I/O shield - it's not like the air can go through the PCB after all, and there's a thick aluminium frame surrounding the fin stack, so the air has nowhere to go except out the back. A tiny amount will go out to the middle fin stacks and into the case, but the openings through the frame for that are very small.