Nvidia's 3000 Series RTX GPU [3050, 3060, 3070, 3080, 3090 now with TIs]

4K ULtra results.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-review

 

Yep, I little bit more efficient than the 2080TI, but only slightly.


*stolen from eurogamer

Wow the performance/watt different is quite big between the 2080 and the 2080TI in some games, I'd have expected them to be mostly equal.

edit: yeah, I think I'll be waiting for the 3070

edit2:

 

According to ComputerBase's review, 3080 is 25% faster than 2080Ti at same power consumption (270W), but gains only +4% going from 270W to 320W(+19% power), 4K resolution. Seems like pushed tad higher than efficiency curve of the process.

No negligible difference between PCIe 3.0 vs 4.0 overall, except 2 titles 5% in CoD:MW, 6% in Control.

Lower DRAM and CPU temperatures compared to Asus Strix 2080Ti@320W.

 

This made me thinking, what would happen if 3080 is on the same node as 2080Ti
It seems that Nvidia pushed their power usage to create a big enough gap to the previous gen.
If I'm purchasing a GPU right now, my target would be 2060 super or 2070 because I believe you can have both cards with only a single 8pin power.
Sadly, even 3070 will need to have more than what a single 8pin can provide. Hopefully we can have 3060 with only a single 8pin power (or RDNA2 equivalent).

 

Its high performing card, thats for sure, but comparison with 2080 is completely misplaced. This thing should be compared to Titan RTX OC, because thats how much it pulls from the wall.

 

Comparisons are made at the same price point, not same power consumption.

 

That is a good point, although 980 > 1080 > 2080 followed "expected" path, then came Turing which hiked the prices so high that we needed Ampere to be released at "normal" price to show how overpriced this thing was.

 

https://www.computerbase.de/2020-09/geforce-rtx-3080-test/7/#abschnitt_preisperformanceverhaeltnis

 

They didnt seem to have lied

 

1080, 2080 and 3080 launched at the same price.

 

Looking at the wiki, nope, you're wrong.
2080 was priced like 1080Ti with 2080Ti $300 more expensive vs 2080. 1080Ti is only $100 more expensive vs 1080.
980 price was $50 cheaper than 1080.
So basically 1080Ti = 2080 = 3080
*I'm comparing launch prices.

The problem with 2080 is that it isn't always a win against 1080Ti. So during the 2080 launch, basically those that have 1080Ti, their upgrade path would be paying $300 more for the 2080Ti version which is ridiculous.

 

Yeah, I'm not.

Because 1080Ti launched a year later than 1080.

So? A top end card can have whatever price they feel like slapping onto it.

It was $150 cheaper considering that 1080 was available as FE only at first. Pascal was the actual point where NV has increased the prices, not Turing.

So basically this is right only at the moment of 1080Ti launch which wasn't the moment of 1080 launch.

 

Seems to me that this gpu really shows that flops isn't everything. I've no proof of course but I believe that the more you need fp32, the more this gpu will shine. In others situations, it will be bottleneck elsewhere (bandwitdh ? Rops? Even drivers ? A mix of everything I guess). In a weird way it reminds me some old ati gpu

 

Yeah announcing 30 Tflops of shader power made everyone go crazy. But of course with apparently double the FP32 performance of 2080ti, it manages around 30-40% improvement in actual games. What a surprise?

 

Are you sure thats not by design to add to the ambience of the game?