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On September 1, 2020, the entire (huge in size) gaming community was waiting for the presentation of new generation video cards from Nvidia; interest in the past event was also fueled by “leaks” at the end of August, which turned out to be largely true.
There is a lot of information, even more speculation, and today we will talk about confirmed information about the older gaming video cards on the Ampere generation GPU, which Jensen Huang showed to the public on September 1.
GeForce RTX 3090
Price on Player.ru
Cost: from 136,990 rubles
Start of sales: 09/24/2020
*according to the official website nvidia.com
As we noted earlier, the video card is built on Ampere architecture GPUs, based on Samsung’s 8nm process technology.
Nvidia says the theoretical peak performance is more than impressive:
- Shader-TFLOPS - 36 TFLOPS;
- RT-TFLOPS – 69 Tflops;
- Tensor-TFLOPS - 285 TFlops.
According to the manufacturer, such performance allows us to call the RTX 3090 a video card designed for 8K gaming (it’s scary to imagine), due to its ability to provide stable 60 FPS. But, again, according to some rumors, not all game projects can provide a stable 60 FPS.
GeForce RTX 3080
Cost: from 63,490 rubles
Start of sales: 10/06/2020
A very sound decision by Nvidia to make the RTX 3080 the flagship of the announced family of new generation video cards.
As you can see, both the price gap and the difference in video memory capacity with the RTX 3090 are simply colossal, but it is logical that a video card costing 65,000-70,000 rubles will become the most in demand on the component market.
What we have is 10 GB of GDDR6X memory with an effective frequency of 19 GHz connected to a 320-bit bus with a bandwidth of 760 GB/s.
As for the theoretical peak performance, 30/58/238 teraflops using shaders, with ray tracing and in operations on tensor cores, respectively.
Also on the official Nvidia website you can look at the stated performance tests based on data from three games: Control, Minecraft and Borderlands 3, the latter was tested without tracing.
Well, the almost twofold difference between the RTX 3080 and RTX 2080 is impressive.
Review and testing of the Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC video card
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Packaging and equipment
- Design and features of the video card
- Test configuration
- Testing
- Conclusion
Introduction
Video cards based on the NVIDIA GA102 graphics processor have already begun to appear in retail.
Moreover, from different manufacturers and immediately non-reference designs. They have more classic shapes and outlines than the presented reference design model. The same applies to power connectors. They are the most common 8-pin PCI-e and no additional adapters are needed. It is already clear that the new products are not only productive, but can also consume more than 300 W. Therefore, large cooling systems no longer raise questions. And the new GPU itself is not small, although it is made using an 8 nm process technology. The Palit company is famous for its affordable prices for its products, and many are waiting for its models to purchase the new GeForce RTX 3080. Traditionally, prices will first be high and then gradually decrease when the market becomes full and demand falls. And there's still no word on the shortage - has NVIDIA made enough GPUs to support demand?
We are testing the Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC video card. The GamingPro series includes some of the company's lowest-priced and highest-demand models. The new generation has an updated design, with RGB lighting, which has already become synonymous with gaming solutions, and a three-fan cooler.
The TDP level declared by NVIDIA is 320 W, so many video cards will have massive cooling systems, otherwise it will not be so easy to cool it. Let's see how the Palit version copes with this, and also find out what features it has.
Let me remind you that we talked about the new technologies used in NVIDIA Ampere and the differences between the new products and the Turing generation in the corresponding material.
Packaging and equipment
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Before us is a medium-sized box. The outside is a beautiful colored shell, and the inside is a cardboard box. On the front you can see a fragment of the cooling system and an image of space. In the lower right corner there is a green insert with the name of the graphics accelerator.
The background of the packaging is predominantly black. On the back there is a description of the product, but there is not much useful information here.
Hidden inside is a black cardboard box. Inside, on top there is a thin book with a user manual, and under it is a sheet of polyethylene foam.
Underneath there is a frame made of the same material, where the video card is clamped in an antistatic bag. There are two more compartments at the top and bottom where the rest of the kit is located.
The kit is small: a mounting amplifier, a 2 x 6-pin to 8-pin PCI-e power adapter and a user manual.
There are no drivers, but everyone is already used to it.
Design and features of the video card
Oddly enough, the video card is not very large, but rather thicker. It takes up more than two slots in thickness. Its dimensions are 294 x 127 x 55 mm, weight - 1190g. The holder may not be superfluous.
At the back, the video card is covered with a metal plate. It serves not only for protection, but also for heat dissipation, as well as for connecting purposes.
The point is that the printed circuit board itself is significantly shorter than the cooling system and therefore the plate, as it were, extends it.
The plate is made of aluminum alloy and painted brown. It is not attached to the printed circuit board itself, but to a metal frame at the front with screws through the printed circuit board. On the back there are stickers with a barcode, the inscription GamingPro and GeForce RTX. There are also two protective stickers on the screws. And inside you can see four thermal rubber bands at the points of contact between the plate and the printed circuit board.
In order to remove the cooler, you first need to remove this plate and also unscrew the two screws on the video output side.
From the reverse side you can see that the radiator is based on a special frame. It is to this that the back plate is attached, and it itself is attached to the back bar. Overall the design is very durable.
The cooling system is made according to the classical design. Heat pipes diverge from a nickel-plated copper base, pierce two arrays of fins, resulting in two sections of the radiator.
Three PWM-controlled fans blow through them from above. Impeller diameter 80 mm. The motors are simply written: TAIHUI TH8015B2H-PCC01 with technical specifications 12 V, 0.45 A.
The fans are mounted on a plastic casing, and it is attached to the frame.
The printed circuit board itself is very compact with a dense arrangement of elements. I don’t know if there is any point in such savings, but everything is very cramped.
The GPU power supply is again divided into two parts.
Ten phases are to the right and six to the left of the GPU. The subsystem resembles an already familiar picture seen on other devices.
Each phase has one transistor assembly and an inductor. They could not be identified.
One ON Semiconductor NCP81611 PWM controller is soldered at the front, and two NCP81610 at the rear.
In the center is the NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU, aka GA102. The chip was manufactured in the 32nd week of 2020.
GDDR6X memory chips are soldered on all sides. There are 4 on the left and right, and 1 on the top and bottom. A 320-bit bus is used here. There is room for two more microcircuits. Theoretically, an advanced version may appear, where they will be soldered
Microcircuits manufactured by Micron are used.
Additional power is supplied to the video card through two 8-pin + 8-pin PCI-e connectors.
The rear panel houses the usual array of video outputs.
- Three Display Port;
- One HDMI.
Test configuration
Testing of the Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro 10 GB video card was carried out as part of the following configuration:
- Processor: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5100 MHz;
- Cooler: Noctua NH-D15;
- Thermal interface: Noctua NT-H1;
- Motherboard: ASRock Z490 Taichi, BIOS version 1.70;
- Memory: 2 x 8 GB DDR4-4133, A-Data XPG Spectrix D80 (Samsung B-die);
- Video card: Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC 10 GB (1440 / 1740 / 1188 MHz (core/boost/memory));
- SSD storage: M.2 Samsung 970 Evo 250 GB;
- Power supply: Seasonic SS-1000XP, 1000 Watt.
All fans, including the one built into the power supply, were turned off during noise level testing. Testing of video cards was carried out with a factory thermal interface. The room temperature was 25°C and the noise was 27.6 dB.
Testing
With the installation of the Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro video card, everything goes without a hitch, so I immediately suggest watching a video where it works under the “donut”. The results are good.
During normal operation, the fan speed does not reach 100%, but only 46%, which corresponds to 1800 rpm, the noise recorded from a distance of 1 meter is 34.7 dB. Even in this mode, the noise level is comfortable - 39.2 dB. At the front of the casing there is a small insert with RGB lighting. It, as usual with Palit, can be controlled using the functional proprietary Thunder Master utility.
After everything is assembled and running, let's take a look at the test bench using the utilities.
Overclocking the first versions of the GeForce RTX 3080 turned out to be difficult, and we had too little time to fully understand it, so we will only test it in normal mode.
Since different video cards will take part in testing, you need to look at what models they are and what frequencies they have.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080:
And now the tests themselves of several games in three resolutions.
Grand Theft Auto V
Anti-aliasing MSAA x8, built-in FullHD Bigger is better 2K Bigger is better 4K Bigger is better
Far Cry 5
Graphics quality: maximum, built-in FullHD Bigger is better 2K Bigger is better 4K Bigger is better
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Quality graphics: maximum, Ray Tracing ON, DLSS OFF built-in benchmark FullHD Bigger is better 2K Bigger is better 4K Bigger is better
Assassins Creed Odyssey
Graphics quality: highest, built-in benchmark FullHD Bigger is better 2K Bigger is better 4K Bigger is better
Metro Exodus
Preset FullHD benchmark More is better 2K More is better 4K More is better
3DMark
Time Spy, Marks More is better Fire Strike Extreme, Marks More is better
Let's look at the video card through a thermal imager. We will watch in the hottest mode: when warming up using FurMark. The hottest place is the plate that is in contact with the transistor assemblies.
It heats up above 80°C on an open stand. The back plate heats up to almost 65°C, the inner one – up to 74°C.
By tradition, I will give a graph of the temperature versus the speed of rotation of the fan impellers.
Conclusion
The Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC graphics card is definitely interesting, and we can only hope that the price will be pleasant. The printed circuit board with such a large graphics processor turned out to be very compact, although the cooling system did not limit its dimensions. And the power subsystem is no different from competing solutions, perhaps only in the element base.
Overclocking is not that great, but all modern video cards and processors now suffer from this. A large and complex GPU is also used, so you shouldn’t expect miracles, and NVIDIA still needs to organize sales of the GeForce RTX 3090, which uses a full-fledged GA102. Of course, the Palit version will find its buyer, since it has high performance and a top-end cooling system.
So, GeForce RTX 3080 models demonstrate next-level performance at the same recommended price. Now you can actually play a large number of games in 4K resolution. At the same time, you can’t complain about noise, temperature indicators and efficiency.
Andrey Ponkratov
aka
wildchaser
We express our gratitude to:
- Palit for providing the Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC video card for testing.
GeForce RTX 3070
Cost: from 45,490 rubles
Start of sales: October 2020
The RTX 3070 is a video card that practically eliminates the point of purchasing an RTX 2070 in early fall 2020.
Considering that the stated minimum cost is less than 46,000 rubles, 3070 looks like the most optimal and logical option for gaming builds costing 100,000-150,000 rubles.
As for comparing the performance of the 3070 and 2070, with the same amount of video memory of 8 GB, the representative of the new family is almost 60% faster, at such an affordable price.
In addition, the performance of the RTX 3070 reaches 20 TFLOPS (Shader-TFLOPS), 40 TFLOPS (RT-TFLOPS) and 163 TFLOPS (Tensor-TFLOPS).
Start of sales of RTX 2080 / Ti
Pre-orders for GEFORCE RTX 20-series video cards start on Monday, August 20th. GEFORCE RTX will begin appearing in retail stores on September 20th.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 3DMark TimeSpy GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 11GB ?
12825
NVIDIA TITAN X (SW)
10180
NVIDIA RTX 2080 8GB
10030
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
9520
NVIDIA GTX 1080 8GB
7330
AMD RX Vega 64
7240
RTX 2080 shows the performance of the overclocked GTX 1080 Ti
RTX 2080 / Ti performance (preliminary) RTX 2080 is 5% faster than GTX 1080 Ti RTX 2080 Ti is 25% faster than GTX 1080 Ti
Impact of the RTX 30 family on the component market
It is absolutely clear that the RTX 3070, and after it the RTX 3080, will simply conquer the video card market, which has already begun to affect the current state of affairs, when the release of the 3080 is still more than a month away.
In particular, the hype around Cyberpunk 2077 will also contribute to their popularity.
Immediately after the announcement of the minimum price, all resources (Russian-language, English-language) where you can sell used components were simply flooded with RTX 20XX video cards.
Many gamers decided to sit out the month of waiting on old GPUs and sell off their RTX 20XX at price tags that can also be regarded as attempts at dumping.
Perhaps, such a decision can be considered justified within a week or two, since the closer the start date for sales, the more offers for sale there will be on the used market, which will automatically reduce the cost.
Of course, AMD has not yet said its word, and as expected, the end of 2020 will be as hot as possible!
What will brands offer us?
Immediately after the presentation (and a few days before, thanks to leaks), data appeared about the replenishment of the lines of gaming video cards for a number of global brands.
Micro-Star International (MSI)
MSI has updated its Gaming X Trio and Gaming Trio gaming lines and has already shown them on its official website:
- GeForce RTX™ 3090 GAMING X TRIO 24G
- GeForce RTX™ 3090 GAMING TRIO 24G
- GeForce RTX™ 3080 GAMING X TRIO 10G
- GeForce RTX™ 3080 GAMING TRIO 10G
- GeForce RTX™ 3070 GAMING X TRIO
- GeForce RTX™ 3070 GAMING TRIO
The use of the new TRI FROZR 2 cooling system with three TORX Fan 4.0 is announced.
AORUS (aka GIGABYTE)
AORUS showed their new products - two RTX 3090 and two RTX 3080 models, while (as of 09/04/2020) there are no images of the RTX 3070.
Gigabyte.com
- AORUS GeForce RTX™ 3090 XTREME 24G
- AORUS GeForce RTX™ 3080 XTREME 10G
- AORUS GeForce RTX™ 3090 MASTER 24G
- AORUS GeForce RTX™ 3080 MASTER 10G
Asus
Asus decided to immediately significantly update its line of video cards:
Asus.com
- TUF-RTX3090-24G-GAMING
- TUF-RTX3080-10G-GAMING
- DUAL-RTX3070-8G
- ROG-STRIX-RTX3070-8G-GAMING
- ROG-STRIX-RTX3080-O10G-GAMING
- ROG-STRIX-RTX3080-10G-GAMING
- ROG-STRIX-RTX3090-O24G-GAMING
- ROG-STRIX-RTX3090-24G-GAMING
Palit
Palit also presented its vision of new generation video cards in the GamingPro line
Palit.com
- GeForce RTX™ 3070 GamingPro
- GeForce RTX™ 3080 GamingPro OC
- GeForce RTX™ 3080 GamingPro
- GeForce RTX™ 3090 GamingPro OC
- GeForce RTX™ 3090 GamingPro
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As information becomes available, the article will be supplemented and updated. Of course, we are waiting for the cost and a full list of specifications.
NVIDIA RTX Technology
For those who are not familiar with recent events, let's say that the top video cards of the new 20th GeForce series are called RTX, instead of the previous GTX. This change is due to the introduction of the same name NVIDIA RTX . You can learn more about the new graphic processing method from this article. If we talk very briefly about the new technology, it allows us to take the visual component of many computer games to a completely new level. This concerns the reflection of models, the refraction of light, darkening, the appearance of shadows and many other points. The effect of this technology can be clearly seen below in the demo video of the game Metro Exodus. Currently, computer game creators are already adopting the new technology from NVIDIA, and the first games with the RTX function will appear very soon.
