NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition
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Product Overview
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 is a reference graphics card based on Nvidia's Ampere architecture. Being a reference card, the Nvidia offers the performance of the new GPU without extra bells and whistles.
The Ampere architecture features 2nd-gen Ray Tracing Cores and 3rd-gen Tensor Cores and supports GDDR6X graphics memory. This reference GeForce RTX 3080 boasts a new dual axial air-flow design that balances thermal performance with fan acoustics.
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Ratings
What we found
Pros
- Fantastic 4K gaming performance
- Cool and quiet under load
- 4K gaming with ray tracing
Cons
- Nothing in particular
What external reviewers found
External score 83%
Pros
- Fantastic 4K performance
- Excellent build quality
- Fantastic ray tracing and DLSS performance
- Excellent graphics performance
- Excellent performance
Cons
- No ray tracing or DLSS support
- No 4K support
- High power consumption
- No internal benchmark
- Not as powerful as RTX 2080 Ti
- More expensive than its predecessor
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External Reviews
digitaltrends[1]
Reviewer score 80% (normalized by Neofiliac)The RTX 3080 can significantly speed up content-creation tasks like video rendering. It took 2 minutes and 27 second to finish exporting the clip to ProRes 422. In Battlefield V, ray tracing isn't completely useless. The true realization of real-time ray tracing still provides a challenge for even the most powerful graphics cards.
Pros
- Fantastic ray tracing and DLSS performance
- Excellent build quality
Cons
- Not as powerful as RTX 2080 Ti
gizmodo[2]
Reviewer score 77% (normalized by Neofiliac)The RTX 3080 dominates at 1080p and 1440p, but at 4K it chugs along like a train that never reaches full speed. ray tracing is a different story. There's always going to be a performance hit when it's turned on. If you have a 1080p or 1440p monitor and mainly play first-person shooters, this might not be the ideal card for you.
Pros
- Fantastic 4K gaming performance for the price
- Excellent graphics performance
Cons
- Ray tracing isn't as powerful as RTX 2080 Ti
ndtv[3]
Reviewer score 78% (normalized by Neofiliac)The GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is a phenomenal piece of hardware in terms of design. The Ampere architecture seems to be yet another feather in Nvidia's cap, continuing a long string of successes. This card and the GPU it's based around are however not without some flaws – heat is likely to be an issue, power consumption is quite high, and 10GB of VRAM isn't as much as many people were expecting this generation to have.
Pros
- Excellent performance
- Excellent ray tracing and DLSS 2.0
- Good value for money
Cons
- High power consumption
- High price
pcmag[4]
Reviewer score 86% (normalized by Neofiliac)The new GeForce RTX line of Nvidia graphics cards looks poised to be nothing short of a blowout. At this price, and at this level of power, the RTX 3080 Founders Edition is exceeding all expectations set for it ahead of time. With Ampere, it feels like the next decade of PC gaming is starting to come together.
Pros
- Fantastic performance for the price
- High-refresh-rate gaming monitors
- Great thermal camera
Cons
- Fuzzy thermal imaging
pcworld[5]
Reviewer score 84% (normalized by Neofiliac)Ampere builds on Turing and scales back that design by doubling the number of CUDA cores in each SM. The new architecture keeps a data path devoted exclusively to those crucial FP32 tasks, while the second path can process either INT or FP tasks. Ampere's newfound ability to run tasks on the tensor and RT cores simultaneously.
Pros
- Super-fast GDDR6X memory
- More efficient than RTX 2080
- Great performance in traditional games
Cons
- More expensive than RTX 3080
techradar[6]
Reviewer score 85% (normalized by Neofiliac)Despite our little issues with the Founders Edition – and despite thinking it was ugly when it was first shown off – it's an attractive piece of hardware in person. Just from Nvidia's own (overblown) marketing, we were already expecting the RTX 3080 to be a fast graphics card. From the moment we opened the box, it's been in our personal machine, running everything from Final Fantasy XIV to Control, only coming out of our personal rig to be plugged into our test bench for actual benchmarking.
Pros
- Gorgeous design
- Great 4K performance
Cons
- No multi-sample anti aliasing
- No 4K support
tomshardware[7]
Reviewer score 86% (normalized by Neofiliac)The new card is about 100g heavier than the previous RTX 2080 design, and as far as I'm aware, it's the heaviest single-GPU card Nvidia has ever created. The new design still includes two axial fans, but Nvidia heavily redesigned the PCB and shortened it so that the 'back' of the card consists of just a fan, heatpipes, radiator fins, and the usual graphics card shroud.
Pros
- Bigger and heavier than the RTX 2080
- Better cooling performance than previous RTX 3080 Founders Edition cards
Cons
- No RGB lighting
trustedreviews[8]
Reviewer score 78% (normalized by Neofiliac)3DMark’s Time Spy Extreme is a synthetic benchmark designed to test a card's Direct X 12, 4K performance. The RTX 3080 was the only one of the three to consistently run the benchmark at frame rates above 60fps in 4K. Horizon: Zero Dawn is a beautiful, but not terribly well optimised game that was originally released as a PlayStation exclusive. It features beautiful graphics that tax even the most powerful of graphics cards.
Pros
- Excellent 4K gaming performance
- Good value for money
Cons
- No ray tracing or DLSS support
- No internal benchmark
References
- ^ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 review: A bright future for PC gaming. [digitaltrends].
- ^ The Nvidia RTX 3080 Finally Makes 4K Gaming a Reality. [gizmodo].
- ^ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review. [ndtv].
- ^ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review. [pcmag].
- ^ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition review: Staggeringly powerful. [pcworld].
- ^ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 review. [techradar].
- ^ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review: A Huge Generational Leap in Performance. [tomshardware].
- ^ Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Review. [trustedreviews].
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