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Digital Foundry: RTX 3080 Early Look: Ampere Architecture Performance/Hands-on

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Early Look: Ampere Architecture Performance - Hands-On!

Nvidia's reveal of the new Ampere architecture has just taken place... but we've already received a card and have some initial, early impressions and gen-on-...
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Normal raster performance is up

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And if there was doubt, RT performance also shows huge improvements
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Zips

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Will have to watch later, but those screen grabs are already impressive as all hell.
 
TSM

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We are getting a 30TF GPU this year. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
 
Keikaku

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That's a proper generational leap for sure. My 1080 is getting replaced asap.
 
Chivalry

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That's amazing. Gonna replace my 1080ti with 3080 and forget about upgrading for the next gen for sure.
 
ps3ud0

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Ah this is useful, didn't think anyone would be able to benchmark it independently.

I just want 1440p 60fps+ VRR with DLSS upscaled to 4K and RTX on. Not much...

ps3ud0 8)
 
TheBuck

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Man, I hope AMD has some good improvements with RDNA2 else its monopoly all over again.
 
Thewonandonly

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How long does it usually take for the next series to come out the 4000 most likely? Have a 2080TI and I'm extremely tempted to buy this and we'll mine for hopefully 500.
 
Arta

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Console gamer here. Can someone buy this card and throw it into a 27 inch AIO Dell PC?
 
Bunzy

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kingPaPi said:
DLSS is really the game changer.

smh I wish Sony and Nvidia coulda worked something out.
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Lol no you don't, nvidia doesn't give cheap rates on cards and both Sony and Microsoft have been burned by nvidia. You would of gotten a worse card most likely. Amd doesn't always have the best gpus obviously but their apu tech is solid as hell
 
super-famicom

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Arta said:
Console gamer here. Can someone buy this card and throw it into a 27 inch AIO Dell PC?
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Possibly, if the pc had decent specs. The problem is that most prebuilts skimp on the PSU, so it's possible it could cause issues. I think most PSUs in prebuilts are also nonmodular, which may mean you couldn't even plug in a 3080 since it needs 2x8 pin PCI-E cables.
 
FLUXCapacitor

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Still sitting on my GTX 1070 and i5-3570k. With these new RTX cards and Ryzen 4th gen around the corner, what a great time to finally build a new PC.
 
SharpX68K

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RTX 2070 —> RTX 3080 should be a nice upgrade right?

I'm confused about how Nvidia is counting FP32 TFOPS with Ampere.


The official numbers don't add up relative to the performance increase and shader/CUDA core count.

Are we seriously back to NvFLOPS again?
After all these years since the days of the NV20 / GeForce 3, the OG XBOX, NV25/GeForce 4 Ti and NV30 / GeForceFX....

Now if only Big Navi was the next ATI R300 Radeon Pro/XT.
 

ColR100

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Ricky Ricardo said:
1080 Ti to 3080 is the correct leap for me. So glad I held on and waited. I'll need to part with my 650W PSU sadly though.
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A 650 PSU is still plenty for a 3080 card, you really don't need to upgrade that unless you've got loads of platter drives running in RAID or something alongside the potential card.
 
MZZ

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Can't believe I am considering a 3080. I am getting a 3070 at most. Gotta see pricing in my country though which is historically horrible for nvidia cards.
 
golem

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SharpX68K said:
The official numbers don't add up relative to the performance increase and shader/CUDA core count.

Are we seriously back to NvFLOPS again?
After all these years since the days of the NV20 / GeForce 3, the OG XBOX, NV25/GeForce 4 Ti and NV30 / GeForceFX....
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The numbers dont make any sense to me either. Surprised no one is really mentioning this. But yeah a 3080 should be a really solid upgrade over a 2070
 
Serpens007

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Nvidia did the smart thing: send a unit ONLY to Digital Foundry to gain trust.

Even knowing that we still need further exploration of the cards, it really makes a good first impression if Digital Foundry has a good opinion on it
 
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ColR100 said:
A 650 PSU is still plenty for a 3080 card, you really don't need to upgrade that unless you've got loads of platter drives running in RAID or something alongside the potential card.
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I have a stock 9700K, a Samsung SSD for boot/system, and a Sabrent NVMe SSD for games/storage. So it doesn't draw a lot of power overall, and I never had any issues with my late EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3. That said, the 3080 is supposedly a power-hungry monster, and risking the entire system doesn't seem wise. I'll wait to see what benchmarks say about the PSU floor for 3080s before I make any PSU replacement decisions. Or move down to a 3070 or 3060. /Shrug
 
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golem said:
Theoretically the 3070 is slightly faster than a 2080TI
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But the numbers say:

2080TI
CUDA cores: 4352
FP32: 13.45 tflops

3070
CUDA cores: 5888
"Shader-Tflops": 20 tflops

Found one explaination here

r/hardware - Explaining Ampere’s CUDA core count

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Yep, just another example of why TFLOPS doesn't really mean anything, especially when discussing different architectures.

But the important data is still there. They give us relative performance, and that's what matters.
 
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golem said:
Theoretically the 3070 is slightly faster than a 2080TI
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But the numbers say:

2080TI
CUDA cores: 4352
FP32: 13.45 tflops

3070
CUDA cores: 5888
"Shader-Tflops": 20 tflops

Found one explaination here

r/hardware - Explaining Ampere’s CUDA core count

140 votes and 79 comments so far on Reddit
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i feel like i have to correct this every time. the 2080ti is NOT 13 tflops. it does not run on those clocks. you can watch any youtube video of benchmarks done on that card and its always around 2ghz. not 1.5 where the 13 tflops was calculated. it's a 17.5 tflops card.
 
Jedi2016

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I think the 3090 is the real power-hungry beast, I don't expect the 3080 to be that bad. I've got power to spare.
 
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