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Darktalon

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Reiterating: we have a ton of extended information our GeForce.com. Many of the questions on these pages will be answered by them.


You can also check out the new GPU product pages for even more info the GeForce RTX 30 Series:



If you have a question that isn't answered by the articles above, we have a panel of NVIDIA's top minds on hand to answer questions asked in a Q&A.
Can you confirm that AIB's will not be doing pre-orders before the 17th?
 

scurker

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Oct 25, 2017
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Absolutely, didn't mean to come off as saying anything about affordability. Cheaper than expected for sure. Affordable is a whole other topic.

Did nvidia crash era for a bit? 😂

Haha, I guess that's fair given we're on a gaming enthusiast site. I just miss the days where a decent midrange card could easily fall between $200-300.
 

GamePnoy74

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Oct 27, 2017
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When I bought my GTX 1070 in the summer of 2016 it was about the equivalent to ten shares of NVDA.

Today the RTX 3070 retails for less than a single share of NVDA. Geez.

EDIT: In hindsight, would have been nice to buy ten shares of NVDA back then and cash in a single share to preorder a 3070 today.

Capitalism, yo.
 
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Astra Planeta

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So the 3080 is only 40% faster than a 5700xt? Looks like this card has some more life in it, doesn't seem worth it to pay 699 for only 40% performance. Ofc we will see how it shakes out.
 

Iso

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hrm. 3080 ROG Strix is 2.9 slots. I'm going SFF and want enough space to put 2x120x15/25 under the GPU which rules them out now... Ideally looking for 2.5 slots or less.
 

Wolf

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Really want to be excited for these cards but until I see real benchmarks using PCIe 3.0 I just can't.
 

brain_stew

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Yep. Games at 4k already getting close to 8GB so a bit more headroom would have been great. Could have been really amazing GPUs for that price.

We have hardware decompression support on PC now with these GPUs and it's accessed through the same APIs that will be used for the Series X versions of games so adoption should be quick. Developers will be able to do more with the 8GB on these cards.
Currently have an i5 8600K and a 1070. Looking at the 3070 as I've always been a mid-range builder, but maybe I'll splurge for the 3080. Any risk of a huge CPU bottleneck there?

Make sure you overclock your CPU and use fast memory. The 8700k is a good drop in replacement if you start to feel like you're hitting a CPU bottleneck.
 

nib95

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That's a bit vague. There are 3 types of 2080. Standard, Super and Ti. At least Tflop wise, the Series X is more performant than the standard and the Super, only the Ti tops it at 13.45Tflops. The PS5 comes in just below the Super but above the standard. That said, this is obviously comparing different architecture, and AMD's new RDNA2.
 

john385

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Oct 26, 2017
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So... a 3070 or a 3080 on a Ryzen 1700x, X370 board?
For a year or so until I jump to 4K and Ryzen 4xxx?
Thoughts?
 

Fishook

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Tempted with a building a new rig and with a 3080 and use my old rig on my TV instead of buying a PS5 , but it depends on my other half still working from home In 6mths time and me still be in a job.

Current Rig

6700K
2080
32gb Ram
 

brain_stew

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Really want to be excited for these cards but until I see real benchmarks using PCIe 3.0 I just can't.

Digital Foundry have released a video showing comparative performance and they were using PCIe 3.0. 60%-90% performance improvement for the 3080 vs. 2080 depending on the title.
 

mordecaii83

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75% to 100% performance gain over the 2080... holy shit!, I was honestly expecting a 35-40% improvement as usually when NVIDIA says "2x performance" they're telling a half truth because the game is running with RTX on and DLSS or something but god damn a 75-100% improvement in normal rasterisation at 4k is insane.
Yeah, that's a VERY healthy increase, and actually the largest increase between gens in a very long time.
 

Hero_Select

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A question if I may!

I have a Ryzen 3800x. Good pair with a 3080?

I have a 5700XT but I've had a lot more trouble with it than my previous 980Ti, which ran flawlessly since day 1.

Regardless I'm very excited! Great pricing.
 

XBlade

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Oct 26, 2017
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As an Australian I cry, but I will definitely try to get a 3080.
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MatrixMan.exe

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Need to see benchmarks but it's looking like the 3070 is perfect if I want to play games on High/Ultra settings at 3440x1440/60fps with RTX on. Am I tripping here?
 

Tovarisc

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May need get 850W PSU if going with ASUS STRIX model of 3080 or 3090, both ship with 3x 8pin config 🤔

Current 750W may be cutting it bit close with OCd 9700K etc.
 

Darktalon

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Do we have more info about the memory? I remember micron releasing some data, but I want to know why if it's 2x clock per clock compared to GDDR6, nvidia didn't multiply it by two. It used instead the "traditional" number of 760GB/s.
Not sure what you mean by this? Where are you getting this 2x from?
The math is easy, its 19 Gbps, and 320-bit bus width. (19Gbps / 8) x 320 = 760 GB/s
 

JackEtc

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Ugh I bought/built a 2080S system in January and new graphics intensive games haven't even COME OUT for me to push it and now there's a 3080....I'm feeling some type of way right now
 

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I guess I can't math haha. I just added up the percentages if one it's 20% faster, I figured 2 were 40% faster haha. So how much of an upgrade is it actually?

Going by the DF video where they only tested a few games vs 2080, I'd say maybe 80-100% faster on average?
We'll know more when reviews come out but it's a pretty big gap between the two