Wonder how power consumption would be like had they gone the TSMC route
Keeping the specs the same (talking 3080 here) would you have any idea how much power they could have saved?
We can only guess and somewhat estimate from GA100 results - which are hard to come by.
Personally I don't think that the influence of 8N is that big - they may have lost some 10% or so of perf/watt here. If it would be more then they wouldn't have gone with 8N over N7.
AIB models are indeed launching tomorrow, as well, with just a few exceptions (FTW3, for example)
I don't expect good models till November or so.
I'd say that a good custom 3080 is a 3x8pin card which will have a solid and huge cooler but won't try to go too much higher than stock clocks by default.
Something like Palit Jetstream should be good this time. But they won't launch in the first wave of AIB models.
Not really understanding your sort of 180 on these. You're too long in the tooth, as am I, to have bought into the Nvidia marketing. We've known the power draw is crazy high for months and the leaked reviews last week pegged the performance increase at 'just' 30% that is consistent across all reviews today. So why the disappointment?
I'm not disappointed, I just don't see many reasons to rush and upgrade to 3080 from my 2080 just yet. Power is on the high side and I want to see how AIB models will handle this first. It's also a good idea to watch where Navi 21 will land in relation to GA102.
Because overclocking headroom is low? The RT performance gains are small? The modest performance increase in 1440p?
I mean, looking at the results which matter I see around +60+80% to 2080 and +40+50% to 2080Ti - the gains are solid and they will improve in next gen titles which will push math and RT even harder.
But yeah right now and without a 4K display it seems like an overkill for current gen games - so again, I don't see any reason to rush and get one. I'll wait.
