RTX 3080 tiny VRAM

[Tech-Fix]

Hey! 

 

I work with 3D rendering and we have always had 4-way GPUs in our systems as our workflows work with GPU rendering. This new launch is fantastic in terms of performance but disappointing in terms of VRAM amount. We have 2080ti blower style and each has 11GB of VRAM. The new 3080 has only 8GB, far from enough. We could consider te 3090 happily but the fact that is triple slot defeats the purpose. Anyone wondering if we'll get a 3080ti with more VRAM or possibly a dual slot 3090?

 

Cheers!

[Stahlmann]

The 3080 actually has 10GB. so that's only 1GB less than a 2080Ti. But much more bandwidth.

[Gorou92]

the pcb is small you can try some custom water cooling setup

and btw 3080 has 10gb not 8

 

something like this but with 4 gpus

if you can afford 4 way 3090 you can afford to do this or pay someone to do it

[Tech-Fix]

Just now, Stahlmann98 said:

The 3080 actually has 10GB. so that's only 1GB less than a 2080Ti. But much more bandwidth.

Thank you for the correction, but it still is less. We are always on the limit with VRAM. Needing more. We are still using Windows 7 to save on VRAM as Windows 10 reserves 20% on every GPU no matter what. We might end up with dual 3090 because of that.

[KingTdiGGiTTy]

If your using cards for 3d rendering there's also the option of having one geforce or quadro for display and using a bunch of teslas for compute.

[Stahlmann]

You guys could also be better off buying just 2 3090's. This way you have more VRAM and computing power than even 4 2080Ti's.

 

Basically almost the same price as 4 3080's would be.

[jaslion]

12 minutes ago, Tech-Fix said:

Thank you for the correction, but it still is less. We are always on the limit with VRAM. Needing more. We are still using Windows 7 to save on VRAM as Windows 10 reserves 20% on every GPU no matter what. We might end up with dual 3090 because of that.

There are non triple slot 3090's around so that is a problem solved. You may wanna look into just getting a couple of those. If those aren't enough either maybe just get a quadro?

[mariushm]

Or you could simply get a Radeon Pro SSG with 16 GB HBM2 and 2 TB SSD built in : https://www.avadirect.com/Radeon-Pro-SSG-1500MHz-16GB-2TB-SSG-HBM2-Graphics-Card/Product/11520320

 

[Dave_pc_normie]

15 minutes ago, Tech-Fix said:

Thank you for the correction, but it still is less. We are always on the limit with VRAM. Needing more. We are still using Windows 7 to save on VRAM as Windows 10 reserves 20% on every GPU no matter what. We might end up with dual 3090 because of that.

There's been some leaks that the 3070 Ti will have 16 Gb of GDDR6 so that might be the solution to your problem.

[Dave_pc_normie]

5 minutes ago, Stahlmann98 said:

You guys could also be better off buying just 2 3090's. This way you have more VRAM and computing power than even 4 2080Ti's.

 

Basically almost the same price as 4 3080's would be.

I think the only card in the 3000 series that support SLI is the 3090 tho, but I'm not 100% sure.

[Stahlmann]

Just now, Dave_pc_normie said:

I think the only card in the 3000 series that support SLI is the 3090 tho, but I'm not 100% sure.

Oh yeah, you're right. The 3090 is the only SLI supporting card either way.

[Stahlmann]

2 minutes ago, Dave_pc_normie said:

There's been some leaks that the 3070 Ti will have 16 Gb of GDDR6 so that might be the solution to your problem.

I find it hard to believe that a 3070Ti would have these specs, imagine:

 

3070 - 8GB

3070 Ti - 16GB

3080 - 8GB

 

Doesn't make sense to me.

[Tech-Fix]

6 minutes ago, jaslion said:

There are non triple slot 3090's around so that is a problem solved. You may wanna look into just getting a couple of those. If those aren't enough either maybe just get a quadro?

 

5 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Or you could simply get a Radeon Pro SSG with 16 GB HBM2 and 2 TB SSD built in : https://www.avadirect.com/Radeon-Pro-SSG-1500MHz-16GB-2TB-SSG-HBM2-Graphics-Card/Product/11520320

 

Our render software works with Nvidia Cuda cores only, and Quadros despite being fantastic are too expensive.

[Tech-Fix]

2 minutes ago, Stahlmann98 said:

I find it hard to believe that a 3070Ti would have these specs, imagine:

 

3070 - 8GB

3070 Ti - 16GB

3080 - 8GB

 

Doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe the 3080ti? That will take some time to come out I suppose

[jaslion]

7 minutes ago, Dave_pc_normie said:

There's been some leaks that the 3070 Ti will have 16 Gb of GDDR6 so that might be the solution to your problem.

Yeah not gonna happen. Does not make any sense to give a lesser card more vram than a higher end card. Would basically wreck the entire logic of the product stack.

[Stahlmann]

Just now, Tech-Fix said:

Maybe the 3080ti? That will take some time to come out I suppose

Idk about that. As far as we know there has not been any confirmed Super or TI models. And the 3080 Super/Ti could very well be held back by NVIDIA and they're waiting for AMD to make their move and then release it to instantly make the AMD models obsolete again. NVIDIA has done this in the past. Most recent example, RTX 2000 Super cards.

[ewitte]

6 minutes ago, Stahlmann98 said:

Oh yeah, you're right. The 3090 is the only SLI supporting card either way.

AFAIK most rendering software isn't going to support SLI.  Dual GPU is just Dual GPU.  However a card with the newer bride is probably still recommended for bandwidth between cards.

[porina]

For high VRAM the daul 3090 with nvlink seems to be the logical choice. nvlink I understands allow the VRAM pool to be shared thanks to its high bandwidth, so is 48GB enough for you? Even if triple slot cards, you can get two into a system which formerly supported quad SLI.

 

As for lower performance high VRAM cards, there is a rumour that AMD will be doing just that around the 3070 price level. You can be sure if AMD does follow through, nvidia will magically reveal their high VRAM cards too, but I think they're waiting for AMD to make the first move on that part. However I'm not sure how well that will work since they'll almost certainly wont support nvlink, so you wont get the pooled VRAM benefit like the 3090.

[Dave_pc_normie]

59 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Yeah not gonna happen. Does not make any sense to give a lesser card more vram than a higher end card. Would basically wreck the entire logic of the product stack.

 

1 hour ago, Tech-Fix said:

Maybe the 3080ti? That will take some time to come out I suppose

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/leaked-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-could-topple-charts-with-double-the-memory/

 

This is one of a couple links that I found these leaks from. 

I am obviously speculating, so you will have to judge by yourself if it seems true or not.

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, Dave_pc_normie said:

 

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/leaked-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-could-topple-charts-with-double-the-memory/

 

This is one of a couple links that I found these leaks from. 

I am obviously speculating, so you will have to judge by yourself if it seems true or not.

It doesn't make any sense for nvidia to ever do this. This would wreck their product logic. This is probs just a fabricated leak.

[Tech-Fix]

4 minutes ago, Dave_pc_normie said:

 

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/leaked-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-could-topple-charts-with-double-the-memory/

 

This is one of a couple links that I found these leaks from. 

I am obviously speculating, so you will have to judge by yourself if it seems true or not.

 

2 minutes ago, jaslion said:

It doesn't make any sense for nvidia to ever do this. This would wreck their product logic. This is probs just a fabricated leak.

I'm pretty sure something should come down the line later, how late I don't know. But I guess 3070ti and 3080ti should be coming. As someone said, after BIG NAVI launch perhaps.

[jaslion]

13 minutes ago, Tech-Fix said:

 

I'm pretty sure something should come down the line later, how late I don't know. But I guess 3070ti and 3080ti should be coming. As someone said, after BIG NAVI launch perhaps.

The ti's may come I'm more focused on the vram.

[ewitte]

2 hours ago, jaslion said:

It doesn't make any sense for nvidia to ever do this. This would wreck their product logic. This is probs just a fabricated leak.

I believe its already known the partners aren't specifically being told no this time.