RTX 3080Ti Reviews

[Deus Voltage]

Reviews are already circulating on Youtube. I am very much interested in hearing your opinions:

 

GamersNexus

 

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JayzTwoCents

 

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LinusTechTips

 

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HardwareUnboxed

 

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Personal Opinion:

 

I think Linus missed the mark on this one big time. I was almost tempted to think that the review was paid by Nvidia (as noted by Spotty@, the review was made a bit too early so I retract what I previously said for the time-being), but I wouldn't go that far as Linus has a pretty good track record as a tech reviewer and throwing around silly accusations hurts the conversation more than anything. I agree with Steve (GN) and the rest. It is overpriced and feels like Nvidia is tone deaf. What do you guys think?

 

- Edit 2: Retraction retracted, Linus doubled down on the newest Wan show (06/05/2021):

 

- Edit 3: Linus to Steve from GN "I don't know how much used hardware Steve has actually ever bought in his life, but the way that it works is....... (goes on to explain how it works in his view) I really don't know what he is basing that on honestly" (Time stamp: 16:19)

 

- Edit 4: "If you had to calculate how many FPS per dollar, you are not the customer for a 3080 Ti in the first place. So why are you Mad? What's the point of getting mad?"  (Time stamp: 22:41)

 

- Edit 5: "If you're someone who is not in that price range and you're willing to scalp it, then (pauses for a bit) you'd be crazy not to buy it." Luke is visibly uncomfortable with the statement (more so I think with the one right before it). Linus goes on to re-clarify his previous position about scalping, which is that scalping is bad and he does not support it. (time stamp: 26:04)

 

 

[Dedayog]

I think there is a sucker born every minute and Nvidia knows this

 

 

[Stahlmann]

I pretty much agree most with this:

Really hit the nail on the head with that one.

 

I bet the fact that LTT is the one outlier in the conclision makes all the tinfoil hatters out there really happy.

[IkeaGnome]

AMD reference cards are very easy to get. Look at how few GPU dies they make compared to NVIDIA. They just look desperate at this point.

[rockyroller]

It comes dome to that meme again.

nVidia the way games are meant to be played

&

AMD the way games can be played

[jaslion]

So as I expected literally a 3090 with less vram and a teeny tiny clock hit. All whilst if you take the average of games tested the 6900xt seems to be the better buy as raytracing still hasn't taken off yet in games that makes is a must have feature. For games that is.

[Stahlmann]

3 minutes ago, rockyroller said:

It comes dome to that meme again.

nVidia the way games are meant to be played

&

AMD the way games can be played

Well you can't play games with any of them when you want to buy something right now...

[Stahlmann]

Just now, jaslion said:

So as I expected literally a 3090 with less vram and a teeny tiny clock hit. All whilst if you take the average of games tested the 6900xt seems to be the better buy as raytracing still hasn't taken off yet in games that makes is a must have feature. For games that is.

All the recent games i've played in the last few weeks are mainly ray-traced.

 

Metro Exodus Enhanced

Resident Evil Village

Control

Cyberpunk

 

I'd say we're at a point now where at least for AAA games it's becoming a standard.

[Spotty]

25 minutes ago, Deus Voltage said:

I think Linus missed the mark on this one big time. I was almost tempted to think that the review was paid by Nvidia, but I wouldn't go that far as Linus has a pretty good track record as a tech reviewer and throwing around silly accusations hurts the conversation more than anything. I agree with Steve (GN) and the rest. It is overpriced and feels like Nvidia is tone deaf. What do you guys think?

LTT filmed their video before the price was released and their video suffered for it. They should have waited until they had all the information about the product before reviewing it.

[jaslion]

Just now, Stahlmann said:

All the recent games i've played in the last few weeks are mainly ray-traced.

 

Metro Exodus Enhanced

Resident Evil Village

Control

Cyberpunk

 

I'd say we're at a point now where at least for AAA games it's becoming a standard.

It is there but I meant as a noticeable visual difference. We've played both control and are now playing village. We just can't see a difference between turned on or off really when we play them and tend to turn it off if we notice the 2080 struggling when stuff goes down if it is on to basically notice no difference when playing.

 

That is what I meant with not being a must have feature. It is there but there is no real need for it yet as devs got so good at faking things. I do love it for rendering tho as that is a massive help hence the for games part.

[GorujoCY]

3070 Ti is way reasonable that what the 3080 ti is.
however as everyone could point out, those cards aren't even going to save the "GPU Shortage" situation and it's only worse, at this point we can convincedly say that Nvidia just doesn't care. AMD did the obvious and did not launch the 6600 Series GPU (except mobile) nor all the APUs because of the chip shortage and if Nvidia wanted they could go to a similar direction.

[yolosnail]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

LTT filmed their video before the price was released and their video suffered for it. They should have waited until they had all the information about the product before reviewing it.

Not even that, they could have even filmed the conclusion after the announcement rather than 'fixing it in post'. I get Linus is a busy guy, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been too difficult to spare half an hour to sit down and say a few more words!

 

They really do seem to have gone downhill in their reviews, there's a reason they aren't my 'go to'!

[Stahlmann]

5 minutes ago, jaslion said:

It is there but I meant as a noticeable visual difference. We've played both control and are now playing village. We just can't see a difference between turned on or off really when we play them and tend to turn it off if we notice the 2080 struggling when stuff goes down if it is on to basically notice no difference when playing.

 

That is what I meant with not being a must have feature. It is there but there is no real need for it yet as devs got so good at faking things. I do love it for rendering tho as that is a massive help hence the for games part.

I never tried Resident Evil, Control or Metro with RTX off because i have no reason to turn it off. Performance even on 4K is plenty for me. So i can't really say how these games look with traditional rendering.

 

But in Cyberpunk i played around a lot with the different graphics settings. And the difference between RTX on and off is massive imo.

 

While it may not be a must-have right now, it's moving into the direction of a standard.

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

I never tried Resident Evil, Control or Metro with RTX off because i have no reason to turn it off. Performance even on 4K is plenty for me. So i can't really say how these games look with traditional rendering.

 

But in Cyberpunk i played around a lot with the different graphics settings. And the difference between RTX on and off is massive imo.

 

While it may not be a must-have right now, it's moving into the direction of a standard.

I'm not against it at all if that is the vibe I gave off. I'm more of it really isn't a dealbreaker at all right now due to good fake shaders that and most gamers do not have access to raytracing capable hardware right now.

 

Cybperpunk I see as an outlier as that game was rushed so I wouldn't be too suprised that raytracing was the cheap and quickest way to get the game to look better instead of using some pretty crap shaders that are used when not using rt. Of the actual finished games there is little to no difference when standing still and during gameplay it just fades away.

 

To me the most noteable way I've seen ray tracing is in spidermand miles morales as you can still see it happening whilst playing. It only does reflections in the big glass skyscrapers but that really does create some cool shots and moments that would not be possible otherwise.

[Stahlmann]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Cybperpunk I see as an outlier as that game was rushed so I wouldn't be too suprised that raytracing was the cheap and quickest way to get the game to look better instead of using some pretty crap shaders that are used when not using rt. Of the actual finished games there is little to no difference when standing still and during gameplay it just fades away.

Cyberpunk still looks awesome without ray-tracing. I'm just saying the game has the most noticeable improvement.

 

The "fading" is very subjective. As ray-tracing is inherently more realistic than rasterized lighting it helps a lot with immersion.

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Cyberpunk still looks awesome without ray-tracing. I'm just saying the game has the most noticeable improvement.

 

The "fading" is very subjective. As ray-tracing is inherently more realistic than rasterized lighting it helps a lot with immersion.

That is an entirely fair point. What I do see happening eventually is ray tracing being used like on the consoles. For a select couple of simple things instead of for big systems. That way the heavy stuff can be done like normal but the otherwise minute or hard to do things with shaders can be done on the ray tracing part of the gpu (like in spiderman window reflections) thus leveraging the best of the 2 systems.

[Stahlmann]

18 minutes ago, yolosnail said:

They really do seem to have gone downhill in their reviews, there's a reason they aren't my 'go to'!

They've become a lot more "just for fun" than doing any serious reviewing imo. Their target audience is basically the people who are just getting into the industry. Anyone who has been here for some time will have likely already made their move to more serious reviewers like Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed for "real" and "technical" reviews.

 

Best example is the latest MiniLED TV "review" where they got the samsung tv. They just basically sat down in front of it and said "this is fine". No measurements, etc... LTT is a lot about subjectivity these days.

[Stahlmann]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

That is an entirely fair point. What I do see happening eventually is ray tracing being used like on the consoles. For a select couple of simple things instead of for big systems. That way the heavy stuff can be done like normal but the otherwise minute or hard to do things with shaders can be done on the ray tracing part of the gpu (like in spiderman window reflections) thus leveraging the best of the 2 systems.

That's how most RTX games are. And i agree that there are some effects that are barely different to rasterization. I think Control is the only game so far that completely runs off ONLY ray-tracing when it's enabled. Every other game only uses ray-tracing for specific parts of the lighting. (afaik)

[yolosnail]

Just now, Stahlmann said:

They've become a lot more "just for fun" than doing any serious reviewing imo. Their target audience is basically the people who are just getting into the industry. Anyone who has been here for some time will have likely already made their move to more serious reviewers like Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed for "real" and "technical" reviews.

But if that's the case, then surely they should put more of an emphasis on legitimate consumer advice.

 

It's all well and good saying it's a cheaper 3090, without the bits you don't need (the extra VRAM), but when a 3080 is nigh on half the price of the 3080Ti and delivers most of the performance, surely they should say that's the better option!

[WolframaticAlpha]

1 hour ago, Deus Voltage said:

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Personal Opinion:

 

I think Linus missed the mark on this one big time. I was almost tempted to think that the review was paid by Nvidia (as noted by Spotty@, the review was made a bit too early so I retract what I previously said for the time-being), but I wouldn't go that far as Linus has a pretty good track record as a tech reviewer and throwing around silly accusations hurts the conversation more than anything. I agree with Steve (GN) and the rest. It is overpriced and feels like Nvidia is tone deaf. What do you guys think?

How is it overpriced? What is price? Price is a bygone of the past era/s

 

 

Imho, it should've been priced a 100-159 bucks cheaper. It would've been much better.

[SolarNova]

Much like the 2080ti, 6900XT, and 3090 .. the 3080ti is an overpriced money grab targeting those without money sense or market forethought.

 

For those interested, here something i posted back in September last year about the price history of Nvidias top end cards. Add the 3080ti and see just how disgusting the latest generations have been price wise.

 

 

On 9/3/2020 at 2:01 PM, SolarNova said:

Historical initial MSRP of the top tier cards are as follows.

Excludes Dual GPU cards and OC'ed specials. (feel free to correct me on anything listed, just provide links as proof... cheers)

 

Launch Year ------- GPU ------------ Price ---- With Inflation

 

2000 --- GeForce 2 Ti --------------- $500 ---- $750

2001 --- GeForce 3 Ti500 -----------$350 ----$515

2002 --- GeForce 4 Ti4600 ---------$400-----$575

2003 --- GeForce FX 5950 Ultra ---$500-----$705

2004 --- GeForce 6800 Ultra -------$500 -----$685

2005 --- GeForce 7900 GTX -------$500 -----$665

2006 --- GeForce 8800 GTX -------$600 -----$770

2008 --- GeForce 9800 GTX+ -----$230 -----$275   (no this isnt a typo)

2009 --- GeForce GTX 285 --------$400 -----$485

2010 --- GeForce GTX 480 --------$500 -----$600

2011 --- GeForce GTX 580 --------$500 ---- $575

2012 --- GeForce GTX 680  -------$500 -----$565

2013 --- GeForce GTX 780 Ti -----$700 -----$775

2015 --- GeForce GTX 980 Ti ---- $650 -----$710

2017 --- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ----$700 ----$740

2018 --- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ---$1200 ---$1230

2020 --- GeForce RTX 3090 ------$1500 --- $1500

 

Spot the outliers.

 

Now we can argue and debate about the 3090 being a Titan or not, if it is then fine, but we should then accept that a 3080ti is to release in the future as the 3080 isnt close enough in performance to the 3090 (as per Nvidias release event graphs) to be the top tier gaming card. (all previous gen Titans had a gaming card that was near identical in performance).

As such this leaves Nvidia the chance to either do what they have done in the past, which is release the new x80ti at the same prices as the x80 and drop the x80 price.... or do what they seem more likely to do nowadays and increase the x80ti price to somewhere between the 3080 and 3090, likely $900-$1000.

 

~$700 (in todays currency) are not uncommon as we can see, but above that is unacceptable.

 

Hope this clears up the debate over price.

 

 

 

[dizmo]

Not surprised that they put out new cards, they're just going on schedule. I think it makes more sense than not releasing them at all. If the chip shortage is remedied before they're ready to release their next line of cards, they'll have these to sell. It would look stupid to see supply normalize 6 months before the next launch, then launch the TI, then 6 months later launch your new cards. It's also not like they're not making cards. Loads of people are still getting them, there's just insane demand.

 

I personally can't wait for them to release their next line and for people to upgrade. The used pool is going to be fucking massive.

 

46 minutes ago, rockyroller said:

It comes dome to that meme again.

nVidia the way games are meant to be played

&

AMD the way games can be played

If you're implying you can get AMD cards and can't get Nvidia, you're just wrong?

43 minutes ago, jaslion said:

So as I expected literally a 3090 with less vram and a teeny tiny clock hit. All whilst if you take the average of games tested the 6900xt seems to be the better buy as raytracing still hasn't taken off yet in games that makes is a must have feature. For games that is.

There's other features that make their cards a little more desirable to some people, like anyone who does streaming, video calls, etc. Their feature adds are very strong.

14 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

They've become a lot more "just for fun" than doing any serious reviewing imo. Their target audience is basically the people who are just getting into the industry. Anyone who has been here for some time will have likely already made their move to more serious reviewers like Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed for "real" and "technical" reviews.

 

Best example is the latest MiniLED TV "review" where they got the samsung tv. They just basically sat down in front of it and said "this is fine". No measurements, etc... LTT is a lot about subjectivity these days.

They've been more on the entertainment side for years. I'd say they haven't really put out reviews that are that useful for 5+. They're more of a product overview, with a few graphs thrown in.

9 minutes ago, yolosnail said:

But if that's the case, then surely they should put more of an emphasis on legitimate consumer advice.

 

It's all well and good saying it's a cheaper 3090, without the bits you don't need (the extra VRAM), but when a 3080 is nigh on half the price of the 3080Ti and delivers most of the performance, surely they should say that's the better option!

Ti cards in the upper range have always been for people that want to eek out that extra little performance, and they don't care what the extra cost is. It's not a bang for your buck segment.

[PeachGr]

I think reviews and opinions doesn't change change the fact that we cannot buy anything. I stated the obvious but still... I have almost lost interest in all of the above opinions

[yolosnail]

5 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Ti cards in the upper range have always been for people that want to eek out that extra little performance, and they don't care what the extra cost is. It's not a bang for your buck segment.

I disagree, that was the Titan, and now the 3090.

 

The *80Ti was the bang-for-the-buck of the high end, it was getting most of the top end performance for a lower price

[jaslion]

4 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

Much like the 2080ti, 6900XT, and 3090 .. the 3080ti is an overpriced money grab targeting those without money sense or market forethought.

 

For those interested, here something i posted back in September last year about the price history of Nvidias top end cards. Add the 3080ti and see just how disgusting the latest generations have been price wise.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh hey yeah I saw this post and I've seen some video essay's about this (and many other products doing the exact same thing). The less for more cycle is super cruddy and I really dislike it.

 

I fully remember when going in the then 250-300$ bracket could give you a hell of a solid gpu that would last for years to come nowadays even at msrp you are basically getting at best a low to mid mid range gpu. It's really just trying to get as much money out of people whilst doing the least possible.

 

It is even worse when you compare them WITH inflation adjusted price and the average performance increase between cards and see that it has basically been a price goes up performance gain goes down with every release. The 1060 lineup being the oddball out in that graph. (well the whole 1000 series was the oddball out as we got 4 cards that went beyond the performance of the last gen highest end card for actual decent prices).