OcUK Ampere RTX3000 series review thread

[Darujhistan]

Forget NVidias marketing claims, it is all about what the 3080 and its performance can do for you.

Is it worth the money, for a lot of people yes.

Why forget the marketing claims?

It's 20-75% not the 2x claimed.

Still a nice card though, just not as good as it was made out to be.

 

[ebilcake]

Meh, about what I expected.

Will hold onto my 2080Ti for a while longer, at least until there are actually games out worth upgrading for.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

Bit disappointing that Nvidia BS once again. And for those saying 'meh cheaper than a 2080ti for more performance' why are you giving nvidia credit for still selling a card above market price just because they took the **** with the 2080ti pricing?

This also potential means that the 3070 performance will come under a 2080ti for a good few games.

The power draw is also shameful...for many getting this card will also mean an extra 200 on top to get a PSU that can handle it.

 

[Kaapstad]

As they say when its time for Tea,

One lump or Two sir?

Roll on the RTX 3090 next week.

 

[bakes0310]

I think that the fact people are comparing this card to the 2080Ti shows just how powerful it is. It isn't the 2080Ti competitor though that's the 3090, this cards competition and comparison should be the similarly priced 2080 Super, which it blows out of the water.

When the RTX3090 is released what are you going to be comparing that to if you think the 2080Ti competition is the 3080 ?

Thankyou, someone who makes sense, this is a stonking card compared to the 2080, if i build a new pc next year ill be getting one to replace my 1080.

 

[pBay]

At least with my Lian Li case, i'll have 3 fans blasting directly into the GPU heatsink, although probably won't be able to nab one tomorrow as imagine it's going to be messy.

 

[Awahwah]

Let me try and persuade you

Your 1080Ti won't being doing "enough" forever.
The 3080 will likely increase in price for a while before decreasing
MOAR FPS
Errr, 3080 = (1080Ti + 2000) - Ti
Shiny things

Shiny shiny, its always the problem but when I purchased the 1080Ti (at release) I decided there an then to keep it until it died or it no longer does what I want. The problem is it does.

 

[easyrider]

Shiny shiny, its always the problem but when I purchased the 1080Ti (at release) I decided there an then to keep it until it died or it no longer does what I want. The problem is it does.

If it does what you want then keep it....or sell your 1080ti for 250 and get a 3080 for £400

 

[JohnG7]

Do the Easy shuffle.

 

[easyrider]

Do the Easy shuffle.

 

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

Bit disappointing that Nvidia BS once again. And for those saying 'meh cheaper than a 2080ti for more performance' why are you giving nvidia credit for still selling a card above market price just because they took the **** with the 2080ti pricing?

"Market price" is what the market will pay, and so far it seems to have been on nvidia's side.

 

[Joxeon]

Do you think he will test the AMD in a shoebox?

He will probably test AMD inside his oven

 

[DonPachi]

This gen is the first time I've genuinely liked the FE cooler. I'll feel no guilt about buying FE in that regard, if it turns out to be my decision.

Same here, I really like the look. There's nothing to go off in terms of the cooling of the AIB's yet, so FE most certainly looks the safe choice.

 

[bakes0310]

The power draw is terrible for an SFF system like mine. Its massively higher than my GTX1080!! Hopefully the RTX3070 is significantly lower.

I might have to rethink making a sff build now, or am i being silly?

 

[Harlequin]

Cheers for the video, for the type of games im intersted in buying like RDR2 and Horizons its around 65-80% faster than a 2080. I have a 1080Ti so tempting but still not sure as the only game im struggling with at the moment is a modded GTA5.

How my my 3770K @ 4.5Ghz will affect that im not sure but seems to be doing fine so far.

I went from a 3770k @ 4.3 to an R5 3600 - and the difference in baseline is like chalk and cheese. Grab a B550 board, and nvme drive and an R5 and you`ll love it (ram im using LPX 3200 Cl16)

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I might have to rethink making a sff build now, or am i being silly?

The RTX3070 is rated at 220W TBP,which is around 40W higher than a GTX1080FE,so would be a better fit. Having said that the FE cooler won't work so well with sandwich type mini-ITX cases,so an AIB partner model would be a better bet IMHO.

Also its quite possible AMD might have better performance/watt on some of its SKUs too. I can see them pushing the top models a bit though.

 

[SimonV6]

Meh, about what I expected.

Will hold onto my 2080Ti for a while longer, at least until there are actually games out worth upgrading for.

Will hold out for Big navi and 3090 benchmarks first but seems the 3080 was all hype, 1fps more in MSFS lol

 

[deuse]

As they say when its time for Tea,

One lump or Two sir?

Roll on the RTX 3090 next week.

I'm hoping to get one as well

 

[EastCoastHandle]

Bit disappointing that Nvidia BS once again. And for those saying 'meh cheaper than a 2080ti for more performance' why are you giving nvidia credit for still selling a card above market price just because they took the **** with the 2080ti pricing?

This also potential means that the 3070 performance will come under a 2080ti for a good few games.

The power draw is also shameful...for many getting this card will also mean an extra 200 on top to get a PSU that can handle it.

I was thinking the same thing. That the 3070 would be slower then the 2080ti.

 

[pBay]

Will hold out for Big navi and 3090 benchmarks first but seems the 3080 was all hype, 1fps more in MSFS lol

Pretty sure Flight Sim is heavily CPU bottlenecked as for some reason it was developed with DX11 support rather than 12.