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The Ampere RTX 3080 Owners Thread

varkanoid said:
who knows but for older games generally you dont need any extra oomf do you that resize bar could give you. Cant see you needed it for Quake, or Doom, or anything like that.
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Lightning returns has massive issues, even on super duper brand new expensive kit, I am very curious if this will benefit.
Also many older games I tend to apply SGSSAA or 4k downscaling, sometimes both combined so they tend to load up my card heavily.

FF13-2 used to bring my 1080ti down to its knees, and the game was ported over from xbox360 back in 2015.
 
chrcoluk said:
Lightning returns has massive issues, even on super duper brand new expensive kit, I am very curious if this will benefit.
Also many older games I tend to apply SGSSAA or 4k downscaling, sometimes both combined so they tend to load up my card heavily.

FF13-2 used to bring my 1080ti down to its knees, and the game was ported over from xbox360 back in 2015.
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okay but those examples are a) game artificially changed from the standard version not everyone will do this and b) you didnt use it with a card that has resize bar anyway so with a 3xxx or 6xxx it might run okay.

What I'm saying is majority of new cards run fine on older titles so why test them all. I can understand what you are saying but Nvidia are just being careful providing games that show a benefit. You'd think people would be happy that they are as they always get complaints they dont look after customers. :)

When games are released with bugs and patches and thats testers just testing one game how can Nvidia test thousands of games ?

Who knows it might change and its just out there for all to try. Early steps.
 
Sarge2255 said:
Roger that! But it just doesn't ad up! You must have some kind off Golden Chip.

All well know articles and YouTube reviews show slight performance drop. Even if very small. Yet you post a reasonable boost.

https://bjorn3d.com/2020/10/undervolting-the-rtx-3080-and-the-rtx3090/2/#split_content


https://www.google.com/amp/s/wccfte...rce-rtx-3080-hidden-efficiency-potential/amp/

https://factschronicle.com/how-to-u...ce-rtx-3080-for-better-performance-24834.html
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chroluk knows more than I do about the 'how and why' - all I know is the results I'm getting, and they seem to be in line with others here.

My Stock run - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/19369939
My Undervolted run - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/19372719

My curve -

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varkanoid said:
okay but those examples are a) game artificially changed from the standard version not everyone will do this and b) you didnt use it with a card that has resize bar anyway so with a 3xxx or 6xxx it might run okay.

What I'm saying is majority of new cards run fine on older titles so why test them all. I can understand what you are saying but Nvidia are just being careful providing games that show a benefit. You'd think people would be happy that they are as they always get complaints they dont look after customers. :)

When games are released with bugs and patches and thats testers just testing one game how can Nvidia test thousands of games ?

Who knows it might change and its just out there for all to try. Early steps.
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I dont think they should be testing them all, I think they should not be blocking it from been enabled. Nvidia dont allow untested games to have it enabled. I agree its early steps I suspect they will eventually remove the restriction. :)
 
doug_1986 said:
chroluk knows more than I do about the 'how and why' - all I know is the results I'm getting, and they seem to be in line with others here.

My Stock run - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/19369939
My Undervolted run - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/19372719

My curve -

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Yep I am curious what score Sarge gets on his factory o/c card. :)

Sarge look at dougs online results, you will see although the stock run has a higher starting clock speed, its "average" clock speed is much lower than his undervolted run.
 
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chrcoluk said:
Yep I am curious what score Sarge gets on his factory o/c card. :)

Sarge look at dougs online results, you will see although the stock run has a higher starting clock speed, its "average" clock speed is much lower than his undervolted run.
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My CPU is an i7 9700 but it's better than a i9 9900k in gaming, but far worse in benchmarks because of it has 8 threads less. I run the cpu at 4.5ghz.

I get 18100 on the graphics and 7300 on the cpu
temps are 54c on 3d Mark( but in gaming my gpu runs at 73c) and on monitor software it's 60c.

If I overclock the cpu to 4.7Ghz I get
18530 on the Graphics and 7900 on the cpu.


Cpu is heavily affecting scores on TimeSpy. 500mhz increase on a CPU can give 1,000+ points easily.

I don't know what factor RAM has in these benchmarks, can't say it would be that great as I'm using DDR4 2666Mhz only. Some are using DDR4 3800Mhz for these benchmarks so I conclude the OPs scores look too low for the setup.
 
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What would I need to upgrade to get resize support on my 3080?

I have 9700k and z370 gigabyte gaming 3 motherboard.

Do I need new CPU and motherboard? Or could I just get new board? Or should I just wait and see if it ever gets released for my system?

I keep reading conflicting information when I Google search.

Also I play a lot of red dead at 4k 120hz, I read about massive gains on red dead, do you think I would get nice improvement?
 
imginy said:
What would I need to upgrade to get resize support on my 3080?

I have 9700k and z370 gigabyte gaming 3 motherboard.

Do I need new CPU and motherboard? Or could I just get new board? Or should I just wait and see if it ever gets released for my system?

I keep reading conflicting information when I Google search.

Also I play a lot of red dead at 4k 120hz, I read about massive gains on red dead, do you think I would get nice improvement?
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https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-30-series-resizable-bar-support/

It's all on that link, and yes, you need to replace both your mobo and CPU. I can't imagine you'll ever have support on your current setup, but I could be wrong.

RDR2 is supported, but not RDR. I assume it's 2 you're playing?
 
ltron said:
That looks great, your card is performing better than mine now. Is 1GHz default for fclck (not familiar with newer Intel)? Glad you noticed that and it's fixed, that's great.

It's very stressful, time consuming and annoying when your expensive new hardware is not working as expected, I've been there.
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Any changes in your score since the last time? You had a similar score to mine.
 
chrcoluk said:
Did another couple of runs after bios and driver updates.

One after the other both almost 18k, did the second as it invalidated scored after not liking I set some driver settings to non defaults.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/60154841?
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/60155165?
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Is this stock? Your boost limit is set at 1905 but the scores are high. I guess that this proves that a higher boost does not guarantee better performance. My limit is at 1950 and at stock with 100% fan speed max ive got is a 17,435. Default fan speed is 17,100-200. Still lower than yours which doesnt boost as high as mine.
 
ikinson said:
Is this stock? Your boost limit is set at 1905 but the scores are high. I guess that this proves that a higher boost does not guarantee better performance. My limit is at 1950 and at stock with 100% fan speed max ive got is a 17,435. Default fan speed is 17,100-200. Still lower than yours which doesnt boost as high as mine.
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If you read the last few pages you can see our discussion.

Its undervolted with a target max clock of 1905mhz (same clock as what my card does at stock), because its undervolted it doesnt hit power limit and has lower temps so the performance is higher from sustaining the target clock speed. Those runs also keep the power limit at 100%. So I am not overclocking and not boosting power limit. I am also on stock fan curve which is pretty passive and quiet.

Actual stock config throttles down to below 1800mhz during the run. Sustainable clock is more important than peak clock.

On modern boost architectures, undervolting is the way to go in my opinion.
 
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