discussion NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti Review - NOT a New Hope for Gamers

[Gav]

The NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti review is here and while the gaming benchmarks are impressive and finally answer the RTX 3090 vs RTX 3080 Ti vs RX 6900XT question, there's a lot more that needs to be talked about. It feels like NVIDIA might be pulling a bait and switch but with the RTX 3080 Ti hashrate in Ethereum being cut in half, will this do anything for pricing, availability and stock? Well let's talk about that.

Timestamps:

0:00 - RTX 3080 Ti & The NVIDIA Hustle
2:15 - A SERIOUS Talk about 3080 Ti Mining
4:18 - RTX 3080 Ti Availability - This Won't Change
5:19 - RTX 3080 Ti Specs, Price vs RTX 3090 / RTX 3080
6:04 - A Closer Look
7:11 - GPU Temperatures Over Time & Noise
7:34 - RTX 3080 Ti Power Consumption
7:56 - 1440P Gaming Benchmarks
8:49 - 4K Gaming Benchmarks
9:19 - Ray Tracing on the RTX 3080 Ti
10:02 - Creator App Performance - Blender, Adobe, Resolve
10:57 - Will the RTX 3080 Ti Change ANYTHING?

 

[FreeKnight]

I honestly thought this review was too kind to the 3080 Ti. Also think the flip thorugh the actual benchmarks was way too fast. A quick 3-4 second splash for each setting was a little over the top IMO. One last criticism was that it feels like not including a single 2XXX series card was a miss by the team.

 

[Lysrin]

Would have been nice to see a 2080 Ti in the benchmark slides... not that I can buy one of those at a reasonable price either I don't mind the speed of the benchmark presentation. I can always just hit pause, which I do frequently.

I did like the feel of GPU-purchase-futility came through in this video and, I thought, a reasonable take on the hash rate limitation which to me always came across as disingenuous on NVIDIA's part.

 

[Sagath]

Agree with @Lysrin. No need for 15 seconds of benchies for each screen just so I have to fast forward. Hit pause, review, unpause, continue.

 

[sswilson]

Heh the difference in perception is probably between folks who "like" video reviews and those who'd prefer "printed".... us old timers who'd prefer printed tend to treat the video like a grouping of pictures that we can pause at will, while the folks who prefer video think that kind of action on a video is heretical....

 

[Sagath]

Heh the difference in perception is probably between folks who "like" video reviews and those who'd prefer "printed".... us old timers who'd prefer printed tend to treat the video like a grouping of pictures that we can pause at will, while the folks who prefer video think that kind of action on a video is heretical....

My paraphrased version of this:

"GET OFF MY LAWN!"

 

[moocow]

At least YT videos got index of key sections now. Before that feature, I hated scrolling thru the video to get key info after a few weeks or need to search for it to answer a question here.

 

[sswilson]

My paraphrased version of this:

"GET OFF MY LAWN!"

You're only allowed to say that if you're simultaneously doing the "scary bushy eyebrow fingers thing"............