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Steve, you should mention sometime that the purpose of a backplate is not only to help dissapate some heat, but to also provide some shielding to the components from the less-careful handling typically seen with hobbyists to protect the GPU from damage from static electricity and any physical damage (and i think dust too) that it may encounter during its lifetime.
Oh snap, my two favorite Steve's! Now your previous video makes alot of sense, can't wait till you get your hands on one. The performance jump looks huge! Looking forward to both of your content coming up, thanks for all that you guys do. Sincerely, The 3rd Steve - me the fan :)
You've done what we ordinary "consumers" can't do, you've exposed these companies, their deceptions, their fakes and bad products that they were trying to sell us for a premium. As a reward they blacklist you, but we appreciate it.
Do you happen to know if there is a picture of that card post-rollover? xD That clip was hilarious, I swear I heard something crack in the background. :D
@@bajafishtaco well, steve is from Australia (aka "land down under" for being on the southern hemisphere). It has been a meme for quite some time now to call Australians upside down.
@@GamersNexus I wish I could do what you guys do. Not sure where to even start... I have a passion for tech and am pretty knowledgeable, but terrible in front of a camera lol. But I'm always the guy my friends refer to with hardware questions or building, and I love helping them!
So it seems that MSI’s and Zotac’s engineering and quality control team are so bad that their own marketing team realized that sending review samples to GN would potentially cost them their marketing jobs? Clear signal for me to not buy a product from a manufacturer that has GN blacklisted.
I had the zotac 1080 amp extrem. It was a hell of a card - no issues. And my friend has the msi trio 2080ti - no issues. 2100mhz/8000mhz. It's a great card. I had issues with EVGA & Gigabyte cards instead... i got 3 broken Evga cards in a row. And two Gigabyte returns.
21:38 *Steve:* _"Hardware Unboxed"_ *RUclips Auto-Caption:* _"hard run boxed"_ Even when GN Steve says it RUclips still refuses to caption it correctly.
I almost fell of my chair laughing when Steve said "ASUS's Engineers have taken the feedback seriously to improve upon for this generation" Not without ASUS Marketing Claiming that Reviewers have No Idea how to performance test a product or have any understanding about how Cooling works
I applaud EVGA for trying new design, and their continued effort to encourage modding/overclocking. Not buying MSI one for sure after their bully marketing efforts.
Personal anecdote so take it for what it's worth, but what I've experienced with msi products is 3 failures covering 2 graphics cards and 1 motherboard between myself and a friend. Never had issues like that with any other brand so I'm not so sure their quality standards are worth anything either
All, take a peek at Ebay this morning. I've seen used RTX 2080 ti's selling for $400-$500, used Gen 1 2080's and 2070s going out for between $300-$400.. It'll take a few days to setting into a groove, but we all have Nvidia pricing the 3070 at $500 to thank for gamers now having access to 2080 Ti performance for well under $500 for the foreseeable future. Imagine that, used 2080 ti's for less than the price of what some 2060 supers are selling for new just this week. The entire GPU market is now being driven down by the announced entry cost of the 3070 and it's availability and it brings a tear to my eye. :)
@@connorthompson6452 I don't credit Nvidia here, you don't get points for NOT being a horrible company. The GPU mining industry has been toast for quite some time, Nvidia could have done real price drops past year, as the 2080 ti was still overpriced by $500 and the 2080s/2070s cards overpriced by at least $200. They didn't reduce pricing on the 2000 series because enough people were willing to pay the higher prices due to previous years mining price conditioning. The funny thing is Nvidia had the gall to state that they were disappointed in how the 2000 series sales performed, and rather than admitting that the price was 90% of the problem, instead they'd park their boat in the marina that claims it was because the 1080ti was just too good, and 2000 series didn't offer enough to justify the upgrade. I'm happy where this is all going, but don't Nvidia deserves no cookies for how we got here.
Was driving and received a notification about the video.... Currently watching it at a roadside gas station. Thank you for the awesome videos and insight Steve.
@argh666 how do u know he doesn't have a life. You are making on helluva assumption based on a single comment. And you are forgetting this is GN where we say and do everything according to science, not cuz I'm-kinda-pissed-and-I'll-say-whatever-I-want You should apologize
@@daweitao2668 yeah you are true but even then you cant compare that because of the new architecture and more performance watt and so on. Its nearly impossible to compare them because they are working differently. We can only compare the real performance now.
If I'm being honest, outside of Asus, am I crazy or did everyone just agree these cards should all be ugly as shit? Especially EVGA. Why on earth would you put colored cheap looking accents on your card in 2020? I thought we all agreed at this point that the card be either neutral black/silver or neutral white and you let the RGB add whatever color the end buyer wants. I've honestly not had much opinion of EVGA coolers before but dear god that thing is awful looking. It looks like It's from the early 2010's and that's obviously not a compliment.
It would be nice to see a CLEAR plastic used - so you can see all the bits in the cards. a clear PCB board and fans would make the circuits float in a web of connections - and the lighting up of clear PCB boards would look amazing. No more green or black, go clear - be different.
When MSI says “Ample Thermal Pads” they mean that they will stack 2 layers of thermal pads to touch the air cooler because they are too lazy to make a proper air cooler. See? Ample amounts of thermal pads.
Hype killers? Nuh-uh. Hype's through the roof. I have high hopes Zotac delivers good cooling solution, cuz that holo synthwave shroud is beauty to be marveled :D
@@mahoobarc1439 I only bought the X570 Tomahawk because the reviews were awesome, but make no mistake that is the last MSI purchase I make. Wouldn't help me out when my 1080 Gaming X died - haven't bought their GPU's since - and won't.
@@mahoobarc1439 they're on my personal shit list as well. haven't had any bad experiences with them, but suppressing reviews is a no go. I won't exclude buying anything from them in the future if their behaviour changes and remains clean for a reasonable amount of time.... but for now no dice. hmm, I should start noting down my blacklist, there are quite a few companies on it already
100% literally. I tried to submit a support request to them once and every time I submitted the form it would error out. Will never ever buy anything from MSI again. EVGA and ASUS have consistently been the best for me personally.
Yeah. I've never gone FE...and I'm gonna bite the bullet and do it this time. I just hope hope hope the cooling isn't god aweful. If I can maintain an average 75 degrees Celsius, I'll be happy.
@@adamm784 I might do the same, however I am a little concerned of the thermal performance of the FE too. The official page says the temp limit is 93C which I believe is higher than what they listed for past cards
@@martinzhang5533 Yeah it is. I think the 2080TI was 83. I honestly think the GPU will be fine. I'm more worried about my CPU getting the heat lol. I play Black Desert Online and for some reason that game just makes the CPU so damn haawwwwwwt. On Average I'm between 75-80 degrees. If it goes higher than that I'll worry....hopefully the big dirty Noctua DH-15s can take it. I'm gonna go an hour early opening day and try to snag an FE 3080 ASAP. Also I run everything in an NZXT H510 Elite case. I know not the best for airflow, looks so dope though. If things get bad I might sell it and change up the case.
Only reason I'd get a 3090 non reference is if it was $100-$200 cheaper than founders edition. No way I'd buy one of the custom cards this time around if its also $1500
Considering the bottleneck on my 2080 TI w/ i9 is the display port 1.4, the 3090 is literally going to offer me 0% performance on 98% of the games I play
Stop paying for aesthetics, pay for performance. Every time somebody pays a premium for aesthetics, the rest of tge gaming community is tax more for something they don't want. It's time to let RGB die
Zotac smoking all the weed in pursuit of the one true rgb. Meanwhile at MSI they got rats rioting in their web servers while EVGA decided red accents is a great idea for some unknown reason ffs.
@@annahenrietta9517 Ya they have the best looking new cards by far, love the temp readouts on the side. Hope this is a trend going forward for all their high end stuff!
@@disabledcable685 Yes. Having your temp and usage readout at a glance is so convenient and well thought honestly. My last pc had giga mobo, not one issue in 5 years through upgrades and stuff. Now I'm on an Acer prebuilt and the back Audio port already croaked....
Man I bought a 2080ti about a year ago and I'm a little bummed out. Back when a 1080ti and 2080ti were about ~$100-200 difference. Probably going to wait for 40 series before I buy again, hopefully the lower price trend sticks. These 30 series cards look great though!
Bought a 2080ti last black friday sales for 900 USD in preparation for cyberpunk 2077, assembled system a week before the delay was announced. Im not too annoyed as i also got a 3440x1440 120hz ultrawide and my old 970 would not have been up to the task for a large amount of games i have played since then, i also got a good deal on the 2080ti. Another thing to consider is that its going to be extremely hard to actually buy these cards because they will sell out so damn fast, even if i sold my 2080ti to upgrade I have no idea if i would actually be able to buy a card in stock before cyberpunk release date anyway.
Anyone who bought a 2080ti since like March is just dumb. It was rumored for them to come out around now since then, and it was a guarantee they were gonna come out around now no matter what, really.
Bought mine 2 years ago - almost at launch. Got good use out of it and I don't regret buying it one bit. It was a great card till yesterday :D Will keep it around till 4000 series comes out. My wife's system has a 1080Ti which needs an upgrade though. Will get the 3090 for it.
12:15 "Hi Steve, we noticed that you spoke about our website in a poor light. Could you please take down this video? We are willing to compensate you for removing this video" -MSI
Andrew In my experience any of the custom coolers don’t exhaust anything out the back. They always dump air inside the case. That’s why you need a case with good airflow. Shouldn’t be an issue with my O11 Dynamic XL
I've always loved EVGA FTW's card and I think my 1080 ftw still looks beautiful so I don't really know who at evga thought those red accents would be a great idea, I think they will clash with a lot of setups... Moreover I feel the design is so tacky... After years of their gpu I'm thinking to switch to another AIB or even to a reference design
agree my first choice was to move to the 3080ftw3 but I am not sure maybe it will grow on me or maybe I dont care enough but I really like the 10x0 look of the cards.
The EVGA 3090 Hydro Copper is the one I will get. Do not care what it looks like (this ain’t no fashion show) I only care how reliable it is and overclocking headroom. EVGA stuff has always been good for me over the years.
@@cptcosmic I mean obviously it would be the same price as an RTX 2070 Super in retail, so it is very very valueable still. We'll stil wait for the benchmarks tho.
@@PocketDrummer ye this a huge point for me. Gotta remember it used to be 400$ for this kinda pricer to performance. God I miss it. Hopefully AMD surprises us
@@PocketDrummer last-gen was just new tech/architecture and new tech is always more expensive and less efficient. Ryzen 1 and Radeon 7 were both utter shit too. Much like Galaxy fold 1 was shit and was a beta and now fold 2 is actually a phone for the rich masses. Notice they left the Ti's out probably until next year and they will probably get the same leap of performance that 10xx tis got.
@@LuckyBeepo it used to be $350 once AMD cards came out for the same generation, except for 970 that was $330 and sat there for its entire life. The 1070 was $450 and had no competition for over a year and only then dropped to $399, though that was also partly due to mining. The 3070 is still stupid overpriced, just like the 1070 and 2070 before it, only difference to the 2070 is that it actually comes with an expected generational improvment in performance making it only slighly worse than the already bad 1070.
Me: Can't wait to see the 3000 series! Nvidia: Here is our reference design! Me: That's weird.... AIBS: Here's ours! Me: I'll take the reference thingy...
@@Chuckiele But it's literally not reference design this time, it's a custom PCB, have you done zero research? Look im not even trying to defend it I hate the founders edition but it's not a reference PCB lol its a completely different shape than any other 30 series card that will be sold.
With how much partners decided to leave unpunched, I wonder if the reference cooler will, for once, be superior. It's case design struggles all over again, lotsa fans but then obstructed with sheets of whatever just because looks.
hellterminator Who could spend $1200+ on a gpu can probably spend as much for a faster one today. They will sell it for cheap just to keep it from collecting dust. I would probably consider a 2080 ti for $300-400 since rtx doesn’t interest me.
@@Shadow__133 From my rather extensive experience with the second hand market, I can tell you few people think that way. Even today there still are many delusional people trying to sell their 1080 (not ti!) for $500+. They can't get over the fact that a rather expensive thing they bought has lost 2/3 of its value over the last few years. That's why I buy second hand almost exclusively - used hardware keeps its value much better and even if there is a rare awesome launch that renders it completely obsolete, you're still not losing that much.
got my mouse mat, looks great. I wanted to say thanks for not sugarcoating anything, even if it means you don't get review units from the companies you anger. stay true, steve
My 1070 mini would keep up with my brothers amped edition. It did run slightly hotter under full load mining but its expected from a mini card vs a triple fan amped.
@Thomas Foster my MSI 980ti's cooler was good but my Gigabyte 2080 Super cooler is also good but very fucking loud. I hate it. I think I'll go with the EVGA XC3 this time around
Yalls content/frequency in releasing of said content has been insane over the past few weeks/months tbh, prob always has been, big love boys love seeing the sub count slowly rise too, feel like it was just yesterday it was in the 800k's
I'm glad there was no press pre-brief. I know it's more work for you guys, but it was fun seeing everyone's immediate reaction and first-takes of the announcements.
I’d really like to see Steve’s thoughts on this. I think we need to stress airflow on gpu makers like we stressed it on case makers. The zotac and the Asus rog look like they give little thought as to where the air will exhaust at. The msi 2080ti gaming x trio was really bad at this. Even with fans at full speed you could barely feel the air coming off the card because of the plastic pieces that covered the side. It seemed to have similar thermals and noise to evga’s xc ultra which had very little to block exhaust but was a 2 fan card. Having 3 fans on a massive heatsink with nowhere for the air to go seems just as dumb as case fans behind glass. The second fan on the founders card that pulls air through the fins might give it an edge over everyone else with their fin-stack blocking logos and Rgb.
The Zotac "transluscent flourish" bit had me in stitches. Gotta love the sass in this video! Keep trucking GN, looking forward to your coverage of this, as always
No mention of the 3x 8-pin on the Asus 3090? On their announcement video they talk about it as a PSU power delivery management with 3 LEDs on top of the connectors to warn you if your PSu can't keep up with your card demands. I think that's an amazing feature to troubleshoot an eventual crash!! 👍🏼
It's a video card, not a line of fashion clothing. They all look fine. How good is the cooling? How do they perform? That's all that really matters. Gimme a plain black card with a good hybrid CLC cooler and I'm happy.
Exactly. We just need coolers that try to be as quiet as possible while efficiently removing the heat while not looking gaudy. I’m fine with RGB but most of the time it’s poorly done and ugly to look at.
Red Devil and Sapphire are the only ones I am interested in other than the standard card, those two have always looked the best for me, I have the Sapphire Nitro+ 5700xt and it looks great. As an AMD fan I am very tempted to get a 3080 tbh, but going to force myself to wait and see what AMD does bring before I do just incase, we havent got any benchmarks on these 3000s yet but they're looking impressive, AMD has shown on the CPU side that they can pull it out the bag, so it's possible they could do it with GPUs, we don't have any news on them so who knows.
Even though you didn't touch much on the EVGA Hybrid model I'm looking forward to it's review as it's the one that I'm most interested in for my upcoming build.
Same here. I had 2 1080 evga hybrids sli and have a 2080ti hybrid now. If I upgrade (big if), will do the same again probably (wifes rig would get the 2080ti).
Not for the rest of the year probably lol. First nvidia cards, then RDNA 2 cards, then Zen 3 CPUs. Not too mention two crazy consoles launching, what a year for hardware
That was my Zotac 1080 Ti I sent in a few years back. Based on your awesome review, I did end up returning it and got the refund after following your instructions on reattaching the original heatshrink in place of the appropriate height pads you left on for me. Thank you again for being thorough and sharing your methodology.
@Chad Reynolds Inferior cooling, yeah, you're right, but the stock cooling seems pretty okay this time. As for overclocking, I have never felt the need to overclock my gpu in any game, ever. My performance was always good enough. But if this is what you're into, then yeah of course the FE sucks. Considering most aftermarket GPUs cost 50-150 more than the FE, and they frankly look like shit (I mean, look at that EVGA abomination.. would you honestly pay for that?) I'm fine settling with a lower base clock.
Anyone else think on the RTX 3080 founders editions, that top instake fan is going to mess around negatively with cpu temps? Especially if you’re air cooling.
It will increase ram and cpu temps for air cooling but it will make it so that there is less hot air re-corculation in the case. I could link a video by Russian dude in which he modeled airflow in solidworks
I haven't known any EVGA cards design or it's controversy before but I need to say: Yes, wth is that?! That thing looks like an RGB neonstrip UV-light carnival accident or however it was called! And I love RGB and colorful lights.. They clearly should go back to their first design. xD (These red line edges and lines are the bad part of this.)
Just a personal opinion, I would love it if the beginning of the video you just showed each card, and pictures of them, Because I don't know very much about specs, and I just wanted to see how they looked, Thanks!
It’s so important to the market to have a truly independent, competent, and popular reviewer. Every one of these companies knows their product is going to get dissected on the table and that any shortcuts that are taken will be laid bare. While some companies will “be mad” at this channel for that service, the companies that aren’t cutting corners are probably thankful that their work will be appreciated, turning a vicious cycle of laziness and cutting corners into a virtuous cycle of innovation and quality. Looking forward to your recommendations so much, especially as the water cooled variants of the 3090 start hitting the streets. Much respect to you @op.
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Steve, you should mention sometime that the purpose of a backplate is not only to help dissapate some heat, but to also provide some shielding to the components from the less-careful handling typically seen with hobbyists to protect the GPU from damage from static electricity and any physical damage (and i think dust too) that it may encounter during its lifetime.
HEY STEVE DO YOU HAVE A 3080 ON HAND LIKE DF? ;) COMON....
Gigabytes unique spin on fan design? 🥴🤷♂️
Cant wait to see what they can do on a 10900k and also 4790k
See Steve, those graphics cards are TUF! Driving over them just creates a new skin.
Oh snap, my two favorite Steve's! Now your previous video makes alot of sense, can't wait till you get your hands on one. The performance jump looks huge! Looking forward to both of your content coming up, thanks for all that you guys do.
Sincerely,
The 3rd Steve - me the fan :)
Regenerative nano cells?
Imagine the possibility
"Gamers Unboxed"
🤔 I might have to grab that one
Weird to not see 100+ likes on this comment lol
You should sue for design infringement, i saw it first on HU
This is getting out of hand, now there’s two of them.
Do you mean 2 Steve's???
There has been more than 1 for years,
RandomGaminginHD is a Steve too
They are still coming through!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_(atmospheric_phenomenon)
[ visible happiness ]
Now THIS is Podracing!
I wish I could put on a leather jacket and magically pull a 3090 out of my oven
Have a few billion dollars in R&D? That's the real magic
Arbiter099 haha truth. Or have a net worth of $6+ billion...
Come here BOY
I wish I have an uncle named Jensen
Do you have a jar with 100 spatulas? Maybe that's the key.
You've done what we ordinary "consumers" can't do, you've exposed these companies, their deceptions, their fakes and bad products that they were trying to sell us for a premium. As a reward they blacklist you, but we appreciate it.
@Brandon Green msi
@Brandon Green and Zotac
@@cruisingwithoutsail6585 i love it companies do things that Makes them look More Shitty.
@@halfassedhero500 man suddenly Gintama everywhere
@@illsmith4076 funniest shit ive ever watched
Totally loved the joke about the Hardware Unboxed "upside-down" Steve running over the Asus Tuf card 🤣🤣🤣
Do you happen to know if there is a picture of that card post-rollover? xD That clip was hilarious, I swear I heard something crack in the background. :D
I mean tbqh Steve is from the land from down-unda, so...
@@IngwiePhoenix what is the video name i wanna see it on HUB
Can someone explain this to me ? I know who steve is and hardware unboxed but I don't get the joke thing?
@@bajafishtaco well, steve is from Australia (aka "land down under" for being on the southern hemisphere). It has been a meme for quite some time now to call Australians upside down.
The thumbnail is scientifically accurate because Australian Steve is upside down.
If you believe in the globe earth hoax.
@@konigderwelt2174 Personally I subscribe to the Time Cube theory.
Just love the community you guys all have. Thanks for all of your guy's hard work 👍
König der Welt I personally believe in donut earth
as always gaming pc is better not laptop, my dell g3 is bad
Steve: "The TUF line has had a pretty..."
Me: Steve don't do it
Steve: "... tough time the last few years"
Me: Dammit Steve
Keep it up Steve.
What about Gigabyte's SPIN on the fan design? That one hit decently as well.
@@darkmanure timestamp
I love watching the hustle during this major launch. Huge leap. Big excited.
GPU and CPU review cycles are fun. They're busy times!
@@GamersNexus love you Steve.
@@GamersNexus I wish I could do what you guys do. Not sure where to even start... I have a passion for tech and am pretty knowledgeable, but terrible in front of a camera lol. But I'm always the guy my friends refer to with hardware questions or building, and I love helping them!
@@DarkReturns1 you don't have to be on camera if you don't like it
I convinced myself I wasn't going to build a new pc, again... So much for that.
So it seems that MSI’s and Zotac’s engineering and quality control team are so bad that their own marketing team realized that sending review samples to GN would potentially cost them their marketing jobs? Clear signal for me to not buy a product from a manufacturer that has GN blacklisted.
I had the zotac 1080 amp extrem.
It was a hell of a card - no issues.
And my friend has the msi trio 2080ti - no issues. 2100mhz/8000mhz.
It's a great card.
I had issues with EVGA & Gigabyte cards instead... i got 3 broken Evga cards in a row. And two Gigabyte returns.
@@TITANSofTheEARTH EVGA is overpriced shit most the time honestly
"Not sure if appropriate for RUclips.."
*centers on screen*
*zooms in*
Kek
Brilliant!
Are you racist?
I'm really really interested in how the reference 3080 cooler compares to the aib coolers
Sean Wolf can’t wait to see the test results. 🍿🍿🍿
Same, I kinda want to wait for an EVGA but I also don’t want to miss out and be waiting months for supply issues.
same.
same i'm not sure if it's worth waiting for custom cards and they might be more expensive
Mike Anderson evga ones look like garbage this generation
21:38 *Steve:* _"Hardware Unboxed"_ *RUclips Auto-Caption:* _"hard run boxed"_
Even when GN Steve says it RUclips still refuses to caption it correctly.
Hadron on Box
correction* hammer on box
RUclips can't understand aussie
They missed the chance to make the Upside-Down Steve actually upside-down
20:04 "The tuf line has had a pretty tough time" made me laugh
4Weird
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I almost fell of my chair laughing when Steve said "ASUS's Engineers have taken the feedback seriously to improve upon for this generation"
Not without ASUS Marketing Claiming that Reviewers have No Idea how to performance test a product or have any understanding about how Cooling works
4Weird
I applaud EVGA for trying new design, and their continued effort to encourage modding/overclocking. Not buying MSI one for sure after their bully marketing efforts.
Personal anecdote so take it for what it's worth, but what I've experienced with msi products is 3 failures covering 2 graphics cards and 1 motherboard between myself and a friend. Never had issues like that with any other brand so I'm not so sure their quality standards are worth anything either
@@ram89572 Thanks for the info man. I am definitely buying a 3080, and will buy either EVGA or Gigabyte.
Nah i think it's good if they try new cooling design, not the looks
The new cards look ugly af
@m1kt0 for sure, but I thought EVGA manufactured in Taiwan?
@@nguyentu2561 Haha, I kinda like it, looks like a batmobile, different than flat rectangular cards
All, take a peek at Ebay this morning. I've seen used RTX 2080 ti's selling for $400-$500, used Gen 1 2080's and 2070s going out for between $300-$400.. It'll take a few days to setting into a groove, but we all have Nvidia pricing the 3070 at $500 to thank for gamers now having access to 2080 Ti performance for well under $500 for the foreseeable future. Imagine that, used 2080 ti's for less than the price of what some 2060 supers are selling for new just this week. The entire GPU market is now being driven down by the announced entry cost of the 3070 and it's availability and it brings a tear to my eye. :)
supply and demand is a beautiful thing.
This is an awesome time for me as I’m still using a 780!
Well it’s likely the price increase was due to bitcoin hype which is bs anyways...so I’m glad NVIDIA has brought everyone back to reality.
@@connorthompson6452 I don't credit Nvidia here, you don't get points for NOT being a horrible company. The GPU mining industry has been toast for quite some time, Nvidia could have done real price drops past year, as the 2080 ti was still overpriced by $500 and the 2080s/2070s cards overpriced by at least $200. They didn't reduce pricing on the 2000 series because enough people were willing to pay the higher prices due to previous years mining price conditioning. The funny thing is Nvidia had the gall to state that they were disappointed in how the 2000 series sales performed, and rather than admitting that the price was 90% of the problem, instead they'd park their boat in the marina that claims it was because the 1080ti was just too good, and 2000 series didn't offer enough to justify the upgrade. I'm happy where this is all going, but don't Nvidia deserves no cookies for how we got here.
Sean D They did do real price drops in the form of the Super lineup
Two Steves?!?!?! The power is too... *OVERWHELMING*
not even Monitor Steve, live and in person Steve
*two overwhelming
Just like the power of the RTX 3000 series (*Hopefully*)
Talk about confusing naming schemes.
This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!
Was driving and received a notification about the video.... Currently watching it at a roadside gas station. Thank you for the awesome videos and insight Steve.
Thanks for driving responsibly.
argh666 then why are you watching this?
@argh666 Dry your eyes little man
@argh666 how do u know he doesn't have a life. You are making on helluva assumption based on a single comment. And you are forgetting this is GN where we say and do everything according to science, not cuz I'm-kinda-pissed-and-I'll-say-whatever-I-want
You should apologize
stopping to listen to a talking head podcast lul
Few years ago, I though the CUDA count of titan V is extreme. 3 years later, they launched the 3090 with 10k CUDA. Technology flies fast...
What’s crazy is the CUDA core count in the 3070 compared to the rtx Titan.
Sadly it's more 5K than 10k...
Aren't they being measured differently now? I thought you had to halve the new numbers to compare to the older cards? I could be quite wrong though.
@@daweitao2668 nvidia mindshare did its magic again...
@@daweitao2668 yeah you are true but even then you cant compare that because of the new architecture and more performance watt and so on. Its nearly impossible to compare them because they are working differently. We can only compare the real performance now.
If I'm being honest, outside of Asus, am I crazy or did everyone just agree these cards should all be ugly as shit? Especially EVGA. Why on earth would you put colored cheap looking accents on your card in 2020? I thought we all agreed at this point that the card be either neutral black/silver or neutral white and you let the RGB add whatever color the end buyer wants. I've honestly not had much opinion of EVGA coolers before but dear god that thing is awful looking. It looks like It's from the early 2010's and that's obviously not a compliment.
asus card is ugly af too
@@MrPinkFlow naw the ROG-STRIX are the nicest so far!
msi's card is fine, but their website is broken, so this video has skipped on that one
It would be nice to see a CLEAR plastic used - so you can see all the bits in the cards. a clear PCB board and fans would make the circuits float in a web of connections - and the lighting up of clear PCB boards would look amazing. No more green or black, go clear - be different.
@@SeaJay_Oceans I'm not sure but a clear pcb would likely require reinvent the whole manufacturing process
When MSI says “Ample Thermal Pads” they mean that they will stack 2 layers of thermal pads to touch the air cooler because they are too lazy to make a proper air cooler. See? Ample amounts of thermal pads.
Gamer's Nexus or otherwise known as hype killers. Keeping it real and grounded.
This has only increased my hype.
Hype killers? Nuh-uh. Hype's through the roof. I have high hopes Zotac delivers good cooling solution, cuz that holo synthwave shroud is beauty to be marveled :D
you'd have to do the impossible to kill the hype of a GPU that costs 30% of a 2080ti and yet outperforms it.
I always appreciate Steve's level headed analysis; helps to keep things perfectly balanced lol
Nothing can kill the hype of me replacing that major shitfest that are my 2080tis.
@21:40 "Asus TUF got run over by upside down steve" lmao.
where can I find the source?
ditto
Hahaha
I love the little Collabs between Tech Tubers.
Need this video link
Error 404 sums up MSI's PR department.
they blacklisted GN even from visiting their website
@@beathammer7420 MSI won't get a penny from me. Absolutely pathetic and utterly embaressing from such a big name, seems they're small fry after all.
@@mahoobarc1439 I only bought the X570 Tomahawk because the reviews were awesome, but make no mistake that is the last MSI purchase I make. Wouldn't help me out when my 1080 Gaming X died - haven't bought their GPU's since - and won't.
@@mahoobarc1439 they're on my personal shit list as well. haven't had any bad experiences with them, but suppressing reviews is a no go. I won't exclude buying anything from them in the future if their behaviour changes and remains clean for a reasonable amount of time.... but for now no dice.
hmm, I should start noting down my blacklist, there are quite a few companies on it already
100% literally. I tried to submit a support request to them once and every time I submitted the form it would error out. Will never ever buy anything from MSI again. EVGA and ASUS have consistently been the best for me personally.
I feel like this time the FE actually looks better than most of the custom cards
Yeah. I've never gone FE...and I'm gonna bite the bullet and do it this time. I just hope hope hope the cooling isn't god aweful. If I can maintain an average 75 degrees Celsius, I'll be happy.
@@adamm784 I might do the same, however I am a little concerned of the thermal performance of the FE too. The official page says the temp limit is 93C which I believe is higher than what they listed for past cards
@@martinzhang5533 Yeah it is. I think the 2080TI was 83. I honestly think the GPU will be fine. I'm more worried about my CPU getting the heat lol. I play Black Desert Online and for some reason that game just makes the CPU so damn haawwwwwwt. On Average I'm between 75-80 degrees. If it goes higher than that I'll worry....hopefully the big dirty Noctua DH-15s can take it. I'm gonna go an hour early opening day and try to snag an FE 3080 ASAP. Also I run everything in an NZXT H510 Elite case. I know not the best for airflow, looks so dope though. If things get bad I might sell it and change up the case.
@@martinzhang5533 Doesn't the temp limit relate to throttling more than cooler performance?
Adam M Isn‘t it a Little weird to be worried about Thermal Performance But also buying without Waiting for Reviews? 😂
I’m an eBay seller of galax, would you guys be interested in Steve reviewing a HOF card eventually?
Do you have any idea when you'll be receiving them? I'm really interested in a white 3070
He’ll Yes
Yes.
Yes, of course~
Hell yeah
NGL, the reference card by far looks the best this time around. I usually pick up an EVGA card, but this time around they are hideous.
Yes, I hope that the announcement price also applys to the FE Cards this time.
Only reason I'd get a 3090 non reference is if it was $100-$200 cheaper than founders edition. No way I'd buy one of the custom cards this time around if its also $1500
Considering the bottleneck on my 2080 TI w/ i9 is the display port 1.4, the 3090 is literally going to offer me 0% performance on 98% of the games I play
Stop paying for aesthetics, pay for performance. Every time somebody pays a premium for aesthetics, the rest of tge gaming community is tax more for something they don't want. It's time to let RGB die
All the AIB ones looks hideous
"[Gigabyte's] unique spin..." I see what you did there Steve.
Zotac smoking all the weed in pursuit of the one true rgb. Meanwhile at MSI they got rats rioting in their web servers while EVGA decided red accents is a great idea for some unknown reason ffs.
Gigabyte being reserved and badass as always. 😂 It's funny how much people sleep on them.
@@annahenrietta9517 Ya they have the best looking new cards by far, love the temp readouts on the side. Hope this is a trend going forward for all their high end stuff!
@@disabledcable685 Yes. Having your temp and usage readout at a glance is so convenient and well thought honestly. My last pc had giga mobo, not one issue in 5 years through upgrades and stuff. Now I'm on an Acer prebuilt and the back Audio port already croaked....
What, the Gigabyte cards look too big and blocky. 4 slots WTF
18:03 Steve your straight-faced comedic delivery is brilliant. Gets me every time haha
I'm convinced all the card manufacturers had a meeting. They have a pool going on how many cards can Steve review before collapsing.
Gigabyte also has images up of their 3000 series Eagle OC cards (located on the AORUS website at the very bottom of the master description)
"TOTALY COOL CORE PIPES." Radical bruh
😎
so gnar bruh
TOTALLY TUBULAR DUDE.
Silly marketing. Gag me with a spoon
Totally tubular dude.
Radicool!
Can we just take a minute and light some candles for everyone impatient who recently bought one or more 2080 ti's?
Man I bought a 2080ti about a year ago and I'm a little bummed out. Back when a 1080ti and 2080ti were about ~$100-200 difference. Probably going to wait for 40 series before I buy again, hopefully the lower price trend sticks. These 30 series cards look great though!
Bought a 2080ti last black friday sales for 900 USD in preparation for cyberpunk 2077, assembled system a week before the delay was announced.
Im not too annoyed as i also got a 3440x1440 120hz ultrawide and my old 970 would not have been up to the task for a large amount of games i have played since then, i also got a good deal on the 2080ti.
Another thing to consider is that its going to be extremely hard to actually buy these cards because they will sell out so damn fast, even if i sold my 2080ti to upgrade I have no idea if i would actually be able to buy a card in stock before cyberpunk release date anyway.
Anyone who bought a 2080ti since like March is just dumb. It was rumored for them to come out around now since then, and it was a guarantee they were gonna come out around now no matter what, really.
Here in aus people are selling RTX 2080ti's for like 1k aud haha, everyone is panic selling
Bought mine 2 years ago - almost at launch. Got good use out of it and I don't regret buying it one bit. It was a great card till yesterday :D Will keep it around till 4000 series comes out. My wife's system has a 1080Ti which needs an upgrade though. Will get the 3090 for it.
12:15 "Hi Steve, we noticed that you spoke about our website in a poor light. Could you please take down this video? We are willing to compensate you for removing this video" -MSI
The Gigabyte designs look really nice as long as the testing looks good on them i might go with one of theirs this time.
Andrew In my experience any of the custom coolers don’t exhaust anything out the back. They always dump air inside the case. That’s why you need a case with good airflow. Shouldn’t be an issue with my O11 Dynamic XL
I've always loved EVGA FTW's card and I think my 1080 ftw still looks beautiful so I don't really know who at evga thought those red accents would be a great idea, I think they will clash with a lot of setups... Moreover I feel the design is so tacky... After years of their gpu I'm thinking to switch to another AIB or even to a reference design
The reference does seem like the best one visually.
agree my first choice was to move to the 3080ftw3 but I am not sure maybe it will grow on me or maybe I dont care enough but I really like the 10x0 look of the cards.
Chad Reynolds that was before they moved to a $120 design just for the cooler tho..
I agree and in my opinion the EVGA 1080 FTW is the most beautiful video card ever made.
The EVGA 3090 Hydro Copper is the one I will get. Do not care what it looks like (this ain’t no fashion show) I only care how reliable it is and overclocking headroom. EVGA stuff has always been good for me over the years.
Ball's in AMD's court now. The value of the 3070 was a complete surprise
@@cptcosmic I mean obviously it would be the same price as an RTX 2070 Super in retail, so it is very very valueable still. We'll stil wait for the benchmarks tho.
David this was never about AMD. The massive upgrade and price hold was due to the new consoles. If gamers leave the PC market Nvidia lose.
@@PocketDrummer ye this a huge point for me. Gotta remember it used to be 400$ for this kinda pricer to performance. God I miss it. Hopefully AMD surprises us
@@PocketDrummer last-gen was just new tech/architecture and new tech is always more expensive and less efficient.
Ryzen 1 and Radeon 7 were both utter shit too.
Much like Galaxy fold 1 was shit and was a beta and now fold 2 is actually a phone for the rich masses.
Notice they left the Ti's out probably until next year and they will probably get the same leap of performance that 10xx tis got.
@@LuckyBeepo it used to be $350 once AMD cards came out for the same generation, except for 970 that was $330 and sat there for its entire life.
The 1070 was $450 and had no competition for over a year and only then dropped to $399, though that was also partly due to mining.
The 3070 is still stupid overpriced, just like the 1070 and 2070 before it, only difference to the 2070 is that it actually comes with an expected generational improvment in performance making it only slighly worse than the already bad 1070.
evga Design is stuck in late 2000‘
Looks like something my 13 year old self would like
"Avengers is the greatest crossover event of all time"
Me: 21:30
I need to see this full video! :)
I'd love to see them do a video together
Love the time bar markings and the on screen bars with timer coloring..awesome.
The new evga card design instantly reminded me of a cheap plastic happy meal toy :/
They seriously look awful. I don't understand it
When bad designs happen to a good company...
@@AlphaSnowLion that's because gray is like black and white, so neutral that it matches everything.
@@AlphaSnowLion Yeah Zotac is tempting me tbh, im just worried because of stuff they have dont in the past. Hopefully they work it out :D
@@Justin-vq9co What have they done? Had a zotac 980 ti and a 1070ti that were quiet and never crashed.
The Stevie from Anchors Aboard! tho... and Jensen be like : Your turn, Lisa!
@@RAYSGT Considering the fact that he's her uncle this makes me uneasy
They're just waiting for her before releasing the 3080ti at 1000$
I love how gamers nexus never pulls a single punch and calls out everyone full send.
Its sexy.
Very sexy
I love how they have so much stuff to cover that Steve interrupts himself to move on.
Me: Can't wait to see the 3000 series!
Nvidia: Here is our reference design!
Me: That's weird....
AIBS: Here's ours!
Me: I'll take the reference thingy...
Some of the partner boards are 2 inches longer, too. (insert joke here)
Nvidia isnt reference
@@fallis07 FoUnDeRs eDiTiOn is just a marketing name for an overpriced reference design.
@@Chuckiele But it's literally not reference design this time, it's a custom PCB, have you done zero research? Look im not even trying to defend it I hate the founders edition but it's not a reference PCB lol its a completely different shape than any other 30 series card that will be sold.
@@fallis07 yeah, its a custom pcb but its been one for ages for both nvidia and AMD.
Every one trying to sell there 2080ti on offerup (asking 1000) lol
Asking $1618 for my 1080 ti.
Lightly used.
@@jesuschristislord77733 I'll take 2
@@Bunster - I have 4. Lightly used for crypto.
@@jesuschristislord77733 Ill take 3 and a half
@@Bunster - SOLD
tech jesus will judge the board partners for their cooling sins
With how much partners decided to leave unpunched, I wonder if the reference cooler will, for once, be superior. It's case design struggles all over again, lotsa fans but then obstructed with sheets of whatever just because looks.
Imagine blacklisting Gamers Nexus for being fair and transparent.
What does that say about your company?
msi left the group
Very well done video. I liked the time segmentation progress indicator at upper left. Got to watch for the specific card I'm interested in.
Imagine in just a few months you'll hear "Is that a 2080ti in your rig?" "Yeah I had to settle for a budget card, I only had 250$ to spend"
I wish dude, but people won't be willing to let their $1k+ cards go for $250. Hell, the 1080ti is still selling for $400-500.
hellterminator Who could spend $1200+ on a gpu can probably spend as much for a faster one today. They will sell it for cheap just to keep it from collecting dust. I would probably consider a 2080 ti for $300-400 since rtx doesn’t interest me.
Jamie91J have you seen the i7 7700k used market?
@@Shadow__133 From my rather extensive experience with the second hand market, I can tell you few people think that way. Even today there still are many delusional people trying to sell their 1080 (not ti!) for $500+. They can't get over the fact that a rather expensive thing they bought has lost 2/3 of its value over the last few years.
That's why I buy second hand almost exclusively - used hardware keeps its value much better and even if there is a rare awesome launch that renders it completely obsolete, you're still not losing that much.
Legit gonna happen LOL
got my mouse mat, looks great. I wanted to say thanks for not sugarcoating anything, even if it means you don't get review units from the companies you anger. stay true, steve
ok but the tire tracks on the back of the tuf board and Steve’s bit is hilarious together
Love the time frame status on the left. Fancy!!!
Gonna be a bz month huh Steve =). Look forward to all ur review later.
The 10 Series coolers where the best coolers from a visual aspect.
My 1070 mini would keep up with my brothers amped edition. It did run slightly hotter under full load mining but its expected from a mini card vs a triple fan amped.
Who remembers the KFA2 Hall Of Fame design for their GTX 1070 ? ( and 1080 but I'm not sure )
well i really liked the evga 980ti coolers as per visual aspect , the 1000s not so much .
I feel like the MSI and the EVGA XC3 cooler for the 3000 series are the only good ones.
@Thomas Foster my MSI 980ti's cooler was good but my Gigabyte 2080 Super cooler is also good but very fucking loud. I hate it. I think I'll go with the EVGA XC3 this time around
Evga hired Fisher-Price for the design
lmao
Yalls content/frequency in releasing of said content has been insane over the past few weeks/months tbh, prob always has been, big love boys love seeing the sub count slowly rise too, feel like it was just yesterday it was in the 800k's
I'm glad there was no press pre-brief. I know it's more work for you guys, but it was fun seeing everyone's immediate reaction and first-takes of the announcements.
I’d really like to see Steve’s thoughts on this.
I think we need to stress airflow on gpu makers like we stressed it on case makers. The zotac and the Asus rog look like they give little thought as to where the air will exhaust at. The msi 2080ti gaming x trio was really bad at this. Even with fans at full speed you could barely feel the air coming off the card because of the plastic pieces that covered the side. It seemed to have similar thermals and noise to evga’s xc ultra which had very little to block exhaust but was a 2 fan card. Having 3 fans on a massive heatsink with nowhere for the air to go seems just as dumb as case fans behind glass. The second fan on the founders card that pulls air through the fins might give it an edge over everyone else with their fin-stack blocking logos and Rgb.
Thank you for the effort Steve. Excited about this launch.
This has to be the worst FTW3 design ive seen.
Heh
Thankfully the XC3 is genuinely beautiful
What, you don't like addressable RGB mismatched with red accents????
Agreed, im buying an Asus Strix this time
Same. Kinda upset it doesnt resemble my 2070 XC Ultra more.. The red accents are a huge turn off.
It's kinda hilarious how basically everyone is stealing PowerColor's Red Devil design
The Zotac "transluscent flourish" bit had me in stitches. Gotta love the sass in this video! Keep trucking GN, looking forward to your coverage of this, as always
Seeing the prices of used 20 series cards after this announcement today is bringing me endless joy.
Tbh the founders solution still has me the most interested, let’s hope it lives up to marketing.
No mention of the 3x 8-pin on the Asus 3090? On their announcement video they talk about it as a PSU power delivery management with 3 LEDs on top of the connectors to warn you if your PSu can't keep up with your card demands. I think that's an amazing feature to troubleshoot an eventual crash!! 👍🏼
MSI is supposedly also doing 3x8-pin as per the press release that showed up yesterday.
Hopefully more info on their stream thing tomorrow.
In my opinion the EVGA 1080 FTW is the most beautiful video card ever made.
I just love the progress indicator and the video contents list with time.
That Asus TUF card looks like the old school Classified cards 👍🏼 sexy
Actually laughed my ass off at the TUF tire tracks part, brilliant design proven to be car proof!
I just hope pre-order folks don't get a defective founders card right out of the box like what happened with the rtx 2000 series release
I forgot about that. Certainly hampered Turing's success
Looking forward to your reviews on the cards! Also curious about the upcoming Navi cards. What a time to be alive!
It's a video card, not a line of fashion clothing. They all look fine. How good is the cooling? How do they perform? That's all that really matters. Gimme a plain black card with a good hybrid CLC cooler and I'm happy.
Exactly.
We just need coolers that try to be as quiet as possible while efficiently removing the heat while not looking gaudy.
I’m fine with RGB but most of the time it’s poorly done and ugly to look at.
Red Devil and Sapphire are the only ones I am interested in other than the standard card, those two have always looked the best for me, I have the Sapphire Nitro+ 5700xt and it looks great.
As an AMD fan I am very tempted to get a 3080 tbh, but going to force myself to wait and see what AMD does bring before I do just incase, we havent got any benchmarks on these 3000s yet but they're looking impressive, AMD has shown on the CPU side that they can pull it out the bag, so it's possible they could do it with GPUs, we don't have any news on them so who knows.
Even though you didn't touch much on the EVGA Hybrid model I'm looking forward to it's review as it's the one that I'm most interested in for my upcoming build.
Yes same here my Evga 1080Ti hybrid is a great card looking forward to the 3080 hybrid.
Same here. I had 2 1080 evga hybrids sli and have a 2080ti hybrid now. If I upgrade (big if), will do the same again probably (wifes rig would get the 2080ti).
@@dre4759 can i be your wife plz?
@@HellBaron-rb4vu 😂🤣
GN ain’t sleeping 💤 😂
Not for the rest of the year probably lol. First nvidia cards, then RDNA 2 cards, then Zen 3 CPUs. Not too mention two crazy consoles launching, what a year for hardware
@@DarkReturns1 it's about time something good happened this year
@@DarkReturns1 the big od jump in performance from nvidia was seen in 2004 lol big year indeed
Neither is any other gamer sleeping.
Wow you guys are so much more in depth and informative than some other channels. Nice
This is pretty useful video. Saves me time and i get to know pretty much everything i need to know :) Thanks Steve!
I wonder how Steve would look with a short hair cut.
Photoshop GN Steve’s face unto HUB Steve and rapport back? 😋
damn now I want that extreme gigabyte card :O
“Upside down Steve” the most facts this channel has ever produced. ;)
That was my Zotac 1080 Ti I sent in a few years back. Based on your awesome review, I did end up returning it and got the refund after following your instructions on reattaching the original heatshrink in place of the appropriate height pads you left on for me. Thank you again for being thorough and sharing your methodology.
I think I’m gonna get the 3080 founders it just looks so clean for a black out build
18:14 if I was guessing, I'd say that probably means it's anodized aluminum made to give a gradient effect.
But really, who the hell knows.
i assume its something similar to the back finish on most modern phones these days, the colour shifting with the light gradient/pearlescent look
_For once, I like the Founders Edition the most, aside from the Gigabyte Extreme.._
Yeah, I’ve always liked the founder’s edition cards best. Just so much cleaner
@Chad Reynolds ... how?
@Chad Reynolds Inferior cooling, yeah, you're right, but the stock cooling seems pretty okay this time. As for overclocking, I have never felt the need to overclock my gpu in any game, ever. My performance was always good enough. But if this is what you're into, then yeah of course the FE sucks.
Considering most aftermarket GPUs cost 50-150 more than the FE, and they frankly look like shit (I mean, look at that EVGA abomination.. would you honestly pay for that?) I'm fine settling with a lower base clock.
Anyone else think on the RTX 3080 founders editions, that top instake fan is going to mess around negatively with cpu temps? Especially if you’re air cooling.
Yeah, thankfully the 3070 FE is the regular style of air cooling.
It will increase ram and cpu temps for air cooling but it will make it so that there is less hot air re-corculation in the case. I could link a video by Russian dude in which he modeled airflow in solidworks
this isn't related to any thing PC wise but i would like to say that was the cleanest and most high quality intro i have ever seen.
Steve your game was just too strong in this video.
One of the best written videos of GN ....ever.
Love it.
EVGA card looks like it was designed on MS paint..
"This morning I scrambled when I realized I'm still running a 9400 gt" -Me
oh my god, that evga card is god awful, who the hell looked at that and thought it was ok??
I haven't known any EVGA cards design or it's controversy before but I need to say: Yes, wth is that?! That thing looks like an RGB neonstrip UV-light carnival accident or however it was called! And I love RGB and colorful lights..
They clearly should go back to their first design. xD
(These red line edges and lines are the bad part of this.)
If they gave official waterblocks for 3090 ftw3 like they had for 2080 ti ftw3 im putting a waterblock on it
It's really fine. It's only the red highlights that make me want to vomit my lunch. The rest is fine.
Just a personal opinion, I would love it if the beginning of the video you just showed each card, and pictures of them, Because I don't know very much about specs, and I just wanted to see how they looked, Thanks!
Peak EVGA design was the 900 series Maxwell cards. I am still rocking an EVGA 980 Ti acx 2.0. Plan on picking up a 3080 Founders this gen though.
Are there any companies you guys haven't pissed off!?!?! lol
They still get pre-production anti-static mats, tool kits, & etc to review from Gamer's Nexus, so I think they're still ok with Steve and crew.
soupwizard hahaha
Of course not... they boil down hype and marketing and report stone cold facts... companies hate that
It’s so important to the market to have a truly independent, competent, and popular reviewer. Every one of these companies knows their product is going to get dissected on the table and that any shortcuts that are taken will be laid bare. While some companies will “be mad” at this channel for that service, the companies that aren’t cutting corners are probably thankful that their work will be appreciated, turning a vicious cycle of laziness and cutting corners into a virtuous cycle of innovation and quality. Looking forward to your recommendations so much, especially as the water cooled variants of the 3090 start hitting the streets. Much respect to you @op.
AMD
23:34
Steve makes a spin pun
>gigabyte's unique SPIN
god damn it Steve.
glad you guys are committed to reviewing stuff even if you dont get a sample
not that i would expect less from your meticulousness!
4:30 eh I ignore what it looks like. Usually the shroud just gets trashed and replaced with an RGB waterblock anyway if it doesn't already have one.