What you get with EVGA is the peace of mind that if you ever do have to RMA, you're guaranteed a great experience. Just yesterday saw a horror story of Gigabyte basically stealing somebody's card and they've been without a graphics card for 6 months now. EVGA means elite customer service. Well worth the premium.
@@zii111 I think he has 2 children and his elder daughter is around 10 if I'm not mistaken. He plays Fortnite and Minecraft with her so go figure her age lol
EVGA already confirmed they will give buyers a coloured clip of their choice that they can put over the red lip, if they dislike the red colour. I believe Steve from GamersNexus featured it in a video a while back.
Theoretically they should be making the fans less efficient and more noisy, realisticly they're the reason it can overclock higher because there are tiny overclocking chips in each of these logos
For those using this card out there. I highly recommend you to undervolt the card. Compared to other AIB models this come with an overvolted stock V-F curve. Thus consumes a lot more power. Because of this clock speeds are not stable jumping up and down due to hitting either power limit or voltage limit or both. Also evga forums filled with complaints regarding of an elusive but not very uncommon "red light of doom" issues. I suspect that this also related with more than usual power consumption and higher than normal stock voltage.
Could you please provide noise levels for the fans? I think for most people the difference in fps doesn't really matter at this point, since it's at most a 2-3% difference.. The noise levels of different AIBs however, are important to a lot of people...
The noise-normalized temps are a better way of analyzing the quality of the fans and the cooler. The hotter the card runs in the normalized test, the louder it'll need to be to stay at a given temperature. The noise levels are just going to be dependent on the fan curve chosen, and can be easily changed using MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision.
@@neurokinetik64ES yeah ok, fair point, i get that... I still think it would be useful to maybe give some additional information of the stock noise level for each card during load, since I''m pretty sure a lot of people won't bother with MIS Afterburner or similar tools. It shouldn't be much more work, since the information is already there because it is needed for the noise-normalized thermals... It would be enough to just print the stock-noise level next to the temp. for stock configuration, for example around 9:33, on the top right side for each GPU?
Undervolted, it's fine. My card sits at 63C tops at 1900mhz, with the fan speed only hitting 73%. You could lower the fan speed by around 5% and you'll still be fine for thermals. This card at least seems to start throttling at 70C, so whatever fan speed you can get that keeps it from hitting that is fine.
EVGA, my favourite GPU brand, please send more products to Steve and Tim to review. They're awesome reviewers. Love this FTW3 Ultra too, it's the one I'm likely to get when they're available. Great review dude.
T_T Goodbye EVGA. I love their transferable warranty (this means that you can get warranty coverage even if you bought the card used, but EVGA still wants you to show a copy of your receipt).
As much I was excited about this launch but I'm kind of sick of it now since there is no availability for the 3000 series. It might be a team red build this time around.
Amd is always in the middle their best card is prob costing 600-650 msrp and is gonna be just a bit worse then 3080 in most stuff but is gonna be better in 1-2 games
This Nvidia cards launch was a complete joke and an insult to all their customers and potential customers. I will not support Nvidia anymore and will go with an AMD card once available.
@@pakneger5878 Nope. 6800xt benchmarks have just been released and it shows the 6800xt being on par with the 3080. Its going to directly compete with the 3080. It will win in some cases and lose in others. It depends on the game. AMD’s flagships are going to compete with Nvidia’s this time around. Their is no bullshit.
Disappointing there is literally no OC headroom on these 30 series cards. My 2070 Super and 2080 Ti OC'd for an extra 8-14% fps depending on the game. When you take that into consideration the performance gap between the 3080 and 2080 Ti is reduced down to 5-10% at 1440p.
@@JCTiggs1 That will be the norm now, even for CPUs. The boost behavior will squeeze as much as it can from the silicon, with marginal room for overclock.
The premium you pay for EVGA cards is for peace of mind if you ever have to deal with customer service. I'd gladly pay an extra $30 - $100 on a $700 graphics card if it means I'll never have to deal with the garbage customer service of other AIBs.
This design is growing on me. With the RGB off, the logo bar kinda' reminds me of the 7 series. Hopefully they address the red accents with the next run of cards since I'll have my eye on the 3080 Ti to replace my 1080 Ti.
@@Chilimustard How so? It was an opinion on the aesthetics. They got rid of the "clown lips" on the back. I did end up buying a 3080 Ti, not an EVGA, because I got a really good deal on an Asus TUF model. If you're talking about EVGA leaving the GPU market... I wouldn't hesitate buying one. If there's an issue within the warranty, I would trust EVGA to make it right.
My son just got this on the EVGA queue. MSRP is now US$909 and they charge for shipping to Canada. Still a hell of a deal compared to scalpers. I think its going to be another dry Christmas for many this year.
I want to personally thank you for being the first person i have found to actually state how thick the card was - I am looking for upgrading and have found nothing in terms of the actual thickness, and my case is limiting. Thank you very much
Hey Steve!! I know you said this will be your last 3080 review. But since Jacob was kind enough to set you up with a review sample of the FTW3, it might be nice to also ask him if he wants to send you guys some of the new Hybrid watercooling conversion kits for it. They will be coming out later on, in a couple of months time (or whenever it is). I believe this is worth covering, because the FTW3 has louder fans and consumes a lot more power than the competition. This then makes it a very good candidate for wanting to watercool it. From a noise perspective. There will be multiple different water cooling conversion kits coming along. Both AIO and custom waterblock. I hope you can see the reasoning for my requesting this? Such conversion kits are possible because EVGA has a better warranty / RMA service whereby they allow consumers to fiddle with the cards. And communicate more clearly about what is OK to do on them. Hope this helps! It is a significant reason why people still do choose to buy cards from EVGA (despite those inferior louder EVGA fans on them and the higher product cost)... is because they genuinely do seem to offer a better warranty service. Specifically if you happen to live in USA or Germany, in those same countries where EVGA has an RMA service center. So I hope you are not left out by Jacob living in Australia, that he may still send you review samples for those other associated EVGA products, please ask for them! Because we very much like to see your unbiased and detailed review coverage of them. [EDIT] and hopefully they will not conflict with your other upcoming releases / product reviews. Since they tend to take longer to come out with these hybrid AIO kits / waterblocks. And the also Kingpin edition too. Maybe sometime after Christmas?
In Australia these cards are extremely cheap, actually one of the cheapest 3080 models out there. The FTW ultra comes in at A$1250, when the TUF comes in at A$1400 (prices from PLE computers)
Great review guys, love you covered benches, OC, XOC, cooler etc.. I feel it would have been good to mention the fact in AUS it's MUCH cheaper than the other models like the TUFF.
The 3090 FE is on average 11% faster than the 3080 FE at 4K, and less so at lover resolutions.. So when these are 2-3% over the FE we're really in the "it doesn't matter" range from the 3090.
@@SlimJ87D I've pushed this card as far as I can, with the updated bios and the best stable "average clock" I can get is 2070 at 68c. (That's what it locks to in say, warzone and others I've tested. I have it oc'd to 2130 stable, but as soon as it hits 50c it downlocks, and then every 5c it goes up from there downclocks again. I very well may put a water block on it at some point.
@@fabiorizzo8007 maybe it might with the 480W bios it has. All overclocks are a silicon lottery. The card EVGA sent Steve might be binned (which means cherry picked) sadly, hope not.
@@Koozwad I'm joking! It's a 3090 FTW3 Gaming I have ordered, but they're barely making any of the non Ultra cards at the moment, so I think it'll be late Nov at least before I see it.
I got myself a FTW3 3090 and its just a very eye pleasing and insanely good and reliable card. The FTW3 line up model is defintely worth a look at for either one of these cards.
@@Drothen- their products are pretty good, I’d say, especially their HOF gaming series, which is one of the best, if not the best GPU line in the world in terms of extreme overclocking, even rival that of the Evga Kingpin and MSI Lightning Z. However their cards are only available in Asia, Australia and Europe with a different name, so if you are in the US, I suggest you look at products from other brands instead. Also, they have “what’s your game?” printed on their products and that’s kinda weird.
The main reasons to get this are if you requested a notification on EVGA's site within the first few hours (they have a queue system), their warranty and customer support, if you plan on watercooling, and of course the fact that you can get 5% off on their store with an affiliate code (which brings this down to $770 USD and their cheapest model down below MSRP).
Keep looking. I work at an e-tailer in EU. Didn't get $H!T for a month. Then we got barely anything, not even enough to supply a quarter of the orders from day one. Don't believe the crap about demand being excessively high, it's the supply that sucks and there's no beating the bush around it anymore.
@@Lillnex Yea the supply is so bad they've now cancelled the 20gb model Probably to milk even more money out of people for the 3080 10gb. They say it's a gddr shortage but that smells as bad as a fresh shit in a cat box...
I love your content. Your benchmarks and reviews are very accurate and full of sense. The only 3080 that may be better in my opinion is the Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC. With 450w also. I managed to get one and the 2100MHz are reachable at core and 22.000 at the memory. Absolutely awesome. I’m making a full review and I’ll see where it gets, but in many cases it performs better than a 3090 for less than it’s half price. To me is worth paying 150€ more if I can get better temperatures, better noise and better performance with a nice RGB 😂. Greetings from Barcelona!
I just paid 970 shipped. Just got it an hour ago. $889 retail… not the best deal out there but the only cars I could get my hands on retail. And I signed up day one. So 9-10 months to get it. Wow, what a wait
810 was worth the EVGA warranty and build quality, I got 2130 core clock and 10030 memory for the last 3 years and 41-55C on temps. with 30-70% fan, I cant hear it over my headset when gaming so its great.
Hey steve thank you for all the reviews, do you know if you are going to test the msi ventus 3080? I think it looks nice, but the ventus line up is known for some defects
@@michaelbeleut6480 well big named ones that everyone knows about arent likely to have anything, start looking at any hardware stores in your area and check the list of every official retailers the various brands send orders to for your region you should be able to find them on the manufacture website.
@@BeamMonsterZeus I just want a video that compares the tuf and strix. Idk if I should spend the extra 90 euro for the strix so I'm still waiting for a review for it. Also, have you seen the temperatures of the tuf? They are the lowest we've seen. And the strix is supposed to be even better when it comes to temperature performance.
@@MaksKCS I've been enjoying my Strix OC for 3 weeks now. Not much difference in perf with the TUF, we made amateur benchs with a TUF owner friend. Big difference in temp though. My Strix never goes over 65 Celsius on full load, not the case with the TUF.
@@TheGXDivider Can you please post a comparison or the bench? Or just say what the temperatures were. Also, were the cards compared in the same system? Or at least the same case?
@@MaksKCS Yes he took his card to my home and put it in my rig : thermaltake v71, psu seasonic platinum 760w, i7 8700k with H115i pro and 16gb DDR4 3200. Basically the Strix is 5-10 fps higher depending on the game. We tried Borderlands 3, Horizon ZD, Doom Eternal, Total War WH2 and Metro Exodus. As I said, the Strix never went over 65 celsius when the TUF was in the mid 70s. As I mentionned it was an amateur comparison, we didnt record anything or tried manual OC. To sum up, I feel both cards are a great choice and getting one or another depends on luck and personnal preference.
My experience with ASUS graphics card support has not been good. They have done repairs in a timely manner but their communication and the systems they use for lodging and updating tickets are extremely terrible, at least in Australia anyway. I’ve had enough painful warranty experiences to be happy to pay a bit more for a company who can do after sales support right. Especially if I’m paying a lot for the product in the first place.
As an Australian youtube channel, can you discuss a bit about the aussie market RTX 3080 pricing? Why those AIB are a lot more expensive than MSRP and EVGA provides the cheapest card?
If you are referring to PLE pricing, I'm fairly sure they are the only one listing evga cards this cheap. From other retailers, evga pricing is on par with other manufacturers. I'd assume PLE is just nice enough to not charge a large premium over msrp, so just treat it as a nice deal.
I second this. Being in Aus myself, I'd love to see a couple of extra tidbits that are domestic-market specific (I understand that catering to the much larger worldwide market and being region agnostic makes more business sense, though)
MSRP for the founders was 1139 I believe and most cards are around the 1400 mark. Honestly I was more than happy to pay 1469 for the gaming X trio since it is cheaper than. What the 2080s/ti was going for a few months before launch
@@1pqlamz466 Yeah PLE is the store I ordered the EVGA 3080 WTF3, still yet to come. I do prefer to get the ASUS TUF gaming but it is just too expensive (23% more than MSRP) feel like EVGA is a better deal. But interestingly, EVGA has 2 distributor company, one is PLE and another is Umart. But Umart also has really high price, so I guess PLE is one nicer store.
I was offered this for my launch day pre-order (got it on Oct 7th from waiting in line on launch day that is) I ordered a TUF gaming but this was the only one in stock and I didn't want to wait anymore. I usually only lightly oc my GPUs so the premium price wasn't really worth it but it performs SO WELL that I'm not mad, plus just being able to GET one in 2020 is kind of a priviledge.
Igorslab did some testing with a watercooled 3080 and the gains were substantial. And that was on a reference board so I'd imagine the FTW3 would go even further
3080 FTW3 Hybrid or HC looking mighty tempting as long as you don't mind the insane power draw. I'm really tempted by the hybrid as I just want the performance and reduced noise, I can't be bothered with the cost and upkeep of a custom loop.
Hi there. Nice review. Thank you. Have a question. I wanna upgrade the graphics card from 2080 super to 3080. So do you think that 750 watt power supply will be enough to handle ryzen 3800x processor and this rtx 3080? Please let me know what you think. Thank you.
I had to turn off the bios oc. It ran smooth with no hiccups ever since the day Jacob from evga released the files. I have never had a GPU get my room so hot in my life. It has increased my weekly electric usage by 40% lol. I had expected this and im not complaining but for just a 2-4 more fps it wasn't really worth it. Maybe Ill give it a shot agian for when the 5900x comes out. We'll see.
Its interesting you mention these are expensive overseas, in Australia (as I'm sure you are aware) EVGA's cards are by far the cheapest 3080's we can get. They are the closest to MSRP of any AIB partner, with the next closest to MSRP being the Zotac Gaming and MSI Ventus cards which are both $120AUD more than the FTW3 Ultra.
I just got the EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra and I have some thermal problems. I rock the card in a NZXT h510. I am aware that this is not the best case when it comes to thermals. I use it with two 140mm Noctua 1200RPM PWM fans in the front and one 120mm Noctua 1200RPM PWM fan in the back. My CPU (5600x) is cooled by a NHD 14. The fans run idle at 60% and under load they go linear up to 100% depending on the CPU temperature. The NHD 14 is set to auto. If I game for a longer time the GPU temperature goes up to over 80 degrees. I sometimes set the fan behavior in the Precision software to Aggressive so the card doesn't go too high into the 80s, which isn't a pleasant soundscape though. The CPU is also in the mid to high 70s. Do you guys think the CaseFan situation is not sufficient for this hardware? Or are these "normal" temperatures in this case? I am not happy with the temperatures or the noise when I counter it. Do you guys have any ideas or feedback?
I’ve tried over clocking mine too 2050 mhz but it’s crashes after a minute of benchmark/stress test. Since then I’ve only been able to get it to 2000mhz roughly. Is there something different I need to do in order to get 2100 oc or did I just not get lucky in silicon lottery?
hello. I have also ordered the FTW3 and also paid since December,but it hasn't arrived yet.Can you tell me how to contact with the company to see why it takes so long? If you know and can you answer?
The red details are the least of the cards design problems. The overall design looks like something a five year would come up if he is asked to design a water pistol toy. The red details just distract from the wavy mess.
I only don't like that foam-pads :X I used to clean my gpus and repaste them every year.. and keep 'em for years. So replacing that "foam" with thermal pads would be ok? If so how many mm those pads should be? The tear down shows that foam is like a paste but thinner than the thermal pads at VRMs.
@@taylon5200 This comment is old, but i build my Gaming/Streaming PC Two Months ago with a 5900x/Strix 3070. It a beast of a PC. Destroys anything at 1440p.
Thanks for this review, Steve! Ignore all the haters keep doing these 3080/3090 reviews, it’s really gon help once stocks are back to normal (dunno when that will be or even it will be normalized within the year but watever).
Pretty sure by now you have tested more 3080s than they sold in my country.
looks like shit compared to 2080 ti ftw3 ultra
@@Tuskabanana not true.
What you get with EVGA is the peace of mind that if you ever do have to RMA, you're guaranteed a great experience. Just yesterday saw a horror story of Gigabyte basically stealing somebody's card and they've been without a graphics card for 6 months now. EVGA means elite customer service. Well worth the premium.
built my friend a pc. Thing worked like a charm. Until the evga psu blew. They replaced it for free. Good stuff.
@@Aaron-ru6ld RIP to EVGA graphics cards...
This man has been "on the job" since he was 3
Lol, is he 23 ?
@@zii111 I think he has 2 children and his elder daughter is around 10 if I'm not mistaken. He plays Fortnite and Minecraft with her so go figure her age lol
@@zii111 he’s probably 35-40 years old, I would say 38
BS
LMAO
EVGA already confirmed they will give buyers a coloured clip of their choice that they can put over the red lip, if they dislike the red colour.
I believe Steve from GamersNexus featured it in a video a while back.
AIB: Our card is less than 3 slots 👏
Reality: 2.95 slots 😂
2100mHz stable!?
Damn, this one is an OC monster.
400 watt and 77 degrees
Mine won’t overclock past 2000mhz without crashing. Don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or if I just didn’t get a good oc card
@@alexndelk SILICON SELECT😁
@@alexndelk my evga gtx 1070 ftw boosts up to 2115mhz?
Steve, any idea how many FPS are added by all those EVGA logos on the fans? I really don't want my system to be logo-bound.
Hahahah
To calculate the FPS we must understand that it is a Logorithmic increase.
It Also depends on how dark the Gaming room is so we have to normalise lighting conditions to get apples to oranges comparison!
Theoretically they should be making the fans less efficient and more noisy, realisticly they're the reason it can overclock higher because there are tiny overclocking chips in each of these logos
You have to install googly eyes next to the red accent on this card to enable further OC.
For those using this card out there. I highly recommend you to undervolt the card. Compared to other AIB models this come with an overvolted stock V-F curve. Thus consumes a lot more power. Because of this clock speeds are not stable jumping up and down due to hitting either power limit or voltage limit or both. Also evga forums filled with complaints regarding of an elusive but not very uncommon "red light of doom" issues. I suspect that this also related with more than usual power consumption and higher than normal stock voltage.
do you have a link? I just picked up this card second hand.
how does one undervolt a card? Relatively new to this kind of thing.
Could you please provide noise levels for the fans?
I think for most people the difference in fps doesn't really matter at this point, since it's at most a 2-3% difference.. The noise levels of different AIBs however, are important to a lot of people...
The noise-normalized temps are a better way of analyzing the quality of the fans and the cooler. The hotter the card runs in the normalized test, the louder it'll need to be to stay at a given temperature. The noise levels are just going to be dependent on the fan curve chosen, and can be easily changed using MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision.
@@neurokinetik64ES yeah ok, fair point, i get that... I still think it would be useful to maybe give some additional information of the stock noise level for each card during load, since I''m pretty sure a lot of people won't bother with MIS Afterburner or similar tools.
It shouldn't be much more work, since the information is already there because it is needed for the noise-normalized thermals... It would be enough to just print the stock-noise level next to the temp. for stock configuration, for example around 9:33, on the top right side for each GPU?
Undervolted, it's fine. My card sits at 63C tops at 1900mhz, with the fan speed only hitting 73%. You could lower the fan speed by around 5% and you'll still be fine for thermals. This card at least seems to start throttling at 70C, so whatever fan speed you can get that keeps it from hitting that is fine.
450watt power limit lovely!!
That 2100mhz stable was epic
450w and 77 degrees lovely?
😂😂😂😂😱
EVGA, my favourite GPU brand, please send more products to Steve and Tim to review. They're awesome reviewers. Love this FTW3 Ultra too, it's the one I'm likely to get when they're available. Great review dude.
T_T Goodbye EVGA. I love their transferable warranty (this means that you can get warranty coverage even if you bought the card used, but EVGA still wants you to show a copy of your receipt).
As much I was excited about this launch but I'm kind of sick of it now since there is no availability for the 3000 series. It might be a team red build this time around.
Amd is always in the middle their best card is prob costing 600-650 msrp and is gonna be just a bit worse then 3080 in most stuff but is gonna be better in 1-2 games
This Nvidia cards launch was a complete joke and an insult to all their customers and potential customers. I will not support Nvidia anymore and will go with an AMD card once available.
@@pakneger5878 Nope. 6800xt benchmarks have just been released and it shows the 6800xt being on par with the 3080. Its going to directly compete with the 3080. It will win in some cases and lose in others. It depends on the game. AMD’s flagships are going to compete with Nvidia’s this time around. Their is no bullshit.
@@apricotmadness4850 lol sure its gonna be just like 2070s and 5700xt
@@pakneger5878 Alight. Let’s see you say the same thing next week.
50W more for 2 more FPS? I'd pay a 500$ premium for that.
@sad shape why jimmy fallon? XD you made my day
Disappointing there is literally no OC headroom on these 30 series cards. My 2070 Super and 2080 Ti OC'd for an extra 8-14% fps depending on the game. When you take that into consideration the performance gap between the 3080 and 2080 Ti is reduced down to 5-10% at 1440p.
@@JCTiggs1 weird flex but ok
@@JCTiggs1 That will be the norm now, even for CPUs. The boost behavior will squeeze as much as it can from the silicon, with marginal room for overclock.
The premium you pay for EVGA cards is for peace of mind if you ever have to deal with customer service. I'd gladly pay an extra $30 - $100 on a $700 graphics card if it means I'll never have to deal with the garbage customer service of other AIBs.
This design is growing on me. With the RGB off, the logo bar kinda' reminds me of the 7 series. Hopefully they address the red accents with the next run of cards since I'll have my eye on the 3080 Ti to replace my 1080 Ti.
This comment did not age well.
@@Chilimustard How so? It was an opinion on the aesthetics. They got rid of the "clown lips" on the back. I did end up buying a 3080 Ti, not an EVGA, because I got a really good deal on an Asus TUF model. If you're talking about EVGA leaving the GPU market... I wouldn't hesitate buying one. If there's an issue within the warranty, I would trust EVGA to make it right.
Thanks for continuing to review the individual partner cards!
My son just got this on the EVGA queue. MSRP is now US$909 and they charge for shipping to Canada. Still a hell of a deal compared to scalpers. I think its going to be another dry Christmas for many this year.
The RGB strips has a major effect on FPS!! More RBG More FPS
bring on the rtx 3070 and Big Navi cards!
AMD will spit in the 3070's cornflakes
@@PS3RatBag98 🤣🤣🤣🙏
@@PS3RatBag98 let's wait until release and not assume. We are only days away.
@@PS3RatBag98 any normal people will wait for the review, dumb fanboys on the other hands...
@calistorich if by having fun you mean making baseless cringe assumption which made you sounds like a fanboy
then by all means go ahead, zoomer
Please, if possible, also do the EVGA xc3 at some point in time ❤❤
No doubt it will have barely any difference in performance to the AIB model cards we've already seen. Not very exciting.
It's good. The fans are vey quiet. But the temps get a bit too hot
I want to personally thank you for being the first person i have found to actually state how thick the card was - I am looking for upgrading and have found nothing in terms of the actual thickness, and my case is limiting. Thank you very much
Hey Steve!! I know you said this will be your last 3080 review. But since Jacob was kind enough to set you up with a review sample of the FTW3, it might be nice to also ask him if he wants to send you guys some of the new Hybrid watercooling conversion kits for it. They will be coming out later on, in a couple of months time (or whenever it is). I believe this is worth covering, because the FTW3 has louder fans and consumes a lot more power than the competition. This then makes it a very good candidate for wanting to watercool it. From a noise perspective. There will be multiple different water cooling conversion kits coming along. Both AIO and custom waterblock. I hope you can see the reasoning for my requesting this?
Such conversion kits are possible because EVGA has a better warranty / RMA service whereby they allow consumers to fiddle with the cards. And communicate more clearly about what is OK to do on them. Hope this helps!
It is a significant reason why people still do choose to buy cards from EVGA (despite those inferior louder EVGA fans on them and the higher product cost)... is because they genuinely do seem to offer a better warranty service. Specifically if you happen to live in USA or Germany, in those same countries where EVGA has an RMA service center.
So I hope you are not left out by Jacob living in Australia, that he may still send you review samples for those other associated EVGA products, please ask for them! Because we very much like to see your unbiased and detailed review coverage of them.
[EDIT] and hopefully they will not conflict with your other upcoming releases / product reviews. Since they tend to take longer to come out with these hybrid AIO kits / waterblocks. And the also Kingpin edition too. Maybe sometime after Christmas?
Omg 7 months now on queue list for this card.It does exist outside of mining farms after all!
In Australia these cards are extremely cheap, actually one of the cheapest 3080 models out there. The FTW ultra comes in at A$1250, when the TUF comes in at A$1400 (prices from PLE computers)
yup, Western Australia are selling FTW ultra for 1259 while the Asus TUF is sitting at 1399.
That's a filthy lie!! It's $1259, not an outrageously cheap $1250.
@@sammyflinders lol got em
Great review guys, love you covered benches, OC, XOC, cooler etc..
I feel it would have been good to mention the fact in AUS it's MUCH cheaper than the other models like the TUFF.
He did, at 12:05
@@hugo3502
He only listed the US price..
Here the FTW3 is roughly $1259 vs $1489 for the tuff OC, and $1799 for the Strix OC.
How close are those overclocked models to the 3090 FE?
The 3090 FE is on average 11% faster than the 3080 FE at 4K, and less so at lover resolutions.. So when these are 2-3% over the FE we're really in the "it doesn't matter" range from the 3090.
When he was running it at 2100 MHz, that's on par with a stock 3090
@@SlimJ87D I've pushed this card as far as I can, with the updated bios and the best stable "average clock" I can get is 2070 at 68c. (That's what it locks to in say, warzone and others I've tested. I have it oc'd to 2130 stable, but as soon as it hits 50c it downlocks, and then every 5c it goes up from there downclocks again. I very well may put a water block on it at some point.
Steve finally made it as a techtuber, he got an evga gpu for review.
Can’t wait to get my hands on a 3080, basically redoing my PC then saving for a car, super excited to get my build done.
Exact same here cure the boredom while i save for a car ahahaha
But where are the 2.1 Ghz XOC bechmarks? That would come close to 3090 right?
Right that's what I was looking forward to
Not close, it actually SURPASSES the stock 3090 in some situations
@@thorium9190 wow sounds great to me, I wonder how the strix oc will compare to that, hopefully it will also be able to do 2100mhz... Perhaps not idk
@@fabiorizzo8007 maybe it might with the 480W bios it has. All overclocks are a silicon lottery. The card EVGA sent Steve might be binned (which means cherry picked) sadly, hope not.
@@thorium9190 definitely binned
coz gamers nexus couldnt get his 3080 ftw3 ultra to crack 2050mhz
Thanks - I've got an FTW3 on order so when it arrives in June, I'm sure I'll be pleased with it.
I'ver got a ROG Strix 3080 on order but I hope it still arrives this year. Are you joking about June or is that actually real?
@@Koozwad I'm joking! It's a 3090 FTW3 Gaming I have ordered, but they're barely making any of the non Ultra cards at the moment, so I think it'll be late Nov at least before I see it.
@@jadc Ah a 3090. They should be a lot easier to get. Thought you ordered a 3080...
This card is amazing, thanks for confirming this. Just having so much fun giving him all the juice and getting 5% more fps :D
I got myself a FTW3 3090 and its just a very eye pleasing and insanely good and reliable card. The FTW3 line up model is defintely worth a look at for either one of these cards.
FINALLY my place in the evga que has come...arrives Tuesday. After 10 months in que....
Finally getting mine!! So excited
Just got my Galax 3080 SG today locally from my Umart in Australia, ordered on the 6th of October, arrived pretty quick!
whats the galax like? i barely see any reviews on them, is their quality good?
@@Drothen- their products are pretty good, I’d say, especially their HOF gaming series, which is one of the best, if not the best GPU line in the world in terms of extreme overclocking, even rival that of the Evga Kingpin and MSI Lightning Z. However their cards are only available in Asia, Australia and Europe with a different name, so if you are in the US, I suggest you look at products from other brands instead. Also, they have “what’s your game?” printed on their products and that’s kinda weird.
I can't wait to get mine, been on preorder since launch. Latest update from PLE says I'm getting it in the year 2027.
EVGA turned mine loose today. Will be here Monday....finally
They are making a running switch to black accents on the ends. They are also going to allow people with red to swap them out. No ETA on it yet.
Love the review! I would love to see more EVGA reviews from you guys in the future!
I was finally able to order mine today and it will be here Thursday
Same
The main reasons to get this are if you requested a notification on EVGA's site within the first few hours (they have a queue system), their warranty and customer support, if you plan on watercooling, and of course the fact that you can get 5% off on their store with an affiliate code (which brings this down to $770 USD and their cheapest model down below MSRP).
I'm still looking for an RTX 3080 that is in stock.
Keep looking. I work at an e-tailer in EU. Didn't get $H!T for a month. Then we got barely anything, not even enough to supply a quarter of the orders from day one. Don't believe the crap about demand being excessively high, it's the supply that sucks and there's no beating the bush around it anymore.
@@Lillnex Nice anecdotal evidence lol.
@@Lillnex Yea the supply is so bad they've now cancelled the 20gb model
Probably to milk even more money out of people for the 3080 10gb.
They say it's a gddr shortage but that smells as bad as a fresh shit in a cat box...
What is the difference between 3080 and 3080 ftw3?
@@cloudlove1 ftw3 has better cooling and higher clock speeds
A 10-16% markup is normal though. Although where I live, I had to pay $1150 for the ftw3 ultra
That’s a good price by now
I love your content. Your benchmarks and reviews are very accurate and full of sense.
The only 3080 that may be better in my opinion is the Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC. With 450w also. I managed to get one and the 2100MHz are reachable at core and 22.000 at the memory. Absolutely awesome. I’m making a full review and I’ll see where it gets, but in many cases it performs better than a 3090 for less than it’s half price. To me is worth paying 150€ more if I can get better temperatures, better noise and better performance with a nice RGB 😂.
Greetings from Barcelona!
I just paid 970 shipped. Just got it an hour ago. $889 retail… not the best deal out there but the only cars I could get my hands on retail. And I signed up day one. So 9-10 months to get it. Wow, what a wait
Finally had my que come up for this thing on 1/20/22…joined the list on 12/12/21
Hi, Steve! Thanks for video. I'm going to buy a rtx 3080 Card and choosing between Asus tuf and EVGA FTW ULTRA. Can you recommend one?
810 was worth the EVGA warranty and build quality, I got 2130 core clock and 10030 memory for the last 3 years and 41-55C on temps. with 30-70% fan, I cant hear it over my headset when gaming so its great.
Nice a review of a card that I have been on queue for 7 months now.Nice to see that Miners and Scalpers aren't the only one's getting this GPU.
Got one from EVGA queue today, also got in on the first day so keep an eye out on your inbox.
Due to the low hesh rate it's not a good GPU for mining but other 3080 can. But not this GPU.
4:35 "Manufactured after 18 August 2005"? I'd certainly hope so!
It's for rohs compliance, pcbs after that date cannot use leaded solder.
Hey steve thank you for all the reviews, do you know if you are going to test the msi ventus 3080? I think it looks nice, but the ventus line up is known for some defects
@Devils Canyon definitely the 5700xt series, and maybe more dont quite remember
What where EVGA thinking with those aesthetics?
by some miracle of god i manage to snag this in a local computer store i didnt know even existed and checked on a whim
Any ideas where I can look around locally? Just a computer store?
@@michaelbeleut6480 well big named ones that everyone knows about arent likely to have anything, start looking at any hardware stores in your area and check the list of every official retailers the various brands send orders to for your region you should be able to find them on the manufacture website.
Should check out the Kingpin card when it comes out, just for laughs :)
You should do the strix review
No doubt it will have barely any difference in performance to the AIB model cards we've already seen. Not very exciting.
@@BeamMonsterZeus
I just want a video that compares the tuf and strix. Idk if I should spend the extra 90 euro for the strix so I'm still waiting for a review for it.
Also, have you seen the temperatures of the tuf? They are the lowest we've seen. And the strix is supposed to be even better when it comes to temperature performance.
@@MaksKCS I've been enjoying my Strix OC for 3 weeks now. Not much difference in perf with the TUF, we made amateur benchs with a TUF owner friend. Big difference in temp though. My Strix never goes over 65 Celsius on full load, not the case with the TUF.
@@TheGXDivider
Can you please post a comparison or the bench? Or just say what the temperatures were.
Also, were the cards compared in the same system? Or at least the same case?
@@MaksKCS
Yes he took his card to my home and put it in my rig : thermaltake v71, psu seasonic platinum 760w, i7 8700k with H115i pro and 16gb DDR4 3200.
Basically the Strix is 5-10 fps higher depending on the game. We tried Borderlands 3, Horizon ZD, Doom Eternal, Total War WH2 and Metro Exodus. As I said, the Strix never went over 65 celsius when the TUF was in the mid 70s.
As I mentionned it was an amateur comparison, we didnt record anything or tried manual OC.
To sum up, I feel both cards are a great choice and getting one or another depends on luck and personnal preference.
The price was worth it for me, EVGA's warranty is bar none. It's also awesome to have the step up program for the first 90days after purchase.
My experience with ASUS graphics card support has not been good. They have done repairs in a timely manner but their communication and the systems they use for lodging and updating tickets are extremely terrible, at least in Australia anyway.
I’ve had enough painful warranty experiences to be happy to pay a bit more for a company who can do after sales support right. Especially if I’m paying a lot for the product in the first place.
As an Australian youtube channel, can you discuss a bit about the aussie market RTX 3080 pricing? Why those AIB are a lot more expensive than MSRP and EVGA provides the cheapest card?
If you are referring to PLE pricing, I'm fairly sure they are the only one listing evga cards this cheap. From other retailers, evga pricing is on par with other manufacturers. I'd assume PLE is just nice enough to not charge a large premium over msrp, so just treat it as a nice deal.
I second this.
Being in Aus myself, I'd love to see a couple of extra tidbits that are domestic-market specific
(I understand that catering to the much larger worldwide market and being region agnostic makes more business sense, though)
MSRP for the founders was 1139 I believe and most cards are around the 1400 mark. Honestly I was more than happy to pay 1469 for the gaming X trio since it is cheaper than. What the 2080s/ti was going for a few months before launch
@@1pqlamz466 Yeah PLE is the store I ordered the EVGA 3080 WTF3, still yet to come. I do prefer to get the ASUS TUF gaming but it is just too expensive (23% more than MSRP) feel like EVGA is a better deal. But interestingly, EVGA has 2 distributor company, one is PLE and another is Umart. But Umart also has really high price, so I guess PLE is one nicer store.
@@CertifiedSlamboy Yeah that will be good. Tech yes city do have more Aussie related contents, I also check out his videos.
I was offered this for my launch day pre-order (got it on Oct 7th from waiting in line on launch day that is) I ordered a TUF gaming but this was the only one in stock and I didn't want to wait anymore. I usually only lightly oc my GPUs so the premium price wasn't really worth it but it performs SO WELL that I'm not mad, plus just being able to GET one in 2020 is kind of a priviledge.
Best 3080 Asus TUF, same fps, less watt and less degrees
I'm convinced you guys are saying "Harbor on Box" on purpose now.
why no non normslized noise? Just out of the box how loud are they?
Here for the see you next time line ☺️
My friend what monitoring program do you use?? Why so high CPU and GPU temp?? Mine Ryzen and 1070 are 45 and 65-67 in full load im gaming 🤔
steve is on nda for amd 13:03
This made my willy tingle
@@paullasky6865 this made my pickle tickle
Considering the November 5th release date, not surprised
Wonder with the power draw what water cooling this card would do for performance?
Igorslab did some testing with a watercooled 3080 and the gains were substantial. And that was on a reference board so I'd imagine the FTW3 would go even further
3080 FTW3 Hybrid or HC looking mighty tempting as long as you don't mind the insane power draw. I'm really tempted by the hybrid as I just want the performance and reduced noise, I can't be bothered with the cost and upkeep of a custom loop.
Evga ftw3 ultra is my choice of 3080 ! When I get that choice .
Great review as always, any plans to review the EVGA XC3 3080?
Hi there. Nice review. Thank you. Have a question. I wanna upgrade the graphics card from 2080 super to 3080. So do you think that 750 watt power supply will be enough to handle ryzen 3800x processor and this rtx 3080? Please let me know what you think. Thank you.
would love to see a undervolt video :o
Sincerely among the best tech content on the Internet today.
Very glad that the one I scored today (thank you micro center!) doesn’t have the “red bits”
I had to turn off the bios oc. It ran smooth with no hiccups ever since the day Jacob from evga released the files. I have never had a GPU get my room so hot in my life. It has increased my weekly electric usage by 40% lol. I had expected this and im not complaining but for just a 2-4 more fps it wasn't really worth it. Maybe Ill give it a shot agian for when the 5900x comes out. We'll see.
I recently bought the 3070 ftw3 ultra zero complaints here about the card. Just wish it were a bit easier to obtain
Got the 3080 version. So fucking tasty
What OSD software are you guys using?
From what I keep seeing the Asus Tuf seems to be the best all round card. If I can ever get a RTX 3080 that will probably be the one I try to get.
I was able to snag one of these at MSRP the other day. I still cant fucking believe it.
Its interesting you mention these are expensive overseas, in Australia (as I'm sure you are aware) EVGA's cards are by far the cheapest 3080's we can get. They are the closest to MSRP of any AIB partner, with the next closest to MSRP being the Zotac Gaming and MSI Ventus cards which are both $120AUD more than the FTW3 Ultra.
Ironically back here in Australia, this is cheaper than all the "cheaper" models from all other AIBs
Can you tell me what fan speed you were using under load? Or what fan profile?
Dear
Hardware Unboxed! I have a Seasonic FOCUS GX-750 Gold powersupply. CPU 11700 non K. This power power supply will be enough for this video card?
I just got the EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra and I have some thermal problems. I rock the card in a NZXT h510. I am aware that this is not the best case when it comes to thermals. I use it with two 140mm Noctua 1200RPM PWM fans in the front and one 120mm Noctua 1200RPM PWM fan in the back. My CPU (5600x) is cooled by a NHD 14. The fans run idle at 60% and under load they go linear up to 100% depending on the CPU temperature. The NHD 14 is set to auto.
If I game for a longer time the GPU temperature goes up to over 80 degrees. I sometimes set the fan behavior in the Precision software to Aggressive so the card doesn't go too high into the 80s, which isn't a pleasant soundscape though. The CPU is also in the mid to high 70s.
Do you guys think the CaseFan situation is not sufficient for this hardware? Or are these "normal" temperatures in this case? I am not happy with the temperatures or the noise when I counter it.
Do you guys have any ideas or feedback?
Undervolt after a repad and paste
Great info. Also thank you for the R6 benchmark
lets fucking go !! another review on a card we will never be able to find in the market.
I’ve tried over clocking mine too 2050 mhz but it’s crashes after a minute of benchmark/stress test. Since then I’ve only been able to get it to 2000mhz roughly. Is there something different I need to do in order to get 2100 oc or did I just not get lucky in silicon lottery?
The red accent are actually nice.. I have 2 of these cards and they are perfect
Phew at least no more reviews of Unobtainium :)
Any reason you didn't oc the FE? Would have been interesting to see the results with that also.
hello. I have also ordered the FTW3 and also paid since December,but it hasn't arrived yet.Can you tell me how to contact with the company to see why it takes so long? If you know and can you answer?
The red details are the least of the cards design problems. The overall design looks like something a five year would come up if he is asked to design a water pistol toy. The red details just distract from the wavy mess.
They changed it almost immediately after launch. Mine doesn't have red anywhere. It's black now.
Did I miss the stock load noise levels or does Steve not cover this? That's one of the main things I care about.
How Loud is this, compared to a EVGA RTX2080TI BLACK?
Are there any plans to review the aorus master or extreme AIBs?
Was about to walk into the shop to buy a 3070TI but made the jump for an older 3080 also paying the premium hope I made the right move.
Ive just bought one of these just as the price has dropped, upgraded from the 3060ti Trio z. XOC Bios here we come!
the card has two bios, Normal and OC. which bios was the power draw chart using?
Just bought an EVGA 3080 RTX 12g paired with an I5-12600k… first time building a PC.. Super exciting yet nerve racking making the right choices.
An i5? Throttling the absolute shit out of this card with an i5
@@johndoe-yg9bc what's wrong with i5 gen 12th?
@@andrewvu1742 Semmi. A kolléga nincs tisztába az i5-gen 12 erejével.
The funny thing is that its one of the cheaper cards here in Australia. Where the ROG Strix OC is AU$1799 this EVGA card is AU$1259
Does the EVGA FTW have the best efficiency of all RTX 3080s ?
Which is more quiet, the evga or msi 3080?
I wouldn’t pay for any other GPU. EVGA has the best customer service around. And that’s worth the extra 16% itself.
What power supply are you using i really need to know
I only don't like that foam-pads :X I used to clean my gpus and repaste them every year.. and keep 'em for years. So replacing that "foam" with thermal pads would be ok?
If so how many mm those pads should be? The tear down shows that foam is like a paste but thinner than the thermal pads at VRMs.
Which rtx 3080 should we get if we plan on getting one of the newer Ryzen 5000s for both streaming and gaming at the same time at 1440p?
I have a 5900x with the card in the vid, it's perfect for 1440p. Streaming is a breeze on top.
@@taylon5200 This comment is old, but i build my Gaming/Streaming PC Two Months ago with a 5900x/Strix 3070. It a beast of a PC. Destroys anything at 1440p.
Bookmarked this review, as it's the card I'm after. Will watch in March, when 3080/3090's are available to buy.
Still looking? I have one but I want a strix 3080
Thanks for this review, Steve! Ignore all the haters keep doing these 3080/3090 reviews, it’s really gon help once stocks are back to normal (dunno when that will be or even it will be normalized within the year but watever).