I bought one off of eBay back in October. Its a PNY model. The fan shroud was cracked off, but I got it for $180. A few zip ties later and I had a fully functioning 3080 for $180 😅
U went from a rx580 to a 3080?!😮 damn son! I went from my 580 which I bought used for 60$ and sold for 40 to a used 3060ti for 190 and I'm blown away😂 but fps/$ it's still ridiculous how good that 580 was compared to 3060ti which is around 2.3 - 2.5 faster in games and a bit more in rendering
@@upfront2375 went from Ryzen 5 1600 and rx580 to Ryzen 5800x3d and 3080 on an x570 mb. It wasn't just an upgrade it was a game changer. Mid 1080p to max 1440p in most games.
the Torn box makes it look Gangsta. If this card had 16gb the 40 series would look FAR less Attractive. Nvidia knows what they are doing shafting you on VRAM
Really? I buy a new GPU every other generation, because that is usually when the cracks start showing. Like the GTX 1080 was really struggling in Control, even without RT. The 3080 fixed that, but now AW 2 is completely hammering it's ass. Hopefully NGREDDIA won't raise 5080 pricing, since AMD is apparently chickening out of the high end segment...
@@ag8912I feel like, at this point, its getting to a problem with the devs. Sure 10GB is probably not going to be enough for anything above 1440p, I can definitely grant you that. But the main titles people pointed out that started this whole "is 8GB enough" debate is last of us part 1 and jedi survivor- atrocious pc ports. I know its good for "simulating future games" but why don't we just call it the way it is now? I know benchmarking is supposed to be objective and not even pass judgement on what games are good and such but, lets get serious here. If a port is so poorly optimized that it requires more than 8gb for anything above on 1080p (or even, on 1080p)- why even buy and support such a port? I'm sorry but I just don't really get this trend. It's good to benchmark for the worst case scenario dont get me wrong, but it goes both ways. People want to see how these GPUs will perform on games they actually want to play- and I think it's getting pretty clear that at a certain point, people just aren't going to buy a game if it runs like garbage on their PC for no reason. Anyway, rant over
To be clear this isn't really a response saying you're wrong- in certain games, you are depressingly correct. I just don't feel like we really have a justification for some games running like ass now, lol. I remember when people were saying the PS5 was going to be this massively insane computer that could do anything- now people are claiming the pro will be needed to run GTA6 at 60 frames. Same goes for GPUs, honestly. I remember when the 30 series came out a few years back (2020 is a few years ago? Jesus) and it felt like the 3070 and 3080 utterly curbstomped my 1080 into the ground and were insanely good in every game I saw people play them in- warzone, fortnite, doom eternal, control. A few games I was even interested in, like Death Stranding. It was ridiculous. Now you see very strange performance on certain games with these cards (although, I will say, a lot of them are on UE5 so. lol). I think the biggest thing that makes it feel even weirder is that you still have games that actually run well and are optimized. So you have joe mcshmoe UE5 raytracing game running on a card at 1440p and 60fps with stutters, then you have another game with a totally different development story that looks pretty comparable in terms of objective graphical detail, running at higher settings and maybe 100-140 fps. It's a really funny phenomena. At least when Crysis came out, you didn't have a game as good looking running insanely better.
@@ImranPangilinanStop it bro, I remember when I was torn between the Voodoo 2 (or was it 3) and the Riva TNT2 and ended up with the Riva, and just a few months later its successor came out - GeForce 256. However, I was the only one in the class who could play Half Life with all settings at max without any issues. That's old😢
its a pretty solid card your card will probly die before its no longer useful for gaming just like 1080ti owners its nearly 8 years old and on a gen 3 pc this gpu preforms the same as a 3060. if you have a pc repair shop near your house consider having them cfhange your thermal pads /. thermal paste ect at some point to prolong your gpu you could even replace the fans
I had one of these paired with a 5800x3d, and it hardly let me down. One thing I will point out is that under-volting this card is essential, as it seriously knocks down power consumption, and boosts higher due to the lowered thermals too. Occasionally I had to turn down textures a little, but the horsepower was there. The only thing that brought the card to its knees, as I recall, was the Path Tracing option in CP2077, which is understandable. The 10 GB of VRAM sucks, but when I had one, it never posed a problem in anything I played. Even now, backing off slightly on texture quality would greatly prolong the usable lifespan of this GPU.
I had the 10GB version a few years ago as well. I used my 3080 for 4K gaming. Like you said, the raw power was there but the VRAM is too little. I played Cyberpunk all the way through with Digital Foundry's optimized settings with DLSS on balanced. I really liked the 3080 for what it was since I got that card very close to MSRP when it released. Sold that back in 2022 for a nice profit & upgraded to a 4090.
I have been using a 3080 10GB since January 2021, and really didn't notice any VRAM issues until going from 2560x1440 to 3440x1440. In the video, you're hitting 8-9GB pretty regularly, and with more horizontal pixels, it really pushes the card to it's absolute max in regards to performance and VRAM. Because of this, I've been tempted numerous times to upgrade to something with 16GB (or more) VRAM this gen, but the 3080 is still such a well performing card that I'm waiting for the new generations to drop within the next 12 months. First world problems. 🙂 If only VRAM mods were more mainstream and accessible. lol
A 3080 has got to be one of the best price-to-performance GPUs you could get off of the used market right now; I got mine just before the end of 2023. Still a great GPU, still rocks 1440p gaming. 10 GB is still good enough.
Great video! Shows that those 30s in the end were really nice cards but I've always been concerned about the VRAM values. That's why after 4 years of "use abuse" I am jumping the ship from 2070 Super to 6950 xt and pairing it with 5800X3D, upgrading from good old reliable 3600. The Ryzen 3600 is such an amazing CPU, there are no words to describe how well it performs even today, playing in 2k. I bet the new combo will last me another 5-6 years with ease. Thank you for your channel and videos, you've showed and taught me a lot! Keep warm and keep filming
@@freddyespinoza5115 It really depends on the price where you live. I live in Poland and 6950 XT AFTER tax converts to roughly 630$. Which is not amazing for the US prices but overall in Europe and Poland especially we have disgusting conversion and the prices are terrible. Everything else is even worse. Retail price for 3080Ti is ~1730 USD. For 3090 it's 2260 USD. Price wise 6950 XT wins every day. This may be different for you depending where you live so please take your time and compare prices first and foremost. Performance is extremely similar between those three cards and 6950 XT with 16GB of VRAM perfectly suits 2k gaming without care of ray tracing that could still be considered a gimmick with how taxing it is on everything that is not 4090. If you need extra VRAM for production or you're dabbling into some AI or anything shifting beside gaming then extra VRAM in 3090 will benefit you. In the end of the day if you're purely focused on the gaming aspect then I would say that switching to AMD and Radeon cards is the most sane thing to do with currently great prices on beast performance cards like 6800xt, 6950xt as well as development of FSR 3.1 right behind the corner. NVIDIA with it's current value-performance ratio does not deserve a single dollar from any human being. But that's my opinion coming in and it's not objective so take it with a grain of salt. I have switched after 20 years of buying Nvidia cards to AMD and I have never been more impressed with the sheer performance of 6950XT + 5800X3D combo. I hope it will help you in some way to make a decision. Whatever you chooses may it serve you well and happy gaming, keep warm
My only gripe with the Ryzen platform is not being able to truly overclock anything thanks in part the way infinity fabric and thermal tjmax and whatever all works on it, hilariously making their overvolted shit perform better by undervolting. It's hard to get used to coming from Intel. What's not hard is getting used to Ryzen Master. Seriously AMD's software game is so on the ball it's just nuts. If only their CPUs actually not only sustained boosted to advertised specs but also could be overclocked like the way you could OC a 3770k. Which only makes it that much more insane when you realize how good it is already you don't even need the OC. I'm actually just sorta confused not even needing to OC to get get performance, but at the same time idk, I'd kinda rather have a i9 9900k on some level just because the OC makes it perform better than 3700x. Not it matters, it's an overpriced powerhog next to AMD that saddles you with inferior specs on your inferior motherboard. And motherboards matter. Especially when they take from me 2 of my SATA ports. I need those drives man.
3:39 In Elden Ring make sure you quit out to the menu after you make any changes to the RT settings. The game shows you a warning for this when RT is off and you turn it on, but what it doesn't tell you is that any changes to RT require a quit out to apply correctly. For example if you load the game with low RT and you scroll left over RT Off to max RT, this means RT was disabled and doesn't engage properly when enabled again, unless you quit out, even though the game never shows any warning in that case.
Yikes. This is my exact GPU. Been super happy with Palit so far, temps are amazing and while the RGB looks straight from a circus, I have it mounted the classic method anyway… Not changing it until a RTX 5080.
I got a 3080 for $350 new with a 3 year warranty because my old 6600xt bricked and the next 6800 was 370 so i pulled the trigger on the 3080. Cant wait for it to arrive.
great situation, i bought a rtx 3080 only 2h before you upload the video for 340€ and had the same choise between the 6800xt for 350€ . . . your video is on the right moment for me
As a highschool student trying to upgrade from my gtx 1060 laptop all I have to say is thank you, I've seen on eBay that rtx 30 series cards got much cheaper and PC builds with them go for about a grand, and with driver updates and all the new game re-releases and remasters I really needed to know how it would perform and how long it would last me. I think I've made up my mind, thanks again!
Recently, I bought a used Asus TUF 3080 Ti for only $350 USD (ish). I'm impressed with its performance at 1440p. I chose Nvidia because my previous 6700 XT had occasional driver issues that I couldn't tolerate anymore. Although I had tempting offers for the 6900 XT at even lower prices, I preferred to go with Nvidia's reliability. Excellent video!
@@baoquoc3710 Yes, I got lucky! There are so many mining cards out there and I wanted to avoid them. Luckily, this one was from a gamer, and I was able to verify it. I did a slight undervolt for peace of mind... I think my 5700x might feel a bit small now, haha.
I currently own a 3080 Ti and a 4080 Super. While I've noticed a significant performance increase, I wish I had waited for the 50 series, as the frame rates in most games are already very high with the 3080 and 3080 Ti. The main differences are the power draw and the choice between a maximum of 4K with ray tracing or slightly lower frame rates with a few adjustments. It comes down to the fact that it can always be a bit better - the 3080 is still fantastic. The fact that this question is asked so often shows how consumerism has become so prevalent. LOL!
I have a 12gb aourus master 3080 that i picked up back in 2022 from my then workplace (ex cex employee) as an upgrade from an old 980ti and it blew me away, Paired with my current upgrades of a 13900k and 128gb of ddr5 at 6000mhz and it just eats things, combined with the FSR to DLSS framegen mod for supported titles it is amazing
@@lentas4921 no bsods or game crashing as of yet but i dont really tend to play a lot of UE based games.. my rig is primarily for music production with gaming on the side. I have far too many hours in cyberpunk and a lot of VR titles so perhaps i am just lucky
I've had a 3080 10G for about a year now, and it's still really good. The whole VRAM situation is overblown, I've seen dozens of people try to hit any noticable performance limits at 2K, and even 4K the limits were negligible at best. It's cool to hate on Nvidia, I know, but I've always had significantly better luck with games on Nvidia cards regardless of VRAM, whereas AMD and their questionable driver development got in the way far more. If anything, we shouldn't be encouraging this massive VRAM requirement, we should be calling these developers out for releasing unoptimized games. When you need as much, or more, VRAM than total system RAM, something is horribly wrong for a multitasking device like a PC.
i agree with you completely as a 3080 10 gb owner, although in some games with 4k i may sometimes need to drop settings/optimise. Also, AMD’s drivers and software are superior to nvidia’s as they’ve made massive improvements, i like what nvidia’s has done with the new beta app lately however
I think for those really trying 4k it may be a problem but then again, the 3080 just isnt powerful enough to play demanding games at 4k at an acceptable FPS.
I have a 3080 10GB, its been great. 1440P ultra settings in cyberpunk or the last of us part 1 have been a breeze. I did have to tweak some texture settings in the last of us, but thats no longer the case since the updates. Helldivers 2 is very playable as well.
YOOOO This 3080 looks amazing, the logo reminds me of Guitar Hero 3 but man the RGB on that unit is totally next level. Would be a keeper for sure and a definite vertical mount in my system
As much as I loved the performance of my 3080, it was unusable during the summer, combined with the 9700K. It was a proper heater. It was my first 200+ W card, and even after severe undervolting it was pumping out a lot of heat. From now on, 200-220 W TDP before undervolting is my absolute limit.
i bought 4070ti so i can undervolt it to 80-100w in summer lmao and in winter it goes full oc mode close to powerlimit at 1.15v lmao truly universal heater
I’m currently using one of my pc setups with a Ryzen 5800X3D w/ an Asus RTX 3080 (10GB) and it’s happily gaming on a 3440 x 1440p ultrawide monitor and I’ve been using the same settings basically shown here in the same game titles and seen the sale sort of fps. Tbh, I think many people are concerned unnecessarily about the vram issue in many titles, as shown here, and the 10GB with see 1440p, DLSS quality w/ Ray Tracing just fine in many titles …. You just need to manage your expectations on quality settings, like in Alan Wake 2 but UE5 games are showing amazing gaming graphics even at medium settings with higher quality per pixel detailing which is like ultra settings on games just a year or more ago!
3440x1440 similar specs except 4080 super. I'm not even running all settings on ultra and some of my games are using 12+ gigs of vram. Better to have more than too little. These games I have aren't RT like Microsoft flight simulator. I was running a 2060 super and that was a stutter fest.
Damn, it's already been 3,5 years since it came out? Sure doesn't feel like it. Might be cause I had to wait almost 2 years for my card to arrive lol, bought it on release but the queue was ridiculously long.
I sold a 3080 12gb for a 3080 Ti about a year ago and it’s a great 4K card. I know, I know, basically identical cards as the 3080 12gb is just a failed 3080 Ti but a friend needed a new card so I sold it to him cheap and got a 3080 Ti to replace it.
3840x1600 gamer here, no issues with VRAM at all on my 3080 I bought at launch. All it takes is a slight tweak of settings in some demanding latest titles.
I had to sell off my 3080 to side grade to a 4070 due to the sheer amount of heat it output (my tower fan was blowing warm air into my room, essentially roasting me) but there is absolutely no doubt the 3080 is a fantastic card. Got mine for $400 locally at the time!
I was recently able to snag a 3080 FE on Facebook Marketplace for $280. It was very dusty and had some crusty thermal paste, but I was able to get it working great! It’s still a great card, even at 4K.
Bought the 3070 version of this back in the day, a used one from a seller. It turned out that it was faulty. Thank god it had warranty, the shop gave me a 3080 in exchange! A good advice: if you cant try the card in person, make sure it has warranty.
Bought used one in Sept 2023. Paid about €365/$400 equivalent, when 4070 was close to €365/$700, and Super models were not even announced (4070 launch MSRP was $600, but without VAT). Sold 3060Ti for decent price. I'm super happy with it.
Because we bought it in 2020/2021. At launch the power per frame was very good. 3-4 years on it was great value because it's still running at high/ultra
@@aightm8 I don't doubt it was an even better option when it was new, but even back then I used to think it was too power hungry. But that's just me. Anything over 200W for me is too much for a GPU.
@@aightm8 Not necessarily. Even if we only take into consideration gaming. If you don't aim on playing all games at top quality level and higher resolutions, you are not going to regret not going for top tier GPUs. If you are one of those who don't consider anything below 120fps as playable then yes, you will not be satisfied.
Bought a used RTX 3080 at the end of summer this year and what a value for a used GPU if you can find one for a solid price. A great upgrade from my GTX 1070Ti.
I bought Tuf RTX 3080 oc in 2020 and its still kicking ass. I almost upgraded to 4000 series but now that i think about it im just going to stick with this untill the 5000 series and then sell it for 250euros. I think thats reasonable and a good performance for entry for example.
Had an ASUS TUF Gaming Edition RTX 3080 for 3 years. This GPU has been going strong since the pandemic. Runs every game I love at the highest preset. Best $700 I spent on the card. (sold off my 1080ti for $400) so recouped some money after purchasing this beauty.
I got my Msi 3080 Gaming Trio Z card in december of 2022. I bought it off a facebook marketplace guy. I bought it withouth even having the proper cables or power supply in order to play. It was used, mined 3 months. As of today the card works like a charm and stays under 65 °. Bought it for 289 Usd
I'm still miffed about it though ngl as anyone who buys nVidia knows, it's literally like strapping a V8 engine to a shopping cart. This is almost entirely thanks to the VRAM, and it's probably the singular biggest argument for getting a Radeon instead (the other being the poor performance of nVidia GPUs next to Radeons, dollar for dollar, euro for euro, it's like a 2060 Super vs 5700XT at best, 6800 vs 3070ti, a lot of the time you just get better performance off a Radeon even without the driver updates or VRAM bottlenecks) aside from the software being better (but video encoding is better on nVidia, so better software, better gaming, better VRAM, better price, but worse encoding and professional use, hence why people on youtube often favour nVidia despite the fact gamers tend to like Radeons unless they know nothing about computes and basically just buy a lower end gaming prebuilt with a xx60 in it). Like, just put the extra two fuckin gigabytes of VRAM on it Jensen, Jesus fucking Christ. I can even put up with the insane cost IF you made it not built like a piece of shit. And having no LEDs and plastic backplates on top of it, is just added insult, for the absolute preem experience I get with ASRock on a Radeon. Like. "4060" 8gb, are you fuckin serious mate? It cost $500 for a RTX 2070 Super. I aint payin $400 for a 8gb cut down basically 4050ti, which performs like a 3070. A 4060ti shouldn't be anywhere near previous gen xx70 performance. They do this shit on purpose which is why it pisses me off so damn much. That 3080 could have been a perfectly fine 4k gaming card IF IT ONLY HAD 2GB MORE VRAM! So that it can be at the same level as a Radeon VII but it's freaking not, which btw the VII was fine, it had a high cost but that thing mines like a champ anyway. Meanwhile, GTX 1080ti--11gb. RTX 2080ti--11gb. It's time, Jensen. You know. I have this 780m and the freaking hilarious thing is, they literally HAD TO put 4gb on it, just because it would've been so useless for laptops that everyone would be saying what a complete piece of shit nvidia laptops are, since people don't upgrade laptop as much (unless you bought complete trash HP or Dell that breaks a day after 1 year limited warranty went tits up). So they absolutely had to strap it on, funny for a 660ti perf level MXM card, meanwhile literally nobody ever recommends the GTX 780ti do you now why is that? BECAUSE IT GOT ONLY 3 GIGS OF VRAM! I literally can't even play Tropico or Rogue Trader or very high setting GTA V which runs on toasters because all those use up 3.5gb or more of VRAM in point of fact only Witcher 3 does and that's because CDPR has been in bad with nVidia and literally CDPR nerfed textures just to get it to fit on GTX 770 2gb, which btw would have been an ok used card for budget builds had it not been 2gb. This is why, to this very day, no one used Kepler era GPUs outside a reallly dusty bottom end used gaming laptop, and why people still use not only RX 500 series but even RX 400 and high end R9 300 cards, because it had the VRAM to keep it current. It's also why I've had to stop recommending GTX 980 because as much as I love it in office builds, as fantastic thing works for smooth power efficient performance with a great cooling solution for choked office PC, its 4gb is really stretching it for 1080p. And it sucks, because textures literally matter as much as lighting, really terrible textures make the game look awful no matter how good the model. It's why Vampyr looks so dated on release next tot he wonderful E3 game I was supposed to get. It's partly why gaming stalled hard from 2009-2017 it's because half the GPU corpos insisted on 2gb-4gb being the texture budget. You'll notice how much better games look all of a sudden, after it went to 12-16gb standard? But anyway it's frustrating and irritating because they literally made a powerful enough GPU you can 4k game on it, but then utterly nerfed it artificially restricting and segmenting the RTX 3070ti to high end 1080p only, and the 3080 to 1440p only, neither of which was built to last. That's because they wanted to upsell the 3090 for 4k gaming, or a 3080ti 12gb for entry 4k which let's face it anything beneath a 80ti doesn't exist according to nVidia. It's the only thing nVidia ever made which is supposed to stay current for more than 2 years, only they sometimes screw that up like the GTX 780ti 3gb. Like no really a 780ti could be fine, and it's the same issue for 970 3.5gb they're not great but it's like the entry to gaming on minimum setting these days. So it's a power hog but I'd say GTX 980ti 6gb is kinda what gamers need for modern 1080p. A 980 or even GTX 970 or 780ti only is a problem with the VRAM issue imo for budget gaming, that a trusty RX 580 8gb is fine. Due to the scalping, I'd say a 3080 10gb at scalped prices was the second most horrible financial decision you could have made in 2020 (the worst being responding to those emails and giving the guy money begging me for reelection donations).
I'm triple screen sim racing on a 3080. 7680 x 1440. Very playable on mainly high settings. Doesn't like rain in some games too much, but it's a super efficient card.
i bought my first pc build a few weeks ago and i was hesitant to get a 4 yrs old gpu and only 10gb but honestly I havent been let down yet and ive been blown away actually at how good its been so far...I have a 7800x3d and msi 3080 10gb and get a consistent 220-260fps in Rust at 1440p with all in game graphics maxed including water quality particle quality all that... i havent tried 4k yet but i gotta say on my pc in 1440p rust looks im gonna say atleast 10x better than rust on my ps5 in 4k and just overall texture quality and crispness of the graphics are not even in the same league
I liked my 3080 10gb. I have the Strix OC version. I traded it out for a 6950xt. I feel like I made a wise choice. It showed me that you don't need Nvidia. You think you do but all in all, you really don't.
Bought my EVGA 3080 FTW3 12GB new back in the day-after prices started coming down-and I haven’t regretted it. I love the card, and after upgrading from a GTX 1060 6GB, I am comfortably gaming at 4K and 1440 with great settings and amazing performance. Glad to see so many others are still enjoying theirs as well! I just wish EVGA still made GPUs!
That is by far my favorite card visually from the 30 series. The card in this video takes second place just because of how well it pairs with G.Skills Trident Z Royal Ram.
sorry if this is a silly question but how is the minimum framerate higher than the 1% low? does minimum framerate refer to lowest stable fps or something? cause when it drops really low wouldn't that be the minimum
I went with the 6800 non xt and based on these benchmarks they run very similar other than when you bring in the raytracing plus it still has the 16gb VRAM like the xt version
I went with a used 4070 deal. Glad no unneccessary heating in summer. Even my 150w 2070 felt like it heated the whole room. Over 350w with 3080 would be crazy.
I own a RTX 3080 and for some of these games (like RDR2 and Cyberpunk 2077) I usually use the optimized settings provided by Digital Foundry. It's always good to find the perfect balance between visual fidelity and performance. This GPU is a beast. Perfect for 1440p.
Just bought one refurbished for 360€ with 3 year warranty. Asus TUF which is one of the best models. Maybe not as much of a good deal as yours since your card was literally brand new and sealed lol, but still pretty good, I hope the card is in good condition when it arrives...
got 3080 + 5800x3d and it runs everything well. Exception being Alan Wake but look at how it runs on 4090 and than the results of 3080 are not as bad all of sudden. Yes, the VRAM is a worry, but it never actually became a problem for me, as I play on 16:10 monitor with 1200p resolution so its a middle ground between 1080p and 1440p, being closet to the 1st one. All around, a great setup Im glad for. There is nothing sensible to upgrade to, when u on 3080. Only thing being 4090 and the price of that is just ridiculous to me and majority of gamers.
I bought my 3080 gaming x Trio for 999€ in Dezember 2020. The 10 GB were always enough for 1440p Gaming. It was a good investment back then. I never felt the need for a 40s series Card. I hope the 5080 will be around the same price.
i have had my 3080 for over 2 years now, upgraded my rig to a 14700KF and 32gb 6000mhz RAM and it still takes things like a champ, plays everything i want at decent frames and most of the time ultra quality (depending on games optimisation) i will be skipping the 40 series and will see what the next in line Nvidia gpu's are gonna be like in terms of price to performance and even then, probably wont upgrade as the 3080 is a solid work horse.
Went from a 3060ti to 3080 last year with a ryzen 5500(I was stretching the budget) and honestly this combo is a console killer. FSR Framegen mod has Horizon FW @ 4k/Dlss Quality/75-90fps High text/environment/Med everything else
I am using for my 1080p setup since 2019- RTX 2060 Ryzen 5 3500 @ 4GHZ 16 GB DUAL CHANNEL DDR4 RAM Holds pretty well if we exclude currently released unoptimized games.
Its a good card according to its age but u recently had a rtx 4070 which performs similar or better than rtx 3080 but only consumes about 120-150W under load while gaming... Not like 400w with this gpu .
That beginning bit with the birds chirping and the seemingly empty box scared me for a second.
😁
"It escaped..."
the birds stole it
@@xeepherRR”…into the mountains.”
He clearly has bird pets he only lets out when needed for a video 🐦🕊️
I bought one off of eBay back in October. Its a PNY model. The fan shroud was cracked off, but I got it for $180. A few zip ties later and I had a fully functioning 3080 for $180 😅
Wow!
Damn, lucky find.
@@ffwast it was a hail Mary when I saw the listing. I lucked out!
haha youre lucky thats all that was wrong with it
I have saved many old cards with zip ties, case fans and a gelid vga to pwm adapter.
Just got one this week to replace an AMD Radeon RX580. Guy who sold it to me gave it to me for the local price of a RTX 3060. So a good deal.
Good for u
Congrats bhuti, that's a great deal
Same here but I got an EVGA ftw 10 GB for MSRP in late 2022
U went from a rx580 to a 3080?!😮 damn son! I went from my 580 which I bought used for 60$ and sold for 40 to a used 3060ti for 190 and I'm blown away😂 but fps/$ it's still ridiculous how good that 580 was compared to 3060ti which is around 2.3 - 2.5 faster in games and a bit more in rendering
@@upfront2375 went from Ryzen 5 1600 and rx580 to Ryzen 5800x3d and 3080 on an x570 mb. It wasn't just an upgrade it was a game changer. Mid 1080p to max 1440p in most games.
the Torn box makes it look Gangsta. If this card had 16gb the 40 series would look FAR less Attractive. Nvidia knows what they are doing shafting you on VRAM
Which is great for 3090 owners
4070 and 4070ti owners will be in the same position
@@yahyasajid51134070ti super 16gb is the proper 1440p graphic card
@@yahyasajid5113 12gb is ok for 4070, they are just overpriced
@quan-uo5ws Nah dude, 16GB for that level of performance is the bare minimum
I have a 3080 and a 5800x3d runs like a beast in 2024 dont plan on upgrading for a while.
Me too
Same. Which cpu cooler you guys use?
@@ruben.koenig Arctic 240 water cooler
@@protectorp which temps you get? I use arctic freezer 36 air cooler with -30 negative pbo curve
Really? I buy a new GPU every other generation, because that is usually when the cracks start showing. Like the GTX 1080 was really struggling in Control, even without RT. The 3080 fixed that, but now AW 2 is completely hammering it's ass. Hopefully NGREDDIA won't raise 5080 pricing, since AMD is apparently chickening out of the high end segment...
i got one too upgraded from the legendary 1080
From one great card to another!
I went from a 1070 Ti myself too which is very close to your 1080.
i am still rocking on 980 ti
Hell yeah dawg
How much of a performance boost did the new 3080 give?
yoooo this intro was just *chefs kiss*
the birds chirping and the moment of silence for the savaged box
just 👌
Still rocking with my MSI 3080 SUPRIM. Don't want to change anytime soon. Had an ASUS ROG STRIX 1080Ti OC model on a 28" at 2160P since 2018
Shame the lack of VRAM will relegate it to 1080p very soon
@ag8912 nop... you mean the prices of today on pc components are really bad. The 30xx are still very capable cards.
@@ag8912I feel like, at this point, its getting to a problem with the devs. Sure 10GB is probably not going to be enough for anything above 1440p, I can definitely grant you that. But the main titles people pointed out that started this whole "is 8GB enough" debate is last of us part 1 and jedi survivor- atrocious pc ports. I know its good for "simulating future games" but why don't we just call it the way it is now? I know benchmarking is supposed to be objective and not even pass judgement on what games are good and such but, lets get serious here. If a port is so poorly optimized that it requires more than 8gb for anything above on 1080p (or even, on 1080p)- why even buy and support such a port? I'm sorry but I just don't really get this trend. It's good to benchmark for the worst case scenario dont get me wrong, but it goes both ways. People want to see how these GPUs will perform on games they actually want to play- and I think it's getting pretty clear that at a certain point, people just aren't going to buy a game if it runs like garbage on their PC for no reason. Anyway, rant over
To be clear this isn't really a response saying you're wrong- in certain games, you are depressingly correct. I just don't feel like we really have a justification for some games running like ass now, lol. I remember when people were saying the PS5 was going to be this massively insane computer that could do anything- now people are claiming the pro will be needed to run GTA6 at 60 frames. Same goes for GPUs, honestly. I remember when the 30 series came out a few years back (2020 is a few years ago? Jesus) and it felt like the 3070 and 3080 utterly curbstomped my 1080 into the ground and were insanely good in every game I saw people play them in- warzone, fortnite, doom eternal, control. A few games I was even interested in, like Death Stranding. It was ridiculous. Now you see very strange performance on certain games with these cards (although, I will say, a lot of them are on UE5 so. lol). I think the biggest thing that makes it feel even weirder is that you still have games that actually run well and are optimized. So you have joe mcshmoe UE5 raytracing game running on a card at 1440p and 60fps with stutters, then you have another game with a totally different development story that looks pretty comparable in terms of objective graphical detail, running at higher settings and maybe 100-140 fps. It's a really funny phenomena. At least when Crysis came out, you didn't have a game as good looking running insanely better.
I also have the suprim x 3080 10gb. Not a single title I play gives me issues with vram. Yet
Crazy to think RTX 30xx series are nearly 4 years old now.....
We getting old quick…
@@ImranPangilinanStop it bro, I remember when I was torn between the Voodoo 2 (or was it 3) and the Riva TNT2 and ended up with the Riva, and just a few months later its successor came out - GeForce 256. However, I was the only one in the class who could play Half Life with all settings at max without any issues. That's old😢
I bought a Yeston Rtx 3080 Sakura after the pandemic! It's been carrying me for a couple years, and hopefully more to come!
its a pretty solid card your card will probly die before its no longer useful for gaming just like 1080ti owners its nearly 8 years old and on a gen 3 pc this gpu preforms the same as a 3060. if you have a pc repair shop near your house consider having them cfhange your thermal pads /. thermal paste ect at some point to prolong your gpu you could even replace the fans
The 3080 is still good!
W comment
I had one of these paired with a 5800x3d, and it hardly let me down. One thing I will point out is that under-volting this card is essential, as it seriously knocks down power consumption, and boosts higher due to the lowered thermals too. Occasionally I had to turn down textures a little, but the horsepower was there. The only thing that brought the card to its knees, as I recall, was the Path Tracing option in CP2077, which is understandable. The 10 GB of VRAM sucks, but when I had one, it never posed a problem in anything I played. Even now, backing off slightly on texture quality would greatly prolong the usable lifespan of this GPU.
I had the 10GB version a few years ago as well. I used my 3080 for 4K gaming. Like you said, the raw power was there but the VRAM is too little. I played Cyberpunk all the way through with Digital Foundry's optimized settings with DLSS on balanced. I really liked the 3080 for what it was since I got that card very close to MSRP when it released.
Sold that back in 2022 for a nice profit & upgraded to a 4090.
@@pengu6335Nicely done! I got mine at MSRP too, and then sold it for a decent profit, and now using a 4090 too. 🤝
@@pengu6335not worth it. minecraft is better
Great info man, can you tell me what you undervolted to? I'm about to install a 3080 in my main rig 😀
I have been using a 3080 10GB since January 2021, and really didn't notice any VRAM issues until going from 2560x1440 to 3440x1440. In the video, you're hitting 8-9GB pretty regularly, and with more horizontal pixels, it really pushes the card to it's absolute max in regards to performance and VRAM.
Because of this, I've been tempted numerous times to upgrade to something with 16GB (or more) VRAM this gen, but the 3080 is still such a well performing card that I'm waiting for the new generations to drop within the next 12 months. First world problems. 🙂
If only VRAM mods were more mainstream and accessible. lol
tell me about it… i too have a 10gb mode and i went from 2560x1440 to 5120x1440 and it’s been tough playing Triple A games.
A 3080 has got to be one of the best price-to-performance GPUs you could get off of the used market right now; I got mine just before the end of 2023. Still a great GPU, still rocks 1440p gaming. 10 GB is still good enough.
0:34 I thought that was aluminum foil
That introduction was masterfully done. No comment when seeing the mutilated box was wonderful
YEs Lord!! i love mine!! Still running smooth as ever!
Great video! Shows that those 30s in the end were really nice cards but I've always been concerned about the VRAM values.
That's why after 4 years of "use abuse" I am jumping the ship from 2070 Super to 6950 xt and pairing it with 5800X3D, upgrading from good old reliable 3600.
The Ryzen 3600 is such an amazing CPU, there are no words to describe how well it performs even today, playing in 2k.
I bet the new combo will last me another 5-6 years with ease. Thank you for your channel and videos, you've showed and taught me a lot! Keep warm and keep filming
its worth the RX 6950XT vs a 3080Ti/3090?
@@freddyespinoza5115 It really depends on the price where you live. I live in Poland and 6950 XT AFTER tax converts to roughly 630$. Which is not amazing for the US prices but overall in Europe and Poland especially we have disgusting conversion and the prices are terrible. Everything else is even worse. Retail price for 3080Ti is ~1730 USD. For 3090 it's 2260 USD.
Price wise 6950 XT wins every day. This may be different for you depending where you live so please take your time and compare prices first and foremost.
Performance is extremely similar between those three cards and 6950 XT with 16GB of VRAM perfectly suits 2k gaming without care of ray tracing that could still be considered a gimmick with how taxing it is on everything that is not 4090.
If you need extra VRAM for production or you're dabbling into some AI or anything shifting beside gaming then extra VRAM in 3090 will benefit you.
In the end of the day if you're purely focused on the gaming aspect then I would say that switching to AMD and Radeon cards is the most sane thing to do with currently great prices on beast performance cards like 6800xt, 6950xt as well as development of FSR 3.1 right behind the corner. NVIDIA with it's current value-performance ratio does not deserve a single dollar from any human being. But that's my opinion coming in and it's not objective so take it with a grain of salt. I have switched after 20 years of buying Nvidia cards to AMD and I have never been more impressed with the sheer performance of 6950XT + 5800X3D combo.
I hope it will help you in some way to make a decision. Whatever you chooses may it serve you well and happy gaming, keep warm
My only gripe with the Ryzen platform is not being able to truly overclock anything thanks in part the way infinity fabric and thermal tjmax and whatever all works on it, hilariously making their overvolted shit perform better by undervolting. It's hard to get used to coming from Intel. What's not hard is getting used to Ryzen Master. Seriously AMD's software game is so on the ball it's just nuts. If only their CPUs actually not only sustained boosted to advertised specs but also could be overclocked like the way you could OC a 3770k. Which only makes it that much more insane when you realize how good it is already you don't even need the OC. I'm actually just sorta confused not even needing to OC to get get performance, but at the same time idk, I'd kinda rather have a i9 9900k on some level just because the OC makes it perform better than 3700x. Not it matters, it's an overpriced powerhog next to AMD that saddles you with inferior specs on your inferior motherboard. And motherboards matter. Especially when they take from me 2 of my SATA ports. I need those drives man.
Why was the beginning so quite?? I turned up the volume thinking there was something wrong, then BOOM "HELLO EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER VIDEO!!"
😂😂😂😂😂
Lulling you into a false sense of security there
3:39 In Elden Ring make sure you quit out to the menu after you make any changes to the RT settings.
The game shows you a warning for this when RT is off and you turn it on, but what it doesn't tell you is that any changes to RT require a quit out to apply correctly.
For example if you load the game with low RT and you scroll left over RT Off to max RT, this means RT was disabled and doesn't engage properly when enabled again, unless you quit out, even though the game never shows any warning in that case.
Yikes. This is my exact GPU.
Been super happy with Palit so far, temps are amazing and while the RGB looks straight from a circus, I have it mounted the classic method anyway…
Not changing it until a RTX 5080.
5080 might come this year :D
@@lepytidoubtful imo. 5090 maybe
@@miniweeddeerz1820 ye its gonna cost atleast 3k lmao
@@noname-qm7lk idk about that lol maybe 6090. But pray under 2k
😢 I think the rgb looks sexy af
I got a 3080 for $350 new with a 3 year warranty because my old 6600xt bricked and the next 6800 was 370 so i pulled the trigger on the 3080. Cant wait for it to arrive.
3080 is still relevant as a flagship, the second best GPU purchase i had in the past 10 years.
That's awesome
I bought a 3080Ti from EVGA the other day
I'm really fond of it. $400 btw
let me guess the first best gpu u bought is either a 1080ti or 1060 6gb????
@@IlMemetor72 Bought also a 3090 EVGA FTW3 Ultra for 560€
@@justaguy5791 wat?
great situation, i bought a rtx 3080 only 2h before you upload the video for 340€ and had the same choise between the 6800xt for 350€ . . . your video is on the right moment for me
never been this early on your vid. another great vid, proper benchmarks
The quiet intro triggered my anxiety, I thought there was something wrong with my sound system again 😅
Mhh, nice toasty 100°C on that CPU. ❤🔥
This looks cooler than my gundam 3080
As a highschool student trying to upgrade from my gtx 1060 laptop all I have to say is thank you, I've seen on eBay that rtx 30 series cards got much cheaper and PC builds with them go for about a grand, and with driver updates and all the new game re-releases and remasters I really needed to know how it would perform and how long it would last me. I think I've made up my mind, thanks again!
I look on amazon all time and I never get a good deal like that. You always land on awesome deals.
I overpaid for one a few months ago just before the 40-super series released. I’m getting 8 years out of it so my investment wasn’t a waste
Just got a 3080 10gb this week. To replace my rx570. After enjoying an 3070 from a friend for half a year. And absolutely loving it
Rocking with my Aorus Master 3080 rev1 for over 3 years now. Amazing piece of tech (with thermopad mod :D )
Recently, I bought a used Asus TUF 3080 Ti for only $350 USD (ish). I'm impressed with its performance at 1440p. I chose Nvidia because my previous 6700 XT had occasional driver issues that I couldn't tolerate anymore. Although I had tempting offers for the 6900 XT at even lower prices, I preferred to go with Nvidia's reliability. Excellent video!
350 for the third most powerful 30 series? Now that's the deal you got there 🤩
@@baoquoc3710 Yes, I got lucky! There are so many mining cards out there and I wanted to avoid them. Luckily, this one was from a gamer, and I was able to verify it. I did a slight undervolt for peace of mind... I think my 5700x might feel a bit small now, haha.
oh you too? Mine came yesterday xD got it for 400€, didn't bother bargaining cause I felt that this was already a decent deal
I personally have an RTX 3080, really happy with it
I have the founders edition 3080, very capable card. Playing on a 4k 160hz monitor.
Awesome. Those founders cards look great
Nice I have a Founders 4070 Super.
I currently own a 3080 Ti and a 4080 Super. While I've noticed a significant performance increase, I wish I had waited for the 50 series, as the frame rates in most games are already very high with the 3080 and 3080 Ti. The main differences are the power draw and the choice between a maximum of 4K with ray tracing or slightly lower frame rates with a few adjustments. It comes down to the fact that it can always be a bit better - the 3080 is still fantastic. The fact that this question is asked so often shows how consumerism has become so prevalent. LOL!
I have a 12gb aourus master 3080 that i picked up back in 2022 from my then workplace (ex cex employee) as an upgrade from an old 980ti and it blew me away,
Paired with my current upgrades of a 13900k and 128gb of ddr5 at 6000mhz and it just eats things,
combined with the FSR to DLSS framegen mod for supported titles it is amazing
@@mrN3CR0 does your 13900k have those crashing problems
@@lentas4921 no bsods or game crashing as of yet but i dont really tend to play a lot of UE based games.. my rig is primarily for music production with gaming on the side. I have far too many hours in cyberpunk and a lot of VR titles so perhaps i am just lucky
I've had a 3080 10G for about a year now, and it's still really good. The whole VRAM situation is overblown, I've seen dozens of people try to hit any noticable performance limits at 2K, and even 4K the limits were negligible at best. It's cool to hate on Nvidia, I know, but I've always had significantly better luck with games on Nvidia cards regardless of VRAM, whereas AMD and their questionable driver development got in the way far more. If anything, we shouldn't be encouraging this massive VRAM requirement, we should be calling these developers out for releasing unoptimized games. When you need as much, or more, VRAM than total system RAM, something is horribly wrong for a multitasking device like a PC.
i agree with you completely as a 3080 10 gb owner, although in some games with 4k i may sometimes need to drop settings/optimise. Also, AMD’s drivers and software are superior to nvidia’s as they’ve made massive improvements, i like what nvidia’s has done with the new beta app lately however
I think for those really trying 4k it may be a problem but then again, the 3080 just isnt powerful enough to play demanding games at 4k at an acceptable FPS.
Going on four years old and still feels like current gen😂
I have a 3080 10GB, its been great. 1440P ultra settings in cyberpunk or the last of us part 1 have been a breeze. I did have to tweak some texture settings in the last of us, but thats no longer the case since the updates. Helldivers 2 is very playable as well.
Got a 3080 FTW3 :) with a waterblock …
Upgraded from my 1080ti FE with waterblock
how much more performance did you get?
lol, one less gig of VRAM ...
Why do you need more than 1080Ti
@@FTvMNKyou know a 1080ti is basically a 3060 right? When was a 3060 high performance to even start with lol
@@FTvMNK1080 Ti is just 1080p gpu in most modern games
YOOOO This 3080 looks amazing, the logo reminds me of Guitar Hero 3 but man the RGB on that unit is totally next level. Would be a keeper for sure and a definite vertical mount in my system
As much as I loved the performance of my 3080, it was unusable during the summer, combined with the 9700K. It was a proper heater. It was my first 200+ W card, and even after severe undervolting it was pumping out a lot of heat.
From now on, 200-220 W TDP before undervolting is my absolute limit.
I have the founders edition and agree 100% might have to reapply thermal paste soon
i bought 4070ti so i can undervolt it to 80-100w in summer lmao and in winter it goes full oc mode close to powerlimit at 1.15v lmao truly universal heater
Buy the Fan to cool the room
Much deserved upgrades homie! You just need one of those Peerless Assassin 120 coolers to get those cpu temps back down 😎💯
I bought a used Zotec 3080 12gb for $450 and I absolutely love it. Everything I play runs very comfortably at 1440p and 4K.
I’m currently using one of my pc setups with a Ryzen 5800X3D w/ an Asus RTX 3080 (10GB) and it’s happily gaming on a 3440 x 1440p ultrawide monitor and I’ve been using the same settings basically shown here in the same game titles and seen the sale sort of fps.
Tbh, I think many people are concerned unnecessarily about the vram issue in many titles, as shown here, and the 10GB with see 1440p, DLSS quality w/ Ray Tracing just fine in many titles …. You just need to manage your expectations on quality settings, like in Alan Wake 2 but UE5 games are showing amazing gaming graphics even at medium settings with higher quality per pixel detailing which is like ultra settings on games just a year or more ago!
3440x1440 similar specs except 4080 super. I'm not even running all settings on ultra and some of my games are using 12+ gigs of vram. Better to have more than too little. These games I have aren't RT like Microsoft flight simulator.
I was running a 2060 super and that was a stutter fest.
0:05 Old seller must've got hungry
I'am happy with my 3080, bought it after mining 1.5 years ago for $400, works flawlessly.
Just got mine with intel i7-12700f and have no regrets 😊
I have a 3080 10GB and I'm so happy that it still works as a 4K card in MOST instances.
My 2080 on the other hand struggles with 4k now 😭
Damn, it's already been 3,5 years since it came out? Sure doesn't feel like it. Might be cause I had to wait almost 2 years for my card to arrive lol, bought it on release but the queue was ridiculously long.
I sold a 3080 12gb for a 3080 Ti about a year ago and it’s a great 4K card. I know, I know, basically identical cards as the 3080 12gb is just a failed 3080 Ti but a friend needed a new card so I sold it to him cheap and got a 3080 Ti to replace it.
I swapped out my old 2060 for an aorus 3080 master with the little display on the side. Such a great card❤️
dayum whatta nice looking card, thanks for review btw always nice to watch :)
3840x1600 gamer here, no issues with VRAM at all on my 3080 I bought at launch. All it takes is a slight tweak of settings in some demanding latest titles.
It's 2024 and i still use my two quadro p2000 ❤
I had to sell off my 3080 to side grade to a 4070 due to the sheer amount of heat it output (my tower fan was blowing warm air into my room, essentially roasting me) but there is absolutely no doubt the 3080 is a fantastic card. Got mine for $400 locally at the time!
Haha "side grade." At least you're honest about it.
I was recently able to snag a 3080 FE on Facebook Marketplace for $280. It was very dusty and had some crusty thermal paste, but I was able to get it working great! It’s still a great card, even at 4K.
Bought the 3070 version of this back in the day, a used one from a seller. It turned out that it was faulty. Thank god it had warranty, the shop gave me a 3080 in exchange!
A good advice: if you cant try the card in person, make sure it has warranty.
That’s impressive to see such low tempetures and so high clock speeds on a 3080
Bought used one in Sept 2023. Paid about €365/$400 equivalent, when 4070 was close to €365/$700, and Super models were not even announced (4070 launch MSRP was $600, but without VAT). Sold 3060Ti for decent price. I'm super happy with it.
no offense guys, im new to this whole pc gaming thing, but how does the cpu reach 95 degrees in bf5 when it s only on 25% load?
My cooler wasn’t good enough for the i9 haha
Honestly Covid time really messed me up. Im thinkin to myself "Oh the 3080 is still really new!" before realizing it came out 4 years ago
I picked up a 3080 12GB from eBay for £380. I think it will be a nice upgrade from a 2070S
Almost 400w is way too much. Glad i went for the 4070, Overclocked to the limit barely touches 210w sometimes
4070 performs worse then a 3080 though??
@@Clutch4IceCream only if you play at 4k you will see a 10% better performance at most
@@Clutch4IceCream no, for the most part the 4070 beats the 3080, ESPECIALLY in RT.
I couldn't stop looking at that power consumption. I don't know how so many people have no problem with that.
Good video.
Because we bought it in 2020/2021. At launch the power per frame was very good.
3-4 years on it was great value because it's still running at high/ultra
@@aightm8 I don't doubt it was an even better option when it was new, but even back then I used to think it was too power hungry. But that's just me. Anything over 200W for me is too much for a GPU.
@@TrusteftTech a lower power consumption GPU might not have a lower cost of ownership tho. Have to upgrade more often
@@aightm8 Not necessarily. Even if we only take into consideration gaming. If you don't aim on playing all games at top quality level and higher resolutions, you are not going to regret not going for top tier GPUs. If you are one of those who don't consider anything below 120fps as playable then yes, you will not be satisfied.
@@TrusteftTech if you're satisfied with 1080p medium detail. Then that just means your top tier gpu will last 8 years instead of 4
Bought a used RTX 3080 at the end of summer this year and what a value for a used GPU if you can find one for a solid price. A great upgrade from my GTX 1070Ti.
I bought Tuf RTX 3080 oc in 2020 and its still kicking ass. I almost upgraded to 4000 series but now that i think about it im just going to stick with this untill the 5000 series and then sell it for 250euros. I think thats reasonable and a good performance for entry for example.
Upgraded from a 2070 super to this today, really amazed at how fast it is
Except the premature 10gb Nvidia slapped on it. I'm not sure why they didn't go with 16gb compared to the 6800xt
@@caribbaviator7058 tbh it’s fine for everything I play, although it is annoying from a value point of view.
The 3080 is only 2 yesrs old, it is fit to play games for at least a decade. Even a 980ti is still usable
In Raycevick universe...
Video title: RTX 3080, 3 Years later.
ah yes, the man who made throwback racing titles
Had an ASUS TUF Gaming Edition RTX 3080 for 3 years. This GPU has been going strong since the pandemic. Runs every game I love at the highest preset. Best $700 I spent on the card. (sold off my 1080ti for $400) so recouped some money after purchasing this beauty.
I got my Msi 3080 Gaming Trio Z card in december of 2022. I bought it off a facebook marketplace guy. I bought it withouth even having the proper cables or power supply in order to play. It was used, mined 3 months. As of today the card works like a charm and stays under 65 °. Bought it for 289 Usd
The first thing i did with my paycheck and my credit card was buying a proper cooler master power supply!
I'm still miffed about it though ngl as anyone who buys nVidia knows, it's literally like strapping a V8 engine to a shopping cart. This is almost entirely thanks to the VRAM, and it's probably the singular biggest argument for getting a Radeon instead (the other being the poor performance of nVidia GPUs next to Radeons, dollar for dollar, euro for euro, it's like a 2060 Super vs 5700XT at best, 6800 vs 3070ti, a lot of the time you just get better performance off a Radeon even without the driver updates or VRAM bottlenecks) aside from the software being better (but video encoding is better on nVidia, so better software, better gaming, better VRAM, better price, but worse encoding and professional use, hence why people on youtube often favour nVidia despite the fact gamers tend to like Radeons unless they know nothing about computes and basically just buy a lower end gaming prebuilt with a xx60 in it).
Like, just put the extra two fuckin gigabytes of VRAM on it Jensen, Jesus fucking Christ. I can even put up with the insane cost IF you made it not built like a piece of shit. And having no LEDs and plastic backplates on top of it, is just added insult, for the absolute preem experience I get with ASRock on a Radeon. Like. "4060" 8gb, are you fuckin serious mate? It cost $500 for a RTX 2070 Super. I aint payin $400 for a 8gb cut down basically 4050ti, which performs like a 3070. A 4060ti shouldn't be anywhere near previous gen xx70 performance. They do this shit on purpose which is why it pisses me off so damn much.
That 3080 could have been a perfectly fine 4k gaming card IF IT ONLY HAD 2GB MORE VRAM! So that it can be at the same level as a Radeon VII but it's freaking not, which btw the VII was fine, it had a high cost but that thing mines like a champ anyway. Meanwhile, GTX 1080ti--11gb. RTX 2080ti--11gb. It's time, Jensen. You know. I have this 780m and the freaking hilarious thing is, they literally HAD TO put 4gb on it, just because it would've been so useless for laptops that everyone would be saying what a complete piece of shit nvidia laptops are, since people don't upgrade laptop as much (unless you bought complete trash HP or Dell that breaks a day after 1 year limited warranty went tits up). So they absolutely had to strap it on, funny for a 660ti perf level MXM card, meanwhile literally nobody ever recommends the GTX 780ti do you now why is that? BECAUSE IT GOT ONLY 3 GIGS OF VRAM! I literally can't even play Tropico or Rogue Trader or very high setting GTA V which runs on toasters because all those use up 3.5gb or more of VRAM in point of fact only Witcher 3 does and that's because CDPR has been in bad with nVidia and literally CDPR nerfed textures just to get it to fit on GTX 770 2gb, which btw would have been an ok used card for budget builds had it not been 2gb. This is why, to this very day, no one used Kepler era GPUs outside a reallly dusty bottom end used gaming laptop, and why people still use not only RX 500 series but even RX 400 and high end R9 300 cards, because it had the VRAM to keep it current. It's also why I've had to stop recommending GTX 980 because as much as I love it in office builds, as fantastic thing works for smooth power efficient performance with a great cooling solution for choked office PC, its 4gb is really stretching it for 1080p. And it sucks, because textures literally matter as much as lighting, really terrible textures make the game look awful no matter how good the model. It's why Vampyr looks so dated on release next tot he wonderful E3 game I was supposed to get. It's partly why gaming stalled hard from 2009-2017 it's because half the GPU corpos insisted on 2gb-4gb being the texture budget. You'll notice how much better games look all of a sudden, after it went to 12-16gb standard?
But anyway it's frustrating and irritating because they literally made a powerful enough GPU you can 4k game on it, but then utterly nerfed it artificially restricting and segmenting the RTX 3070ti to high end 1080p only, and the 3080 to 1440p only, neither of which was built to last. That's because they wanted to upsell the 3090 for 4k gaming, or a 3080ti 12gb for entry 4k which let's face it anything beneath a 80ti doesn't exist according to nVidia. It's the only thing nVidia ever made which is supposed to stay current for more than 2 years, only they sometimes screw that up like the GTX 780ti 3gb. Like no really a 780ti could be fine, and it's the same issue for 970 3.5gb they're not great but it's like the entry to gaming on minimum setting these days. So it's a power hog but I'd say GTX 980ti 6gb is kinda what gamers need for modern 1080p. A 980 or even GTX 970 or 780ti only is a problem with the VRAM issue imo for budget gaming, that a trusty RX 580 8gb is fine. Due to the scalping, I'd say a 3080 10gb at scalped prices was the second most horrible financial decision you could have made in 2020 (the worst being responding to those emails and giving the guy money begging me for reelection donations).
@@drek9k2 780m is from 2014
Me who got a 6800xt for 260$ (22000Rs)
i picked one up for my stream pc and the thing is still insanely good. was a couple weeks ago but only had to pay $300 for it shipped
I'm triple screen sim racing on a 3080. 7680 x 1440. Very playable on mainly high settings.
Doesn't like rain in some games too much, but it's a super efficient card.
i bought my first pc build a few weeks ago and i was hesitant to get a 4 yrs old gpu and only 10gb but honestly I havent been let down yet and ive been blown away actually at how good its been so far...I have a 7800x3d and msi 3080 10gb and get a consistent 220-260fps in Rust at 1440p with all in game graphics maxed including water quality particle quality all that... i havent tried 4k yet but i gotta say on my pc in 1440p rust looks im gonna say atleast 10x better than rust on my ps5 in 4k and just overall texture quality and crispness of the graphics are not even in the same league
buying one of these on launch day for MSRP was one of the best buys ever
Had a 6700XT and was looking for a newer card. I went with the 7900GRE. Cost just over €500 and sold my old card for €250. Nice upgrade for €250.
I liked my 3080 10gb. I have the Strix OC version. I traded it out for a 6950xt. I feel like I made a wise choice. It showed me that you don't need Nvidia. You think you do but all in all, you really don't.
Depending on the air cooler, i bet it could handle the 14900k quite nice
Bought my EVGA 3080 FTW3 12GB new back in the day-after prices started coming down-and I haven’t regretted it. I love the card, and after upgrading from a GTX 1060 6GB, I am comfortably gaming at 4K and 1440 with great settings and amazing performance. Glad to see so many others are still enjoying theirs as well! I just wish EVGA still made GPUs!
That is by far my favorite card visually from the 30 series. The card in this video takes second place just because of how well it pairs with G.Skills Trident Z Royal Ram.
sorry if this is a silly question but how is the minimum framerate higher than the 1% low? does minimum framerate refer to lowest stable fps or something? cause when it drops really low wouldn't that be the minimum
I went with the 6800 non xt and based on these benchmarks they run very similar other than when you bring in the raytracing plus it still has the 16gb VRAM like the xt version
You can OC it to match stock 3080 perf
@@evilleader1991 You can overclock a 3080 too. The 6800XT was never on the 3080's level, that was always AMD cope. Not just RT, AI too.
My 3080 is paired with an i9-9900KF i get similar performance as you do with the 14900K.
Makes sense in all the GPU limited examples, especially at 1440p.
I went with a used 4070 deal.
Glad no unneccessary heating in summer.
Even my 150w 2070 felt like it heated the whole room.
Over 350w with 3080 would be crazy.
I own a RTX 3080 and for some of these games (like RDR2 and Cyberpunk 2077) I usually use the optimized settings provided by Digital Foundry.
It's always good to find the perfect balance between visual fidelity and performance.
This GPU is a beast. Perfect for 1440p.
Just bought one refurbished for 360€ with 3 year warranty. Asus TUF which is one of the best models. Maybe not as much of a good deal as yours since your card was literally brand new and sealed lol, but still pretty good, I hope the card is in good condition when it arrives...
got 3080 + 5800x3d and it runs everything well. Exception being Alan Wake but look at how it runs on 4090 and than the results of 3080 are not as bad all of sudden. Yes, the VRAM is a worry, but it never actually became a problem for me, as I play on 16:10 monitor with 1200p resolution so its a middle ground between 1080p and 1440p, being closet to the 1st one. All around, a great setup Im glad for. There is nothing sensible to upgrade to, when u on 3080. Only thing being 4090 and the price of that is just ridiculous to me and majority of gamers.
Got my 3080 12 GB for 900€ and my 5800x3D for 420€ both in summer 2022 and they work together like a dreamteam
Late comment but I snagged a 3080 TUF for 280 eur, repasted and works like charm, what a damn steal
I bought my 3080 gaming x Trio for 999€ in Dezember 2020. The 10 GB were always enough for 1440p Gaming. It was a good investment back then. I never felt the need for a 40s series Card. I hope the 5080 will be around the same price.
i have had my 3080 for over 2 years now, upgraded my rig to a 14700KF and 32gb 6000mhz RAM and it still takes things like a champ, plays everything i want at decent frames and most of the time ultra quality (depending on games optimisation) i will be skipping the 40 series and will see what the next in line Nvidia gpu's are gonna be like in terms of price to performance and even then, probably wont upgrade as the 3080 is a solid work horse.
Went from a 3060ti to 3080 last year with a ryzen 5500(I was stretching the budget) and honestly this combo is a console killer. FSR Framegen mod has Horizon FW @ 4k/Dlss Quality/75-90fps High text/environment/Med everything else
I am using for my 1080p setup since 2019-
RTX 2060
Ryzen 5 3500 @ 4GHZ
16 GB DUAL CHANNEL DDR4 RAM
Holds pretty well if we exclude currently released unoptimized games.
I have the 3080 12 GB, and IMHO this is a 4k capable card. I run Cyberpunk in 4K RT high, but have to add DLSS quality to get a decent framerate.
Its a good card according to its age but u recently had a rtx 4070 which performs similar or better than rtx 3080 but only consumes about 120-150W under load while gaming... Not like 400w with this gpu .