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Today, Nvidia has given the go-ahead for GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition reviews to be released. The device is the first GeForce 3D accelerator based on the Ampere graphics architecture and sets a new benchmark for the performance of single chip graphics cards.
Materials dedicated to solutions from the “green” chipmaker’s AIB partners will be available from tomorrow. One of these video cards is already being tested in our lab, but for now, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the Founders Edition results from foreign colleagues.
First, you need to refresh your memory on the technical characteristics of the GeForce RTX 3080 FE. At the heart of the novelty is the Nvidia GA102 slimline graphics processor, built on 8nm technology in Samsung’s factories.
The video card works with 8,704 CUDA cores, 272 tensor and 68 RT cores, as well as a 320-bit memory bus. The graphics core operates at a frequency of 1440 to 1710 MHz in dynamic overclocking, the effective frequency of 10 GB of GDDR6X video memory is 19 GHz (bandwidth of 760 GB / s).
The gaming performance of the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is unrivaled. The video card easily bypasses all previous generation Nvidia GeForce graphics cards, including the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, not to mention products from the “red” field. On average, it turns out to be 31% faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti at a significantly lower recommended cost: $ 700 vs. $ 1200 for the Founders Edition.
If we talk about the frequency potential of the 8nm Nvidia GA102 video core, our colleagues managed to “warm up” it to about 1950-2000 MHz. Meanwhile, GDDR6X video memory was able to conquer 20-21 GHz (effective).
It’s impossible not to notice the extreme “gluttony” of the new product: under load, the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition draws up to 370 watts. On the other hand, the unusual cooling system gets the job done and keeps the GPU temperature within acceptable limits. Those who want to take full advantage of the potential of the new product, perhaps, should get a custom LSS.
The first reviews of the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition video card can be found at the links: Overclock3D, Guru3D, TechPowerUp and KitGuru.
