At the time of writing the FTW3 Ultra can be purchased at the EVGA website for $679, here in the EU a quick lookup reveals that price to sit in the € 749,- region. Prices will likely further increase, due to ongoing global price wars, so it is hard to foresee what future pricing will do. And yes we understand this is a tough pill to swallow for a product series that belongs in the 499 USD price bracket. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra is fitted with that NVIDIA GA104 GPU; it has a satisfactory 5888 shader cores activated and is paired with 8GB GDDR6 graphics memory. EVGA offers the card configured in a semi-passive design at default BIOS mode; the triple fans start to spin and cool once the GPU warms up (fan-stop).
The FTW3 Ultra version has RGB LED decoration located at the top cooler side of the card. Looking a bit further you'll also spot a duo of aRGB and PWM fan headers at the rear side. Some AIB advertises or highlights the boost clock speed of their graphics card. But at the end of the day, all of them will boost higher thanks to NVIDIA Boost technology. The graphics card only needs sufficient power and enough cooling to keep the GPU's temperature at bay. Along with its sibling, the RTX 3070 Ti, the new graphics cards are a response to AMD's return to competitiveness in the high-end graphics segment.
It has the same mission as the RTX 3080—to offer maxed out gaming at 4K Ultra HD resolution with raytracing, making it NVIDIA's new flagship gaming product. The RTX 3090 is still positioned higher, but with its 24 GB memory, is branded as a TITAN-like halo product capable of certain professional-visualization applications when paired with NVIDIA's Studio drivers. MSI's RTX 3080 flagship comes factory overclocked to 1,815MHz peak boost, giving it a slight edge over competing flagships from EVGA, Colorful, and Zotac. This huge card also has three eight-pin PCIe power connectors, which gives it plenty of extra power for you to try and push the card further.
MSI equipped the card with its Tri Frozr 2 cooler design, which uses the company's Torx 4.0 fans. The card also has a metal backplate, and it has RGB LEDs set on both its side and front. Few of these lights are on the front face, so it's not going to be the most colorful option to use if mounted vertically, but the side of the card should glow brightly.
Out of the box, the Asus ROG Strix LC RTX 3080 Ti, EVGA RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 and MSI RTX 3080 Ti SUPRIM X have the higher or faster boost clock speed. But like I mentioned earlier if the graphics card has enough power and the GPU is sufficiently cooled, it will eventually boost higher. My MSI Suprim X can achieve around ~2,000MHz(+/-) without additional tweaking or manual overclocking. Taking a big boost-speed step down from the Aorus card is Gigabyte's RTX 3080 Gaming OC card, which comes factory overclocked to 1,800MHz peak boost.
This model is also the first of Gigabyte's RTX 3080 cards to not feature an LCD panel on the side of the card, but it doesn't appear to lose much in terms of cooling. Just like Gigabyte's higher-end cards, it utilizes a triple-fan cooler and a metal backplate to keep the card from overheating. Colorful's lowest-end RTX 3080 card has a generic name, the only one of Colorful's cards outside of the company's iGame product line. It's not a bad-looking card, with a red-and-black color scheme and a metal backplate, but it lacks RGB LEDs and is the least flashy of the bunch.
It's also the lowest-clocked, at 1,710MHz peak boost , but it does have three eight-pin power connectors, which suggests an opening for more overclocking. U.S. pricing and availability have not yet been shared, but we'd expect an MSRP close to that of the Founders. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition serves as the model all other card makers look to for guidance, but it has some unique features of its own.
It comes clocked at 1,710MHz peak boost , and just like all RTX 3080 graphics cards, it has 10GB of GDDR6X memory with a 320-bit interface providing 19Gbps of bandwidth. We review and benchmark a custom design GeForce RTX 3070, this round the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 in specific in its Ultra edition. We'll plant this card in our test system to see how well it performs. EVGA advanced on the design for the FTW3 series, it looks dignified in a dark aesthetic design.
Compared to last-gen, this product will sit spot on GeForce RTX 2080 Ti performance levels and, in due time, will be its replacement. The Asus ROG Strix LC RTX 3080 Ti OC features a hybrid cooling solution. Its GPU is cooled by a 240mm radiator and the tube connecting the radiator and GPU copper plate is 560mm long. It also has RGB lighting on the fans and on the graphics card itself. In addition to the liquid cooling, there's a blower-type fan that cools the aluminum heatsink that is in contact with the VRM and other components.
The company's GPU management software, Precision X1, remains best-in-class. It lets tinkerers push performance even further with granular overclocking features and the ability to raise the power limit even further. Precision X1 also lets you tap into the not one, not two, butnine"iCX3" sensors that EVGA embedded throughout the card, letting you see temperature readings for different parts of your GPU, memory, and voltage regulation systems. It remains a killer exclusive feature for graphics card nerds and can help you keep an even closer eye on your overclocking endeavors. Triple 2nd Generation HDB fans are installed on all air-cooled EVGA GeForce RTX? 30 Series graphics cards to optimize airflow, increase cooling performance, and reduce fan noise.
At the bottom of the stack for Zotac are two close graphics cards, both named RTX 3080 Trinity. One of the cards has "OC" appended to the end of its name, and this model has a small factory overclock . The vanilla Trinity model doesn't have a factory overclock at all, and instead runs at the reference boost clock of 1,710MHz. The RTX 3080 Amp Extreme Holo features its own customized thermal solution. This consists of a three-fan cooler and a metal backplate with RGB LED lights. The cooler also has a vibrant green layer of material that wraps around one of the fans and runs the length of the card.
This helps to set the Holo apart from Zotac's other RTX 3080 cards. There are a few RGB LED lights on the card's front, but as the front of the card typically can't be seen after the card is mounted, this isn't an even trade. Asus created the single fastest RTX 3080 graphics card by overclocking its flagship to a rated 1,935MHz peak boost clock. This outstrips all of the competition, some of them by a large margin. The areas in which the third-party cards differ are usual ones such as peak boost clock, port selection, and cooling design.
But their designs are, to a one, quite different from the Founders Edition model. Here are the key aspects to look for in the various cards as you browse our descriptions and weigh which one to get. You can see it uses a triple slot triple fan cooler, with triple 8-pin power connectors. This card is about an inch higher than full-height and has a chrome edged shroud which will also feature RGB lighting.
On the topic of size, Freeman confirmed that the GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 will be the same length as the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra. Just ahead of the weekend Jacob Freeman, Global Product Management Director at EVGA, shared the first photos of upcoming GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards from the company. The image shared was a side-by-side photo of the upcoming EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 and XC3 triple fan air-cooled graphics cards. Freeman answered a number of queries about his Tweet, if you care to follow the link.
Triple Fan Cooling – Three fans are installed on all air-cooled EVGA GeForce® RTXᐪᔿ 3070 Series graphics cards to optimize airflow, increase cooling performance, and reduce fan noise. The Ultra is the factory-overclocked SKU with a boost clock of 1770 MHz. Meanwhile, the Black edition will ship with NVIDIA reference 1725 MHz clock. Price-wise, the Ultra will cost 560 USD while the Black will retail at 530 USD.
Nvidia plans to launch their RTX 3080 Ti graphics card on June 3rd and their RTX 3070 Ti on June 10th. The full specifications of these graphics cards are available below. In addition to this, Nvidia's latest SM design has enabled a 2x boost in FP32 throughput, which is a big deal for many workstation/productivity applications. There you have it, which do you think is the best RTX 3080 Ti graphics card for your use case? If you think the RTX 3080 Ti is too expensive and out of your budget, perhaps you may be interested in checking out some of the best RTX 3080 graphics cards instead. Below are more RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards that are not as premium as the cards mentioned above, but are generally cheaper and good options as well.
These three features tri-fan cooling solution and they do perform as expected. The Gigabyte Vision is the only different card here since it has an all-white color scheme. Just choose which one do you prefer more when it comes to aesthetics.
Just like the EVGA FTW3, the MSI RTX 3080 Ti SUPRIM X is also a beast of a graphics card. It also requires three 8-pin power connectors and features a 20-phase power design. There's a switch near the power connector that toggles between "silent" and "gaming" mode. Finally, it has some RGB lighting and this card feels heavy and premium on hand as well. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XC3 Ultra's design resembles many of EVGA's current-generation cards.
It has a similar design language to the company's other 30-series products, with an angular front fan shroud, and triple axial-fans with "E" logos scattered about all of the fan blades. This particular card is only 2 slots wide (not 2.5 slots) and features a densely-packed cooler, with an anodized aluminum heatsink assembly and copper heat pipes that extend over the GPU and back around atop the VRM. The heatsink assembly is actually longer than the PCB and effectively covers the entire front of the card. Like the GeForce RTX 3080, the cooler on the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founder Edition features dual axial fans, and a split heatsink design. One end of the heatsink array sits directly atop a vapor chamber that is affixed to the GPU and memory. The fan above that section directs air through the heatsink and immediately funnels it out of the chassis through large vents in the case bracket.
The crypto currency Ergo is based on the Autolykos algorithm, which was updated in version 2 in early 2021. The Autolykos 2 algorithm is based on the PoW concept and can be efficiently calculated by a graphics card. When calculating Ergo Coins, ASICs have no efficiency advantage over modern graphics cards, which should make Ergo attractive for as many miners as possible. The Ergo protocol is based on the blockchain and has been optimized for a very long shelf life. The hashrates were achieved under Hive OS with moderate overclocking settings.
Here is a better GPU constructed from a leading brand which is NVIDIA. In the other words, this RTX 3090 founders edition graphics card equips with the ultimate RAM type and might be the ideal mining graphics card for you. NVIDIA is an excellent brand, offering a month direct refund particularly signaling that it is a beast for the graphics card list.
Both of these cards employ the same thermal solution, which consists of a triple-fan IceStorm 2.0 cooler and a metal backplate that has an image illuminated with RGB LEDs. The vanilla version of this card is set with an MSRP of $719.99, and the OC version is just an extra $10. It's also Zotac's only RTX 3080 graphics card to require three eight-pin power connectors. For a flagship, MSI's Gaming X Trio is also reasonably priced, at $759.99, which undercuts the top cards from Asus, EVGA, and Gigabyte. MSI also created another similar RTX 3080 graphics card, labelled as the "Gaming Trio 10G," which looks identical to this one.
We estimate a price between $740 and $760, but this card isn't commercially available yet and we don't have an official price so far. EVGA created one of the most colorful RTX 3080 flagships in this FTW3 model. It has a large RGB LED light bar that runs across the top and front of the cooler shroud. Like most RTX 3080s, this card relies on a triple-fan thermal solution to keep the card cool. It also has a heavily perforated metal backplate with an RGB LED EVGA logo. POWER SUPPLY WATTAGE RECOMMENDATION. Like with boost clock, you'll see some variance here card to card, generally in line with the aggressiveness of the factory overclock or with the manual-overclock ceiling.
Cards like the MSI Gaming X Trio above can ask for a minimum power supply wattage as high as 850 watts. More the issue, though, as mentioned above, is the power supply connector scheme. Watch for those cards that require three GPU power leads, as not all power supplies will have that many, and connecting all three is not optional. Some users don't like RGB lighting or any kind of lighting at all. While you can disable the RGB lighting on the graphics card mentioned above, here are three RTX 3080 Ti that doesn't have RGB lighting. The only exception is with the Asus TUF RTX 3080 Ti since the TUF logo on the rear end has a small RBG lighting.
Nevertheless, all of these cards feature an all-black color scheme. Below is a summary of all the graphics cards mentioned in this list. Later in the article, I'll be categorizing them according to their features. I'll also show you some performance numbers and answer some frequently asked questions regarding the RTX 3080 Ti GPU.
The extra power lets the card boost higher so no the same true overclock frequency between the two cards won't necessarily be the same. The more expensive card will also have better cooling which will effect performance. If you're looking for a suitable hot rod to house that screaming-fast GPU, look no further than EVGA's RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra. This massive, feature-laden flagship tames the RTX 3080 Ti in ways that Nvidia's dual-slot Founders Edition simply can't.
But the EVGA FTW3 Ultra is just as fast as an RTX 3090 thanks to its hefty overclock and abundant cooling. At $1,400, you're paying a $200 premium for the extra ferocity on top of the 3080 Ti's sky-high base price. Viewed through another lens, the EVGA RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra is an extremely high-quality custom graphics card that goes toe-to-toe with baseline RTX 3090 models for $100 less. All four EVGA RTX 3080 graphics cards feature triple-fan cooler designs, with a traditional aluminum heatsink, plus heatpipes. It is an important factor of memory performance, and therefore the general performance of the graphics card.
If you were searching for the perfect RTX 3090 card which does a good job without charging a cost premium, the PNY triple fan is what you want as it can happily execute the stock speeds that the cooling system is able to handle. Next, the cooling system presents EVGA's signature iCX cooling alternative. The third-gen iCX3 arrives with an enhanced fan design which contains the middle fan being offset from 10mm to boost up the zone of airflow, a big copper heat spreader for huge coverage of the graphic card and VRAM. It can finish the heat pipe design for a huge contact zone, and cutouts on the PCB or backplate to permit air to avoid the warm air from circulating again. If you've been waiting for an RTX 3080 without RGB LED lights, this one is for you.
The Ventus 3X 10G OC has a triple-fan cooler and a metal backplate with a thick heatsink sandwiched in between. This model has just two eight-pin power connections, so don't expect nearly the power overhead for manual overclocking as MSI's Gaming X Trio, but it does come with a decent factory overclock . Gigabyte's flagship RTX 3080 graphics card is one of the most expensive, and one of the fastest. The Aorus GeForce GTX 3080 Xtreme 10G comes clocked at 1,905MHz peak boost, which makes it the second-highest factory overclocked RTX 3080, topped only by Asus' ROG Strix RTX 3080 O10G Gaming.
DirectX Ray Tracing allows games to simulate how light works in real life, providing incredibly realistic and beautiful graphic effects like global illumination, reflections, and shadows. GeForce RTX GPUs were designed from the start for the demands of ray tracking workloads. Specialized RT cores, found only on GeForce RTX graphics cards, provide billions of rays per second of performance, and up to 3X the frame rate with DXR games and applications. This makes ray tracing at real-time frame rates possible for the first time. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 is powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture. Built with enhanced RT Cores and Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and high-speed G6 memory, it gives you the power you need to rip through the most demanding games at 1440p resolution.
