With today’s release of the GeForce RTX 3070 FE (Founders Edition), NVIDIA is simultaneously introducing a smaller chip, the GA104, which is smaller in area and therefore brings all the known advantages. Higher yield rate and thus better availability, improved efficiency and somewhat cheaper to produce. To what extent the GeForce RTX 3070 FE [...]
Our community member Gurdi was able to get hold of several GeForce RTX 3090s (F5 skills!) just in time for the launch and was also kind enough to invest some time to provide you with new knowledge about this map. Among other things, he devoted himself to the question of whether and how this new card could be overclocked. Many have asked themselves [...]
It’s nice to see that NVIDIA seems to be actively involved in this, or that you’ve reported on your reading of the catchy social media content, because the hotspot that I found in the launch article about the graphics card, I discussed again later: GDDR6X at its limit? Over 100 degrees measured in the chip with the GeForce RTX 3080 FE [...]
As always, you have to be careful with such benchmarks, even if the material I received yesterday seems quite plausible. Two sources, very different approaches or settings and yet in the end a certain coverage of the results – one can at least already see a certain trend. The most plausible results for me come from an Ultra-HD run [...]
The large RX 6900XT will be AMD exclusive according to AMD’s own statements (“This card will be (for now) AMD exclusive. The Radeon RX 6900XT will be the AMD flagship series, which according to our sources will be in limited quantity”) probably first an item for the gallery, just like the Titan RTX. The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which [...]
I don’t really need to comment on the following document, because it really speaks for itself. In fact, everyone involved is happy to see a huge demand, but when things turn out the way NVIDIA does, the anticipation and hype quickly turns into disappointment and even anger. But that’s exactly what AMD wants to avoid, because there are [...]
During the last days a lot of leaking has already taken place, nevertheless I have deliberately held back in order to be able to obtain more information in detail and above all to be able to verify it. I had to learn from my own information about Ampere often enough that most of the news of other media, based on it, were then unfortunately [...]
With the Palit GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming Pro, Palit’s “butter-and-bread” Ampere card has also been in the trade since the launch, or rather should be. The manufacturer is not responsible for the availability. In contrast to the slim Founders Edition, Palit has opted for the more bulky 2.5-slot design and is putting a card on the [...]
With the Alphacool GPU water block Aurora Plexi GPX-N RTX 3090/3080 I want to start the new round of GPU water blocks, but this time for Ampere and not Turing. A water cooling system makes sense with power losses of over 300 watts and creates real added value. Let’s start now with the Alphacool product, which was the first model available to [...]
You already know the first article, but of course you can read it again here: “GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Undervolting – When Reason and Experimentation Meet NVIDIA Ampere“. Due to the demand I have pressed the whole thing once again in tables, so that you have summarized everything clearly at a glance. In order to make all of this [...]
Do you remember the SKU20 that I reported on months ago? By now it should be certain that exactly this card will reach the end customer market. The chip will remain identical to that of the GeForce RTX 3080, but the card itself will have twice the memory capacity of 20 GB. According to what videocardz.com and an own source report, the launch of [...]
Hi everyone, in our forums, questions such as “why is my graphics card getting so hot” are often answered with a hint towards FPS limiters. But it happened only recently that NVIDIA has finally packed this function into their own driver. Time for dedicated article on this topic from a gaming laptop brand’s point of view. But [...]
Even if the GeForce RTX 3080 is generally only available in smaller quantities at the market, I want to offer nevertheless briefly from the market start of the KFA2 RTX 3080 SG still a suitable test of this Custom solution. In contrast to the rather narrow Founders Edition, KFA2 relies on the well-known 2.5-slot design and puts a card on the [...]
Our community member Gurdi was able to get his hands on a GeForce RTX 3080 just in time for the launch and was kind enough to invest some time to provide you with new insights around this card. Among other things, he also addressed the question of whether and how this new card could be made a little more economical and efficient. This is exactly [...]
What does the National Day of the People’s Republic of China have to do with the postponed launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070? The question should probably be asked by those who had planned the launch of exactly this graphics card on 15.10.2020. Officially, this national holiday runs from 01.10.2020 to 07.10.2020, whereby this year it [...]
Of course, it's easy to speculate why and how NVIDIA is making such a move so soon after its planned launch on 10/15/202020. If the in-house spies have done a good job, NVIDIA could counter with a card that is already physically present and whose design has been adapted to the competitor's product (BIOS, clock rates). This would indirectly [...]
The discussions about what current flow various 6-, 8- or now even 12-pin sockets can survive are as old as these sockets themselves. But while over the years one could see the odd experiment or two, the 12-pin Micro-Fit 3.0 connector is new. This in turn naturally aroused human curiosity and this is exactly where my longtime friend Aris [...]
At the end of Turing's life cycle, I personally reviewed how the RTX 2000 series performed and which features really scored. With the "small" 2060 Super I tested if raytracing is already feasible for the masses, if DLSS is optically acceptable by now and how much 1440p power you can expect in this price range.
With the revision 456.55 NVIDIA wants to fix most of the problems of the new GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 and solved it. In addition to the power supply shutdowns that repeatedly occurred at the beginning with power supplies that seemed to be nominally sufficient, it was mainly the crashes of certain cards within the 3D environment that caused a [...]
After my article about the capacitors on the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 has made a lot of waves, I have to criticize myself in two respects. I had underestimated that the readers might be interested in a somewhat longer and more technical explanation of the circumstances or background and that secondly, the (thoughtless) adoption of the terms [...]
