Summary
For the overall performance of the GeForce RTX 3080 I already generated a long textwall in the launch article, I don’t want to repeat myself completely. Especially at higher resolutions, this card is a real board, because even if the advantage over the GeForce RTX 2080 Super doesn’t always turn out to be in the high double digits and even the GeForce RTX 3080 FE is only beaten by a wafer-thin margin, it’s always enough to reach the next quality level in playability. Right stop of many quality controllers included. Particularly if the games of the GeForce RTX 3080 and the new architecture lie, are also sometimes up to 80% increase compared to the RTX 2080 super in it and a RTX 2080 Ti is beaten with almost 40%. This too must be noted if one wants to be fair. But it is only the beginning and not generally enforceable with the game engines, unfortunately.
It is also exactly the increase, because you have always demanded for example when playing in Ultra-HD. Here you go, here is an offer for it. The fact that the RAM with its 10 GB could become scarce from time to time, at the latest in Ultra-HD, is due to the design by NVIDIA and also by many game manufacturers, who fill up with data exactly what can be filled up. Which of course would not be a blanket apology and thus the only point of criticism. It should have been doubled by now, price point or no price point.
The interpretation of KFA2 is actually quite well done, even if the focus is mainly on temperatures. This is then sometimes a little at the expense of noise emission, but never becomes an inferno. With the almost 320 watts, I personally prefer this configuration (because it’s more honest), because at least no components will quietly celebrate their thermal exit. Here the three 9.2 cm fans are in fact the accident insurance. I’d rather not write life insurance in the first place. And they’re colourful too.
Of course you always have to be lucky in the GPU lottery, that hasn’t changed with Ampere. The manual OC depends primarily on the chip, of course, and the maximum power limit of only 320 watts is rather due to common sense and lottery luck. This can work (as in my case) or not. There’s no guarantee for boosting anyway, and even without manual tuning of any clock rates there’s enough performance.
Conclusion
How do you judge a card fairly and honestly, which for certain reasons is not really for sale and if it is, it is immediately sold out again? At least the demand of the buyers seems to be there. After all. KFA2 has concentrated on the essentials in the GeForce RTX 3080 SG (1-Click-OC), which one should also approve of in any case. The waste heat is managed competently, which is certainly not easy. Above all, the low storage temperatures are a big thermal pound with which it can grow, reserves included.
If there is one thing that bothers you, it is the lack of leeway in the power limit. The manufacturer could certainly have released 340 watts without hesitation. Wan doesn’t really need it, but at least the play instinct of the hobby overclockers would have been satisfied a little bit better with it. You can’t really expose much more than that, which led me to see the whole thing as a “performance booster”. In view of the current supply situation, however, it would be pure cynicism to give a purchase tip.
I guess the card will later and with better availability price around the lower end of what will be sold as GeForce RTX 3080. This would also make the basic orientation of the card a solid precision landing. Unfortunately, this is another card that you can only gaze at. Unless you are lucky enough to click on the order button. You may have it.
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