JEMC said: Captain_Yuri said: GOT IT! Congratulations for getting the card... but bloody hell at its powe consumption. Well, at least you'll safe money this winter in heating.

Thanks loll. Tbh 400 watts is where I start to worry about my power supply so maybe I won't overclock and enjoy the lower noise levels instead. We will see though!

Captain_Yuri said: GOT IT!

Sic.

I wouldn't worry about overclocking that either.. at least for now lol. Good get.

hinch said: Captain_Yuri said: GOT IT! Sic. I wouldn't worry about overclocking that either.. at least for now lol. Good get.

Now we just need the 3080 and Ps5 to ship. Come on people! (Ik Ik, Ps5 is gonna release in November but still)

That's very interesting. I wonder why they've decided o push it so much and screw up the efficiency numbers for so little gain.

For those looking for review of custom RTX 3080 cards, Videocardz has made an article with them. Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA, Zotac, Galax, etc: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-custom-graphics-cards-review-roundup

Also, in case someone still had hopes of a comeback, SLI is officially dead:

NVIDIA SLI Support Transitioning to Native Game Integrations
https://videocardz.com/press-release/nvidia-sli-support-transitioning-to-native-game-integrations
With the emergence of low level graphics APIs such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan, game developers are able to implement SLI support natively within the game itself instead of relying upon a SLI driver profile. The expertise of the game developer within their own code allows them to achieve the best possible performance from multiple GPUs. As a result, NVIDIA will no longer be adding new SLI driver profiles on RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs starting on January 1st, 2021. Instead, we will focus efforts on supporting developers to implement SLI natively inside the games. We believe this will provide the best performance for SLI users.

Existing SLI driver profiles will continue to be tested and maintained for SLI-ready RTX 20 Series and earlier GPUs.

For GeForce RTX 3090 and future SLI-capable GPUs, SLI will only be supported when implemented natively within the game.

Now my worry is if they'll be honesy and work with developers to implement multi-GPU support in their games... or work with devs to implement SLI in their games in a way that makes it impossible for AMD to make those games work in X-fire even if they tried.

Knowing Nvidia, my bet is the first option, but I doubt they'll bother much with it.

To be fair, you can do the same thing to almost every CPU and GPU out there, specially in the case of the ones that are being loosely binned or have conservative power targets. Undervolting Ryzen CPUs yields particularly crazy results:

https://www.overclock.net/threads/why-you-should-undervolt-your-ryzen-3000-part-ii.1739796/

An example for Nvidia GPUs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/9idtco/rtx_2080_downvolt_the_easy_way/

30 - 40 W less power or better for same perf or small overclocks.

Captain_Yuri said: Alright got some more AIB info coming in.

So, 2-2.5% increase in performance at the low cost of about 15% more consumption. I think Mr. Atkinson describes what we're all feeling about that.

I do wonder what the aftermarket Ti cards will require to pull off optimal performance.

Yeah, I remember that Tom's Hardware did an article about undervolting AMD's Fury back in the day, but it still surprises me how conservative are all manufacturers to make sure that all CPUs and GPUs perform as promised.

And it also makes me wonder how bad has to be a chip to discard it even with those margins.

Better not think about that right now or you'll get nightmares.

It also makes you wonder how much power the 3090 will use.

I still have to waste my current $10 coupon valid until November before I get the new coupon.

Any good deals currently on EGS? Maybe I get "Twin Mirror". Or is it also coming to GamePass?