EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra review

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EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming review

In this review, we test the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming, a premium card with extras and factory settings. The performance certainly holds ground because he is a good player in the graphic arena. There is no denying it. It’s been a weird year if we’re just talking about computer components, silicon shortages, mining; they have been sour grapes for a long time. That probably won’t change anytime soon. People almost fight for a decent graphics card, which often costs up to three times the MSRP price. NVIDIA remains on course, however, implementing hash rate limitations for consumer GPUs and releasing refresh products pretty much as planned. Today we see such a refresh product that positioned itself between the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090. This product would be the GeForce RTX 3080 ti, and was probably the least well kept secret in NVIDIA history. Armed with a shader core count of 10,240 units, this card is paired with 12 GB of GDDR6X graphics memory running at 19 Gbps. A lot has been said, rumored and talked about this card, because with this number of libidinous shading cores, it’s bound to be a bit of a beast in the enthusiast performance segment. Remember that less than a year ago, NVIDIA launched its Ampere GPU series, in September 2020, in fact. A week before the announcements, the specifications of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080 and 3090 have changed; the number of shader cores has mysteriously doubled from what everyone expected, so far something very important for this product line because yes the competition has also become fiercer. NVIDIA’s GPUs are manufactured on an 8nm node derived from Samsung. This process further expands Samsung’s 10nm process; no EUV is yet applied in production. This second wave of announcements will see the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and next week the 3070 Ti (come on, it’s no secret). Ampere’s line of desktop consumer products now includes the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 3070 8 GB GDDR6, RTX 3080 10 GB, RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB and RTX 3090; what we’re testing today is a 12GB GDDR6X based near the premium flagship. Like the 3080 and 3090, the 3080 Ti will be based on NVIDIA’s 28 billion transistor-based GA102 GPU, obviously reconfigured. The card has an impressive 10240 Shader processors activated, and beware; the 3090 has 10,496. A big change is that the memory is halved from 24 to 12 GB (a great value).

EVGA FTW3 Ultra Gaming

At the time of this writing, the FTW3 Ultra can be found on the EVGA website for $ 1,399, but due to ongoing price wars and global shortages, it’s hard to predict what will happen to them. future prices, because even at EVGA these cards are out of stock, unfortunately. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra is equipped with this NVIDIA GA102 GPU; it has a satisfactory number of activated shader cores and is associated with 12 GB GDDR6X graphics memory. EVGA offers the card configured in a semi-passive design in BIOS mode by default; triple fans start spinning and cooling once the GPU warms up (fan stops). You will notice that it has 3 8 pin power connectors (6 + 2).

The FTW3 features a custom-designed PCB topped with an iCX3 cooler and heat sink connected to copper heat pipes that draw heat through a copper baseplate. Everything is ventilated by a triple of independently controlled fans. The FTW3 Ultra version has an RGB LED decoration located on the top of the board cooler. The board is rated by us with a typical power consumption of 425 W, a value of 350 W for the reference design. This indicates that it will perform a bit better at default clocks, as EVGA allows a bit more power to improve performance. Weighing almost 1600g., This graphics card on the big side of the spectrum with a triple slot (2.75 Slots) and dimensions of 300×136.75mm. A dual BIOS is present, both modes offer the ready-to-use boost clock for this product is 1800 MHz and its memory is clocked at the 19 Gbps reference (19 Gbps reference). But hey, let’s start this review, okay?

introductionProduct Pictures Product PicturesProduct disassemblyGPU architectureHardware configuration | Energy consumptionGraphics card temperaturesGraphics Card Thermal Imaging (FLIR) measurementsAcoustic levels of the graphics cardTest environment and equipmentVULKAN: Red Dead Redemption IIDX12: Battlefield VDX12: Resident Evil 8 VillageDX12: Cyberpunk 2077DX12: Hitman IIIDX12: Assassins Creed: ValhallaDX12: Watchdogs: LegionDX12: Shadow Of The Tomb RaiderDX12: Metro: EXODUSDX12: Strange BrigadeDX11: 2020 Formula 1 CodemastersDX11: Far Cry New DawnDX11: The Wild Hunt of The Witcher IIIDX11: Unigine: SuperpositionDX11: 3DMark FireStrike (ultra)DX12: 3DMark Time Spy (2016)DXR: ray tracing performance – SyntheticDXR: Raytracing / Performance DLSS – BF V – RE8 – Watch Dogs: Legion – CyberpunkAPI Performance: Vulkan vs. OpenGL vs. DirectX12GPGPU: calculate rendering performanceFrame time analysisOverclock the graphics cardThe GPU Shoot OutFinal words and conclusion

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