Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti VISION OC 12GB Graphics Card (PCIe 4.0, 12GB GDDR6X, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a, 3rd Generation Tensor Cores, 1710MHZ core clock)

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One thing that has changed since the launch of the RTX 30-series last year is support for the RGB lighting on the cards. We've verified that multiple RGB utilities, including Corsair's iCue, can now control the LEDs on the 3080 and 3090 Founders Edition cards, and that applies to the 3080 Ti Founders Edition as well. Do you want your Nvidia GPU to dress up in AMD red? Now it can! And there was much rejoicing. Ray tracing is an awesome graphics technology featured on most modern triple-A games including Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a clever solution that lets games render near-photorealistic lighting effects and real-time shadows and reflections. It’s a key feature on most modern GPUs and consoles, including the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Alternate Spinning can reduce the turbulence of adjacent fans and increase air pressure. The 3D Active Fan provides semi-passive cooling, and the fans will remain off when the GPU is in a low load or low power game. The airflow is spilt by the triangular fan edge, and guided smoothly through the 3D stripe curve on the fan surface. Graphene nano lubricant can extend the life of fan by 2.1 times, close to the life of double ball bearing, and is quieter. You’re also going to get access to Nvidia’s whole suite of software features, and it’s not just limited to gaming.

For starters, the RTX 3080 Ti has 2GB more GDDR6x memory than the regular RTX 3080. GDDR6x is one of the most expensive and top-performing types of video memory used in consumer graphics cards. Its key benefit is that it can facilitate significantly faster data transfer speeds than the base GDDR6 seen in cheaper graphics cards. As we stated earlier, it's not the GPU thermals alone that are important. We've seen numerous instances over the past nine months where cards with GDDR6X run hot on the memory. Fresh from the box hardware represents the best-case scenario for the hardware, outside of modding the card yourself. If the RTX 3080 Ti already hits peak temperatures of 104C on the memory in some games, we expect that to get worse over time. Most of the time, even the simplest RTX 3080 Ti, like NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition is enough already. What’s the best CPU for the RTX 3080 Ti? The RTX 3080 Ti is built on Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, which launched last year alongside the first-gen RYX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is the latest GPU being pitched to hardcore gamers looking for THE best graphics possible by tech powerhouse Nvidia.The 505.1W peak system draw I detected running Time Spy Extreme makes it a full 50W more demanding than the base RTX 3080, meaning you’ll definitely want to invest in a top-end PSU when planning a build with the new Ti. It also ran fairly hot, hitting a peak temperature of around 82ºC running the same benchmark. This is just 8ºC below the 90ºC threshold where GPUs start to struggle. The Division 2 is one of Ubisoft’s largest live service games. It’s a multiplayer third-person shooter that takes place in a giant sprawling dystopian American cityscape. It isn’t the most demanding game on this list, but its internal benchmark is a good metric to judge how a GPU will run most live service games. Here, the 3080 Ti blitzed through the benchmark at every resolution. Measured in frames-per-second Dropping down to 1440p, the gaps between the fastest cards narrow slightly, and AMD's Infinity Cache starts to play a bigger role. Where the RTX 3080 Ti placed second overall at 4K, just behind the 3090, it now drops behind the RX 6900 XT and lands in third place, with the RX 6800 XT nipping at its heels. However, the gains you get compared to the base RTX 3080, which is a lot more affordable, make it a hard sell for gamers who don’t need the best performance possible in 4K. Gamers yet to do the jump to 4K will also be better off saving their cash and opting for a cheaper card, such as the 1440p-focused RTX 3070, or 1080p-focused RTX 3060 Ti, which are both very accomplished cGPUs in their own right. The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is a powerhouse graphics card that delivers excellent 4K ray tracing performance. If you can afford its steep up-front cost, it’s an excellent choice for any hardcore gamer looking for top-of-the-line performance.

Yeah, there's no denying it. It has been a bizarre year if we're talking computer components alone, silicon shortages, mining it's been sour grapes for a long time now. Likely that won't even change soon. People are almost fighting to be able to grab a decently proceed graphics card, often running up to three times the MSRP pricing. NVIDIA is staying on its trajectory though, implementing hash-rate limitations for consumer-grade GPUs and releasing refresh products pretty much as scheduled. Today we see such a refresh product, a product that positioned itself in-between the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090. That product would be the GeForce RTX 3080 ti, and probably was the worst kept secret as of late in the history of NVIDIA. Armed with a shader core count of 10240 units, this card is paired with 12 GB of GDDR6X graphics memory running 19 Gbps. Much has been said, rumored, and spoken about this card, as with that libidinous shading core count, it is bound to be a bit of a beast in the enthusiast performance segment. You need to remember that it was less than a year ago that NVIDIA launched their Ampere GPU series, September 2020 in fact. A week before announcements, specifications of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080, and 3090 took a twist; the shader core count mysteriously doubled up from what everybody expected, to date something massively important to this product range as yes, the competition has gotten fiercer as well. NVIDIA's GPUs are fabricated on an 8nm node derived from Samsung. This process further develops Samsung's 10nm process; no EUV is applied in production just yet. This second wave of announcements will see the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and next week 3070 Ti (hey come on it's not a secret). The desktop product line of Ampere for consumers now entails the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB, 3070 8GB GDDR6, RTX 3080 10GB, RTX 3080 Ti 12GB, and RTX 3090, what we test today is a 12GB GDDR6X based close to premium flagship. Much like the 3080 and 3090, the 3080 Ti will base based on the existing 28 billion transistors based GA102 GPU from NVIDIA, obviously reconfigured. The card has an impressive 10240 Shader processors activated and mind you, the 3090 has 10496. A big change is that the memory is halved from 24 towards 12 GB (which is an excellent number). RTX 3080 Ti Gaming OC Ampere is seriously impressive and brings with it a wealth of key benefits for PC gamers. These include support for ray tracing games using Nvidia’s 3rd-generation tensor cores, DLSS and the inclusion of an HDMI 2.1 port.Here, the RTX 3080 Ti managed to run the game with zero hassle, at post 60fps with the graphics settings maxed. However, the performance gains on the regular RTX 3080 weren’t quite as high as I’d have liked considering the disparity in price. Measured in frames-per-second