Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti
Good, great bang for your buck... but good luck with the acquisition… [Updated]
[Updated 4/6/2021] - That the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is really a highly anticipated card is also evidenced by yesterday's events in New York. There was a leak of money among people on Wednesday that the Best Buy store would get a few pieces of cards on Thursday, which is yesterday. Enthusiastic gamers immediately began to gather in front and some of them stood outside the door for as long as 20 hours. In order to prevent an argument or even a fight, the employees of the store distributed leaflets among the waiting people, guaranteeing that those who are waiting will actually be able to buy the card...
[Original News 3/6/2021] - It is quite clear what Nvidia wanted to do with the release of the graphics card (although they are not "cards" for a long time) RTX 3080 Ti. After it launched the RTX 3080 (€700) and the powerful but expensive RTX 3090 (€1,500) last year, it became clear that the price/performance gap between them is so big that it calls for an intermediate model. And this is the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti.
The recommended retail price of the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is said to be around €1200, which means that it is a little more than "half way" between the 2080 and 3090. What about performance? You could say yes, too. This is what the technical data (number of SM (Shader Multiprocessor), Tensor cores (artificial intelligence), CUDA cores, RT cores, amount and bandwidth of memory) as well as the test results say. The card managed almost 200 fps in the Destiny 2 game test at 1440p (4K) and the highest settings, which is significantly more than the RTX 3080 (up to 165 fps) or the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (120 fps). There is a similar difference in 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme, where the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti scored 8683 points, the "regular" RTX 3080 scored 8009 points, and the aforementioned AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT scored 7713 points.
That's all well and good, the only problem is that due to the problems with delivery that all manufacturers face, you won't just get a card for that kind of money. If the RTX 3090 retails for between €2,000 and €3,000 (€1,500 recommended), get ready for at least that much, if not more, difference with the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti. And this despite the fact that the card is so-called "hash limited", so it is not interesting for cryptocurrency mining. ▪
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