https://techplanet.today/feed/tag/rtx%2030802021-11-28T16:35:18+00:00https://techplanet.today/9213
5. MSI RTX 3070
If you're in the process of building or upgrading a PC for gaming, you know that your choice of graphics card is one of the main components that will affect your enjoyment of games. Graphics cards also tend to be changed quite rarely, so picking a quality, high-performance one for your rig is critical as you'll be using it for years to come. This MSI RTX 3070 Aventus is an excellent unit for any modern PC; it utilizes highly efficient AI rendering that accelerates frame rates with uncompromised image quality using its dedicated AI processing and Tensor Cores. This gives you the performance headroom you need to crank up settings and resolutions for...]]>
2021-11-28T16:35:18+00:00https://techplanet.today/7533
Spec Differences
Let’s start with the spec differences, as you can probably guess based purely on the names, the 3080 is better for the most part. The 3080 has more and faster memory, more CUDA cores, uses more power, and costs $200 more, so let’s find out if it’s worth it.
Test PC Setup
This is the system that I’m using to test out both graphics cards, so an overclocked i9-10900K at 5.2GHz with 32gb of DDR4-3200 CL14 memory in dual channel. We’ll first dig into the gaming results, then check out cost per frame, power draw, and content creator workloads afterwards.
Gaming bench...]]>
2020-11-12T08:30:00+00:00https://techplanet.today/7443
Let’s start with the spec differences, as you can probably guess based purely on the names, the 3090 is better in every aspect, but as a result it does require more power and it also costs more than twice as much as the 3080, so let’s find out if it’s worth it. This is the system that I’m using to test both Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Founders Edition, and MSI’s RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio. Both were tested with the same Windows and Nvidia updates, so let’s get into the results.
Starting out with Microsoft Flight Simulator, I’ve got the 3090 shown by the purple bars, and the 3080 below shown by the red bars. The three resolutions tested are on the left,...]]>
2020-10-13T09:10:00+00:00https://techplanet.today/7427
Let’s start with the spec differences. The 3080 has double the CUDA core count, kind of but not really, it’s an architecture change which won’t offer big gains for gaming. The 2080 Ti has an extra gig of VRAM, but the 3080’s newer GDDR6X memory is faster, and its base and boost clock speeds are faster too, though it does also use more power.
In terms of price difference, you can pick up a 2nd hand 2080 Ti for similar money to the 3080 on Ebay. This is the system that I’ve tested both Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Founders Edition, and my Aorus 2080 Ti in. Both were tested with the same Windows and Nvidia updates, so let’s get into the results.
Starting out with Microsoft Flight Simulator, I’ve got the...]]>
2020-10-05T07:46:00+00:00https://techplanet.today/7388
While you read over our test platform, let me get this off of my chest. NVIDIA, man you guys really went out of your way to set yourselves up here, didn't you? Like I don't get it. Spoiler alert, you're shipping the fastest graphics card on the market at half the price of the previous kin, why don't you just leave it there? Why push your luck with claims like, twice as fast as RTX 2080? Because it's not.
To be very clear, it's not like I'm saying, you know, boo, 3080 biggest disappointment ever because, right out of the gate at 1440p we're looking at a performance lead over, not just the price comparable last gen 208...]]>
2020-09-17T03:39:58+00:00https://techplanet.today/7355
Obviously I'm not ready to hand Nvidia their crown until we see the new cards for ourselves. But based on what they've shown, we are in for one heck of a ride. They announced well a lot, and we're going to get to all of it, but the big one is, Ampere is real and Ampere is an absolute monster.
As it turns out, the recent leaks were accurate in many if not most ways. Where Turing based RTX 2000 GPUs were manufactured on TSMC's 12 nanometer FinFET process, which was actually derived from their 16 nanometer process, Nvidia instead partnered with Samsung on a custom eight nanometer process for the RTX 3000 series. And the difference here is much bigger than we got moving from Pascal to Turing.
Here's the thing, for over three years now, G-Force GPUs have had in the neighborho...]]>
2020-09-03T17:35:03+00:00