nvidia's top of the line rtx
30 90. no no there's no time for
that we've got to talk about this thing now if you haven't watched our rtx 3080 review
here's the background you need rtx 3000
also known as ampere is what
nvidia is calling the biggest generational leap in performance in the company's history now if you go back far enough i'ma press x here
but he's also not joking these cards
unlike the touring based rtx 2000 series
are smoking fast right out of the gate
with our rtx 3080 reaching speeds in the
neighborhood of 75 to 100 faster than its predecessor depending on the task that
combined with nvidia's super impressive
dlss 2.0 upscaling technology means
that 4k gaming went from someday to
today right now but wait there's even
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lovingly referred to as the bfgpu
and spoiler alert he's right this
is an rtx titan for scale heck here's an
rod strix oc for scale this thing is easily the largest not to mention heaviest
conventional graphics card that i have
ever seen which means that anyone
who buys one needs to also make some
additional investments first up you're
gonna need a case with a solid gpu mount and enough clearance being both taller and thicker than previous flagships it simply won't fit in most small form factor cases
that is unless you hot rod them second
you'll need a fat power supply
rated at 350 watts of power consumption
and with nvidia's new 12-pin connector
the 30-90 could easily push your previous unit to its limits
last but not least you're going to need
the fastest gaming cpu in the world
because quite frankly with anything else
you are going to be leaving
performance on the table which is something you don't want to do when you're paying 1500 us dollars for a graphics card yes my friends compared to the rtx 3080 the world's first 8k gaming gpu gets you more than
double not to mention faster video
memory 20 more cuda tensor and rt
cores and even nv link support via a new connector that was presumably shrunk to minimize wasted space on the physically cut down pcb that makes nvidia's new
flow-through cooler possible but wait
double the video memory why well
aside from giving it much better compute
capabilities and more importantly the
ability to render much more complex 3d
scenes in software like blender as it turns out gaming at 8k also genuinely demands this much video memory i mean think about it ak is 33 megapixels
at 32 bits per pixel that means to
display just a single frame 128
megabytes of video memory is needed which doesn't sound so bad but add in textures models screen space effects and of course
rtx real time ray tracing i mean come on
and you've got yourself many times that
ideally 60 times per second or more
wolfenstein youngblood clocked in at
over 11 gigs of memory usage at
8k sounds fun but at the end of the day
it all boils down to performance doesn't it so by request we built up a core i9 10 900k test bench to minimize our cpu bottlenecks and dug out our rtx 3080 along with a 2080 ti
and titan rtx for comparison starting
off with minecraft rtx we're seeing
about a 22 average frame rate
improvement over the rtx 3080 and a
whopping 51 to 60 over the titan rtx both with the lss on and off not bad wolfenstein youngblood meanwhile gives us a much more modest performance improvement
over the 3080 at around 15 percent but
while still pulling off a respectable 50 improvement
over the titan rtx a card that costs a
thousand dollars more so there
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3090 and a water bottle with all that
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cs go and microsoft flight simulator tell a very similar story in 4k but interestingly the gap narrows significantly for flight simulator at 1440p because
of cpu bottlenecks that's right despite
the op cpu and ultra graphic settings finally the parallel n64 emulator which does most
of the graphics and sound emulation on
the gpu rather than the cpu and recently
added upscaling support shows us that the extra oomph brings us up to 99th percentile frame times near fps that eight times upscale by the way works out to more pixels than 5k emulated but then there's the elephant in the room 8k gaming as tom's hardware reported nvidia's demos only showed 8k aaa gaming with dlss 2.0 in what they're calling ultra performance mode now before dlss 2.0 offered performance and quality scaling options with performance rendering at 1080p like the lss 1.0
and quality rendering at 1440p before
upscaling usually to 4k now ultra
performance still uses 1440p but instead
of performing a reasonable scaling jump
up to 4k it's trying to take that data
and go all the way up to 8k i mean
that's a lot of guesses to make in terms
of what are those smeary pixels so does it look any good well on a 4k display
there's little point in using it since
the only real effect is similar
to anti-aliasing which can be had with
less performance penalty in other ways but if you are one of the privileged few with an 8k display today here are some shots of what you can expect to see from 4k native versus 8k dlss ultra performance versus 8k native you can see clearly that 8k dlss ultra performance delivers significantly more detail than 4k does
even if it isn't quite up to 8k native
standards i mean check out the
text and distant details in this shop
for example ak dlss ends up much closer
to 8k native here even if it's still not perfect and the same deal with these grates on the floor in this shot
they're almost completely wiped out in
4k but dlss restores that now
performance is roughly 25 less than 4k but that still puts us above the magic 60fps mark on average which is pretty sweet if you shelled out for one of those new 8k tvs with hdmi 2.1 even
better is that not every game even aaa
games necessarily needs to use dlss we
ran do maternal at native ak with very
high detail settings for what was honestly the most mind-bending experience i've had with this gpu so far and we barely saw dips below 60 fps also impressive during that session with the 88-inch tv was hdr gameplay recording with shadowplay
now we had wanted to include a big
section about performance and
image quality but the story is sort of
already in the footage that you're looking
at it just worked the performance hit
was reasonable and it looks as good as you could expect given the 100 megabit per second bit rate at
such a massive resolution our entire 8k
gaming experience video yesterday was
shot with it running in the background
without any hiccups whatsoever great job productivity though is where the rtx 3090
both gets to stretch its legs and also
get a little bit dicey going up against
the titan and blender we saw anywhere
from a 50 improvement with the
cpu optimized gooseberry render all the way up past 100 more performance in the pavilion barcelona optics render yes my friends gooseberry a benchmark designed for cpus can run on all of these cards thanks to their ridiculous amounts of vram other rendering benchmarks like v-ray redshift and octane bench all provide similar numbers across the board with the rtx 3090 hovering around the 15
to 20 mark over the 30 80 and 50 to 80
percent over the titan then there's spec
view perf where we can see that the rtx
3090 is sorry wait what no no go back to
that katia ran over 40 faster on the
titan how does that make sense okay so
as it turns out this card while it has more raw hutzpah than the titan rtx and was introduced as if it were a titan-ish it isn't a tight when we spoke to nvidia they explained that there are driver optimizations for the titan that have not been enabled for the rtx 3090 and presumably won't and they confirmed that these results are 100 expected behavior which kind of sucks because if this thing is mostly just a giant overgrown 3080 ti at 1500 what's the ampere titan gonna cost three grand anyway
back to spec vue perf we did get several
wins for both the rtx 3090 and
the titan rtx depending on the workload
with siemens nx not even being in the
same area code let alone ballpark that's kind of rough for professionals who are looking to juice up their workstation for cad work by day and gaming at 8k by night which
do they choose and there's more bad news remember that bit about needing a new power supply well our test bench sure did even a high quality 850 watt couldn't keep up with our rtx 3090 routinely breaking 375 watts with nvidia's pcap power meter connected throughout our testing with a peak power draw of over 450 watts the titan rtx meanwhile barely broke 300 watts the
whole time thank fully the cooler as
with the rtx 3080 was well up to the task
and it didn't even break a sweat through
spec view perf with thermals never
pushing past 70 degrees also core clocks
were ridiculously stable at around 2
gigahertz under load so i guess all that
weight and metal is doing its job and then some nvidia was clearly really concerned with thermals this time around and they just did a great job there's no other way of putting it and hopefully that means some overclocking headroom as well early reports on the rtx 3080 seem to suggest
that the gddr 6x memory is pretty easily
bumped up but we've also seen
reports that nvidia went for lower speed
ram due to thermal limitations so as always stress test your overclocks with a prolonged load before considering them tournament ready and speaking of overclocking we have a video coming where we look at the differences between
aftermarket gpus so make sure you get
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now these results leave me i mean
there's no real word for it other than
conflicted about the rtx 3090. on the
one hand it's a beast of a graphics card but on the other hand
it's clear that nvidia is holding it
back so they don't eat into their titan
or quadro lineups kind of like how intel
runs things with xeon it runs
really cool with a fan that's not nearly
as loud as the rtx 2000 series but it guzzles power and i can't help feeling like a doofus for buying it for workstation or cad use knowing that there could be a titan coming down the line that puts the 3090 squarely in prosumer slash enthusiast territory so like super high-end gamers content creators and especially 3d modelers are gonna love it which isn't a bad thing it's just a niche thing and i can't help but feel that nvidia could have done more to make the 3090 shine do you think that's fair anthony do you think that's fair yeah how about you jensen i know you watch our videos and i also know that you don't like it when you think i'm
not being fair which is kind of funny to
me because i get to sit here
imagining a man who casually buys 40 billion dollar companies and changes computing as we know it who still gets butt hurt when some nobody youtuber doesn't like his gaming widget enough but on the other hand you know what jensen
i actually really like that about you
it's that kind of passion that
makes nvidia so great so i've resolved
to keep making you mad because evidently
when you got mad that i didn't like your
rtx 2080 ti we got the 30 80. so i might
go even harder on you guys just to see
how far you can push pc gaming no i'm just kidding jensen sort of since i have your attention please unlock the titan driver paths and sri ov
at least for the rtx 3090 this is a
niche enthusiast card and it
should really enjoy niche enthusiast
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