Arguably the most crucial component of any PC is the graphics card. For gamers and design based professionals, the graphics card, or GPU, handles the majority of their computing workload. Other parts such as the processor, RAM, or storage drives are also important, however activities such as high FPS gaming, 3D Rendering, or advanced media editing, require powerful graphics cards. With more people working from home than ever before, the need for graphics cards is at an all time high.
Whether your home is now your office or you are streaming the latest games to an audience, your GPU will become the workhorse of your computer. When it comes to purchasing a GPU, the first decision you need to make is between an NVIDIA graphics card or an AMD graphics card. Graphics cards that support Ray Tracing and DLSS or FSR are becoming more popular as they provide gamers the highest quality graphics possible without sacrificing frame rates. You can indeed push the EVGA FTW3 Ultra's power limits further than with many rival RTX 3080 cards. The stock reference spec is 350W, but EVGA's card features a stunning 420W power limit. The Founders Edition tops out at 370W if you increase its power target limit in overclocking software like EVGA's fantastic Precision X1.
Precision X1 also lets you tap into the not one, not two, but nine"iCX3" sensors that EVGA embedded throughout the card, letting you see temperature readings for different parts of your GPU, memory, and voltage regulation systems. EVGA introduced iCX technology in the GeForce GTX 1080 Superclocked 2 following a cooling controversy. It remains a killer exclusive feature for graphics card nerds. Overview GeForce RTX 2080 Ti EVGA FTW3 Ultra Hybrid Gaming 11GB is a dual-slot RTX 20 Series graphics card and considered an Enthusiast graphics card based on the Turing architecture. This graphics card comes with all-in-one liquid and air Hybrid cooling solutions.
Architecture The Turing architecture represents a process shrink down to 12nm compared to 14nm Pascal. The Turing architecture provides the world's first consumer support for real-time ray-tracing technology, or RTX. GPU It equips a GPU Codenamed TU102 which has 4352 Shader Processing Units, 272 TMUs and 88 ROPs.
The central unit runs at 1350MHz and goes up to 1755MHz in Boost mode, offering a generous 14% overclock. Memory The GPU accesses an 11GB frame buffer of first-gen GDDR6 memory through a 352-bit memory interface, while the Memory clock operates at 1750MHz, or 14GHz effective. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 250W, it requires at least a 650W PSU with two 8-pin power connectors. System Suggestions GeForce RTX 2080 Ti EVGA FTW3 Ultra Hybrid Gaming 11GB is best suited for resolutions up to and including 3840x2160. We recommend a top-End Processor and at least 16GB of RAM for optimal performance.
NVIDIA has partnered closely with Microsoft to enable full DXR support on GeForce GPUs. GeForce RTX GPUs were designed from the start for the extreme demands of ray-tracing workloads. Specialised RT cores, found only on GeForce RTX graphics cards, provide billions of rays per second of performance, and up to 3X the frame rates with DXR games and applications. This makes ray tracing at real-time frame rates possible for the first time.
Along with its sibling, the RTX 3070 Ti, the new graphics cards are a response to AMD's return to competitiveness in the high-end graphics segment. It has the same mission as the RTX 3080—to offer maxed out gaming at 4K Ultra HD resolution with raytracing, making it NVIDIA's new flagship gaming product. The RTX 3090 is still positioned higher, but with its 24 GB memory, is branded as a TITAN-like halo product capable of certain professional-visualization applications when paired with NVIDIA's Studio drivers. Gears Tactics puts it own brutal, fast-paced spin on the XCOM-like genre. This Unreal Engine 4-powered game was built from the ground up for DirectX 12, and we love being able to work a tactics-style game into our benchmarking suite. Better yet, the game comes with a plethora of graphics options for PC snobs.
More games should devote such loving care to explaining what flipping all these visual knobs mean. You can't use the presets to benchmark Gears Tactics, as it intelligently scales to work best on your installed hardware, meaning that "Ultra" on one graphics card can load different settings than "Ultra" on a weaker card. We manually set all options to their highest possible settings. The crypto currency Ergo is based on the Autolykos algorithm, which was updated in version 2 in early 2021. The Autolykos 2 algorithm is based on the PoW concept and can be efficiently calculated by a graphics card.
When calculating Ergo Coins, ASICs have no efficiency advantage over modern graphics cards, which should make Ergo attractive for as many miners as possible. The Ergo protocol is based on the blockchain and has been optimized for a very long shelf life. The hashrates were achieved under Hive OS with moderate overclocking settings.
The latest graphics cards have dedicated hardware that's optimized for ray-tracing operations. Despite the advances in GPU performance, the demands are still too high for a game to rely on ray tracing alone. That's why games use ray tracing to complement traditional rendering techniques. The 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test is designed to make ray-tracing performance the limiting factor.
Instead of relying on traditional rendering, the whole scene is ray-traced and drawn in one pass. The test result depends entirely on ray-tracing performance, which means you can measure and compare the performance of dedicated ray-tracing hardware in the latest graphics cards. While graphics cards are less complicated to install than other components, you will still need to do some research to ensure your new GPU is compatible with your computer.
Due to the demands of some modern graphics cards, they can sometimes require larger power supplies. Specific GPUs such as some 30 series cards from NVIDIA will even require proprietary cables to connect to a power supply. Luckily, the experienced team at Micro Center is there at any time to help you find what new graphics cards are compatible with your system. Technicians at the Micro Center Service Department can even install your new component for you, saving you time and eliminating potential issues. Like GTA V, Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege still dominates the Steam charts years after its launch, and it'll be getting a visual upgrade for the next-gen consoles. The developers have poured a ton of work into the game's AnvilNext engine over the years, eventually rolling out a Vulkan version of the game that we use to test.
By default, the game lowers the render scaling to increase frame rates, but we set it to 100 percent to benchmark native rendering performance on graphics cards. This GPU also features two additional types of cores its predecessors never had, in the form of RT and Tensor cores. The RTX 2080's Ti's 68 RT Cores power ray tracing, which allows this graphics card to render much more complex, real-time lighting scenarios and natural shadows than the 1080 Ti ever could. It's worth noting that the FTW3 Ultra's secondary BIOS increases fan speeds, either to lower temperatures or to give the GPU more thermal headroom for boost clocks, but we didn't benchmark that configuration.
The FTW branded cards are what we are interested in today since the card we have is the FTW3 ULTRA GAMING version. There is another one, one without the "Ultra" in the name, known as just the FTW3 GAMING with model 10G-P KR. The one we are reviewing the "ULTRA GAMING" with model 3897 has a higher boost clock, but both have the same cooling design. Ethash is the Proof-of-Work algorithm used for the crypto currency Ethereum.
Ethash is based on the Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm, but has been significantly changed in some places. For example, the memory requirement was significantly increased in order to make it more difficult or even to prevent the calculation of the algorithm on so-called ASICs . Our benchmark results are based on a slight overclocking of the graphics card and the GPU memory.
Though it costs almost twice as much as the graphics card its replacing, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti does deliver some breathtaking specs with 11GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 4,352 CUDA cores and a boost clock of 1,635MHz. It's all thanks to Nvidia's first ever self-implemented 90MHz factory overclock. Comparatively, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti sports 11GB of last-generation GDDR5X VRAM, 3,584 CUDA cores and a 1,582MHz maximum frequency.
Particular laptops can even connect to what is called an external graphics card to increase image processing power when needed. External graphics cards function by connecting to a computer via a dock or similar device that can use the power of the GPU without it needing to be physically installed in the system. One of the many benefits of external graphics cards is that they can increase your computer's power affordably and non-invasively. If you like to tinker with your graphics card and push clocks speeds to the bleeding performance edge, the $810 EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3is worth every penny. Just make sure your case can fit this triple-slot beast, and your power supply can feed it.
Like the GeForce RTX 3080, the cooler on the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founder Edition features dual axial fans, and a split heatsink design. One end of the heatsink array sits directly atop a vapor chamber that is affixed to the GPU and memory. The fan above that section directs air through the heatsink and immediately funnels it out of the chassis through large vents in the case bracket. We finally got our hands on a retail, custom, add-in-board partner-built video card based on NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3080 GPU. These video cards have been scarce, to say the least, with availability issues not able to meet demand.
In fact, the video card we have in hand today was purchased by one of our very own readers who let us kindly borrow his video card to allow us to do this review today. It uses the third version of the "Frostbite Game Engine" developed by the manufacturer DICE. The engine is available for Windows, PS4, PS5, XBox One or XBox Series X. Many physics-based calculations are carried out directly in the game engine, which results in very realistic calculations. Due to its current features, Battlefield 5 is very suitable as a graphics card benchmark. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti features a lot more CUDA cores than the RTX 3080—10,240 vs. 8,796, and maxes out the 384-bit wide memory interface of the GA102 silicon, much like the RTX 3090.
The memory amount, however, is 12 GB, and runs at 19 Gbps data-rate. The RTX 3080 Ti is based on the Ampere graphics architecture, which debuts the 2nd generation of NVIDIA's path-breaking RTX real-time raytracing technology. The GTX 1080 Ti is certainly a tough act to follow, being one of the best gaming graphics cards ever made. It certainly feels like we've got the RTX 2080 Ti earlier than expected, but If that price is too much, then bear in mind that the price of the GTX 1080 Ti may well drop now that its successor is out.
Regrettably, outside of ray tracing demos, there were no games that actually support it at the time of our review. We couldn't say, therefore, how Nvidia RTX affect performance. What we can tell you is that Shadow of the Tomb Raider and other games with Nvidia RTX turned on looks stunning with ray tracing turned on.
Nvidia was already comfortably ahead of AMD, and now it's almost as if the company jumped into the next galaxy with the RTX 2080 Ti. The $799 (£749, AU$1,199) RTX 2080 is the only graphics card that comes close, and consistently nips at the Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti's coattails in all benchmarks. However, the RTX 2080 fails to completely break the 60 fps barrier of 4K gaming.
Brad Chacos/IDGPulling back to higher-level first, any GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card will knock your socks off for gaming at 4K resolution, or keeping a high refresh rate 1440p monitor well fed. Avoid it for 1080p gaming, though, as this card is so fast that most games become wholly CPU- or engine-bound at that resolution, negating its monstrous performance advantage. This isn't a worst-case test; we removed the Core i7 8700K's overclock and specifically chose a GPU-bound game running at a GPU-bound resolution to gauge performance when the graphics card is sweating hard. If you're playing a game that also hammers the CPU, you will see higher overall system power draws.
This DX11 game that isn't really a visual barn-burner like the Red Dead Redemption 2, but it still tops the Steam charts day in and day out, so we deem it more worthy of testing. RDR2 will melt your graphics card, sure, but GTA V remains so popular years after launch that upgraded versions of it will be available on the next-generation consoles. We test a variety of games spanning various engines, genres, and graphics APIs . We've also enabled temporal anti-aliasing to push these cards to their limits.
We run each benchmark at least three times and list the average result for each test. Our dedicated graphics card test system is a couple of years old, but it's packed with some of the fastest complementary components available to put any potential performance bottlenecks squarely on the GPU. Most of the hardware was provided by the manufacturers, but we purchased the cooler and storage ourselves.
Don't forget about the higher power limit and iCX sensors, which can prove helpful while overclocking. A dual-BIOS switch is really a killer feature for overclockers, though. If you push things too far and things go bad, it's very nice to be able to flip a switch and have another BIOS you can safely boot into. Nvidia has relentlessly improved the design of its own Founders Edition graphics cards over the last few generations. Game performance for the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti EVGA FTW3 Ultra Hybrid Gaming 11GB where we look at the bigger games played in 2021. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions.
We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 999 games in the list. EVGA iCX3 Technology can track emerging hotspots and direct iCX3 Cooling to beat the heat. Asynchronous fans cool only the areas that need cooling, which keeps your card quieter at all times. Through EVGA Precision X1, you can also monitor every iCX3 sensor and control each fan.
With EVGA iCX3 Technology, you can let your graphics card worry about its own temperatures for a change and truly enjoy Peace of Mind Gaming. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture. It's built with enhanced RT Cores and Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and superfast G6X memory for an amazing gaming experience. Combined with the next generation of design, cooling, and overclocking with EVGA Precision X1, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Series presents a new definition in ultimate performance.
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA HYBRID GAMING is a water-cooled, factory-overclocked graphics card in an all-in-one form factor. It is powered by NVIDIA's latest RTX 3080 Ti GPU, which offers performance close to that of the RTX 3090, thanks to its CUDA cores, albeit limited by the 12GB graphics memory. The video card we are looking at today is a video card purchased online from EVGA. EVGA has several models of GeForce RTX 3080 based video cards, from reference spec, with multiple designs and different boost clocks. If you go to their product page here you can see the entire list.
It is broken up into sections, including Watercooling, FTW, and XC brands. The KawPoW algorithm has been used with the crypto currency Ravencoin since May 2020. KawPoW is a Proof-of-Work algorithm and is calculated the fastest with a modern graphics card.
