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Sunday, September 27, 2020 2:14 PM
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I have been looking for a review of the EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming. So far can find a review of the card.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 2:40 PM
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That's because they didn't send out the cards yet. Please read the topic posted by Jacob. Should be sent out soon to both buyers and reviewers I hope. Curious to see their performance and it's good to know they have fixed any potential errors before sending them out!
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 3:48 PM
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Gamers Nexus has a video review, but it's so silly because he only shows their port royale score and talks NOTHING about temps, clock speed ectera. Tech JEsus failed us.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 3:50 PM
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Card pretty much just came out this week.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 3:53 PM
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bboy1234 I have been looking for a review of the EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming. So far can find a review of the card.
EVGA said they had to resend the review units out to people because of the POSCAP issue so hopefully they come out soon. I saw Gamer Nexus overclocking one in his recent video titled "LIVE: RTX 3090 Overclocking (Air & Liquid Nitrogen)"
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 4:19 PM
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There was also one where GN OC the 3080 variant but I think that one was running the old design.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 4:39 PM
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☼ Best Answerby bboy1234 Sunday, September 27, 2020 6:00 PM
I don't know exactly what GamersNexus has planned but considering Jacob phoned him multiple times during multiple streams, I'd say there's a good chance he'll do a review. After all, with a preproduction model 3080 FTW3 (the " wrong " array of SMDs that got everyone excited) he managed to get a world record OC on Liquid Nitrogen. Of course it was soon beaten by 3090 because, what did you expect, but still. So far, his current 3080 FTW3 that was shown in his stream 1 day ago still was the pre-production model. He even talked about the array of the SMD's on the latest stream, that he knew by EVGAthemselves that the FTW3 was pushed after the 17 because of frequencies instabilities, and didn't know until then that it was most likely due to these SMD's (the live called "3090 OC with air / Liquid Nitrogen"). I'd also expect Jayztwocents to get a 3080 FTW3 as he's an EVGA enthusiast customer and isn't afraid to tell them when they make a mistake. In his video about Radeon red design one week ago, I commented to tell him not to look at EVGA's designs if the red triggered him, and his exact response was : " I know. I’ve already given them **** for it ". He also already made a video talking about the crashing issues one or two days ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if a 3080 FTW3 video follows in the days to come given that he isn't afraid to speak his mind (the same goes for GamersNexus). Which is good for EVGA and for ourselves, because honest feedback is what we need to navigate these troubles and challenging times. Don't forget that reviewers also had to make content for the 3090 launch 3 days ago, when the 3080 launched 10 days ago already (even if some high end models like the FTW3 weren't released day one and released just around the time the 3090 did or even after, for the Strix for example). Hopefully, with the 3070 launching in mid october, they'll get some time to talk about subjects like these. But Zen 3 (keynote) is right around the corner in just about 10 / 11 days. We don't know when Zen 3 will launch, most likely one week or two after the keynote, putting RTX 3070 and Zen 3 release around the same timeline and increasing work of our reviewers. They won't get much time to breath between the 3090 and the 3070 / Zen 3 release so if they want to take a look at custom cards, next week would be the time I'd say. Otherwise we'll need to wait more, as RDNA2 will then come end of october / early november.
post edited by Huntercyril - Sunday, September 27, 2020 4:42 PM
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Sunday, September 27, 2020 6:02 PM
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Ty for the time & thought it took for this detailed information. It is appreciated.
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Sunday, September 27, 2020 7:12 PM
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I'll be interested by reviews too, as I'm going for a FTW3 too (instead of the XC3). The fact that Jayztwocents reviewed a XC3 gives me a good feeling about the FTW3 as he deems the XC3 a good card (which is EVGA so it's not surprising but still). He just released one hour ago a video about temperatures featuring 3080 FE vs XC3 if you're interested. Considering he shows the case, the fan % speed, the temperatures, and the fact that FTW3 is a bit beefier than the XC3, it can at least gives an idea about how at least as good will be the FTW3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4ha0zsWHw I put that here just in case. Anyway, my pleasure !
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 7:13 PM
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Ah thx I will be checking it out
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 8:18 PM
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I watched it. At first it seems scary how the FE beats the XC3 in temperatures. Then I remembered and looked at GamersNexus " NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review: Gaming, Thermals, Noise, & Power Benchmarks ". At 25:43 we can see the fan % and rpms, as well as power % and such. XC3 power is already higher than the base FE power so it makes sense it generates more heat. But ! Jayz fixed the fan speed GPUs at 65%, and 55% on the FE gives around 2100rpm while, iirc 60% on the XC3 or FTW3 gives around 1600 / 1700rpm. That means FE runs louder and with less power to get these better thermals, so when you reduce fan speed to lower rpms to ease accoustics, but still increase power because why not get the better performance, then thermal difference between FE and XC3 / FTW3 will (greatly) reduce. Not to mention the values in the chart were taken into a test bench not even in a case so you could even add some few °C due to a case restriction. TL:DR : Video of Jay still doesn't take into account different variables such as fan RPMs (he focuses on fan % speed instead of RPMs) and power consumption (XC3 power is higher at stock than FE stock power consumption) which when taken into account, reduce the thermal difference between the FE and custom models. I have to admit I was a bit scared at first but now that variables are taken into accounts I'm not that scared.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, September 27, 2020 8:20 PM
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I wish to see a pcb analyses of the FTW3 compared to the Strix. Sadly both are not really reviewed yet while I've seen multiple people having the cards? It's pretty weird tbh.
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Sunday, September 27, 2020 8:28 PM
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nice, i cant wait to see that, the strix, and auros compared
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Monday, September 28, 2020 10:56 AM
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Xaverri That's because they didn't send out the cards yet. Please read the topic posted by Jacob. Should be sent out soon to both buyers and reviewers I hope. Curious to see their performance and it's good to know they have fixed any potential errors before sending them out!
I get my FTW3 ULTRA on Wednesday. Shipped from NewEgg
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Monday, September 28, 2020 11:59 AM
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Xaverri That's because they didn't send out the cards yet. Please read the topic posted by Jacob. Should be sent out soon to both buyers and reviewers I hope. Curious to see their performance and it's good to know they have fixed any potential errors before sending them out!
I get my FTW3 ULTRA on Wednesday. Shipped from NewEgg
in box? if you dont get that look it up.
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Monday, September 28, 2020 12:36 AM
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Xaverri That's because they didn't send out the cards yet. Please read the topic posted by Jacob. Should be sent out soon to both buyers and reviewers I hope. Curious to see their performance and it's good to know they have fixed any potential errors before sending them out!
I get my FTW3 ULTRA on Wednesday. Shipped from NewEgg
in box? if you dont get that look it up.
The no box thing has been fixed.
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Monday, September 28, 2020 1:33 PM
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Xaverri That's because they didn't send out the cards yet. Please read the topic posted by Jacob. Should be sent out soon to both buyers and reviewers I hope. Curious to see their performance and it's good to know they have fixed any potential errors before sending them out!
I get my FTW3 ULTRA on Wednesday. Shipped from NewEgg
in box? if you dont get that look it up.
Since I don't get it until Wed, I wont know - but bboy1234
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Xaverri That's because they didn't send out the cards yet. Please read the topic posted by Jacob. Should be sent out soon to both buyers and reviewers I hope. Curious to see their performance and it's good to know they have fixed any potential errors before sending them out!
I get my FTW3 ULTRA on Wednesday. Shipped from NewEgg
in box? if you dont get that look it up.
The no box thing has been fixed.
Thanks for that info! I was hoping that since the FW3 was just released that the box issue wasn't..an issue. :)
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Friday, October 02, 2020 4:38 PM
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Friday, October 02, 2020 6:04 PM
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I am really curious on the ultra's OC potential with the higher power limit and also when under water.
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Friday, October 02, 2020 6:46 PM
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Looks like the FE card edged it out in many benchmarks and ran cooler to boot, kind of disappointing to see that.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Friday, October 02, 2020 7:07 PM
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EVGA_JacobF https://www.pcworld.com/a...ftw3-ultra-review.html
jd63636 Looks like the FE card edged it out in many benchmarks and ran cooler to boot, kind of disappointing to see that.
No overclock results? No mention of even setting the power slider to max, so one must assume completely stock out of the box testing. Ahh well, I'm sure other reviewers will include that info as a FTW3 is meant for overclocking! Per the article: "Like the MSI Gaming X Trio, EVGA factory-overclocks the FTW3 Ultra to 1.8GHz out of the box, a 90MHz increase over the Founders Edition’s reference specs. Paired with the 10GB of ultra-fast GDDR6X memory, the EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra winds up just a hair faster than the Founders Edition in games, but really, all three of these cards deliver essentially the same out-of-the-box performance." Which further confirms that Nvidia pushed this generation's performance (at stock) more than with the 10 and 20 series.
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Friday, October 02, 2020 8:15 PM
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Thank you for sharing Jacob.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Saturday, October 03, 2020 6:20 AM
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It was a good read but I can’t wait to see some more reviews. Seems they didn’t really push the overclock out this review like I would like. Of course for overclocking reviews it’s best to read several since one review might not have done well in the silicon lottery.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Saturday, October 03, 2020 8:43 AM
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I'm really curious why people call them quiet while I can clearly hear my GTX 1080 FTW at 1700rpms (around the same RPMs as the 3080 FTW3 default curve to keep the card cool enough). Are people deaf, am I hypersensitive to noise or is the design of the fans of the 3080 FTW3 just so good you don't ear them compared to the old GTX 1080 FTW fans? I know RPMs aren't a solid base to noise produced as some can produce more than others but still...
My case is a Pure Base 500 so I should even hear less than other better airflow friendly cases or when people test on open test bench, and I have some frequencies I can't hear, but despite this, I still hear things that people say to be quiet / silent so... Not sure what's happening there.
I guess I'll see when I'll get mine. Apart from this, I can't wait to see more reviews, especially GamersNexus with all his batteries of test ! And obviously can't wait to get my hands on one too ! Really looking to enhance my 1440p experience.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Saturday, October 03, 2020 10:54 AM
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I'm sorry but that PC world review is kind of useless.. Great, we can see his card working - that's about it.
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Sunday, October 04, 2020 4:10 AM
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Mkilbride2599 Gamers Nexus has a video review, but it's so silly because he only shows their port royale score and talks NOTHING about temps, clock speed ectera. Tech JEsus failed us.
As he stated that was was not actually a review of the card and a review would be coming later. But i still agree he has Failed us.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, October 04, 2020 4:40 AM
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jd63636 Looks like the FE card edged it out in many benchmarks and ran cooler to boot, kind of disappointing to see that.
I must be blind because I don't see one game the FE beat it in. Or are you talking about the 3090 FE? I mean...I would hope a 3090 beats a 3080.
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Sunday, October 04, 2020 10:10 AM
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I am so far disappointed in what I've seen People talking about these things hitting 80c. Meanwhile the ASUS TUF, a card 100$ less, is alike 62c under load and silent. XC3 alone should be an amazing card, but the results so far...yikes. Then the FTW3 seems to just heat up like crazy. Like it runs hotter than the FE in the very limited samples we've seen. We need MORE reviews.
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Re: EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ultra gaming reviews where are they?
Sunday, October 04, 2020 1:14 PM
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You shouldn't rely on people's temperatures to say this one is good or bad, as they don't give every parameter (case, fans, ambiant, etc). They might not even know their case has bad airflow. That's why we need reviews, because good reviewers will say what the parameters are and will compare different cards within the same parameters. For the TUF vs XC3 discussion, cards sizes in L x l x H : XC3 : 28.54cm x 11.11cm x 4.51cm (2.2 slots) TUF : 29.99cm x 12.69cm x 5.17cm (2.5 slots) FTW3 : 30.00cm x 13.67cm x 5.55cm (2.7 slots) Strix : 31.85cm x 14.01cm x 5.78cm (2.75 slots) If you consider the size only of the radiator cooling efficiency (which you shouldn't since there's also fan efficiency, speed, shroud size and impedance on airflow, etc), TUF should gives cooler temps than XC3, otherwise it would be poor cooler's design. Now, cards prices at any retailer in France (because it's where I live, of course your mileage may vary depending on your country). I listed different prices : - the first price is the inflated prices by any french retailer (except maybe Amazon, they didn't show their pricing yet or if they'll inflate or not). - the second price is EVGA own cards on EVGA EU Store. - the third price is EVGA own cards on EVGA EU Store with the 5% associate code rebate. I can't find MSRP prices on Asus website for France (since they don't sell them on their own store and rely on retailers only), so these are prices you will actually pay if there's a card available today or tomorrow, in France : XC3 : 920€ [790€] [740€] XC3 Ultra / TUF : 950€ [811€] [760€] FTW / TUF OC : 970€ [831] [780€] FTW3 Ultra / Strix : 1000€ [850€] [800€] Basically, in France, EVGA's own store is cheaper than any retailer price of an EVGA / Asus card, by 120€ to 200€. And admitting (which we don't know for sure but would sure should be the case) that FTW3 is better than the TUF, then it's 120€ to 170€ cheaper than the TUF (if you're using a rebate or not). And that's my goal, to bypass these scammers inflated retailers prices and go reward EVGA directly for not increasing their prices like that.
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