GuitarGuy93

Spurious_ECG
I wonder how much after launch the Hybrid and HC versions will come. Soon could be a couple of weeks or a couple of months :D

Would make 0 sense releasing it two weeks later, otherwise theyd just launch it day 1.

They are not releasing day one and were confirmed to be releasing soon after the 3080 and 3090 launch days for the respective cards. It was mentioned on Friday's EVGA Weekly. I doubt if they meant it would be 2 months, but only a vague "soon" to go on as of now. I suspect we'll hear more later this week.

Does anyone have any idea as to whether or not the 3090 will indeed have an additional bank of VRAM on the top-side of the PCB (under the back-plate)? 
 
I'm getting conflicting information here, I read somewhere, I believe here, that Nvidia will be using 12 2GB modules where they traditionally go instead. 
 
This is important to me because I intend to put the card under a water block and am concerned about cooling a potential bank of VRAM on the top of the card just passively with a back-plate. 

vulcan1978
Does anyone have any idea as to whether or not the 3090 will indeed have an additional bank of VRAM on the top-side of the PCB (under the back-plate)? 
 
I'm getting conflicting information here, I read somewhere, I believe here, that Nvidia will be using 12 2GB modules where they traditionally go instead. 
 
This is important to me because I intend to put the card under a water block and am concerned about cooling a potential bank of VRAM on the top of the card just passively with a back-plate. 

12 chips on front of PCB. 12 chips on back. 16Gb chiplets won't be around until sometime in 2021.

__Grig__
from WHERE will we be able to buy the 3080FTW3? This site, or others like Amazon, Newegg etc......

Probably all of the above. BHPhoto can probably also be thrown in there.

vulcan1978
This is important to me because I intend to put the card under a water block and am concerned about cooling a potential bank of VRAM on the top of the card just passively with a back-plate. 

GTX Titan X didn't even come with a backplate and it had memory chips on the back.  Pretty certain they don't need any actual heatsinking, just not being smothered.
 
EDIT: God it's been a while since I've been on these forums, need to update signature.

AnonymousGuy

vulcan1978
This is important to me because I intend to put the card under a water block and am concerned about cooling a potential bank of VRAM on the top of the card just passively with a back-plate. 

GTX Titan X didn't even come with a backplate and it had memory chips on the back.  Pretty certain they don't need any actual heatsinking, just not being smothered.
 
EDIT: God it's been a while since I've been on these forums, need to update signature.
 
 

 
Thanks for the reply, I am trying to figure out what model youre referring to, if look up the Titan X all 12 modules encircle the GPU die on the bottom, the only Titan I've kind of found that mentions the memory being on the top of the PCB under the back-plate is the 700 series Titan, but I can't find any further information in this regard. Do you have any more info? I intend to overclock the memory, so cooling the top bank of VRAM is important, I have cool air coming in from the rear 140mm Noiseblocker E-Loop directly onto the back-plate of the current card, so I could technically achieve a certain degree of cooling here, but it's not the same as having the memory modules in contact with a water block. Worrying still is the way EKWB designs their back-plates to contact the VRM. 
 
 

SWDescent
I'm hoping I'll be able to snag a 3090 FTW3 to replace my tired 1080 FTW (Wife will enjoy the upgrade from my 980 SC2). Hopefully EK makes a water block for it. I know I'm not the only one that's not a fan of the red on the card. Does painting that black void the warranty? I know EVGA has been more forgiving for things like that, I'd get the hydrocopper but it's got red on it as well.... Also I just saw a post on facebook showing the FTW3 Overclocked from 1.7Ghz Core all the way up to 2.1, that would be amazing to get that sort of overclock!

I'm so disappointed with the aesthetic direction EVGA took with Ampere, the 20 card cooler design looks light years ahead of this. I don't like the red plastic accents, the hexagonal hole pattern, the garish "Geforce RTX" in gray, even the color, dark gray, nothing about the Hydro Copper or the air cooled variants is attractive. I intend to put my XC3 under a waterblock immediately. 
 
Someone asked a similar question in a different thread here and a moderator said that painting over the red strip would void the warranty. 

Have a stupid question. On the [image]file:///C:/Users/slava/Desktop/features_04.webp[/image]Precision X1 picture, there are 4 parts that show rainbow RGB (Front plate, back & side EVGA, and some kind of line (maybe backplate line?). but at the bottom, it says Color: single and set to red. Maybe its for the accents on the sides? Are they RGB or its solid plastic.

Well, like many others.. it's time to upgrade from my 10-Series card. Going to be setting my sights on the FTW3 or the HC 3080.  I actually kind of like the looks of the FTW3 card itself, but then again.. A waterblock will be going on it, so.  :)  Hopefully as we'll see some info in the pricing as we get closer to the big day.

SWDescent
That's kinda sad, they were always the one's that were ok with you pulling the shroud off to slap a water block on without voiding the warranty but I can't paint over a small red piece of plastic? This is the first time I'm kinda bummed about the Look of the cards.... I'd lean towards the xc3 which maybe I will, seems like they all use the same pcb (besides the overkill thermal sensors) and you don't get any extra power phases unless you go with a KP card. I'm not sure what I'll do then.. You think they'd do a test of that and measure responses before doing the red on all of them.

You're assuming they didn't.
There is a very vocal portion of the forum complaining about the design.
The rest of us either like them, wait to see them for real, or just plain don't care.
I obviously don't know more than you do, but maybe, just maybe, this is a vocal minority.

cboker
Any word on the step-up program for the 30 series? I bought a 2080ti in July and would like to know.

Please check the step-up forum. Until there is availability of stock there is no info at this time. 

Spurious_ECG

GuitarGuy93

Spurious_ECG
I wonder how much after launch the Hybrid and HC versions will come. Soon could be a couple of weeks or a couple of months :D

Would make 0 sense releasing it two weeks later, otherwise theyd just launch it day 1.

They are not releasing day one and were confirmed to be releasing soon after the 3080 and 3090 launch days for the respective cards. It was mentioned on Friday's EVGA Weekly. I doubt if they meant it would be 2 months, but only a vague "soon" to go on as of now. I suspect we'll hear more later this week.

I'll definitely listen out for that but I'm anxious about it, I've finally got my cash together and am upgrading from my gtx770... I need this card and really don't wanna miss out by waiting for the hybrid card, much rather buy the ftw3 card now and buy the hybrid cooler later when they sell separately like for the 2000 series cards.
 
I don't want to wait to 2021 for stock to come back up after the initial release......

Will the 3080 FTW fit in a NZXT s340 Elite that has a radiator on the front? Currently I have the EVGA 2080 Super XC Ultra just fine in it. Looks like he XC model of the 3080 is 0.6 inches longer itself

I just try to meet with the performance of RTX 3080 GPU compare to the previous series...
Looks like RTX 3090 Hydro Copper will be an amazing upgrade for owners of Pascal.
People who wait better cards then RTX2080Ti are probably very happy. 

standinghollow
Anyone know the dimensions between the 3080 ftw3 and xc3? Wondering how they would fit in my lian li PC-011 dynamic mid tower case. Im leaning toward the ftw3.

It's all over the forums. Here is one of the occurrences: https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/3074126

SWDescent
The problem is as mentioned before, someone stated that a member of evga replied with saying painting the red trim voids the warranty, that's the reason I'm upset about it, might be why others have complained. I'll probably just get the FTW3 3090 and live with it until they hopefully make an ek block for it.

They kinda announced they will (without any dates of course).
 
https://www.ekwb.com/blog/did-you-know-the-nvidia-30-series-founders-edition-layout-is-not-a-reference-design/

The third option is the AIB (Add-In-Board, rarely referred to as AIC) partner card. These partner cards are using custom PCB designs and usually custom power delivery sections. You already know these cards by names such as Strix, FTW3, Aorus, etc.
AIB cards will also get their own specially-developed EK-Quantum Vector water blocks.

ehabash1
Guys, if your so worried about using a black sharpy on the red line, get a cheap bottle of acetone..... It will wipe the black right off if needed

I would not recommend it.  If you have a spare RTX 30 series card, test on it first.  
 

It can etch the plastic, fade the red color, and make the finish dull instead of glossy.  Hardly a full reversal.  That could cost you the price of a cooler, could cost you the whole warranty, or could cost you the price of cross-ship and needing to swap coolers to retain your modified cooler.  Acetone is pretty harsh.  I would start with isopropyl alcohol first.
 
But honestly, I would just not use a marker or paint pen in the first place.  Plasti Dip is where it's at.