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Evga9/23/2023 That’s a lot of marketing-speak and technical talk, but bottom line? This cooler flat-out works. EVGA says it redesigned the heatsink to allow air to move more freely throughout, then matched that with cut-outs in the custom PCB and aluminum backplate to let air flow through the card (perhaps in a nod to the Founders Edition’s unique flow-through design). It’s infused with “180-degree” semi-circular heatpipes that EVGA says increases contact area by 65 percent, and bolstered by a large, unified copper block helping to keep both the GPU and memory cool. EVGA slapped an absolutely massive heatsink on this triple-slot card. There’s indeed plenty of metal for that air to cool. 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. 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. Display connectors: 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4.Here’s a high-level look at what’s inside the EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra: The special sauce for custom cards lies in their specialized cooling design and extra features. Check out our GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition review for a deeper look at what’s new in Ampere. EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra specs, features, and designīased on raw under-the-hood specs, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra is largely similar to the Nvidia Founders Edition and essentially identical to the MSI Gaming X Trio, because they’re all based on the same “GA102” RTX 3080 chip using the new “Ampere” GPU architecture. The $810 GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra also relies on heavy metal to run just as cool and even quieter than MSI’s card, but then it loads up on extravagant, overclocking-friendly extras like a dual-BIOS switch, sensors embedded throughout the board to provide temperature insight for all sorts of board components, built-in fan and RGB headers, and more. Second-hand graphics cards from out-of-work cryptominers have already flooded the market and are pushing card prices down.The MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio went with a beefy three-slot cooler to run much cooler and quieter than Nvidia’s FE, for $60 more. While EVGA's complaints are valid, we should note that the graphics card market is expected to contract dramatically as Ethereum-one of the biggest cryptocurrencies in the world-has moved to proof-of-stake networking, which has virtually eliminated the need for cryptomining to support the network. Rival third-party manufacturers like Asus, MSI, and Zotac are expected to pick up EVGA’s allocation when the 40-series is announced. EVGA says that it will not lay off any of its 280 employees, but if it's not making video cards, many of those employees will simply have nothing to do.Īccording to Gamers Nexus, EVGA also has no plans to partner with AMD or Intel either. However, while Nvidia cards weren't profitable, they still made up 80 percent of EVGA's total revenue. Ultimately, the decision was made to stop selling Nvidia products entirely.
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