Gigabyte shows RTX 3090 TURBO: With a dual-slot Blower Style cooler

#5833248 Posted on: 09/21/2020 08:28 PM

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@Astyanax
no it doesnt, or the adapter from two 8 pin to 12 wouldnt work,
not even talking about the aic with two 8 pins on their cards.

wrong

12pin = 566w (limited by 18awg cable for the 8 pins)
3x8pin = 450w (limited by the pcie spec for input power)

#5833250 Posted on: 09/21/2020 08:34 PM

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At 6:40.

Honestly the response Nvidia gives for this video is even worse than the initial claim. None of the slides that mention 2x the 2080 during that presentation talk about RT performance, in fact the one slide specifically says "average across multiple popular games".

They should have just listed the games where it does go up 2x (there are several of them) then said the one slide was inaccurate, it should have said "up to 2x" and not twice the performance and called it a day. They doubled down in the worse way possible and it makes them look dumb.

#5833267 Posted on: 09/21/2020 08:56 PM

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Honestly the response Nvidia gives for this video is even worse than the initial claim. None of the slides that mention 2x the 2080 during that presentation talk about RT performance, in fact the one slide specifically says "average across multiple popular games".

They should have just listed the games where it does go up 2x (there are several of them) then said the one slide was inaccurate, it should have said "up to 2x" and not twice the performance and called it a day. They doubled down in the worse way possible and it makes them look dumb.
But they wont get the flack they deserve for it. AMD dumb ass marketing team does this, ripped to shreds. Nvidia does, people still line up like sheeps to buy their shit and ignore anything bad they do.

#5833296 Posted on: 09/21/2020 10:03 PM

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I've seen lots of complaints about it but I myself dont give a damn about marketing bs, especially early stuff. Perhaps thats a difference between AMD and NVidia purchasers?
Its easy to read between the lines and even easier to just wait a bit longer to get actual results.
It was obvious from the start, 2x is best case and indeed it is, it was never going to be everything that fast.
At least there is a ring of truth to it though.

#5833315 Posted on: 09/21/2020 10:48 PM

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If it's anything like my 50th Ann Ed blower fan you won't be able to hear it even after playing intensive games for hours at a sitting--leaving the fan setting on "Auto." Depends entirely on the engineering. Several tri-fan cooler designs are said by their owners to be noisy...so it's less in the type of fan and more down to the engineering involved/component quality than anything else. I can force my fan to make a lot of racket, however--if I go into the drivers and manually turn up the max fan to ~70% or greater... Fortunately, I have no case in which I have to move the fan beyond auto. Interesting design for this GB nV card. It's like the myth about chipset fans--that they go zzzzz-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-zeeeee really loud... This is 2020, not 1995, so, no. I've had the x570 Aorus Master mboard a year and still haven't heard the chipset fan. The CPU fan is louder, actually, and usually it's nice and quiet (Prism, 3900X.)

My response to the "up to 2x" marketing from nVidia is only this. Yawn. It's expected--I especially expect it from nVidia... As far as we know, when actual production 3000-series GPUs actually become available to the public, the performance characteristics may not be quite as "robust" as the review units sent out--maybe--but that, too, would be indicative of nVidia GPU launches. It's the same with the "starting at $xxx" pricing JHH quoted in his representation--it's not what purchasers may actually have to pay--"starting at" leaves a lot of room for higher pricing, imo... I do think customers can feel confident that the "starting at" pricing from JHH is certainly *the least* they will pay for the GPUs when they become available in quantity, however.

Personally, I'm not doing anything until ~10/28. My bet is that AMD is waiting to fill the channels with GPU product before the reveal! Let's hope so, anyway.