NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 3080 10GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card - Titanium and black

Wow wow wow, took a while to do a review but i finally decided to. For one, this is a monster for the price. Insanely quick for $699 it does 4K gaming no problem. The two things that makes me a bit disappointed is the 12 pin connector, i guess it’s fine if you get an aftermarket one but just bad to see out of the box. Last thing is VRAM temps, wayyy to hot. 110C but other than that, the cooler is really nice and is also quiet. All in all, an 10/10 effort from Nvidia. way better than my 2060 Super I had.

I feel truly lucky to have been able to snag one of these cards. For $700, it is truly a remarkable value. There is a bit of coil whine under load on my unit, but not too terrible. I can't hear it with the headphones I use anyways. Also, the 12 pin adapter is ugly, no way around it. With it was longer so it could have been hidden behind the motherboard. All that said, I'm getting fantastic performance with the card. It was a huge upgrade from my 980ti. 100+fps at 1440hz with settings maxed is no issue for almost all AAA games. 60+fps for 4k. The 3080 and Cyberpunk & Control have also sold me on Ray Tracing. When implemented well with DLSS, it really is a game changer. It stinks that 6 months later we're still not able to easily acquire these cards. Best Buy's shipping was not great. Gard was in a box with two flat air packets and had obviously been bouncing around. Luckily the Nvidia box was a lot better, and kept the card safe. Overall, I'm lucky to have one at all given everything, and given the chance, I'd happily purchase again.

Huge upgrade from my GTX1080, handles every game I can throw at it at 1440p/144Hz with max settings, and can even simultaneously stream 1080p/60 with most games. Two drawbacks: 1.) The fan is quite loud when card is under stress. I was playing with headphones on and though I heard the vacuum cleaner running in the other room, took off the headphones, realized it was the card 2.) This thing runs HOT. Good thing we're heading into winter, because this thing dumps hot air like crazy through the exhaust fans in my PC Possible drawback: The 12-pin to 2x 8-pin is not aesthetically pleasing. I don't care - did a simple cable dress and it looks fine.

This is it. The unicorn we all seek. Absolutely FANTASTIC performance and it looks pretty sleek. This is the ONLY way to get a 3080 at MSRP. The scalped prices on these things is a war crime, but Best Buy has stuck to their pricing model despite the insanity of the current market. That said, it is VERY difficult to get hold of one of these boys. I got extremely lucky, saw a twitter stock alert and threw this guy in the cart after the obligatory gray/yellow anxiety. It can run your fun games at 4k and will push mad frames on e-sport titles at 1440p or 1080p.

My brother and I built our computers in August before the stock shortages happened so we were lucky. He got a 2080 Super and I got a 2060 Super. The 30 Series GPU's release dates were announced and I wanted to get an FE. Come release date, I didn't get a 3080 like everyone else. So I downgraded my 2060 to a 1660 Super in hopes of eventually getting a 30 Series and then I'd give the 1660 Super to my mom's build I was working on. Cut 6 frustrating months later and CONSTANT checking each day, I finally got a 3080 FE on Best Buy with NO issues during checkout. Yeah, I know, I was surprised to. So far I have no issues with the 3080 and I think it's amazing. I love the design of the FE compared to the other AiBs. I'm running 1440p with a Ryzen 9 3900X along with this and VR is amazing. The 1660 Super I was using previously would give some lag here and there but now it's so smooth with the 3080. It sucks that this year has been the worst in terms of out of stock supply/scalpers/miners/etc. but I'd still hold off and keep trying to get one at msrp or close to it (unless you're rich and don't care about price but that's not me).

Firstly, I know what you’re saying: ugh how did this guy manage to get one??? Well MY answer is Totaltech. Initially I thought $200 is pretty steep for an annual membership, however I spent way too much money at Best Buy a year anyway so it felt justified. Long story short, Totaltech has saved me so many times with the hottest tech releases. I’ve scored a PS5 and now this RTX 3080. Mind you, I STILL needed to be subscribed to restock apps, Discords, and restock Twitter accounts to find out these were being restocked. That’s legitimately the only way these are obtainable right now, but with enough effort you can still get one (even as of 2/2022!) Onto the card though, this card is insane. Outperforms my previous 2080Ti in everything I throw at it, especially in 1440p. Just to give you an idea of how beast this card is: the framerates the 2080Ti gave me at 1080p, this 3080 gives me at 1440p for about 40% of the price I paid of the 2080Ti. Insane. I’m paired with a Ryzen 9 3900X, 32GB Corsair Vengeance CL16, dual 980 Pro’s and a 1000W EVGA psu. YES you will need a beefy PSU for this card as I regularly push 340+ watts at stock, and close to 380W overclocked. If you can get your hands on this card, without a DOUBT it is arguably the best performance to value graphics card ever made, and well worth the trouble to get it. And no, I wasn’t paid by Best Buy to mention Totaltech, I just needed to be honest to everyone wondering how these are still obtainable. To those who still are looking to get one, don’t give up. Keep fighting to get it as it is absolutely worth the effort.

Pretty huge upgrade from my 1080 ti. Playing at 1440p and literally can max out anything I have played with headroom to spare. Also was able to do some testing at 4K with a first gen Ryzen CPU and was getting easily 140fps in Forza Horizon 4 maxed out. Only complaint is that it is a bit loud if you run it at 100% load. But that's not really unexpected. One other thing that is a small inconvenience is the 12 pin connector which you need a dongle to connect 2 8-pin cables to. Kind of unsightly, but I will be eventually replacing it with a custom cable.

Great value and performance, love the founders editions.