NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review Roundup

Today NVIDIA lifts the embargo on GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition.

Reviews of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition

For reasons unknown, NVIDIA decided to split the review embargo for Founders Edition (lifting today) and board partners’ card reviews (lifting tomorrow). Today we can only read reviews of NVIDIA’s own model.

NVIDIA Founders Edition for Ampere series is not, so to speak, a reference design. This graphics card will only be sold by NVIDIA and it will feature special features, such as its own board design and Molex Microfit (12-pin) power connectors.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Specifications
VideoCardz.com	RTX 3090	RTX 3080	RTX 3070
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Board	PG136 / PG132 SKU 30	PG133 / PG132 SKU 10	PG141 / PG142 SKU 10
GPU	8nm GA102-300	8nm GA102-200	8nm GA104-300
Die Size	628 mm2	628 mm2	392 mm2
Transistors	28.3 B	28.3 B	17.4 B
CUDA : Tensor : RT Cores	10496 : 328 : 82	8704 : 272 : 68	5888 : 184 : 46
Base Clock	1395 MHz	1440 MHz	1500 MHz
Boost Clock	1695 MHz	1710 MHz	1725 MHz
Shader Perf.	35.6 TFLOPS	29.8 TFLOPS	20.3 TFLOPS
Memory	24 GB G6X	10 GB G6X	8 GB G6
Memory Clock	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	14 Gbps
Memory Bus	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit
Max Bandwidth	936 GB/s	760 GB/s	448 GB/s
Thermal Design	350W	320W	220W
MSRP	$1,499	$699	$499
Release Date	September 24th	September 17th	October 15th

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Reviews