DROOL... by niceshoez
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It was a nice surprise to see my RTX 3080 TI getting delivered to me today after paying a scalper's price on Amazon. I took out the 1080 TI in my box and put in the 3080 TI and couldn't be happier. It's a 15 year old motherboard/BIOS/CPU/PCI but it can run the RTX 3080 TI just fine. 3733x2100 DAZ Iray renders at 2k samples now takes just a measly 10 minutes to complete. I am absolutely over the moon... Faster renders ! Yes ma'am!
If I were able to afford $4K I would have gotten that RTX 3090 I saw on Amazon with 24 GB VRAM but it was just out of my price range. It was also gone in an hour... I am still so super thrilled at my purchase. It will help immensely with cranking out renders. I am now considering running the 1080 TI in tandem with the 3080 but externally with its own PSU. I was doing that with the 980 TI and the 1080 TI with the 980 as the external GPU. The CUDA amount would be off the chain.
Comments (5)
brain1969
Amazing ... the 3080ti is the new flagship an minimal slower than the 3090 ... but right now i dont buy a new graficcard i wait till october ... the prices will fall very extreme (i am an IT Dealer)
niceshoez
Wow, October? I doubt i could wait that long while people are rendering at 10.2K CUDA before me. LOL Our family used to run a PC building company back in 1984-1990 and so we could get parts cheap but its been a long time since I could get parts at a nicely discounted price. Lucky you Brain!
generation2235
Dang! Super-fast and I bet the 3080ti could crank out a 1920x1080 render in just a matter of a few seconds!
niceshoez
Yeah, super-fast for sure, I am happy to report a DAZ Iray render at the 1920x1130 dimensions, 2K samples took 4 minutes. I am beyond thrilled....
Lord_of_CNF
nice! what about the heat and how many power need it? i'm not realy up to date .... my last hardware-refresh was about two years
niceshoez
Thanks! Well I 'm not quite sure on what the power throughput is but it takes two of the 8 pin connectors from the current PSU and they feed into a single adaptor for power. Power is is better handled in these RTX cards and more efficient apparently than my 1080 TI.
The heat doesn't seem as bad either. It has two fans one on each side of the card. I have to be especially careful with heat because my mobo is 15 years old and the BIOS doesn't kick the fan on anymore so what you can't see in the photo is a giant Vornado fan constantly blowing into the open case. I used to crash all the time with the heat coming off the 1080 TI until I put a powerful room fan blowing into the case. The case is always open to better expel the heat.
LyleAryn
I had to get a paper towel for all the drool.
niceshoez
Let's conserve trees, if you hand me your used paper towel, I'll wipe mine up with it too... :)
shayhurs
Bitcoin miners have been scooping them all up.
niceshoez
Yeah Etherium too, Hopefully the blockchain hobbler tech Nvidia put on them will make the rate of mining slow enough to make the GPU unattractive for cryptominers