XDA - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 01:00:10 GMT

I've never had great luck with giveaways or sweepstakes, and frankly, I stopped participating in them years ago. On a fateful day in June 2022, however, I decided to enter an online PC building contest organized by WD and Nvidia. Like always, I didn't really believe I'd win something, but a few weeks later, it became a reality. My tale is 2 years old, but better late than never as they say.

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Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:00:15 GMT

I've been usingdesktop PCs for over 20 years, experiencing everything from an Intel Pentium 3 and Core 2 Duo to an AMD FX-6300 and Ryzen 5 1600. Writing this on a Ryzen 5000 rig, I want to take a step back and revisit some of the components and peripherals I cherish the most. Considering that I started earning only around 8 years back, a lot of the entries on this list are quite recent.

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Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:58:31 GMT

If you want a high-end GPU in the current hardware market, you'll need to save up quite a bit of money. And what better way to do that than with a physical piggy bank? To help keep your mind on the goal, you can now grab an unofficial Nvidia GPU piggy bank shaped like one of the high-end models, albeit it may not have enough space to store enough pennies to purchase one.

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Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:30:14 GMT

Graphics cards are a source of unbridled joy for PC builders and gamers. The feeling of getting your hands on a shinynew graphics cardand taking it for a spin on themost demanding gamescan't be replicated. This is probably why some of us find it hard to part ways with a graphics card we've been using for ages. The absurd pricing of today's graphics cards is probably also another reason.

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Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:00:14 GMT

GPU manufacturer Nvidia caught a lot of flak when it first released the GeForce RTX 4070 in 2023 because it just barely matched the performance of 2022’s RTX 3080. Nvidia fans who were expecting a larger performance upgrade from the GeForce RTX 40 Series suddenly found themselves torn between twohigh-end GPUsreleased two years apart. It was a fiasco nobody saw coming. And since neither card ever reached a large enough market share to declare one or the other the clear winner, the feud endured. However, with the recent addition of the RTX 4070 Super to the 4070 Family, this rivalry may finally be coming to a close.

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Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:00:23 GMT

Sometimes, I feel that years pass by without leaving their mark, fading into each other and losing their individual identity. It feels just like yesterday when Ibuilt my first-ever PCwith a humble dual-core Intel CPU back in 2007. From those days of playing game demo discs to death to barely finding time to play anything on myZen 3 Ryzengaming rig, my PC has been a steady companion.

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Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:31:20 GMT

The RTX 3080 was one of the most powerful graphics cards from the previous generation, but it's still available on the market today at a reduced price. It’s no surprise then that it’s still a popular choice for high-end gaming and workstation laptops that need to make short work of high-end gaming and 3D rendering workloads.

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Mon, 22 May 2023 01:01:19 GMT

Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 4080 at the end of 2022, starting the newest generation of graphics hardware built on the Ada Lovelace architecture. It quickly became one of thebest graphics cardsever released, even with its eye-watering price tag. The graphics card it superseded in the lineup, the GeForce RTX 3080, was no less beastly in its day and still handles the latest titles with aplomb. We’re here to dive into the architectural changes and see if upgrading between generations is worth it.

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Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:58:39 GMT

Just a few days after revealing the newGeForce RTX 3090 Ti, Nvidia has now announced a new variant of its RTX 3080 GPU. This is the rumored 12GB variant of the existing GA102-200 based SKU. The new RTX 3080 12GB variant was initially revealed in Nvidia's latest GeForce graphics drivers and it's now said to go sale starting today from select OEM partners.

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Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:02:09 GMT

Computex 2021 officially kicks off with NVIDIA introducing two new graphics cards under its RTX 30-series. As various leaks and rumors predicted in the past, we now have two new high-end cards in the form of RTX 3080 Ti and the 3070 Ti.

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