This RTX 3080 is so WEIRD... which is why I love it!

today we're going to take a look at what is uh undoubtedly the most interesting looking rtx 3080 that we've seen yet this launch this is from igame aka colorful this is their advanced version that's a turbo button the defiant 7 compact from fractal design takes the strongest features from the popular defined 7 and incorporates them in an all new compact to convenient frame the open layout provides plenty of space for your favorite cooling solutions without taking up valuable desk base and the tempered glass side panel and interchangeable top allow the define 7 compact to be customized to your specific needs to see the full list of enhancements and capabilities of the all new defined 7 compact from fractal design follow the sponsored link in the description below you know it's kind of funny i i think it's interesting they were able to get away with this holographic or hologram holographic green on this box that's kind of reflective did you know nvidia like controls their box even on the shade of green they have to use this this is not conformed to nvidia green let's put that out there um i know right so let's just go ahead and say the specs this is a dual bios technically a dual bios because you have that button right uh 1440 on both is the base clock and then the boost is 1785 and 1710 so obviously gpu boost is going to make it go higher regardless but i figured we'll go ahead and take you guys along for the ride on the unboxing because i've already unboxed one of these like i said prior to launch we had one that was sent back we were asked not to use it because of things that were discovered i guess prior to the launch whether that has anything to do with the sp caps or not i don't know but we did do a teardown of the other card that they sent us which revealed that it was using six sp caps um but as we've said before the sp cap is not the end-all be-all in terms of stability people just wanted to take what we said that way so whatever um there's the card they actually give you this really cool screwdriver set so here is the screwdriver here look it's one of the spinny ones those are always nice and then you get two different uh size phillips heads i wonder if they're advocating take our card apart with that but regardless let's see what else we got here so the card [Applause] is heavy when i first showed this card to phil hey it's already void i have no doubt they tested it before they sent it considering they already sent us what they deemed to be a bad one fun fact we messed around with it quite a bit and couldn't get it to crash so i don't know what they considered bad about it but regardless um we feel that the rendering on the box doesn't do it much justice like phil saw this and went gross he was like that is disgusting but then we took it out of the package and he was like i retract my statement because it might be the most advanced looking card we've seen yet gotta get the peel you ready like a band-aid here's the button on the back right here as you can see you push this this is essentially just the bio selector so instead of being a little toggle on the top i think they were trying to make it so that you could reach behind the system and switch the bios this way that way you don't have to open up the side panel and flip a bios on here but the cooler on this thing first of all it is like a full on triple slot even though it only has a two slot bracket on there this is like a full on triple slot this cooler is metal this is not a plastic shroud this thing is beefcake like this is like you went to in and out and ordered a 4x4 we were kind of like what would this fit in in terms of aesthetics and i was like what if we ever did like another space themed build or like not necessarily destiny but let's just say maybe like uh valkyrie or um what's that other space game that's been in beta for like 92 years yeah star citizen something like that this has a very nice spaceshipy look to it what i like though about it otherwise is it's still a standard height card which makes it have a lot more compatibility in certain cases as long as you can handle the thickness of it it does need three eight pin pci express power and i've seen a lot of people be like three eight pin power oh my god that's insane we've never seen that before a lot of 2080 uh ti cards had three eight pin power it's nothing new and i'm kind of curious as to why people are freaking out over the 38 pins so much when 2080 ti custom cards had three eight pins in fact the very first ones we looked at from msi uh back when the 2080 came out or 2080 ti was a 3.8 pin it's not new in fact i am happy to see three eight pin because of the fact that these cards base tdp is 320 watts before any overclocking or anything like that so considering each one of the eight pins is able to supply up to 150 watts plus the 75 watts on the motherboard i would much rather see all the power come through this than the motherboard what i want to look at today are the thermals the acoustics we'll take a look at the lighting on there i'm most curious though about overclocking because i want to see how far this card will go without any sort of assistance if you will in terms of a 3080 it's all the traditional specs 10 gigabytes same memory config all that stuff gddrx all good stuff so that's very like reactory looking huh like you can see the how the the led lighting the it's actually pulsing it's got like a pulse width which is why you're seeing the fan blade sort of appear and disappear which i think is really cool i don't think that's by mistake i think they did that on purpose i'm gonna go right to the turbo button bios there we go so the button's not gonna do anything on the fly because it's only loading that bios at the time that it's booting up so if you click that button while it's running nothing happens until the restart so if you're sitting there clicking it going nothing's happening as you're in like a benchmark that's because it only initializes that setting at startup all right so this is their igame center right here which you can use to i guess control other things in your system that might be i game ready but we're looking at the graphics card stuff right here as you can see the rgb is or the lighting is rgb and it's actually overpowering a lot of the red which is kind of neat um if it's face down traditionally obviously you're going to see it light up right there on the edge not a whole lot of lighting functions though you get static so let's just make it white yeah the white looks cool white looks good and then um i mean flicker it's not really flickering it's more of just a heartbeat if you will then there's breathing which is the one like it already had music which responds to just sound right so i'm gonna put it back on breathing with the red because we liked the way that one looked uh and then the rest of the app you can control the overclock settings right here the power limit power limit on this will be just a 108 um core voltage is not changeable you can't change that you can change the fan percentages right here as a group anyway um i don't plan on using this piece of software right now while we play around with our overclocks and stuff i was just kind of curious as to what their software looked like i'm gonna go ahead and close out of this one and then i'm gonna use afterburner because that's something i'm familiar with so you can see the 1785 megahertz boost clock right there because we are on the oc bios and heaven's going to run right now which of course is not using uh any of the rt cores or anything but it auto boosted right to 1950 which is kind of nice to see i mean they pretty much all go there but it's staying there wow look at that it's at 51c and it hasn't dropped boost clocks yet so that's one of the things i want to look for right now is uh if it's going to drop boost clocks on me so 54c it's still at 19.50 a lot of graphics cards is it going up it's at 1965 now as the temp went up what sense does that make typically as a graphics card passes 50 you'll start to see the boost bins and the boost clocks really start to drop quickly but we're still bouncing between 1950 and 1935 and i do have this at 1440p 4x msaa ultra settings and normal tessellation these cards are extremely power limited because of the fact that they're on the and by these cards i mean all rtx 3080 is not the just the colorful card the amount of power that they can draw now they are much more on the ragged edge in terms of power delivery than before because remember the rtx 3080 is a 320 watt card versus the 2080 ti which was a 250 watt card so we're talking 70 watts more power draw before you take into account any sort of overclocking in fact will it show us power draw on here right now so i can see where we are wattage wise yeah so we are at 367 362 363. so at stock power limit we are pulling more than 320 because remember this is the advanced oc which means the baseline of the overclock or the power draw is higher than the reference card because out of the box it does come over clocked so the reason why i'm showing that fact that we are sitting at 360 to 370 watts right now is because of the fact that they've lifted the floor so your power limit at 100 is as you can see right now about 360 watts that's 40 watts higher than a founder's edition card so i see a lot of people complain like boys this one only go to 105 well 105 of 360 is gonna be more than let's say 107 of 320. so it's important to know where those power limits are before you even start moving that uh that slider at all considering the fact that it's holding its boost bin at these temperatures tell me that this card is truly it is truly prioritizing clock speed over temperature even if you change the little indicator that says which is priority power draw or temperature it seems to just be holding the clocks no matter what we do so let's see right now if i can go 50 on the core let's do 55 i'm not sure where the boost bins are on these 60 should get us another boost pin there's 20 25 let's do 75. yeah so i think we're definitely starting to hit power limit now see how it's kind of fluctuating a bit right there and this is where people get into trouble they'll think because oh well it's not it's not crashing at plus 100 if plus 100 can't be achieved because of the power limit and then you're doing something in your game that suddenly is a little bit less demanding and it tries to suddenly shoot the clock up high then it can crash which is a lot of what was happening with the crashing 3080s with the bios being a bit too aggressive and the driver being too aggressive on trying to force that clock to go up uh gpu boost was actually just being a bit too aggressive there so can i see if i go plus 100 see 2055 and then back down to 2025 because we are power limited so i could probably go 150 and it won't crash see because we're not getting well oh there's 2100 holy crap dude the fact that that hasn't even crashed yet though is kind of surprising you won't know the truth 175 it's got a crash right here and crash yeah there it is geez what do you say we just do a port royal run real quick to see what we get out of it so if i compare a port royal score that we just got of 12566 first let's take a look at the temperatures it maxed out at 55 right at the end of the test so if we compare that 12566 to our uh so the evga xc3 got an 11 355. now remember that was stock and then our fe got 11 466. so you can see you can easily get more than a thousand points now to put this in perspective our stock rtx 3090 founders edition was a 13 043 that's why you see a lot of people talking about how the 3090 really is a terrible value because it is a terrible value for a gaming card it's just if you want the fastest card possible there's an exponential and a terrible roi and a huge diminishing return on that couple of extra percent so yeah twelve thousand five sixty six not bad at all but in terms of the build quality i'm not going to tear this card apart because we already did in another video in fact we'll kind of show you that as we talk about it the cooler design is it's massive so the entire heat sink is just one giant heat pipe system which most of them are but there's something about the way that they have these fins designed and the way that they have the airflow design through them to where you're getting very good memory cooling like if i touch the back of the card right now it's a little bit warm but what that tells me is that the actual memory heat pads that are on the back are touching the heat the back plate here which is turning it into a giant heat spreader for the memory gddr 6x is extremely hot and as such keeping it cool is very important the cooling plate on the cooler does also touch all of the rams it clearly touches all of the mosfets and the way it comes apart is this really interesting sort of a clam shell where you've got to take off some screws on the face some screws on the back the back plate comes off independently but the way it tightens up and and clam shells together gives you really good contact on all of the parts when it comes to cooling and then the triple fan design even running at full speed right now i don't think sounds terrible i don't think it's really all that intrusive remember this is 100 so if i go ahead and take this and crank it down to let's say something a little bit more manageable for gaming let's say about 60 okay so here's 60 percent like my mic literally has to be within an inch of it for you to hear it uh but there you go they do have 30 90s as well but the 3080 card from uh igame or colorful definitely seems like a card that if you can get past it's very i want to say anime appearance it's got a very gundam look about it i think if you can get past that and you don't think that's ugly and the way that you would be looking at it horizontal doesn't bother you um or if you're one of those people that's just like i want one of the best cards that i can get my hands on or right now i think people with 3080 any card they can get their hands on um if you have the opportunity to check out the uh advanced oc from igame it's definitely worth checking out it's one of the fastest 3080s that we've had in here so far and again it has six sp caps so i don't know i i'm tempted to take that back plate off to see if they changed that at all because we know the other ones did but i don't want to take it apart because it was kind of a pain in the butt to be honest it did not come apart easy but anyway there you go guys what do you guys think of the design of this i think it's definitely a conversation i forgot wasn't mounted down it's definitely a conversation piece in terms of the way it looks um i think this was a design that initially i thought i was going to hate it but the more we played with it and looked at it and handled it and realized just how beefy and robust and the way it's built the more i liked it so there you go guys sound off in the comments below the advanced oc from igame check it out in the comments down or the description and yeah i'm curious what you guys think about it thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020

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[u/coolts]

Beta???? Come on now. Alpha!

Beta will be released when there are more SC space ships sold than the population of the earth.

[u/gavros787]

I rofled so hard, was jay a backer too? I wonder.