Last week, we have been amazed to discover EVGA’s RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra graphics card going for $999 at Newegg – a $300 discount from the card’s MSRP and an enormous assertion in regards to the burgeoning well being of the GPU market. Today, the beefy GPU has appeared for simply $889 at Newegg, a wholesome $110 discount. That’s a fantastic worth for the most effective excessive-finish graphics card proper now, particularly for one which’s made by the trusted of us at EVGA.
It’s solely been a week since we last lined this card, however for those who did not noticed that earlier submit it’s value going by the fundamentals as soon as extra. The RTX 3080 was a part of the primary trio Ampere GPUs that launched in 2021, however was arduous to discover thanks to unbelievable demand and scarce provide. Current RPS editor-in-chief (after which {hardware} editor) Katharine rated it extremely, thanks to its unbelievable efficiency enhance over prior generations, particularly with its second-gen RT cores and all the time-helpful DLSS temporal upscaling know-how. 4K 60fps is inside attain for principally any sport in the marketplace, and naturally it works effectively with excessive refresh price 1080p and 1440p displays too (though you may want a quick CPU as effectively to sort out these larger refresh charges). All in all, a tremendously highly effective card that is additionally a lot better worth than the 3070 Ti, 3080 Ti, 3090 and 3090 Ti playing cards that have been launched later.
This specific RTX 3080 mannequin is the EVGA FTW3 Ultra, which additionally occurs to be the RTX 3080 sitting in my pc, taking pictures video information to the very monitor that I’m writing these phrases on. The card has been stellar in my estimation over the previous yr-and-a-bit I’ve had it, able to operating each sport I’ve thrown at it whereas remaining (comparatively) cool and quiet thanks to its hefty thermal resolution. There’s additionally an HDMI 2.1 port for connecting to excessive-finish TVs, Nvidia’s newest media encoder and AV1 decode assist, all helpful issues for contemporary gaming folks.
In brief, I’m an enormous fan of this class of GPU usually and this mannequin of GPU particularly, so do decide it up at its diminished worth. It’s doable that we’ll see additional worth drops in future, because the playing cards strategy their nominal $699 MSRP, however my guess is that top-finish fashions like this FTW3 Ultra will stay on this worth vary for a while to come!
