iGame GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Vulcan OC-V Conclusion
There's a new gaming flagship in the Ampere Lineup. The RTX 3080 Ti managed to take that title from the existing RTX 3080 and push that performance right up against the RTX 3090 in gaming loads but not quite pushing it over the edge. So you'll still find an argument for the RTX 3090 and its big ol massive cooler to stick around at the top of the stack. In another lifetime the RTX 3080 Ti could easily have gotten away with a title like RTS 3090 or RTX 3090LE but the titanium moniker suits it well.
The cooler on the iGAME GeForce RTX 3080Ti Vulcan OC-V had no issues keeping the card running well within spec of what the GPU is designed to target. While the thermals were close to that of the reference RTX 3080 Ti the performance doesn't lie. Sure it may seem similar on thermals but the iGAME GeForce RTX 3080Ti Vulcan OC-V was running a couple hundred MHz faster than the reference with ease resulting in it matching and often surpassing the GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition.
In the review for the GeForce RTX 3080Ti Founders Edtion, I hypothesized that a slight tweak could result in RTX 3090 levels of performance and this card has proven that to be true. This is also a good showing quite the performance improvement made by a 3rd party graphics card maker. While I think from a sheer capacity stance I would have loved to see the RTX 3080 Ti double the VRAM of the RTX 3080 but moving to that wider bus does deliver better overall performance and still gets us a 20% bump in VRAM capacity.
I can't go over performance without mentioning DXR and the likes of Ray Tracing's performance. It's there, people argued that the RTX 20 Series just wasn't quite there, but the RTX 30 Series is it. We're seeing great performance in all games that run the RT features and even better when they're paired with DLSS. Early implementations of DLSS may have been mired with image quality issues but the later DLSS 2.0 has been spectacular.
The elephant in the room with the RTX 3080 Ti is from within its own product family. The RTX 3090 comes in at an extra $300 MSRP and that gets you double the VRAM and (at least on the Founders Edition) a massive cooler, but the RTX 3080 gets you a little less VRAM but at $500 less MSRP so you're going to have your hands full deciding which of these in the Ampere lineup to pick from. The RTX 3080 Ti does put up good performance compared to its competitors RX 6900 XT but that one comes in at $200 less for their reference edition.
At the end of the day, the iGAME GeForce RTX 3080Ti Vulcan OC-V does indeed deliver RTX 3090 matching and often beating performance but it does come at a cost. The MSRP of the iGAME GeForce RTX 3080Ti Vulcan OC-V is $500 over that of the $1199 Founders Edition might be a tough pill to swallow but if you're in the market for one of the most unique RTX 3080 Ti models you can get then COLORFUL won't let you down with excellent build quality, aesthetics, and performance to go along with it.
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