Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition

Conclusion

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card arrives to market at a tumultuous time for the PC components industry. Underscored by severe stock shortages showing no signs of abating alongside price gouging which effectively doubles the cost of entry today, getting your hands on either a Founders Edition or partner card will undoubtedly prove difficult and irksome in equal measure.

If you do, the latest GeForce rewards the gamer with almost as much performance as the range-topping RTX 3090. There's half the graphics memory - which puts it below AMD's premier solutions - the Founders Edition card uses inferior cooling to the 3090 equivalent, and there's no provision for NV-Link.

One can successfully argue there's little need for additional models when present stock is in such constraint. An opposite line of thinking describes this introduction as promoting even more choice for the well-heeled PC enthusiast.

A modestly cheaper version of the RTX 3090 with most of the performance knobs still turned on, the £1,049 GeForce RTX 3080 Ti only makes sense if you can purchase it for the advertised MSRP. We wish you good luck in that endeavor.

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