EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super FTW3 Ultra 8GB GDDR6, 08G-P4-3287-KR review

EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super FTW3 Ultra 8GB GDDR6, 08G-P4-3287-KR review

EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super FTW3 Ultra 8GB GDDR6, 08G-P4-3287-KR review

hello friends and fans of EVGA and today I have another special unboxing for you and this is a really cool card this is the 2080 Super this is the new high-end super card as far as I'm or this is the highest end that the super monitor will ever go this is a card which despite being an 8 gigabyte card in some cases actually gets pretty close to a 20 atti performance and that's despite the fact that these are significantly less expensive than 20 ATT eyes I am personally gonna

upgrade my 1080 Ti to one of these 2080 supers because I just think they're so cool and I want to be part of that whole ray-tracing revolution my name is ray after all why why would I not so let's get this open this is one of our higher-end models this is a 2080 Super FTW 3 it's our triple fan it's also a triple slot so it's our biggest physical size cooler ends up being one of our quietest cooled cards one of our best so I'm going to show you some of the cool features on that too let's

pop this thing open you'll notice the packaging very similar packaging to what we had on the non super cards but we really like this it does come with a DVI adapter some models will some models won't it just depends on which card you go for and of course our venerable case badge a lot of people I'm showing off that they've got an EVGA product quick guide doesn't change it's actually the same for all cards it gets updated to include the Super's but just tells you how to

install your card and for a lot of people this is nothing new if you had an old graphics card in your system chances are this will slot in exactly the same way here it is this is my first hands-on with a 2080 Super I worked with these products day-in day-out and so we actually do get to work on them quite a bit before they're even publicly announced but I will say oftentimes if we do not get the actual production quality ones that you guys will be getting until very very close

to launch so this is the first time I'm getting to see one of these final cards some pretty exciting right that way and here is the card itself get that peeled now one thing I'd like to point out because we have had some questions on this on our other cards um you'll see here that there is a little logo that says super in 2080 but there's actually pull tab so you pull this off and there you go full stainless steel nameplate so this is definitely how I recommend that you use it don't

leave that sticker on there because it won't look right with the LED lighting a really high quality I'm always surprised every time I hold one of these three fan cards the amount of design and attention to detail that we put in these full aluminum up back plates they really do help with rigidity quite a bit but there's also a full length of base plate that syncs heat because it makes contact with your vram your vrn components and it also helps make the card a little bit

more rigid so you've got this sandwich of metal that holds the PCB PCBs are great but they're actually not very strong so when you get to a card of this size and this weight you do want the extra support and that's why we went through the trouble of adding in a base plate a back plate and a triple slot bracket so all of it kind of supports the weight of the card there is an RGB header this one is a 12-volt RGB so there's not an addressable RGB but if you want the color on the card to match another strip in your system you do have the option to do that and this one I

really like I want this feature on every card this is a PWM header and I've been saying for years that one of the kind of downfalls in a custom built PC is that the fan speeds in your system really should be tuned to the GPU not the CPU because in many cases your GPU like this is a 250 watt card so in many cases it's producing a lot more heat than your CPU is and that'll because it's exhausting the heat into the case you really need to get that heat back out

again so with a card like this that has a PWM header you can have a fan or even multiple fans if you use like a powered hub you can have all of your casements connected directly to your card and your fans in your case will follow the fan curve of the card so as the card gets hot all of the case fans ramped up and it gets the heat out that's that's exactly how I love to run a system because it ensures that when you are gaming heavy load 3d rendering whatever it may

be your system and your card is gonna run nice and cool because the two are working in harmony so I think that having a card with a pwn fan header on it is a really nice feature and it just rounds out kind of the goal of this card which is this is kind of an ultimate overclocking ultimate performance model so this is the higher-end FTW 3 this is the 2080 Super it is available starting today so as of posting this you can run out and buy one of these cards

hopefully it's in stock I'm sorry if it's already gone out of stock 2070 and 2060 supers went out of stock pretty fast on their launch day this might as well.

EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super FTW3 Ultra 8GB GDDR6, 08G-P4-3287-KR review

I got in my EVGA RTX 2080 super for the win three ultra graphics card someone's got to change this marketing scheme because these names are getting ridiculous okay as I said these names are just getting psychotic first off super oh my god I'm waiting for some of the answers going super thanks for calling I mean it's just it's ridiculous I hate this name anyway let's open this up before we get it swapped out standard EVGA packaging at the moment not much to it one thing I will say is boy this thing is frickin heavy which I don't think is any different from

the twenty eighty or the twenty seventy or the twenty atti I've got a couple before to wit for the one two three cards I love the twenty ATT eyes but for the price this is an interesting card to have so we get it out of the ever annoying and loud static bag and this is what we get I mean it looks exactly like the 2080 except for now this is super and yeah not particularly exciting aesthetically compared to what you currently got but it is a little bit expensive then when the

2086 came out so what we're going to do is I'm not going to take too much more about the unboxing experience because it's it is what it is where I get this thing installed here I guess everybody probably would like to know what's in this little thing though so first the EVGA badge [Music] and then HDMI to DVI cable for your VR outside of that that's what you get in the box nothing else exciting so let's go ahead and get it swapped out and come back play some

games run some benchmarks talk about some minor thoughts about the new card for the 2080 series ,okay got the card installed it looks no different than the 2080 for the wind three ultra oh it says on is super however there is going to be a performance if it so we're going to go over that here in just a second we're gonna run through a couple benchmarks run a time spy real quick and then play a couple games finish the benchmarks and

then we'll wrap it up here first off for calm activity this does have 21.4 display ports - 2.0 B HDMI ports and a USB type-c port right on the back this also does have a dual BIOS mode right now it's defaulted switched into normal probably to keep this thing in overclock in the OC mode before I get going I just I have to do the same thing everybody else does it has done why in god's earth did we name this thing the super I mean what marketing idiot sat there and goes

oh my gosh I've got the best idea ever we're gonna call this card wait for it super isn't that a great idea because then I'll just tell everybody then it's better than the previous one holy crap I mean this has to be the dumbest dumbest marketing scheme I've ever come across I mean it is just brutal I don't know if someone was sitting at EVGA and just or not EVGA I'm sorry NVIDIA was throwing darts at a board and it landed a dirt landed on the word superhero

that's what we should name our cards let's call them super for the next out role I mean it's just oh my god is the worst marketing ever however I'm gonna back off that everybody else has hit it but I had to say something cuz it's just so idiotic is horrendous thing right off the bat I noticed it's extremely quiet in fact you'll notice that the fans aren't even spinning at the moment the reason why because it's not being used and in idle while it's not being used right now

temperatures 29 degrees Celsius I mean it's I guess it's not being used oh you're the the it's not drawing much to it so that makes sense why it would be as cool as it is the ideas as it ramps up for heat and thermals that it's the going to then dissipate that by turning on the fans and going from there now I could set a manual fan curve go through this and have it running all the time leave it silent doesn't matter but I will say it is very quiet this card also seems to run pretty cool

especially when I get the fan curve going here and you're the most sudden game once we start running some tests on this thing so let's actually dive in let's get a couple of those taken care of here we'll discuss pricing and some of the features of the card when we get done and go from there first thing we're gonna do is run a time spy extreme test and we're gonna do this with stock settings I'm not touching anything here at a touching fan curve boost behave your power

target nothing we're just gonna leave it completely stock so here we're goal is go ahead and run this and come back here in a second and see how this is working first thing I'm gonna notice or point out here is our clock boosted right off the bat up to 1995 that's fluctuating a little bit there GPU temp is at 56 55 degrees and right now the fans are not even spinning it she's memory usage remember clocks at the 77 51 frames you can see that I'm just bright extreme again this

is a little bit heavier than just a 1080p workload but as temperature is coming up here a little bit the fans have started kicking on they're really quiet you can see my boost clock came up a little bit there for a second when the fan skipped gone now the fans are off again you can see how the temperatures all over the place our urgency all over the place but as you know in the 50s anyway so we're going to finish this see what the score is that we get and then we'll come

back to this in a second okay coming to the the test here and complete stock settings it's the first thing I want to point out nothing's set with regards to power limits memory clock core clock nothing fan curve everything is purely stock so our graphics core on times by extreme was 50 to 96 okay so it's a good score for what it is I want to point out I did use the I 999 100k it's also at stock settings as I don't believe that it would be fair to overclock the heck out of my CPU to try

to show some false performance of and how someone might use this out of the box what I want to do next is we are going to shut this down I'm going to switch it into the OSI mode for the BIOS on the card and see if there's any type of a difference and then we're gonna do some benchmarks play a couple games of me and then be done here okay we are gonna go over here to the card flip the little bio switch now we're into OSI mode start everything back up then

we're gonna do it all again okay first thing off the bat clock boosts it up to 1995 drop down to 1980 temperatures almost immediately hit the low 60s we'll see if this affects our score at all in the long run the only thing difference of noticing is it is staying at that higher 1980 to 1995 now a little longer the last one last one seemed to be going to 1980 down to like 1950 right off the bat I also noticed that the temperatures a little hotter this time around than it was last and again I

expect that coming from the OSI profile on the BIOS but we'll go ahead and let this finish up come back and review this okay here we are and scores a little higher my graphics court is 5437 so that's higher than the I believe fifty to ninety six of the last one so let's go ahead and boot up a game like I guess overwatch or something play that real quick and see what that's like okay we're gonna play a little overwatch here pick this because had 1080 this is probably where most

people are gonna be playing this game if they're playing competitively they want a high refresh rate monitor they want the fastest response time possible and you're not always gonna get that in 4k or even 1440 now I think this game in 1440 and in 4k plays more than all enough right now I'm sitting 195 to 201 FPS but obviously I'm not in action at the moment the clock is boosted up to twenty one hundred megahertz the memories at 79-76 temperatures sitting nice

we're gonna see how this plays here I'm not an overwatch King by any stretch of the imagination you see my frames are at 200 227 my boos clock has not changed one bit but I will say it's pretty darn smooth probably charging in like that was not the best plan died frames pulling around 200 which I would say is really nice , that was fun now again why did I pick overwatch the play on a 1080p monitor because this is

indicative of what someone might play that's gonna be a competitive gamer that you know maybe playing league or whatever I like this game I think it's a fun game plus it's you know it's free so anyway um we're gonna do a 4k game here just to show how this handle this game handles for game on like a higher in title and yeah we're move upstairs to my other monitor cuz I'm not gonna unhook it and bring it down here okay so this is the Asus PG 27 UQ 4k ultra

high def monitor pretty straightforward so as far as 4k gaming goes this is about the creme de la creme now right off the bat and I know it's really hard to see because of of the resolution of this and how it shrinks everything in 4k right now the booth glottis clock is sitting in 1980 you know what I should do first things first let's go back and let's check the precision and let's let's actually turn on an overclock here so we're gonna load this this is a real mild overclock that is

very stable it's got a nice fan curve to it we're gonna come back actually we're gonna make the fan curve a little more aggressive let's make that fan curve like crazy aggressive so easy it is to adjust things in precision x1 so now we're going to hit play apply I'm gonna go back and hit save to one actually I like my stuff loading on startup so anyway okay so now we've got a little bit of a boost clock so let's go back into the game so it was boosting in nineteen eighty on stock

so now it's boosting to twenty seventy well it like I said small overclock I'm not gonna break records at the moment or anything I just wanted to see what it could do right off the bat memory clock 79-76 temperatures sitting at 62 just sitting here at i/o frame weights at at 93 frames per second again that is in 4k okay we're using full-screen mode pretty straightforward in fact I'm going to put this up to the 120 because that's what my monitors said it right now I

prefer to go to the route of the best possible UHD sitting on this monitor if you go to the overclock or the 144 Hertz which this is not competitive gaming so I don't need the faster refresh rate you lose some of your color so I'm gonna go ahead and leave it at that I don't have an FPS limit right now I'll get the HDR on I'll let Susan here at hgr settings I'll stir it up a little bit why not and cut going to our graphics everything said of ultra high we're gonna put the

Deming River Blues Ellucian at 60 frames a second why not adaptive anti-aliasing shadows ultra high so we're just going nuts on everything here right so I'm gonna hit apply game but we don't care but this is up I'm not looking to really show you how amazing I'm at this all right now and the menu I'm sitting 111 frames a second again no big deal let's just wander around here a little bit it's been so long since I've been in this game I can't remember exactly how to

play all of it but doesn't matter the idea is to show you a a triple a title in 4k with everything set at Ultra the top-end for resolution and see what it looks like I mean from my standpoint this screen looks absolutely stunning it's probably hard for you to see just because you don't see the same HDR that I do here but and right now you probably can't see the frames per second but we're sitting about 58 frames a second with everything maxed out let's mount up here I don't

remember where I am in this thing menu okay I'm app whoo that's bright so it looks like I need to go over here okay ,I'm definitely not gonna win any horse riding ,I hit him that there is no way that he survived from that isn't supposed to protect the innocent right I haven't played this game him so long so you can see what it looks like hey I mean this is buttery smooth at 60 frames a second plus in ultra 4k everything maxed

out I mean is unbelievable alright so actually here let's exeter this one and then let us boot up let's boot up overwatch again why not alright here we are in the options menu of overwatch and everything set up ultra as you can see boo let's go to epic why not let's see what that's like fly who 20100 is my core clock 1776 is my memory at the moment and my framerate 4k epoch is 136 I've no bad guys anywhere yet shotgun somewhere oh there we go okay as you can see I'm

at Ken 4k epic settings and my frame rates are more than acceptable to 130 frames a second 128 I'm getting my core clock is between twenty eighty five and twenty one hundred megahertz memory is 79-76 at the moment I just walked out and got my butt kicked oh and never going now we go outside of a skirmish into an actual match so we'll go ahead we'll play through this real quick well you have our opinion and then we shall come back and show you the

benchmarks and , okay and that's how overwatch plays an epic setting a 4k uhd monitor 130 frames a second most of the match the clock again with a very mild overclock was at 2070 a super super smooth fantastic picture it's a great way to play a game , okay let's recap you've seen the benchmarks a great card performance is between the 2080 it should be and the 2080 ti it's not quite at the level of the 2080 ti this card MSRP is for they won directly from Nvidia I missed our P's at which one should you get kind of depends if you're gonna just stick it in a system on air I

personally would say by the founders Edition yes this has got some profile there's benefit to a custom PCB but with how it's set up now you get the similar fans it's only two fans but it's going to give you the same performance this is basically if you're going to water cool it I would I mean I that's what I like to do I like water cool I like the look of it does it add much more performance no but I like the look of the low temperatures I love the look of the block itself the water I mean I that's my preference personal thing right I would say to get this card with the

hydro copper block already installed that's directly from EVGA maybe you can find a cheap here I haven't done much looking around but that's my opinion because if you buy this block and you spend that they want for the hydro copper blocks which i think is I think water blocks are getting too expensive now again my opinion that puts you so the already installed at that's a good value especially

if you consider the fact that the founders Edition 2080 super if you put a block on that from say ek that's already a mid 150 you know mid 100's card operate 100's card or block sorry not card but block you're already approaching or eclipsing the price of this already installed and then you've got the custom PCB so if your water cooling it that's what I would do if your leave err personally I just got the founders Edition and be done with it I mean for that kind of a price

you're getting a lot of value especially when you consider it as the next step up is a twenty atti and going north from there I personally don't see the value in that any longer especially when this can handle about everything you want high refresh great gaming for competitive nature you got it go buy yourself a high refresh rate 240 Hertz screen that's you know there you've got that I think that the person buying this card and

having a ninety nine hundred K or a 3900 X from rise in or 3700 X whatever the case is 9700 K I think they're gonna be gaming personally on a 1040 I'm sorry if 1440 a monitor or a 4k monitor I personally game on a 4k monitor this handles it no problem triple-a titles as you see easier lower in titles I don't want to call overwatch or a pub G or one of those low end but it handles it doesn't matter what it is this card will take care of it again I think if you're bit

spending that kind of money hopefully you've already got that 1440p or that 4k monitor if you're gaming on a low refresh rate 10 SiC 1080 mono don't buy this card upgrade your monitor and then buy a better card that's my opinion price points you've got I mean as you can see invidious showing you some decent value now for the price points I still would like to see am becoming a little more competition for them it is specially the upper end card to get these prices

down especially on stuff like the 1080 TI or the 2080 Kanak TI maybe they will who knows I guess I'm not expecting that at this point that doesn't seem to be the market they're driving for but anyway I I have to say that I'd recommend this card if you're using it for a hyerin system or if you just want to have one of the best 2080 supers out there how to hit that name you scheme .

Learn more about the EVGA 08G-P4-3287-KR

ModelBrandEVGAModel08G-P4-3287-KR
InterfaceInterfacePCI Express 3.0
ChipsetChipset ManufacturerNVIDIAGPUGeForce RTX 2080 SUPERBoost Clock1845 MHzCUDA Cores3072
MemoryEffective Memory Clock15500 MHzMemory Size8GBMemory Interface256-BitMemory TypeGDDR6
3D APIDirectXDirectX 12OpenGLOpenGL 4.5
PortsHDMI1 x HDMI 2.0bMulti-Monitor Support4DisplayPort3 x DisplayPort 1.4Other Ports1 x USB Type-C VirtualLink
DetailsMax Resolution7680 x 4320SLI Support2-Way SLIVirtual Reality ReadyYesCoolerTriple FansOperating Systems SupportedWindows 10 (64-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit)Thermal Design Power250WSystem RequirementsMinimum of a 650-Watt power supply
Two available 8-pin or 6+2-pin PCIe power donglesPower Connector2 x 8-PinHDCP Ready2.2
FeaturesFeaturesNVIDIA Ansel

Adjustable RGB LED

All-Metal Backplate, Pre-Installed

Real-Time Ray Tracing

NVIDIA GeForce Experience

NVIDIA Highlights

NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatible

Game Ready Drivers

Microsoft DirectX 12 API, Vulkan API, OpenGL 4.5

NVIDIA GPU Boost

Built for EVGA Precision X1

Designed for USB Type-C and VirtualLink

EVGA iCX2 Technology
Form Factor & DimensionsMax GPU Length302 mmCard Dimensions (L x H)11.89" x 5.48"Slot Width2.75 Slots