Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Review ft. Gigabyte, Inno3D, Palit

The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition ships in a very similar box to that of the other RTX 30-series Founders Editions, though it is actually slightly more compact.

Inside, we get the usual documentation and a 2x 8-pin to 12-pin power adapter. That's right, Nvidia has stuck to its guns and the 12-pin connector is present on this Founders Edition.

As for the card itself, Nvidia is re-using the same cooler as the RTX 3080 Founders Edition. My immediate thought was what the implication would be for thermals, as the RTX 3080 is a 320W GPU compare to the 350W TGP rating of the RTX 3080 Ti. We test thermal performance later in the review, but suffice to say I have no complaints.

It's a very stylish-looking card overall, with some industrial-looking black fins set inside a gunmetal grey unibody frame. In terms of dimensions, it measures in at 285mm long and 112mm wide, with a standard dual-slot thickness.

The fan layout remains unchanged from the RTX 3080 too. This means one 85mm on the underside of the card pushes air through the heatsink and straight out of the case via the I/O bracket. The fan on the top of the card, next to the backplate, pulls air through the heatsink and exhausts it out into the CPU/memory area of the motherboard/chassis, where the system’s exhaust fans can expel the heat.

The backplate is more sold metal, with a silver ‘x-shaped' cross section in the middle. The RTX 3080 Ti branding is also printed on the section closest to the I/O bracket, while the fan obviously takes up the right-hand side of the card.

As we already mentioned, Nvidia is sticking to the 12-pin connector with the RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition. Other partner cards however will be using the more traditional 8-pin connectors, so that's an option if you really don't like the 12-pin.

Lastly, video outputs come in the form of 3x DisplayPort 1.4a and 1x HDMI 2.1.

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