VRM Analysis of EVGA RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultra

[@GamersNexus]

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[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

RTX 20 series mods for hardcore overclocking: Voltage control + load line: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKqiH-wl7F7ac0 Power limit removal: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqele5mqgbenaqs

[@johnb4545]

Where is Buildzoid from? I've been all over and heard just about every dialect of English and I can't place his. I hear a touch of a few different accents actually.

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

nice edit on the scrolling BZ RTX20 vid list intro BZ/Steve/Andrew/Patrick/Crew, I didn't realize so many retakes of the same 8 phase (dual feed?) VRM had been done on RTX20 cards, lol. Nvidia must have locked down the Power specs even more than I thought. That or AIB's don't want to invest that much in a GPU chip with profit margins as slim as RTX, lol. Great vid Buildzoid/Steve and crews. B)

[@miasam9666]

Can I put a Seahawk 1080ti shroud/fan/radiator set on the evga 2080ti?

[@khmergodhobbies]

"Has bios switch. 10/10" -buildzoid

[@dongurudebro4579]

I mean i hate everything without a BIOS switch too... thats why i broke up with my last girlfriend.

[@wobblysauce]

Bois switches are nice, but you should not be able to mod the 2nd chip, as it is a safety.

[@pino_de_vogel]

As long as you can flash firmware and turn off the speaker or power altogether you should be fine.

[@dongurudebro4579]

@@pino_de_vogel That was the problem my friend, every time i tried that it ended in a real mess! Pretty annoying to fix that.

[@ajanimandara9137]

@@dongurudebro4579 🤣😂👍

[@carmonben]

Wow awesome, just asked for this a few days ago, thank you Buildzoid + GN.

[@jimdoe9827]

At this point it would be nice to have a build proposition either by GN or Buildzoid. And I mean screw the 1000 or whatever dollar builds. Give us an opinion (or recommendation, whatever you can get away with) of a build using the BEST QUALITY component. Just go like: -This MB because VRMs, the GPU over there because Ray Tracing and RGB, that PSU cos it doesn't blow up etc.

[@Docdull22]

should get more likes

[@GL12878]

"Best quality" component? Do you mean asking them to do a $20000 build? Or do you mean best in class?

[@Henk14789]

I bet they'll recommend the great wall PSU. Unbeatable price/performance.

[@jimdoe9827]

@@GL12878 The later. Pick a theme, say video editing with threadripper and/or rtx 2080 ti deep learning rig, and pick the compatible stuff with the best specs.

[@Pheatrix]

Or somehting like a rating system inside of a spreadsheet so you have easy access to it and don't have to search a ton of videos (or articles) but can get a quick overview of which components are garbage and which are really good. Maybe with a short comment (not short in Buildzoids sense but actually short. Like 1 sentence ot something like that). That would be really nice.

[@nimrodquimbus912]

It just works, buy it now

[@deansmith4752]

One consequence of voltage doubling is frequency doubling - which makes the EMC compliance much harder

[@DA3MONF3AR]

Is it just me or does this guy sound like Kermit the Frog?

[@LeoDavidson]

I've seen posts saying the FTW3 (at least at the time of posting) has/had the highest power limit of all the 2080ti cards. Based on this, is that just a BIOS thing, and not due to the VRMs or other hardware being better on this card vs other custom PCBs? Or is there more to it? (Or are the posts just wrong or out of date?)

[@Mcwrah]

Not sure, but I do own a FTW3 and it does have power limit of 373W, usually stays around 350-370W(in most games with my OC and 1440p 144hz screen) i also seen it pull 380W according to px1. Power limit goes to 124%. 300W is the base. Thats all i can say, and from what i heard and seen most cards have power limit of around 300-330W. Might be different now tho.

[@skoopsro7656]

Mcwrah THANK YOU for sharing EXACT details

[@tomeklevy14]

13:35 140 degrees Celsius - exacly as U hear u write - little circle is "degree" also in geografic location

[@scarlett806]

What's the best custom board? EVGA FTW3, ASUS ROG STRIX, or MSI GAMING TRIO?

[@nightblazzed]

@@michaelcid5055 Good for you but what does that have to do with the question?

[@nightblazzed]

Depends on pricing and preference. The only one on the list that is pure trash is MSI

[@johndoe-fy6jz]

Dude just go with EVGA. You know about their RMA process being painless compared to the other 2.

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

Does it matter when you're *Just Going To Buy It* ?

[@XenZenSen]

@@nightblazzed please elaborate. I got the regular 2080 and am nearing the end of return period. Thanks!

[@bloodyzbub6213]

I'm thinking the 2080 ti doesn't have doublers. Great vid!!

[@carmonben]

Also my ftw3 pulls 400w (according to px1) at 1.05v and at up to 2050 mhz

[@carmonben]

@@frostybe3r really? Dunno, I didn't spend much time on the OC.

[@carmonben]

@@frostybe3r stable at 100% load x

[@LeoDavidson]

@@frostybe3r What's the build quality issue? Specific to the FTW3 or 2080tis in general?

[@carmonben]

@@LeoDavidson the shroud does squeek a bit when you handle it, also the last fin (on my unit) rattles when i tap it

[@LeoDavidson]

@@carmonben Thanks!

[@-Kerstin]

Great video! Kinda lame how all these 2080Ti's are the same in terms of the PCBs. Hopefully things spices up in the next generation

[@lips2486]

I agree. Nvidia didn't leave a lot of room for aibs to differentiate themselves.

[@aexandereung5686]

I dont think Buildzoid did PCB breakdown videos on the Palit or Inno3D RTX cards yet

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

cuz most of them run reference boards

[@aexandereung5686]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking As far as I know the RTX 2080 (no 2080ti, for some reason) Gamerock Premium is a custom PCB

[@nicholaswilkowski632]

What is a fun low end card to learn overclocking on?

[@nicholaswilkowski632]

@Tadas Nanartonis sub $130 for low end. Hmmm I will keep an eye out for something as new as or newer than the 750

[@nicholaswilkowski632]

@Tadas Nanartonis will do

[@c.s127]

You can put the bios of the kingpin on the ftw3 ultra?

[@RodrigoKoser]

I was thinking the same thing, has anyone ever tried this and who could share?

[@basedanon420]

@@RodrigoKoser yes you can

[@timothyandrewnielsen]

Wonderful, thank you.

[@miguelchang5520]

THIS IS THE ONE EVERYONE was waiting for.

[@benazzi8434]

lol nope evga is shit lmao you dumb

[@eliyot5126]

@@benazzi8434 why?

[@TheMightyFeather]

@@benazzi8434 i don't like NVidia much but EVGA does a good job making custom boards. Idk what you're basing your claim on but you sound stupid.

[@bluephreakr]

Who else wanted Buildzoid to just erase the thermal paste on the card? It _can_ be done, too through some layer trickery: With nobody in the room, take a picture with paste. Then clean it, taking another picture with nobody in the room. Then have the TP layer on top and just erase the area -around- within the -paste- silicon.

[@KaitlynFedrick]

GN took the photo

[@fungunfanatic]

@Buildzoid I don't see a teardown of the PNY RTX 2080 on your channel, Or a teardown of any PNY cards. I only have access to buying new video cards from dell via financing. I always wondered how they hold up to the Mainstream cards.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

pretty sure PNY runs reference PCBs for everything

[@fungunfanatic]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking Oh.... good to know. My bad, thanks for the info.

[@johndoe-gw6tj]

The BIO's switch will be good for when the Kingpin or whatever MSI calls there kingpin card; there gonna have a higher power limit I'd hope

[@MrCanna1988]

i was looking for a waterblock for this card. I see that EK waterblock doesn' t cover the mosfet that you analyzed at 28:52, while EVGA original cooler and EVGA Hydro Copper do it... could be a problem? thanks in advance

[@HeaterMathew]

What power supply is recommended with this card?

[@Targetlockon]

"Before that RGB" :D

[@170adamb1]

So this doubling up of power phases seems to becoming the norm. Maybe asus didn't make such a bad decision with their maximus boards. My hero xi runs great without the vrm ever reaching 50 degrees with a 9900k running 5ghz on all cores.

[@catppussin]

If they announce a kingpin 2080ti could we could a full analysis?

[@dizydank]

benchmarks plz

[@Ryxxi_makes]

You haven't done Gigabyte Aorus extreme yet.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

yes I have on my own channel

[@Ryxxi_makes]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking oh nice, didnt know lol.

[@ATestamentToTech]

Got mine yesterday 😃 it's an absolute beast.. just my hydro copper now....

[@cloudwolf6611]

The Kingpin card is coming soon :D

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

And it already looks really special.

[@Dackdk]

"Low voltage roomheater"...

[@williamsrussell1]

anybody else a little bored of the 2080 videos as of late , you seen one you seen them all apart from a few ;)

[@HectorDomino.]

Stupid Question, Some PCBs like this card are almost half empty, but some other PCBs from the same card is almost full with components (even hard to find a bare space). Why is that???!!!

[@ATestamentToTech]

This pcb is huge. Probably the largest one out there

[@lips2486]

This card is like 25 percent larger than evga's 2080ti xc ultra. It's tighter on component space than this for sure.

[@Ground15]

I thought the Founders Edition was a 10 and not an 8 phase?

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

yeah that was a mix up because the GN card came with the MP2888 and I didn't notice the that there was only 8 current sense circuits. Other reviewers got UP9512 based cards.

[@sadlerbw9]

I wonder why NVidia is requiring such current and thermal overkill on the VRM? Price jokes aside, they aren’t in the habit of adding components for no reason, especially in a reference design. I mean, you could use only one power stage per phase and it would still probably be overkill for ambient cooling. I really wonder what all the extra hardware is doing that NVidia thinks is so important.

[@Felix-ve9hs]

for laughs and giggles I mounted a Raijintek Morpheus and the Backplate of an Acrtic Accelero Extreme IV to a Geforce GT 330 (75W TDP) and it wont hit 40°C at 99% Load XD

[@-Kerstin]

°C = Degrees Celcius C° = Celcius degrees (Odd way of saying it)

[@fatfacebig9622]

So what shut up

[@-Kerstin]

Hey, did someone hurt you? If you need to talk to someone I'm a great listener

[@KittySYT]

Yesterday, I googled what FTW stands for... and was surprised to learn that it means For The Win, and not For The Windows. 🌚

[@skoopsro7656]

Mine gets delivered WEDNESDAY!!

[@Apollo-Computers]

So Asus got a lot of backlash over the vrm phase count with the Maximus xi line, but no one cares that 2080 ti vrms are half of advertised.... Interesting.

[@KaitlynFedrick]

Pretty sure people care, but equally we can't blame the board partners here because it's clearly an NVidia thing

[@Apollo-Computers]

@@KaitlynFedrick right but evga said that ftw3, custom pcb, was 16+3 phase vrm

[@CriticoolHit]

BEFORE THAT. (got me gud +1)

[@TheDaswilhelm]

Customer called me as i'm watching this video, their evga 2080ti just started artifacting. Yayyyyyy!!!!

[@BIOHAZARD841]

Hey can you do a test on a power supply on a cyberpowerpc

[@heikogehrig]

So the Asus Strix is actually a better card hardware wise...? Higher end, better components?

[@connerp8432]

Kowalski analysis

[@tkimaginestudio]

It's "°C" not "C°".

[@Camhin1]

He doesn't care.

[@topbanana8438]

i would like to see the Analysis of a banana

[@achingowl]

Ok this has really been bothering me. Why can't GN take some half decent pictures. Sure Buildzoid already knows what's on there, but at least it would look a little bit cleaner and professional top down. On a cleaner mat.

[@lips2486]

They usually do and do all the time. And the front picture was pretty good. But the back one was easily seen as bad and I hope in the future they check before they send them.

[@shaolinshowdown1123]

In English please? Bro I barely understood anything lol. I'm getting this card in a couple days.

[@tehdave192]

oh god that ad has a horrible resolution compared to the rest of the video

[@JoshHopkinsYT]

I'm gay

[@scarlett806]

No ur not, u silly goose

[@alensabanovic747]

these cards are starting to look like motherboards....

[@sadlerbw9]

The VRM on this board makes all my Motherboard’s jealous!

[@ThePathway666]

ºC :)

[@KilgoreUSA]

What a confusing lecture.

[@gr33nbits93]

Omg this 30m videos are not good, why can't you just give us "Bad".."Good" this and that? i mean you can have this videos but on buildzoid's channel, boring even for me and im and electronic technician and tech guy. I know buildzoids videos are 1h and so but can you do a 10 to 15m recap of the big video on GN, my honest opinion. I mean i went to the end of the video to see "Conclusion" and see if it's good or not but not even that.. :( I mean i love Buildzoid and he is a great guy and tech tuber.

[@ctbenko1]

Stopped watching at "Bi Oses", just couldnt :/