Any advantage to x2 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 10GB Cards?

Ambarian · 21 Dec 2020 at 10:49

Like the title says, is there any advantage to having 2 x Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 10GB Cards in a machine?

I know they don't have SLI in the 3080's so I wondered. I'm asking because I'm looking at a pre-made rig that comes with 2 installed and I cant see a reason why when its listed as an extreme gaming PC.
Are they just trying to dump stock and pad the price or is there a logical reason for this?

BTW the other components in this rig are:

RM1000x PSU
AMD Ryzen 9 5900x
Hydro100i Cooler
32GB Corsair Vengeance 3600Mhz
X570-F Mobo
2TB 970 M.2 SSD
2TB HDD

The cost for this being just shy of £3,943. And if the x2 cards aren't actually useful from a gaming standpoint, I might see if I can get them to dump one card and shave a few hundred quid off the total cost.

Thanks.

Quartz · 21 Dec 2020 at 11:09

In theory you could game on one card and get the other to do RTX voice, background overlay, CUDA stuff and so on, but I've not actually seen it done.

mickyflinn · 21 Dec 2020 at 11:23

Extremely stupid gaming pc with x2 3080 as sli in gaming is dead.

Rannoch · 21 Dec 2020 at 11:30

Madness lol

andy_mk3 · 21 Dec 2020 at 11:36

That seems odd. I found the place selling it and there's no mention as to why two 3080's would be of any use to anyone. Really bizarre. Nearly £4k is insane too.

COYS · 21 Dec 2020 at 12:15

Even shaving a 'few hundred quid' off is still going to make that ridiculously overpriced. Are you that desperate for a 5900X and a 3800?

andy_mk3 · 21 Dec 2020 at 12:19

OP, save yourself a couple of grand: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...700x-nvidia-rtx-3080-gaming-pc-fs-1ej-og.html

HazardO · 21 Dec 2020 at 13:12

Not a good idea to get 2 3080s, and I suspect a 1KW PSU would probably cut out at peak loads

andy_mk3 · 21 Dec 2020 at 13:20

HazardO said:
Not a good idea to get 2 3080s, and I suspect a 1KW PSU would probably cut out at peak loads

I did think that myself about the psu!

Ambarian · 21 Dec 2020 at 18:27

COYS said:
Even shaving a 'few hundred quid' off is still going to make that ridiculously overpriced. Are you that desperate for a 5900X and a 3800?

I'm looking at having a Gaming Rig I won't need to bother about updating or modifying for a good few years, so I figure it's best to get the current gaming standard, which most people seem to say is a 3080 (3090 is apparently only a small improvement and only for workstation type builds most seem to say) and a 12 core CPU since, again, from what I've read no games need close to 16 cores right now, and even 12 could be considered pushing it, but I do like to mess around on occasion with animation and rendering software on a purely hobbyist level so figure a little extra oomph there might not hurt?

no idea what said:
OP, save yourself a couple of grand: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...700x-nvidia-rtx-3080-gaming-pc-fs-1ej-og.html

Thanks, I looked at the Gallium and the price, and I liked it, but because it's 3700x I looked at something in the same sort of bracket. Right now I'm looking at the Scimitar with some tweaks.

Ryzen 9 3900x
GeForce 3080
32GB 3600Mhz Ram
x2 2TB 970 M.2 SSD's
6TB HDD

And all coming it at a more pleasant 3,276.95, a big improvement cost wise I have to admit. Enough savings left over to go for a slightly more expensive and better monitor, or even some other bits and bobs.