RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12 GB Mining: Benchmark | highest boost clock | Speed

RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12 GB Mining: Review| Benchmark | highest boost clock | RTX 3080 Ti clock speed – At the beginning of all reviews of serial video cards, we update our knowledge about the performance of the family to which the accelerator belongs and its competitors. All this is subjectively assessed by us on a scale of five gradations.

Object of research : a commercially available 3D graphics accelerator (video card) MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12G 12 GB 384-bit GDDR6X.

Briefly about the main thing

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti accelerator in the face of the reference card is perfect for playing in 4K resolution at maximum graphics settings and using ray tracing (RT) technology with and without DLSS. In this regard, the MSI video card is slightly faster than the reference analog.

RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12 GB Mining: Specification

MSI (MicroStar International, MSI trademark) was founded in 1986 in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Produced OEM products for third-party orders. The release of products under its own brand was launched only in 1994. Headquartered in Taipei / Taiwan. Manufactured in China and Taiwan. 50% of products are ordered by third-party companies (OEM). On the Russian market since 1997.

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12G 12GB 384-bit GDDR6X – Features

RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12 GB Mining: Memory

The card has 12 GB of GDDR6X SDRAM located in 12 8 Gbit chips on the front side of the PCB. Micron memory chips (GDDR6X, MT61K256M32JE-19) are designed for a nominal operating frequency of 5500 (21000) MHz. The decryptor of codes on FBGA packages can be found here.

Card features and comparison with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE

Let me remind you that back in the fall of 2020, Nvidia made two PCB design options: for their Founders Edition cards and for partners (motherboards without a characteristic cutout). At the same time, MSI engineers have created their own PCB, which is only in the most general terms based on the reference design.

The MSI card turned out to be much larger, but this is determined by its very bulky CO. The total number of power phases for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE is 18, and for the MSI card – 20 .. At the same time, the phase distribution is as follows: the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE has 15 phases per core and 3 for memory chips, and the MSI card has 16 +4.

The power circuit for the kernel is shown in green, and the memory is in red. At the same time, there are no phase doublers (doublers), three PWM controllers are used to control the GPU power circuit: two uP9512R (uPI Semiconductor) located on the back of the board …

… and NCP81611 (On Semiconductor) located on the front of the board.

On the same front side is the uS5650Q PWM controller (uPI Semiconductor), which controls the 4-phase power supply of the memory chips.

The power converter, traditionally for all Nvidia video cards, uses DrMOS transistor assemblies – in this case, the NCP302150 (On Semiconductor), each of which is rated for a maximum of 50 A.

On the back there is another uS5650Q controller (uPI Semiconductor), which is already responsible for monitoring the card (monitoring voltages and temperatures).

And the backlight is controlled by a separate ITE8295FN controller (ITE Tech).

The card has two modes of operation, they are included in two BIOS versions, which are switched on the upper end of the card: Gaming and Silent. The difference between the modes lies only in the fan speeds, while the Boost frequencies of the GPU and memory frequencies are the same.

The nominal memory frequencies of the MSI card are equal to the reference values, but the core frequency is more complicated. In the default mode (Gaming or Silent), the Boost value of the GPU frequency is increased by almost 10% relative to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition card, but they have the same maximum frequencies (1995 MHz), while the power consumption of the MSI card reached 403 W. Studies have shown that, on average, we got a 6.4% performance increase in games relative to the reference card. At the same time, there is an additional Extreme mode activated through the MSI Center program (more on that below), in which the Boost core frequency rises by 11% relative to the reference one, and the maximum remains approximately the same. As a result, this mode provides a performance increase of about 6.8% in games (we are talking, of course, about 4K resolution) relative to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE.

I tried manual overclocking, but the consumption limit can only be raised to 110%, so the drivers did not allow the manual overclocking to be achieved. When I tried to set +125 MHz for the core and +1000 MHz for memory, I got the maximum frequencies of 2115/21000 MHz, which provided an average increase in games in 4K resolution of almost 7.8% relative to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE. The power consumption of the card has grown to 410 watts.

It is worth focusing on the external differences between the MSI card and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE.

As practice has shown, with a decrease in the GeForce RTX 3080/3080 Ti reference card and an attempt to cram such a hot accelerator into a 2-slot size, Nvidia engineers clearly overdid it: even the GeForce RTX 3080 FE is much hotter in operation and requires very decent ventilation in the case. not to mention the 3080 Ti FE. Almost all partner cards are much better in terms of cooling. Although much larger.

The MSI card is powered through three 8-pin connectors.

Management of the card is provided using the proprietary MSI Center utility. This program has relatively recently replaced the former Dragon Center and is a universal tool for a huge range of MSI products, including not only video cards and motherboards, but also LSS and laptops.

RTX 3080 Ti clock speed: Heating and cooling

Nvidia decided to make a more compact PCB for the GeForce RTX 3080/3090 cards and came up with a new cooling system that blows through the radiator (while partially leaving heated air in the volume of the case). However, MSI chose to go the old proven way, making the PCB longer and installing a cooler of the usual design. Therefore, we have before us a huge two-piece plate nickel-plated radiator with heat pipes soldered to a nickel-plated sole in contact with the GPU. The shape of the ribs and end guides help to diffuse the heated air currents.

The memory chips are cooled by a plate screwed to the base of the heatsink, and the VRM power converters are cooled using separate pads on the same heatsink (one of these plates also serves as a stiffener).

The back plate serves not only as a PCB protection element, but also participates in cooling the back side of the board through a thermal interface with a heat pipe. It should be noted that due to the increased area of ​​the GPU crystal, they began to use a “four-legged” clamp-shock absorber, which helps to evenly distribute the pressure of the heatsink sole over the entire area of ​​the crystal.

Above the radiator, there is a shroud with three ∅95 mm Torx 4.0 fans with a special blade design (connected in pairs) to increase the air flow directed to the radiator.

The fans stop at low load of the video card if the GPU temperature drops below 50 degrees, and the memory chips heat up below 80 degrees. Of course, the CO becomes silent at the same time. When the PC starts up, the fans work, but after loading the video driver, the operating temperature is polled, and they are turned off. Below is a video on this topic.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zf6CbQqCh7o%3Ffeature%3Doembed

Thermal Monitoring with MSI Afterburner:

Режим Gaming mode:

After a 2-hour run under load, the maximum core temperature did not exceed 71 degrees for the core and 90 degrees for memory chips, which is a very good result for flagship-level video cards. The power consumption of the card reached 403 watts. As a reminder, the safe temperature limit for GDDR6X memory is 105 ° C.

Silent mode:

In this case, the maximum core temperature reached 79 degrees, and memory chips – 96 ° C, which, in principle, is an acceptable result for video cards of this level. The power consumption of the card remained practically unchanged (403 W).

During manual overclocking (Gaming mode), the heating and noise parameters changed very little, the maximum consumption increased to only 410 W.

We filmed and accelerated the 8-minute warm-up (Gaming mode) by 50 times:https://youtube.com/watch?v=AMfgGL5bc0w%3Ffeature%3Doembed

The maximum heating was observed in the central part of the PCB, mainly near the core.

Noise

The noise measurement technique assumes that the room is noise-insulated and damped, and reverberations are reduced. The system unit, in which the noise of video cards is examined, does not have fans and is not a source of mechanical noise. The background level of 18 dBA is the noise level in the room and the noise level of the sound level meter itself. Measurements are taken from a distance of 50 cm from the video card at the level of the cooling system.

Measurement modes:

• Idle mode in 2D: loaded internet browser with Bitcoinminershashrate.com website, Microsoft Word window, a number of internet communicators
• 2D mode with movie viewing: SmoothVideo Project (SVP) is used – hardware decoding with insertion of intermediate frames
• 3D mode with maximum load on the accelerator: using FurMark benchmark

The assessment of the noise level gradations is as follows:

• less than 20 dBA: conditionally silent
• 20 to 25 dBA: very quiet
• from 25 to 30 dBA: quiet
• 30 to 35 dBA: clearly audible
• 35 to 40 dBA: loud but bearable
• above 40 dBA: very loud

In 2D idle mode in both Gaming / Silent modes, the temperature was no higher than 34.5 ° C, the fans were not working, the noise level was equal to the background noise – 18 dBA.

When watching a movie with hardware decoding, nothing changed.

Режим BIOS: Gaming

Under maximum load in 3D, the temperature reached 71/90 ° C (core / memory). At the same time, the fans spun up to 1850 rpm, the noise grew up to 32.6 dBA: this is clearly audible. In the video below, you can evaluate how the noise grows (it was fixed for a couple of seconds every 30 seconds).https://youtube.com/watch?v=YI1kKyUMmzM%3Ffeature%3Doembed

BIOS mode: Silent

Under maximum load in 3D, the temperature reached 79/96 ° C (core / memory). At the same time, the fans spun up only up to 1580 rpm, the noise grew up to 26.4 dBA: this is already quiet. The video below demonstrates this (noise was recorded for a couple of seconds every 30 seconds).https://youtube.com/watch?v=RwtUlxk000s%3Ffeature%3Doembed

Considering how much this card consumes, such a quiet operation of the cooling system in Silent mode deserves all praise. However, do not forget that the heat generated by the card remains inside the system unit, so using a case with good ventilation is highly desirable. And remember that in this mode, the memory heating of the video card is already approaching the upper alarm limits.

Backlight

The backlighting of the card is implemented in broken stripes along the upper end of the card, logos on the same end, as well as inserts between the fans. The backlight is clearly intended primarily for those using a graphics card in the traditional horizontal orientation (inserted into a slot on the motherboard).

The backlight is controlled using MSI Center (Mystic Light utility).

The choice of modes is very wide (this is traditional for MSI cards).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CpAbnTfK_8I%3Ffeature%3Doembed

Let me remind you that the new Suprim series of video cards replaced the previous flagship Lighting series, which was well known for its lighting effects.

Scope of delivery and packaging

The package, in addition to the traditional user manual and bonus stickers, includes a collapsible metal tripod stand for a map and a branded mouse pad.

If earlier MSI supplied metal brackets with its massive top-end video cards, in this case it was decided to change the look of the stand to a tripod resting against the bottom of the case.

It is clear that the stand is easily adjustable in height, so you can choose the option you want (attention is paid to this in the video below). This type of support does not overlap the slots below the video card in the system unit. However, there is not always an open empty space on the bottom of the case directly under the video card for installing such a tripod stand (cases are now made very different). And in the case of carrying the system unit, most likely, you will have to dismantle the stand.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nGMefSe-HMI%3Ffeature%3Doembed

(The video above featured a Palit GeForce RTX 3090 GameRock OC graphics card) .

As a bonus, the mouse pad is very pleasant and comfortable to use.

Test results, configuration

Test bench configuration

• Computer based on AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Socket AM4) processor :
  • Platform:
    • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X processor (overclocked to 4.6 GHz across all cores);
    • ЖСО Cougar Helor 240;
    • Asus ROG Crosshair Dark Hero motherboard based on AMD X570 chipset;
    • RAM TeamGroup T-Force Xtreem ARGB (TF10D48G4000HC18JBK) 32 GB (4 × 8) DDR4 (4000 MHz);
    • Intel 760p NVMe SSD 1 ТБ PCI-E;
    • Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB SATA3 hard drive;
    • Seasonic Prime 1300 W Platinum (1300 W) power supply;
    • Thermaltake Level20 XT housing;
  • operating system Windows 10 Pro 64-bit; DirectX 12 (v.20H2);
  • LG 55Nano956 TV (55 ″ 8K HDR, HDMI 2.1);
  • AMD drivers version 21.5.2;
  • Nvidia drivers version 466.77;
  • VSync is disabled.

Testing tool list

All gaming tests used the maximum graphics quality in the settings.

• Hitman III (IO Interactive/IO Interactive)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (Softclub / CD Projekt RED), patch 1.2
• Death Stranding (505 Games/Kojima Productions)
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft/Ubisoft)
• Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft/Ubisoft)
• Control (505 Games/Remedy Entertainment)
• Godfall (Gearbox Publishing/Counterplay Games)
• Resident Evil Village (Capcom/Capcom)
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Eidos Montreal/Square Enix), HDR включен
• Metro Exodus (4A Games/Deep Silver/Epic Games)

To calculate the hashrate for mining “ether” (Ethereum / ETH / ETC) and “crows” (Ravencoin / RVN), the T-Rex miner (0.20.04) was used, the average indicator for 2 hours was recorded in two modes:

• by default (consumption limit reduced to 70%, GPU frequency reduced by 200 MHz, memory frequency by default, fans set in manual mode by 70%)
• optimization (the consumption limit is reduced to 70%, the GPU frequency is reduced by 200 MHz, the memory frequency is increased by 500-1000 MHz (depending on the card), the fans are set in manual mode by 80%)

To test the GeForce RTX 3060, the same “leaked” driver version 470.05 was used, in which the protection against mining is disabled, on other versions it is 24/26 MH / s.

Test results in 3D games

Standard benchmark results without hardware ray tracing at 1920 × 1200, 2560 × 1440, and 3840 × 2160

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Most games still do not support ray tracing technology, and there are still a lot of video cards on the market that do not support RT in hardware. The same is true for Nvidia’s DLSS smart anti-aliasing technology. Therefore, we still carry out the most massive tests in games without ray tracing. Nevertheless, today half of the video cards we regularly test support RT technology, so we conduct tests not only using conventional rasterization methods, but also with the inclusion of RT and / or DLSS. It is clear that in this case, video cards of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 family participate in tests without an analogue of DLSS (we are waiting for the company to implement the promised analogue and speed up the calculation of ray tracing).

Test results with hardware ray tracing and / or DLSS enabled at 1920 × 1200, 2560 × 1440, and 3840 × 2160

Cyberpunk 2077, RT+DLSS

Watch Dogs: Legion, RT

Watch Dogs: Legion, RT+DLSS

Resident Evil Village, RT

Shadow of the Tomb Raider, RT

Considering that the RTX 3080 Ti is right next to the RTX 3090 in terms of performance, and we have already tested the latter in operation at 8K resolution, it would be logical to test the novelty in this super-huge resolution, of course, using DLSS and ray tracing.

Test results with hardware ray tracing (and DLSS) enabled at 7680 × 4320 (8K)

Cyberpunk 2077, RT+DLSS

Watch Dogs: Legion, RT+DLSS

It is worth noting that this is all – for now, the initial stage of entering 8K, and it is clear that only some games will allow you to play decently in this resolution, provided that all high graphics settings are preserved. Nevertheless, it can be noted that it is still possible to play, considering that 8K is still available on TVs with very large sizes (from 55 ″), which means that the effect of games on such huge “monitors” can be quite impressive. As for DLSS, we have previously investigated that there is practically no loss in quality from the use of this technology even when the Balanced mode is turned on (not to mention Quality).

The Bitcoinminershashrate .com accelerator rating demonstrates to us the functionality of video cards relative to each other and is presented in two versions:

1. Bitcoinminershashrate.com rating option without RT included

The rating is compiled for all tests without the use of ray tracing technologies. This rating is normalized for the weakest accelerator from the group of cards – GeForce GTX 1650 Super (that is, the combination of speed and features of the GeForce GTX 1650 Super is taken as 100%). Ratings are carried out for 28 accelerators that we study every month as part of the Best Video Card of the Month project. In this case, a group of cards for analysis was selected from the general list, which includes the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and its competitors.

The rating is given in total for all three resolutions.

The increased operating frequencies of the MSI card made it the absolute leader: it outperformed not only the RX 6900 XT, but also the RTX 3090!

1. Bticoiminershashrate.com rating option with RT included

The rating is based on 5 tests using ray tracing technology (no Nvidia DLSS!). This rating is normalized for the weakest accelerator in this group – GeForce RTX 2070 (that is, the combination of speed and features of the GeForce RTX 2070 is taken as 100%).

The rating is given in total for all three resolutions.

Actually, the picture repeats itself, except that all RX 6000 have gone outsiders due to the excessive drop in performance in ray-traced games from these AMD products, so all RTX 3000s look in a winning light. The balance of power inside the RTX is the same.

Utility rating

The utility rating of the same cards is obtained by dividing the indicator of the previous rating by the prices of the corresponding accelerators. To calculate the utility rating, the retail prices were used conditionally for July 2021 . Given the RTX 3080 Ti’s focus on 4K resolution, we have shown the ratings calculated using only 3840×2160 resolution. Therefore, the Bitcoinminershashrate.com rating is different from the above.

Attention! For obvious reasons, prices for all cards have become purely speculative and have dramatically increased significantly relative to the recommended ones. Because of this, the calculation of utility ratings has become meaningless, we present these ratings simply by tradition, but in the current market situation, conclusions cannot be drawn on their basis . We will start analyzing this rating again as the prices approach the recommended ones and they come in line with the functionality and capabilities of the cards.

1. Utility rating option without including RT

1. Utility rating option with RT included

Test results in mining (mining, hashrate)

The tests clearly showed that the protection against mining using the ethash algorithm actually works, dropping the hash rate by 2 times, that is, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti demonstrates the efficiency of mining ETH / ETC at the level of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and Radeon RX 5700, having a much higher cost.

If we run ETH mining with the default settings of the card’s operation parameters, then the temperature of the memory on the card rises to 92 degrees, which is clearly not good. Therefore, even if there is no need to optimize the hash rate, the fan speed should be manually raised.

But the RVN hashrate is expected (proportional to the theoretical capabilities of the accelerator), so in this case the protection against mining does not work (it was also tested on the ERGO altcoin). Accordingly, the card is “protected” only as long as ethash remains the main mining algorithm, and if the popularity of mining on video cards using algorithms, say, kawpow or octopus, increases, the protection will be reduced to zero. It should be especially noted that the kawpow algorithm requests a higher power consumption than ethash.

Optimizing the settings for the operation of video cards for mining in our case does not provide for strong overclocking of the video memory, and external cooling of the video cards is also required. It is especially necessary to monitor the heating of GDDR6X in GeForce RTX 3080/3090, because the maximum for this memory is 110 degrees, and it will not live long, constantly working under heating conditions above 100 ° C. In our case, after optimizing the operating parameters of the card and forcibly improving cooling, the memory heating in mining using the ethash algorithm did not exceed 82 degrees, but in the case of kawpow, the memory heating still rose to 90 ° C.

conclusions

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12G (12 ГБ)– a very powerful flagship accelerator that outperforms even the more expensive GeForce RTX 3090 in gaming performance, while with decent overclocking potential. This is one of the longest video cards that we have seen, it will not fit into every case. The video card has a rigid structure (the plate connects the PCB with the mounting plate into a single whole), and the delivery set also includes a support tripod for installation on the bottom of the case. The card has increased Boost frequencies, which provides a good speed boost in 4K resolution. Overclocking is also possible. The cooling system is quiet in the Silent mode, while the frequencies are not reduced relative to the Gaming mode (in it, the CO works more noisy). The card can consume up to 400-410 W, it has three 8-pin power connectors, a very powerful PSU is a must! A well-ventilated enclosure is also required,https://youtube.com/watch?v=qLgRKBX7PLw%3Ffeature%3Doembed

Once again, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is great for 4K gaming with maximum ray-traced graphics quality even without DLSS. All the features accompanying the GeForce RTX 30 family are also true for it, including support for the HDMI 2.1 standard, which allows you to display 4K-image at 120 FPS or 8K-resolution using one cable, support for hardware decoding of video data in AV1 format, RTX IO technology, which can provide fast transfer and decompression of data from drives directly to the GPU, as well as Reflex latency reduction technology, useful for esports players.

As for prices and availability: everyone is well aware of the protracted shortage of video cards due to the high demand from miners and limited supplies, in principle, which resellers use. However, at the time of this writing, there is a tendency for the better … Let’s hope that some protection against ethash mining will help the cards to get a lower cost and become more accessible to gamers.

References :

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X (12 GB) received the following awards in the Original Design nomination :

In the category “Excellent Package” tab MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X (12 GB) won the award:

We are grateful to MSI Russia
and personally to Alexey Rybakov
for the video card provided for testing.

We thank TeamGroup
and personally Ethnie Lin
for the provided RAM for the test bench

Testbed : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU courtesy of AMD ,
ROG Crosshair Dark Hero motherboard courtesy of Asus

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