Best Buy and 3080's

[bruce]

VRAM is useless for FAH, so if you're buying them only for it, don't bother with the 20 GB versions of the 3080 ... It will probably be more expensive and won't help to fold faster ...

and the extra vram will use more power and generate more heat.

[toTOW]

Indeed ©

[MeeLee]

I still find the 3080 consumes a LOT more power than the 2080 Ti.
I'm wondering if it's linked to the VRAM using a different type of architecture?
I think this 2 bit stage RAM is consuming more power than the 2000 series models.
I hope they'll find what sucks so much power on the 3000 series GPUs, because power/performance, they're not that much better than a 2080Ti.

[MeeLee]

What influx ? There's been only 10 available ...

Just wait a few weeks. You'll see the numbers go up.
Not as much of those owning RTX 2000 series GPUs and upgraded, but a lot of GTX1000 series GPUs upgraded to 3000, will bump PPD by a factor of ~5x.

[gunnarre]

Just wait a few weeks. You'll see the numbers go up.
Not as much of those owning RTX 2000 series GPUs and upgraded, but a lot of GTX1000 series GPUs upgraded to 3000, will bump PPD by a factor of ~5x.

Remember that the CUDA update favored 1080 and 1080 Ti cards too. It gave those a cards a free speed increase of about 30% and 25% respectively. Also the 3080 needs large work units to be fully utilized, so in practice you might only see a closer to 3x or 4x PPD bump from going from a 1080 or 1080Ti to a 3080.