NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Binning: 60 Percent Chance of Getting a “Good” GPU

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As many of you are aware, no two graphics cards perform identically due to differences in silicon quality. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs aren’t excluded from these annoying variances, but thanks to a new report from Igor Wallossek, we have a pretty good idea of how their binning is going and whether green team’s decision to go with Samsung’s 8 nm process was wise or not.



According to Igor’s sources, you have a 60 percent chance of getting a “good” GeForce RTX 3080 and 30 percent chance of getting an acceptable one in the early months. The rest of these cards, which are the cream of the crop, will obviously be the most difficult to obtain at 10 percent.



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We've been playing the silicon lottery forever. Nothing new here.
 
How are the measuring a "good" versus "acceptable" card? Are we talking about overclocking potential here or ASIC? Because if it's the latter it makes no difference. There is no such thing as a "good" or "bad" ASIC, just a subjective measure of how much volt leakage there is.
 
I'm not too familiar with binning rates and whatnot. Didn't notice a comparison, but is it comparable to previous launch binning rates?
 
yeah, 30% don't expect to overclock or it runs hot but within spec, 60% might be decent overclockers, and 10% will be beast mode.
 
Paul_Johnson said:
So, 40% chance of getting a turd?
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I expect it to be dependent on how much you want to pay (for an AIB card).
Clocked cards should be higher binned.
Not so for the FE though, but they might be higher binned anyway? Thats the question I have.
 
AntiQuark said:
I expect it to be dependent on how much you want to pay (for an AIB card).
Clocked cards should be higher binned.
Not so for the FE though, but they might be higher binned anyway? Thats the question I have.
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EVGA did this with the K|NGP|N 1080 Ti. If I remember correctly they did it based on ASIC % and it was more than double the cost for a 97% card or higher. I have to wonder if EVGA actually got any biters when they ran this program because they haven't done it since.
 
This is completely meaningless. How do you define good / bad?

Nothing is "good" today. I mean the era when we could get 50-80% overclock that was good. the 10% overlclocks of today? For that binning is a waste of time.
 
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" 60 percent chance of getting a “good” GeForce RTX 3080 and 30 percent chance of getting an acceptable one "

I think most people will be happy if it doesn't come pre-bundled with Space Invaders this time. ;)
 
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