The metal backplate is more for show than performance, as it touches nothing of genuine note on the rear of the PCB. Unlike most competitors, the PCB extends the entire length of the card – others leave a large section bare on the left-hand side for through-the-board cooling – but we see no downside to this as the upper heatsink is, as you will see, capable of dealing with the higher wattage produced by the RTX 3080.
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The GeForce RTX 3080 “Ampere” is NVIDIA’s latest flagship graphics card despite the fact that it sells the slightly faster RTX 3090 under the same GeForce brand. This is because the RTX 3080 is designed to provide 4K Ultra HD AAA gaming with RTX enabled, while the RTX 3090 with its 24 GB of memory provides more of an uplift over the RTX 3080 to creators than gamers.
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EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra is the company’s premium air-cooled graphics card based on the swanky new GeForce RTX 3080 “Ampere” GPU that everyone wants a piece of. The FTW3 Ultra in this review is a fully custom-design rendition of the RTX 3080 by EVGA, and is targeted at those who seek a well-rounded RTX 3080 card complete with all the overclocking features and RGB bling characteristic of premium-custom graphics cards.
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In this review, we benchmark the GeForce RTX 3080 iGAME VULCAN from Colorful. perhaps this is the most beautiful 3080 out there (you’ll get it once you see it). This is a very nice customized and faster-clocked product. All with reasonable acoustics, good temperatures and a bucketload of added features.
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I think a lot of people expected Nvidia to pull something similar off with the RTX30 -series but so far what we’ve got is far more appealing. Today I am reviewing the Gigabyte RTX 3080 Eagle OC. As the name implies this is a factory overclocked RTX3080 that also comes with the Windforce E 3X Cooling System with alternate spinning fans.
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Inno3D sent over their radically-unique GeForce RTX 3080 iCHILL X3 graphics card for review, which I quickly ripped out of the box and had it in my test bed in minutes. It’s one of the most unique looking RTX 3080s so far, with great performance.
We have one of the better custom GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards here, with one of the coolest-styled aesthetics that I’ve seen. If you can get your hands-on the Inno3D GeForce RTX 3080 iCHILL X3 graphics cards, you won’t be disappointed with it at all.
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With all of the news of the cap issue on GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards, ASUS has your back (and the back of your card) as the company is used to the world of high-end power-hungry graphics cards. ASUS doesn’t skimp on its ROG Strix family of cards, which is one of the first super high-end custom RTX 3080s through my lab (apart from MSI’s custom RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO).
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Another day, another NVIDIA shortage…
“I believe that demand will outstrip all of our supply through the year,” Huang said, “Remember, we’re also going into the double-whammy. The double-whammy is the holiday season. Even before the holiday season, we were doing incredibly well, and then you add on top of it the ‘Ampere factor,’ and then you add on top of that the ‘Ampere holiday factor,’ and we’re going to have a really really big Q4 season.”
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In this review, we benchmark the GeForce RTX 3080 from ZOTAC, a very lovely customized yet reference clocked product. It attempts to offer close to reference performance, good acoustics as well as a friendly design. All priced rationally as well, we hope as the initial stock ran out faster then I can spell my name.
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The MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio is a very large card, and with that comes higher performance thanks to the beefy cooler and a higher TDP. Now that Nvidia has ironed out some of the instabilities with its latest drivers, MSI’s card makes a very impressive showing in our benchmarks — even if it only has one MLCC cluster.
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