Gigabyte RTX 4080 Gaming OC Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the Gigabyte RTX 4080 Gaming OC3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Time Spy Extreme5. Game Benchmarks6. Clock Speed7. GPU Temperatures8. Memory Temperatures9. Acoustics10. Noise-Normalised Temperatures11. Power Draw12. Overclocking13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

The first thing to note is the Gaming OC supports a power limit of up to 400W when overclocking, which is good to see – the Founders Edition is capped at 355W. We were only able to add 90MHz to the GPU however, though the GDDR6X memory overclocked like an absolute beast, as we added another 1780MHz.

This brought the GPU’s average clock speed up to 2925MHz, within 9MHz of what we achieved with the Founders.

This provided performance uplifts of 5-8% in the three games we re-tested, which is perfectly fine and once more, in line with the Founders Edition.

Power draw did increase as expected, up to 334W, but that's only a 6% bump, so nothing awful at all.

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