Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Review ft. Gigabyte, Inno3D, Palit

1. Introduction2. Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition3. Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti Gaming OC4. Inno3D RTX 3080 Ti iChill X45. Palit RTX 3080 Ti GameRock OC6. Testing Methodology7. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy8. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing9. Assassin's Creed Valhalla10. Control11. Cyberpunk 207712. Days Gone13. F1 202014. Gears 515. Hitman 316. Horizon Zero Dawn17. Red Dead Redemption 218. Resident Evil Village19. Total War Saga: Troy20. Watch Dogs: Legion21. Ray Tracing - Cyberpunk 207722. Ray Tracing - Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition23. Ray Tracing - Resident Evil: Village24. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)25. Testing the AIBs!26. Clock Speed27. GPU Temperatures28. Memory Temperatures29. Acoustics30. Noise-Normalised Temperatures31. Power Draw: 1080p32. Power Draw: 1440p33. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)34. Performance per Watt: 1080p35. Performance per Watt: 1440p36. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)37. Total System Power Draw38. Cost Per Frame Analysis39. Overclocking40. Closing Thoughts41. View All Pages

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak memory temperature under load. A reading under load comes from running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

The first thing to note here is that Nvidia's Founders Edition still has some trouble with cooling the GDDR6X memory. It's not absolutely clear what TJMax is for Micron's GDDR6X, with 95C/105C listed for the memory case temperature, it's been speculated TJMax could be up to 120C.

Either way, the Founders Edition saw the highest memory temperature by a fair distance, with the iChill X4 hitting 86C. At the bottom, the Gaming OC's result of 74C is the coolest by a 6C margin.

Update 20/07/21: Inno3D have been in touch and sent us a second iChill X4 to test – but memory temperatures remained at 86C.

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