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

Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition:

Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti Gaming OC:

Inno3D RTX 3080 Ti iChill X4:

Palit RTX 3080 Ti GameRock OC:

Three of our cards overclocked to basically the same speeds, with the exception being the Inno3D iChill X4. We were able to add 110MHz to the core, but as the power limit cannot be adjusted above 350W, the GPU was unable to sustain as higher of a clock speed as the other three cards.

That difference is reflected in the benchmarks, as the iChill X4 wasn't able to quite match performance of the other three cards. It still provided a small boost over stock clocks, but nothing major.

Even the likes of the Palit and Gigabyte cards didn't massive increases to frame rates, with anything from 4-9% being observed in our tests. This really is just typical of Ampere, with fairly limited headroom overall.

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