Palit RTX 3080 GamingPro OC Review

1. Introduction2. Palit RTX 3080 GamingPro OC3. Testing Methodology4. A Word on Nvidia Drivers and Capacitors5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark Port Royal7. Control8. Death Stranding9. The Division 210. Far Cry New Dawn11. Gears 512. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint13. Metro Exodus14. Middle Earth: Shadow of War15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Shadow of the Tomb Raider17. Total War Saga: Troy18. Performance Summary (11 Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Clock Speed21. Temperatures22. Acoustics23. Power Consumption24. Performance Per Watt25. Overclocking26. Closing Thoughts27. View All Pages

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

In terms of noise, we saw 40dBa on our sound meter when testing the GamingPro OC. This is still very easy on the ears, and puts it on level pegging with the Gigabyte Eagle. Technically, it is louder than the Founders Edition and ASUS TUF Gaming (using the performance BIOS) which both recorded noise levels at 39dBa, but to the human ear I couldn't say the difference would be perceptible.

For those interested, this noise reading came with the fans spinning at 48%, or around 1890rpm.

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