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 measure system-wide power draw from the wall while running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

System wide power draw is fractionally lower than the RTX 3080 Founders Edition, that is perhaps a little surprising but there isn't a lot in it.

We also use GPU-Z to measure Board Power (graphics card-only power draw). This is currently only available for Nvidia cards, which is why we have excluded AMD results from the chart. Aside from the fact this is software-based reporting, and not a hardware measurement of the PCIe power cables and PCIe slot (for that we’d need something like PCAT), this should provide us more accurate data to work with as it is measuring only the GPU power, and not total system power which is a fundamentally imprecise measurement.

Despite both the GamingPro OC and the Founders having a 320W power target, the GamingPro OC came in just shy of that, averaging 316W based on the GPU-Z Board Power metric.

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