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

Having already assessed third-party RTX 3080 cards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte, today our attention turns to Palit and its RTX 3080 GamingPro OC. This is a triple-fan card, with a factory overclocked core and eye-catching shroud design. With an SRP of £739.99, how does the GamingPro OC stack up against the competition?

So far, we have been highly impressed with all of the RTX 3080 partner cards we have reviewed, so it is now up to Palit to keep that trend going with its RTX 3080 GamingPro OC. Aside from its unique aesthetic, it doesn't look as though this card is bringing anything new to the table, but it is pretty unusual these days to see a graphics card that isn't any taller than the standard PCIe slot, so this could appeal to those with particularly narrow cases.

GPU	RTX 3090	RTX 3080	RTX 2080 Ti (FE)	RTX 2080 SUPER	RTX 2080 (FE)
SMs	82	68	68	48	46
CUDA Cores	10496	8704	4352	3072	2944
Tensor Cores	328	272	544	384	368
RT Cores	82	68	68	48	46
Texture Units	328	272	272	192	184
ROPs	112	96	88	64	64
GPU Boost Clock	1695 MHz	1710 MHz	1635 MHz	1815 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory Data Rate	19.5 Gbps	19 Gbps	14 Gbps	15.5 Gbps	14 Gbps
Total Video Memory	24GB GDDR6X	10GB GDDR6X	11GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	384-bit	320-bit	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	936 GB/Sec	760 GB/Sec	616 GB/sec	496.1 GB/sec	448 GB/sec
TGP	350W	320W	260W	250W	225W

Just before diving into the details, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the key specs for the RTX 3080. Built on Nvidia’s GA102 GPU, fabricated on Samsung’s 8nm process, RTX 3080 houses 8704 CUDA cores, 68 RT Cores and 272 Tensor cores.

A reference board would come clocked at 1710MHz, but as we are reviewing the GamingPro OC edition, this model has a small factory overclocking, with a rated boost clock of 1740MHz. We would still expect GPU Boost to bring actual frequency well above those levels, but we will look at that later in the review.

The 10GB VRAM is provided thanks to Micron’s new GDDR6X memory. Operating at 19Gbps, over a 320-bit bus this gives total memory bandwidth of 760GB/s.

All of those cores, fast memory and factory overclock come at a cost, however, and that is power draw. Reference TGP for a RTX 3080 is 320W, and despite being a factory overclocked card, Palit has stuck with the reference power target with the GamingPro OC.

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