ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB STRIX OC

[N3M3515]

Your prices(from the table) are way off, they are at least $150 higher.

 

[W1zzard]

Your prices(from the table) are way off, they are at least $150 higher.

I looked them up on the day of the review. At roughly these prices you can find decent supply on eBay USA and other sites

 

[Chrispy_]

@W1zzard said in his review

"designed to fill the gap between the original RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti"

What gap? Oh, I see - that's the joke!

 

[FlyingHopes]

Why this card SO much consuming power? Maybe memory chips little bit effected.

 

[boomheadshot8]

Why this card SO much consuming power? Maybe memory chips little bit effected.

little incresed of core +150 ish; the vram and also more voltage regulator ? there is 3 x8 pins...

 

[zx128k]

If the 3080 12GB sold for the MSRP for the 3080 10GB. Then why would you buy a 6900xt, the 3080 12GB is faster stock and would be the same MSRP as the 6800xt. Prices are just silly atm. If I was getting a gpu I would wait untill september for the 40 series. At this point, by the time prices return to normal, the 40 series will be around the corner or released.

 

[TKnockers]

7% is a lot in this space. Agreed that subjectively during gaming it might not be a big thing, but then why are people buying 6900 xt, 3090, etc

3080 12gb OC 7% lead over 3080 FE 10 Gb stock is not a lot.. if we consider that this 3080 12Gb is oc-ed from the factory that 7% lead seems even smaller.. fair comparison would be overclocked 3080 10gb vs this 3080 12Gb witch stock oc.. then we could really say what is the difference. We could leave memory clocks on both cards as is.. my guess is lead would be maybe 2% which is negligible. It really is interesting that the difference between these cards is so small.

 

[zx128k]

3080 12gb OC 7% lead over 3080 FE 10 Gb stock is not a lot.. if we consider that this 3080 12Gb is oc-ed from the factory that 7% lead seems even smaller.. fair comparison would be overclocked 3080 10gb vs this 3080 12Gb witch stock oc.. then we could really say what is the difference. We could leave memory clocks on both cards as is.. my guess is lead would be maybe 2% which is negligible. It really is interesting that the difference between these cards is so small.

An overclocked 3080 12GB is faster than a stock 3090 in raster.

Overclocking worked well on our card. After a few minutes, we gained another 6% in real-life performance, which lets the card beat the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090.

Averaged over our test suite, we found the ASUS RTX 3080 12 GB STRIX OC to be a whopping 7% faster than the RTX 3080.

In the fight against AMD's offerings, the ASUS STRIX can beat the Radeon RX 6900 XT by 3%, and it's almost 10% faster than the RX 6800 XT.

Also the 10GB is not enough proved to be false.

With the RTX 3080 12 GB, NVIDIA addresses the concern in the community that "10 GB is not enough" on the RTX 3080. While there are certainly specific scenarios where that is true, across a wide range of titles, even at highest settings and 4K, this is a non-issue—we specifically looked at VRAM usage for this review. Even when we enabled ray tracing, there wasn't a significant framerate difference between 10 GB and 12 GB. Yes, few games will exceed 10 GB VRAM at 4K with RT on, but these VRAM usage numbers are actually allocations. A game putting a texture or model into VRAM doesn't mean it will be used all the time. Rather, many games are optimistic—as much memory as possible is filled in hopes those assets are used in the near future.

Did the review not state its faster than both the 6800xt and 6900xt in stock config. That should be 10% faster in raster than the 6800xt and 3% faster than the 6900xt at 4k and equal at all other resolutions. This means that the RTX 3080 12GB is faster than the whole AMD 6000 series product line. With a massive lead in DXR and DLSS. Overclocked the lead is 16% faster than the 6800xt and 9% faster than the 6900xt. This makes it hard for the 6800xt to make a comeback even as the 6850xt in raster and this card does not match the 3080 10GB in DXR already.

AMD need a 6850xt or a 6950xt, just to stay in the game performance wise. The RTX 3080 12GB is now going to be thee card after the price drop. AMD should hope prices remain high until the 40 series and their own new cards release.

 

[Kelvin]

Can you compare this with the old STRIX 3080 10GB ?
Now the charts have only 3080 10GB FE, making the comparison difficult.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I wouldn't say:

• Significant performance increase over RTX 3080 10 GB

Modest performance increase would be a better way to describe it.

The card is basically a 3080Ti that costs a little less, but draws just as much or more power than the 3080Ti and 3090. I find this bit of information as being significant. Roughly 80W more power draw over a 3080 while gaming to gain an extra maybe 5-7% over a 10GB 3080? Perhaps other 3080 12GB models don't make the power draw look as embarrassing as this ASUS Strix one does.

 

[zx128k]

I wouldn't say:

• Significant performance increase over RTX 3080 10 GB

Modest performance increase would be a better way to describe it.

The card is basically a 3080Ti that costs a little less, but draws just as much or more power than the 3080Ti and 3090. I find this bit of information as being significant. Roughly 80W more power draw over a 3080 while gaming to gain an extra maybe 5-7% over a 10GB 3080? Perhaps other 3080 12GB models don't make the power draw look as embarrassing as this ASUS Strix one does.

The RTX 3080 10GB is EoL its not produced any more. The RTX 3080 12GB is the card that replaces it. Many RTX 3080 10GB with factory overclocks had 450 watt power limits maximum. Give the stock power draw is 320 watts, thats an 130 watt increase in protential power draw. Increase in performance of a ASUS RTX 3080 12 GB STRIX OC is 7% faster that of the RTX 3080 10GB. In the fight against AMD's offerings, the ASUS STRIX can beat the Radeon RX 6900 XT by 3%, and it's almost 10% faster than the RX 6800 XT. That would imply a 7% gap between the 6900xt and the 6800xt. So by your statement there is a modest increase in performance between the 6800xt and the 6900xt. The 3080TI is 3% ahead of the 3080 12GB and 3% behind the 3090.

AMD are the same with power draw, start overclocking and watch the power draw go insane. Actual 3D performance gained from overclocking a 6900xt (2857 MHz) is 6.1% in benchmarks, source techpowerup.

 

[Chomiq]

I wouldn't say:

• Significant performance increase over RTX 3080 10 GB

Modest performance increase would be a better way to describe it.

The card is basically a 3080Ti that costs a little less, but draws just as much or more power than the 3080Ti and 3090. I find this bit of information as being significant. Roughly 80W more power draw over a 3080 while gaming to gain an extra maybe 5-7% over a 10GB 3080? Perhaps other 3080 12GB models don't make the power draw look as embarrassing as this ASUS Strix one does.

Yeah, the only time I can max out the power draw is when I run Control with full RTX on, that's when it my 3080 Ti pulls 360W.

 

[Cutechri]

The RTX 3080 10GB is EoL its not produced any more. The RTX 3080 12GB is the card that replaces it

Of course, why did we ever think Jensen would bless us with a $700 flagship GPU. What is this, 2017? Pfft.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Of course, why did we ever think Jensen would bless us with a $700 flagship GPU. What is this, 2017? Pfft.

I don't know if the 3080 10GB is officially EOL, I do see some coming through MC still, but even then those amounts weren't that great and they're priced around $1000 still. I also see the 12GB versions coming through, but they're pushing the $1400+ range. Those prices are crazy. I'm glad I was able to get my 3080 for around $850 after taxes + shipping. Hopefully this card lasts me a while.

 

[zx128k]

Of course, why did we ever think Jensen would bless us with a $700 flagship GPU. What is this, 2017? Pfft.

Current gpu prices are caused by the market. This is how the economic system works. Miners were paying more money for the available gpus. NVidia cant legally control prices, all they can do is set a MSRP. NVidia make chips, not cards. AIB's make the cards. Yet everyone blames NVidia. The market could set gpus at MSRP but they wont. Profit motive wins.

If enough people stopped buying they would not make a profit. Then you will see the real truth, the prices wont be reduced until after new nvidia 40 series cards release. Once the stock is bought it is solded at the price they need to make a profit. Only when they buy new stock will the price go up or down. You see it in shops, the latest 3080 gets release but the 2080 is still at its same price as the new 3080.

Once the factory makes too little of a stock they can price fix by buying all the stock and set the price to what they want. Or by storing stock and allowing the price to rise. As gpus are luxury goods there is nothing anyone can do about it. This is the reason there is crazy prices, as all of these things are happening.

Its not Jensen's job to get a gpu to you. His job is to make maximum profit from gpu chip sales.

Basically you hate capitalism and thats okay. Only government action can help you get a gpu. Like the USA banning crypto and protecting luxury goods from price gouging via regulation. This would lead to government price controls and the capitalists screaming socialism.

 

[John Naylor]

All true .... the people doing the complaining have only themselves to blame. Well perhaps not exactly only.

a) The *need* to be the 1st one on the block to have the new shiny thing is, in the social media age, believed to be a way to increase one social standing is the primary driver of the price structure. At the time of release, yields are the lowest they will be in the production cycle, demand far exceeds supply and ... forget nVidia.... think of all all the resellers who still have to pay rent, taxes, employees, utilities and all other soft costs. When supply exceeds demand, then they can sell as many cards as they want, pricing based upon what the competition is charging and how fast they are going out the door. If they sell 1,000 cards in a week, have a $20 markup over their costs, they make $20k to put against those costs with some left over for profit (hopefully). But if they have cards sitting on the shelves, they are not making anything .... they still gotta pay those bills. If they get an allocation of 200 cards ... then they need to charge $100 markup to pay those same bills ... and they will continues to do that and more until they stop flying out the door.

b) Yes, it's a fiduciary responsibility of all corporate officers to maximize profits. Officers can be fired and even prosecuted for failing to maximize stockholder profits provided of course actions that would violate law, contract, policy or long term goals.

c) Competition ... the least real competition they had at the top end was themselves .... Nvidia realized they can make more money selling the top tier cards than 2 lower tier cards, so they nerfed SLI at resolutions lower than 4k so their premium pricing at the top end no longer suffered from competition from twin 2nd tier cards. With the power of SLI being negated, support by game developers fizzled.

 

[tepusal]

@W1zzard Thank you for your review. I managed to snag this card from Newegg right after it became available for $799 and before it went out of stock. Can you please clarify if the overclocking you performed on page 39 of the review involved any voltage adjustments, as well, or if all was needed was to crank up the power limit and memory and GPU clock?

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard Thank you for your review. I managed to snag this card from Newegg right after it became available for $799 and before it went out of stock. Can you please clarify if the overclocking you performed on page 39 of the review involved any voltage adjustments, as well, or if all was needed was to crank up the power limit and memory and GPU clock?

No voltage increases, I just increase the clocks until no longer stable

 

[tepusal]

No voltage increases, I just increase the clocks until no longer stable

Great, thank you. Eagerly waiting for the card to arrive.

 

[masterchither]

I had purchased this 3080 ROG Strix OC 12GB core before I read this. Thankfully it was a good reading, so thank you for all the time you spent breaking things down. I am one of the lucky people who has been able to snag this at $799.99. It's good to see the prices falling to where they were suppose to be.

I also have an EVGA FTW3 Ultra 3080 12GB in my other pc. They are both pretty much identical in performance, and cooling!

Cheers!

 

[leifericson84]

Thanks @W1zzard! Great Reviews as always, really enjoy the noise and temp testing since I prefer to keep a quiet rig.

One question, I have noticed you have adjusted your acoustic testing to 50cm vs 100cm, I know it won't be perfect but I'm trying to compare my current Asus Strix 2070 Super with this card. I have read on some various websites that if you halve the distance away the dba should increase by 6? What I'm getting it is there a rough adjustment factor with the new 50cm testing that we can correlate to the 100cm testing. For example a new 50cm measurement of 33 dba is equivalent to 27 dba measured at 100cm? I believe the Strix 2070 Super you guys had measured at 29 dba at 100cm, roughly how does that compare to this card measured at ~33 dba at 50cm. Maybe this is on the forum somewhere, but I'm new and haven't scoured everything yet.

THanks,
Eric

 

[leifericson84]

Thanks @W1zzard! Great Reviews as always, really enjoy the noise and temp testing since I prefer to keep a quiet rig.

One question, I have noticed you have adjusted your acoustic testing to 50cm vs 100cm, I know it won't be perfect but I'm trying to compare my current Asus Strix 2070 Super with this card. I have read on some various websites that if you halve the distance away the dba should increase by 6? What I'm getting it is there a rough adjustment factor with the new 50cm testing that we can correlate to the 100cm testing. For example a new 50cm measurement of 33 dba is equivalent to 27 dba measured at 100cm? I believe the Strix 2070 Super you guys had measured at 29 dba at 100cm, roughly how does that compare to this card measured at ~33 dba at 50cm. Maybe this is on the forum somewhere, but I'm new and haven't scoured everything yet.

THanks,
Eric

@W1zzard bump

 

[W1zzard]

I also changed the loading software and the microphone. I think you can estimate if you look at the data for the reference cards, these are the exact same cards