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ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 Noctua OC Review - Just Wow

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ASUS and Noctua are easily two of the most respectable brands in the PC component industry. Back in 2021, the company started a collaboration that brought Noctua's expertise in designing high-quality cooling solutions, including fans, and the ASUS wizardry at building top-notch graphics cards together. I've reviewed the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC in October 2021, was impressed, and begged ASUS for more. Today, that wish comes true, and I have the honor of reviewing the ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 Noctua OC.



It appears that things went well with the RTX 3070 Noctua, and the two companies thus decided on their next project—the RTX 3080, which makes total sense. The card offers performance a tier higher than the RTX 3070 and comes at a higher selling point, which absorbs some of the cost of the new cooler design.

Based on the 8 nm "GA102" silicon, the GeForce RTX 3080 more than doubles the number of unified shaders over the previous-generation RTX 2080. It packs 8,704 CUDA cores, 68 RT cores, and 272 Tensor cores. The memory amount has been increased by 25%, to 10 GB, as has the memory bus width, to 320-bit. NVIDIA and Micron Technology have innovated a whole new memory standard for the GeForce 30 Series, which they call GDDR6X. This memory operates at a data rate of 19 Gbps and has NVIDIA hit memory bandwidth levels of 760 GB/s.

ASUS designed a custom cooling solution for the RTX 3080 Noctua and paired it with the battle-tested PCB design of the RTX 3080 TUF. Physically, this big card takes up four slots, which shouldn't be a problem considering SLI is dead and nearly all people only have one PCIe card installed—the graphics card. In terms of clocks, the ASUS Noctua comes with a small bump in boost clocks, up to 1785 MHz from the NVIDIA baseline frequency of 1710 MHz. According to ASUS, the retail price of the RTX 3080 Noctua OC will be $950, quite a reasonable incresae over the $900 price point the RTX 3080 currently sells for.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Market Segment Analysis
 PriceCoresROPsCore
Clock
Boost
Clock
Memory
Clock
GPUTransistorsMemory
RTX 2080 Ti$7204352881350 MHz1545 MHz1750 MHzTU10218600M11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070$6305888961500 MHz1725 MHz1750 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti$7006144961575 MHz1770 MHz1188 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800$7203840961815 MHz2105 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 XT$80046081282015 MHz2250 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080$9008704961440 MHz1710 MHz1188 MHzGA10228000M10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
ASUS RTX 3080 Noctua$9508704961440 MHz1785 MHz1188 MHzGA10228000M10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
RTX 3080 Ti$1,150102401121365 MHz1665 MHz1188 MHzGA10228000M12 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RX 6900 XT$1,00051201282015 MHz2250 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6950 XT$1,10051201282100 MHz2310 MHz2250 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3090$1,350104961121395 MHz1695 MHz1219 MHzGA10228000M24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
RTX 3090 Ti$1,950107521121560 MHz1950 MHz1313 MHzGA10228000M24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit
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