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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 – Launch Day Reviews

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 by Stephen

Last week NVIDIA officially launched their RTX 30 series starting with the GeForce RTX 3080. It provided great performance at a great price and really made gaming at 4K enjoyable. Now a week later we have the GeForce RTX 3090. The naming of the card might make you think it sits higher in the product stack (and it does), but it really sits in a category all its own.

ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity @ Think Computers
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ TweakTown
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 GAMING X TRIO 24G @ TweakTown
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ Hot Hardware
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ Tom’s Hardware
ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 STRIX OC @ TechPowerUp
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio 24G @ TechPowerUp
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Eagle OC @ TechPowerUp
ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity @ TechPowerUp
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ Tech Radar
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ PC World
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ Eurogamer
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ PC Gamer
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition @ PC Mag
MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X TRIO 24G @ Guru3D
Palit GeForce RTX 3090 GamingPRO OC @ Guru3D

ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity

September 22, 2020 by Stephen

It won’t beat the Founders Edition out of the box, and with its very, very small overclock you will get pretty close to the RTX 3080 FE performance. But, the ZOTAC custom GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity runs 8C cooler at stock settings (72C versus 79C) and has a triple-fan setup that won’t blow hot air up into your CPU (like the RTX 3080 FE does, if you didn’t want that).

Gigabyte Leaks NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, RTX 3080 20GB, And RTX 3070 16GB Ampere Cards

September 18, 2020 by Stephen

We see not only GeForce RTX 3080 products that Gigabyte has already announced, but also unannounced models, including boards with 20GB of GDDR6X (confirming our supposition above). But that’s not all, there are also references to other unannounced products including the GeForce RTX 3060, which we’ve previously talked about.

GALAX GeForce RTX 3080 SG

September 18, 2020 by Stephen

In this review, we benchmark the GeForce RTX 3080 SG (=short for Serious Gaming) from none other than GALAX. Armed with a triple fan based blade wing cooling design this card is to seriously out some performance. Galax also adds a one clip booster, and an extra fan you could place at the backside for some extra chilled air.

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO 10G

September 18, 2020 by Stephen

The MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio builds on NVIDIA’s strengths with a powerful new board design capable of powering the RTX 3080 with up to 525 W of power even though the chip’s TDP is around 340 W. The card sticks to conventional 8-pin PCIe power inputs, and its cooling solution features multiple aluminium fin stacks held together by seven 6 mm-thick copper heat pipes that make direct contact with the GPU at the base; these are ventilated by 95 mm fans.

ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC

September 18, 2020 by Stephen

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 OC retains the military-grade metal aesthetic characteristic of the brand. It uses a meaty cooling solution that features multiple fin stacks which are ventilated by a trio of ASUS’s new-generation Axial-Tech fans. There’s lavish use of metal on both the cooler shroud and the backplate. The cooler is longer than the PCB underneath.

How Much CPU Does the GeForce RTX 3080 Need?

September 18, 2020 by Stephen

We’ll be testing at 1080p, 1440 and 4K at both medium and ultra presets. We said in the RTX 3080 review that it’s a card primarily designed for 4K gaming, and that it starts to hit CPU bottlenecks at 1440p. That applies even more at 1080p with medium settings.

ASUS, MSI and Palit GeForce RTX 3080 Cards

September 18, 2020 by Stephen

In this review, we benchmark the GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X Trio from MSI; yes MSI is back with a new Gaming X Trio, with that TRIO, of course, short for a triple-fan solution with an otherwise heavily customized product. With their aim to perform at low acoustics combined with a beautiful design card, lets start this review, shall we?…

Read this, and more, at Guru3D:

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO 10G
Palit GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming Pro OC
ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC

MSI RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO 10G

September 17, 2020 by Stephen

The most notable change from a user point of view is that instead of the strange 12 pin power input the Founders Edition had, the MSI Gaming X Trio has a more familiar power input setup, with three 8 pin PCIe connectors on the right hand side rather than in the middle.

GIGABYTE RTX 3080 GAMING OC 10G

September 17, 2020 by Stephen

Today sees the launch of the partner editions of the RTX 3080, and Gigabyte have a few different models up their sleeve with varying degrees of lighting and factory overclocks available. We’re taking a look at the middle of their non-Aorus range, the Gaming OC 10G.