GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card

The Gigabyte GIGABYTE GeForce 12G Graphics Card comes with NVIDIA Ampere Streaming Multiprocessors, 2nd Generation RT Cores, 3rd Generation Tensor Cores, Powered by GeForce RTX 3080, Integrated with 12GB GDDR6X 384-bit memory interface, WINDFORCE 3X Cooling System with alternate spinning fans, RGB Fusion 2.0, Protection metal backplate. It features 1710 MHz Clock Speed and 10240 Cuda cores. The all-new NVIDIA Ampere architecture delivers the ultimate play, featuring advanced 2nd generation Ray Tracing Cores and 3rd generation Tensor Cores with greater throughput. Experience today’s biggest blockbusters like never before with the visual fidelity of real-time ray tracing and the ultimate performance of AI-powered DLSS. NVIDIA DLSS is groundbreaking AI rendering that boosts frame rates with uncompromised image quality using the dedicated AI processing Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX. The AI revolution has come to gaming. NVIDIA Reflex delivers the ultimate competitive advantage. The lowest latency. The best responsiveness.

DIRCTX 12 ULTIMATE

Developers can now add even more amazing graphics effects to Microsoft Windows-based PC games. GeForce RTX graphics cards deliver advanced DX12 features like ray tracing and variable rate shading, bringing games to life with ultra-realistic visual effects and faster frame rates.

STREAM LIKE A BOSS

Steal the show with incredible graphics and smooth, stutter-free live streaming. Next-generation hardware encoding and decoding combine to show off all your best moments in exquisite detail. And the all-new NVIDIA Broadcast app gives you powerful AI capabilities to improve audio and video quality with effects like virtual background, webcam auto frame, and microphone noise removal. So you can give your audience your best—every time.

UP YOUR CREATIVE GAME

Take your creative projects to a new level with GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs. Delivering AI-acceleration in top creative apps. Backed by the NVIDIA Studio platform of dedicated drivers and exclusive tools. And built to perform in record time. Whether you’re rendering complex 3D scenes, editing 8K video, or lives treaming with the best encoding and image quality, GeForce RTX GPUs give you the performance to create your best.

VICORY MEASURED IN MILLISECONDS

NVIDIA Reflex delivers the ultimate competitive advantage. The lowest latency. The best responsiveness. Powered by GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs and NVIDIA® G-SYNC® monitors. Acquire targets faster, react quicker, and increase aim precision through a revolutionary suite of technologies to measure and optimize system latency for competitive games

DLSS AI ACCELERATION

NVIDIA DLSS is groundbreaking AI rendering that boosts frame rates with uncompromised image quality using the dedicated AI processing Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX. This gives you the performance headroom to crank up settings and resolutions for an incredible visual experience. The AI revolution has come to gaming.

WINDFORCE 3X COOLING SYSTEM

The WINDFORCE 3X cooling system features 2x 90mm and 1X80mm unique blade fans, alternate spinning, 7 composite copper heat pipes, large copper plate direct touch GPU, 3D active fan and Screen cooling, which together provide high efficiency heat dissipation.

ALTERNATE SPINNING

Alternate Spinning can reduce the turbulence of adjacent fans and increase air pressure.

SCREEN COOLING

Extended heatsink design allows air flow to pass through, providing better heat dissipation.

LARGE COPPER PLATE & HEAT-PIPE

With direct contact to the GPU and VRAM, the large copper plate combines the composite heat pipes to efficiently transfer heat generated from the interior cores to the heat sink.

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING OC 12G Review

At last, the hugely anticipated RTX 30-series touches down on retailer’s shelves, bringing with them a huge wave of excitement and performance potential. Well, when I say excitement, I actually mean aggravation. Aggravation brought around by the inability to even purchase an RTX 3080… I digress.

Luckily, we were fortunate enough to get our hands on a couple of the latest RTX 3080 AIBs, and we’ll be reviewing them to see how they compare in performance and cooling from last year’s flagship.

That being said, and without giving too much away, let me just say, we were extremely happy with the performance this new graphics card brought to the table. So, let’s waste no further time and jump straight into it!

Keeping things short, the Gaming OC offers a healthy boost in core clock speed over the Founders’ Edition, with the latter boasting only 1710MHz. As you can see, the Gaming OC comes in at 1800MHz, one of the higher clocked AIBs we’ve seen. That said, it’s worth mentioning that when gaming and under intense load, the game boost overclock will kick in, boosting the clock speed to over 2000MHz.

From an aesthetic standpoint, whilst the GIGABYTE doesn’t hit all the right notes – for me anyway – it is still considered an extremely nice looking GPU in the greater scheme of things. It comes equipped with their high-end Windforce cooling solution (something we’ll touch upon shortly) and a completely new two-tone shroud. The fan shroud is plastic in design but feels extremely sturdy, offering flashes of gun-metal on top of an all-black aesthetic. Gigabyte’s branding can be seen on the center of each fan with a chrome finish which works nicely to elevate the rest of the Gaming OC’s design.

A thin RGB light zone can be seen on the top side of the Gaming OC, displaying the brand in a fairly tasteful fashion. RGB for this card has been kept to a minimum, however, the lack of RGB doesn’t harm this card’s aesthetics too much.

Looking at the card front on – or fan side on – you’ll see a large notch on the top side of the GPU near the mounting bracket. This offers no real benefit to the Gaming OC 10G and is only there for the NVlink found on the RTX 3090 – which utilizes the same cooling solution.