Review: Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 September 2020, 14:01

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Test Methodology

Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC


GPU Comparisons

 
GPU
Memory
Miscellaneous
Cores
Base
(MHz)
Boost
(MHz)
Type
Size
(MB)
Clock
(MHz)
Bus
(bits)
Power Config
Driver
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio
8,704
1,440
1,815
GDDR6X
10,240
19,000
320
8+8+8
456.16
Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC
8,704
1,440
1,785
GDDR6X
10,240
19,000
320
8+8
456.16
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition
8,704
1,440
1,710
GDDR6X
10,240
19,000
320
12
456.16
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition
4,352
1,350
1,635
GDDR6
11,264
14,000
352
8+8
456.16
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super Founders Edition
3,072
1,650
1,815
GDDR6
8,192
15,500
256
6+8
456.16
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition
2,944
1,515
1,800
GDDR6
8,192
14,000
256
6+8
456.16
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super Founders Edition
2,560
1,605
1,770
GDDR6
8,192
14,000
256
6+8
456.16
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
3,584
1,481
1,582
GDDR5X
8,192
11,000
352
6+8
456.16
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
2,560
1,605
1,905
GDDR6
8,192
14,000
256
6+8
20.8.3
AMD Radeon RX 5700
2,304
1,465
1,725
GDDR6
8,192
14,000
256
6+8
20.8.3

HEXUS 2020 Test Platform

Component Product Page
Processor AMD Ryzen 9 3950X amd.com
Motherboard Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula asus.com
CPU Cooler Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro RGB corsair.com
Memory G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4-3200 (2x16GB) gskill.com
Storage 2TB Corsair MP600 corsair.com
Power Supply be quiet! Straight Power 11 Platinum 1,000W bequiet.com
Network Card Asus XG-C100C 10GBase-T PCIe Adapter asus.com
Chassis Fractal Design Define 7 Clear Tempered Glass fractal-design.com
Monitor Philips Momentum 436M6VBPAB philips.co.uk
Keyboard Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 Low Profile Rapidfire corsair.com
Mouse Corsair Ironclaw RGB corsair.com
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro microsoft.com

Benchmark Suite

Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme, Time Spy Extreme Stress Test
Gaming Benchmarks and Settings
Borderlands 3 DX12, TAA, Badass Quality
Civilization VI: Gathering Storm DX11, 4xMSAA, Ultra Quality
Far Cry: New Dawn DX11, TAA, HD Textures Enabled, HDR10, Ultra Quality
Forza Horizon 4 DX12, 8xMSAA, Maximum Quality
Gears 5 DX12, TAA, Ultra Textures Enabled, Ultra Quality
Shadow of the Tomb Raider DX12, TAA, Highest Quality
General Benchmarks
Power Consumption To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record system-wide mains power draw when idle and while playing Gears 5
Temperature To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record GPU core temperature when idle and while playing Gears 5
Noise A PCE-318 meter is used to record noise levels when idle and while playing Gears 5

Notes

RTX 3080 review cards are arriving thick and fast. Partner cards from Asus and MSI are the first to feature in our charts alongside the Founders Edition. 10 listed cards are benchmarked from the ground up on our AMD Ryzen 3950X test platform using the latest available drivers. Note that reviews of partner cards are focussed purely on rasterisation performance, analysis of ray-tracing and GPGPU performance can be found in our initial RTX 3080 analysis.

We always run the cards at their out-the-box frequencies. The Asus can do more via GPU Tweak II software, matching the 1,815MHz of the comparison MSI, so you can take those numbers as being a proxy for its fastest-available performance - the 3DMark Time Spy result is within five marks.