Review: KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG

Conclusion

Each partner has its own vision on how to best construct cards based on Nvidia's RTX 30-series GPUs. The designs are necessarily beefy for the 3080 and 3090 models as power budgets have escalated from 270W to 320-370W on the newest boards.

KFA2 tackles the RTX cooling problem by employing solid heatsink design on a shortened PCB. Even so, the RTX 3080 SG measures over 12in long and takes up the best part of three slots, which is consistent with everyone else.

Key hallmarks of the SG model are a bundled rear 'Booster' fan, a proliferation of RGB, and a thinner width than many other RTX 3080s. On the downside, however, the card isn't overclocked out of the box, it's noisier than we'd like, and the two-year warranty is parsimonious at this elevated price point.

There's no perfect RTX 3080 thus far. KFA2 prioritises particular looks and cooling above noise and refinement. With the huge assumption that you can find it in-stock at the prescribed £720 price point, it's worth a punt if you're a fan of KFA2's style, but our money would be on a more rounded solution from the likes of Asus or MSI.

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