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ASUS TUF 3080 same as OC version?

The Old School Gamer said:
MSI won't like that lol. :D
Did you see the trashy back plate.

*I like Steve's reviewing style.
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Actually my order went in 99p over the cost of an FE, worth it though by the looks of it :p literally pennies for decent improvements in cooling and an extra HDMI port etc.

MSI have usually been very good with their quality so i dunno why the change now
 
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Jay85 said:
der8auer did a shunt mod on the TUF OC card and it only made a small difference of around 2-5% i think, not really worth it unless you're gonna ln2 or ice it for record breaking.
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based on the first card we can see memory bandwidth is indeed still a limiting factor, he toyed with power, he toyed with voltage, he toyed with gpu clocks, and got basically no improvement, then he upped the memory speed and got a small but measurable improvement.

It does show now that the tech is at a point now where it can max itself out at firmware configuration.
 
There seems to be a general feeling that more power = good.

All these reviewers getting pretty much same performance on partner cards vs FE, and none of them mentioned the higher power consumption as a downside.

I still run my 1080ti on 90% power limit, I have tested at the max %, and its basically something like a 2% performance gain for 50% more power.
 
I have the standard version pre-ordered too - thinking back to the Strix 2080ti, IIRC Asus binned them differently depending on whether they were the "standard" version or the OC version. Assuming that's not the case here, as I'd be gutted to have bought a worse bin to save ~£30.
 
I doubt it, I think it will just be a clock adjustment.

Most of reviews of 3080 cards so far have not really showed any great over clocking headroom out of the box.

The EVGA FTW3 and ASUS Strix will no doubt be the better cards for overclocking, but that's why they cost £££.

Our friend above seems to be getting a decent OC out of a Palit, but it is under water though.
Surprised the power limit isn't dragging his card lower.
 
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I believe it will only be a couple of percentage difference from the Gaming to the Gaming OC.

But if I am wrong I hope someone will correct me on that because I too am debating whether to spend the extra.
 
The Old School Gamer said:
I doubt it, I think it will just be a clock adjustment.

Most of reviews of 3080 cards so far have not really showed any great over clocking headroom out of the box.

The EVGA FTW3 and ASUS Strix will no doubt be the better cards for overclocking, but that's why they cost £££.

Our friend above seems to be getting a decent OC out of a Palit, but it is under water though.
Surprised the power limit isn't dragging his card lower.
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Evga ftw in reviews did give 2-4% gain over normal cards by using 400w . But that not really very much and could have just been lucky silicon
 
steverebo said:
I was gonna grab an Asus tuf to watercool but now I'm debating getting something else, what model palit gave the 2220 oc
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standard one I think. I think he just got lucky in the silicon lottery. There was a Post early somewhere about the lottery and that it wouldn’t matter which car you bought, the all had a 10% chance of being a super overclocker, 60%-70% of being a good overclocker and 20% chance of being a lemon.
 
imginy said:
It seems the power limit really helps synthetic benchmarks but in games doesn't make much difference.
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yeah faster overclock on LN and chanted boar is 2340mhz but that was only in one synthetic benchmark. In gaming benchmarks he had to drop it back to between 2100 and 2200. I have seen people who have got those speeds with just watercooled twin 8 pin base cards
 
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