Official Zotac rep underfire on Reddit with regards to the 1 - 3 % lower performance..

[Orcworm]

Not a great move from Zotac, but I'll probably be undervolting my 3080 when I receive it just to keep the temperature/noise down for long term use anyway.

 

[Kelt]

As someone who pre ordered with another retailer in Germany, should I contact their support and cancel it? It has not yet hit the dispatch stage.

Check out Buildzoid's review of the Trinity PCB.

Hint, it ain't pretty.

 

[Devrij]

I have one on order, and yeah it was a disappointing bit of news. Will I cancel my order and add a month or two to my fulfilment time for the sake of a few percent performance? Not yet anyway.

I'm coming from a 980ti so I think I'll still be really happy with it, but it does hurt to watch buildzoid tear it apart and expose the poor build quality

 

[Digital X]

Will do thanks. Their 980ti AMP Extreme I had was good, but this has put me off to the point of cancelling.

 

[Name]

This is really bad to see, i'll be staying away from ZOTAC in future and selling my current one thanks for this article.

 

[Gerard]

Artificially gimping a card by design...I'm sure that'll do well for their sales.

 

[Digital X]

OK he has cancelled my order, what card should I go with now?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

But worse than an FE card

Isn't it common knowledge by now that this generation the FE cards are setting the benchmark? Why bother with a slower card with an arguably worse cooler unless you want to keep for the full 5 year warranty term?

 

[Jokester]

Check out Buildzoid's review of the Trinity PCB.

Hint, it ain't pretty.

Heh, never good when the first thing you see is the number of bits missing off the PCB.

 

[Kelt]

OK he has cancelled my order, what card should I go with now?

Whatever you do, don't go for the Asus 3080 TUF non OC.





Because I am, and the less competition the better!

 

[Katalyst]

OK he has cancelled my order, what card should I go with now?

Asus TUF is looking very good from what i've read/seen around the place.

 

[Digital X]

Yeah had my eye on that too, and seeing posted they hope to have some in stock next week I think I will go for the Asus.

@Kelt Gonna be a battle of the F5 key

 

[Shockwave]

Lot of fuss over nothing. If you want a good overclocker than buy their amp extreme series. This card is fine for a base reference card, and its a damn sight quieter than the FE card.

 

[Gerard]

Lot of fuss over nothing. If you want a good overclocker than buy their amp extreme series. This card is fine for a base reference card, and its a damn sight quieter than the FE card.

So its not a big deal they artificially gimped it to make their other offerings look stronger?

 

[Kelt]

So its not a big deal they artificially gimped it to make their other offerings look stronger?

Not to mention they've cheaped out on the PCB as well.

 

[montymint]

OK he has cancelled my order, what card should I go with now?

the TUF range seems to have reviewed well. Cooler and faster than FE

 

[Shockwave]

Reviews were available for this card before they went live for order, and they showed it was marginally slower than an FE but quieter. It also showed that it was limited in OC potential with limited power margins, so if you purchased this card, or pre-ordered it without doing your homework then I don't know what to say.

Everyone seems to be shocked at this sort of practice, which no doubt happens all of the time. Welcome to capitalism!

Do your research and buy the product that fits your particular needs. Zotac's warranty is excellent IMHO.

 

[Greebo]

Check out the Hardware Unboxed review of the MSI Trio. They say the 3x8 pin makes seemingly zero difference to the (lack of) OC potential in that card.

Maybe other AIBs might fare better and make use of the 3x8.

Indeed the evga ftw with the power pins and using 400w only out performed the the Asus tuf none oc card by 2%.

Its basically just a silicon lottery this time

 

[Robert896r1]

Heh, never good when the first thing you see is the number of bits missing off the PCB.

a lot of the pcb’s are like that. You can just look at techpowerup. No need to wait for BZ videos (which I do appreciate!)

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

Isn't it common knowledge by now that this generation the FE cards are setting the benchmark? Why bother with a slower card with an arguably worse cooler unless you want to keep for the full 5 year warranty term?

the fact that the 3080 FE is already at or very close to the power limits and the fact the FE has a beefy cooler seems to be lost on people.
The AIBs won't have much more performance to give on their premium models and have likely skimped on (or gimped) their budget models in order to create the illusion of a difference or save money on the pcb.