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ASUS TUF 3080 same as OC version?
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Hard to tell without reviews.
The OC is a great card, but is it worth £40 more than the standard?
Be interesting to see what it boosts to when people finally get them and are able to post their views here.
My gut feeling is that the standard version will clock to OC levels anyway. Its the one I'd go for, on the other hand, if you only keep the card for a couple of years, an extra £40 isn't worth fussing over.
I went OC as I thought less people would go for it. I doubt there is any binning involved between the OC and non OC.
If they both have the same power limit then they would both perform the same with overclocking.
Lol. Dude, how many times you gonna ask this? It bloody makes no difference. Only reason to go for OC edition is it may arrive quicker due to less people ordering and the fact that you get a tiny oc out of the box which means nothing as you can do that on the non oc version yourself.
You make it sound like it’s a huge decision like which school you want your child to go to or something
To be fair im kind of with him as its a lot of money to spend especially if you have easily have on hand and have saved for this particular reason. You want to make sure you make the right informative choice about the card as its gonna be in your system (when ot finally arrives) for atleast a few years.
Im also stuck between grabbing the asus tuf or stomaching the extra £150 and getting the base strix which would mean a downgrade in other parts of my system like fans and extra storage which to be fair are not priorities
Im also stuck between grabbing the asus tuf or stomaching the extra £150 and getting the base strix which would mean a downgrade in other parts of my system like fans and extra storage which to be fair are not priorities
There is a big difference between £30 and £150 for starters. But otherwise how can it be a TUF decision when every piece of information out there shows it is the same cooler just with an extremely small factory OC on it? I am almost certain they will not bin the gpu's between OC and non OC. The bining if anything will likely be between TUF and Strix.
Is there something else I am missing?
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Lol. Dude, how many times you gonna ask this? It bloody makes no difference. Only reason to go for OC edition is it may arrive quicker due to less people ordering and the fact that you get a tiny oc out of the box which means nothing as you can do that on the non oc version yourself.
You make it sound like it’s a huge decision like which school you want your child to go to or something
Welcome to my world and GPU purchases.
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I wouldn't over spend. The base TUF will do the job. The difference will be just a few fps between all the cards. No reason to spend an extra £150.
My logic was the MSI Gaming X Trio which is often benchmarked against the TUF Gaming OC is around £100 more and yet the difference between the cards is only around 2-3%.
Good choice, I hope you do get it before Cyberpunk 2077, I am almost certain you will.
Welcome to my world and GPU purchases.
Haha
Yeah and that 2-3% will vanish as soon as you manually OC in like 3-4 clicks or use OC scanner. WIN!!
i replied in the other 3080 thread but there are three chip bins for the 3080 and it’s not clear which bin is on which card - yet.
ordinarily Asus will only put binned chips on the Strix OC but this time around, as there are at least 3 bins the situation won’t be clear until the GPU scene gets a database going of all the chip IDs fitted to each board and identifies which bins are going on which cards.
you won’t be able to tell by tdp rating of the board. why? because lower binned chips need more power and this can’t be used as an indicator as to whether you will get a “good” card.
Also, until someone tears down the vram on all these boards and the bios for vram timings, it’s going to be hard to tell if all the boards have the same quality of vram and/or if the vram chips are also binned on a particular card.
People are quick to forget recent fiascos with poor vram chips being shipped on AIB partner boards and the lottery on some vendors for getting the best vram chips.
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From what I've read there are 3 bins but they are not separated like the 20 series what they have said is its purely silicone lottery you stand a 60 percent chance of getting a good chip 30 percent change of getting excellent and 10 percent chance of getting average.
If there is any binning it will be at the AIB side
i take your point but my point stands in response to the OP - nobody knows. You might buy an Asus TUF OC card and get a duff bin whereas previously the ‘OC’ moniker from Asus guaranteed a binned card.
Not ended exactly, but OC were only given 1000 codes to start with, which they have far surpassed (seemingly by an order of magnitude), so they removed it from the store page until they can be sure they'll be able to get more.
It is also worth noting that the codes are only valid till the end of October (I think the 29th?), so unless that date gets extended by Nvidia and Ubisoft, many might not actually get the card in time to redeem the code even if they have one.
The difference in reviews I've watched have them pretty much neck and neck with either one beating the other one in a few games by only a couple of FPS.
Main advantages of the TUF is its superior cooling, better than the MSI Trio whilst being significantly cheaper.
Main advantage, if that's the right word, of the Trio, is it has more extravagant RGB.
The strix have bios that lets you use 400W.
With all Asus boards you can just go on their website and register your card to get the free code,.