Please help me choose

[Jed78]

Hiya. I am looking at purchasing a new 3080. But I'm really undecided on which option to buy. The price isn't really a factor I just want the best card. So I've found 2 msi cards. Which one is the best

msi nvidia geforce rtx 3080 gaming trio lhr 12gb this is about £789

Or the dearer by about £100 but has less memory

MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB SUPRIM X LHR​

Thanks

 

[JollyJamma]

msi nvidia geforce rtx 3080 gaming trio lhr 12gb this is about £789

easy peasy.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Yep, it's not just the memory that's different, the 12GB 3080 also has 256 additional cuda(/shader) cores!

(also the 12GB config also necessitates a wider memory bus, hence more bandwidth)

 

[Jed78]

Wow okay. I thought the more expensive one would be the card of choice. Happy days

 

[mickyflinn]

Zotac offer 5 year warranty on there cards if registered within 30 days, just ro mix things up.

 

[Tetras]

You can get an RX 6800 for £550 or an FE for £650, wouldn't that be better value?

 

[arknor]

Pretty sure FE have been out of stock since 2 months

 

[JollyJamma]

Wow okay. I thought the more expensive one would be the card of choice. Happy days

12gig 3080 is a performance improvement over the 10gig model. Not a huge performance improvement but definitely if it's cheaper than the other models you are looking at, go for it.