The Ampere RTX 3080 Owners Thread

Kaapstad · 15 Mar 2022 at 20:49

https://www.techpowerup.com/292898/...r-msi-gaming-trio-and-suprim-x-graphics-cards

Kaapstad · 16 Mar 2022 at 17:21

https://www.techpowerup.com/292977/...ing-product-series-for-evga-xc3-rtx-3080-3090

Kaapstad · 31 Mar 2022 at 18:18

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Kaapstad · 26 Apr 2022 at 06:12

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IceWolf · 8 May 2022 at 09:30

Hi guys, is anyone running their RTX 3080 with a modified voltage curve (e.g. through Afterburner). I have my Asus TUF OC10 model now running at a peak curve of 2130Mhz at 1000mV which is 100mv less than at stock with a +120Mhz overclock. It seems stable and gains me a couple of fps in games (3-5% approx), presumably through keeping temperatures lower. It was unstable at 2146Mhz (next step up).

Anyone else able to share their results or settings?

Kaapstad · 9 May 2022 at 14:38

https://www.techpowerup.com/294661/asus-x-noctua-geforce-rtx-3080-10-gb-oc-card-pictured

Gerard · 9 May 2022 at 14:53

You'd think noctua would step away from their turd brown colouring scheme for a gpu, they do black fans as well surely they'd look better?

Kaapstad · 9 May 2022 at 15:00

Gerard said:
You'd think noctua would step away from their turd brown colouring scheme for a gpu, they do black fans as well surely they'd look better?

This ^

Not only that, it is actually quite a bit thicker than the cooler on my FE 3090 Ti.

tommybhoy · 9 May 2022 at 16:54

IceWolf said:
Hi guys, is anyone running their RTX 3080 with a modified voltage curve (e.g. through Afterburner). I have my Asus TUF OC10 model now running at a peak curve of 2130Mhz at 1000mV which is 100mv less than at stock with a +120Mhz overclock. It seems stable and gains me a couple of fps in games (3-5% approx), presumably through keeping temperatures lower. It was unstable at 2146Mhz (next step up).

Anyone else able to share their results or settings?

Undervolting RTX 3000 series.

I noticed my card hitting up to 1.085v at 2055mhz, this incurs a performance penalty due to power limits. So I have run a curve on MSI AB and now it only hits 1.035v at 2010mhz maximum fluctuating between 163-210 watt before hitting 244 watts, fully stable in FC6, the only thing is this is not a...

forums.overclockers.co.uk

IceWolf · 9 May 2022 at 17:35

Thanks for the link. Very interesting thread

Tom|Nbk · 12 May 2022 at 09:34

Finally got one, a cheapish Gigabyte Gaming OC 3080.

IceWolf · 12 May 2022 at 09:45

Had to reduce the clock speed to 2115Mhz at 1000mV to be fully stable as 2130MHz crashed occasionally in the Cyberpunk benchmark with Raytracing on Ultra. Seems a pretty good stability test

chrcoluk · 13 May 2022 at 15:12

IceWolf said:
Hi guys, is anyone running their RTX 3080 with a modified voltage curve (e.g. through Afterburner). I have my Asus TUF OC10 model now running at a peak curve of 2130Mhz at 1000mV which is 100mv less than at stock with a +120Mhz overclock. It seems stable and gains me a couple of fps in games (3-5% approx), presumably through keeping temperatures lower. It was unstable at 2146Mhz (next step up).

Anyone else able to share their results or settings?

A few of us are yeah, but everyone I know sets it much lower at around 850mv and lower clock speed.

turbot1984 · 13 May 2022 at 15:41

Gerard said:
You'd think noctua would step away from their turd brown colouring scheme for a gpu, they do black fans as well surely they'd look better?

We should all be grateful that Noctua don't make cases.
*edit .... and motherboards.

turbot1984 · 13 May 2022 at 15:52

chrcoluk said:
A few of us are yeah, but everyone I know sets it much lower at around 850mv and lower clock speed.

Same here, 1900 @ 850mv, but mine is 320W limit, Suprim X etc is 370W so some cards can take more juice.

turbot1984 · 14 May 2022 at 14:24

So, 3080's on at £750 which is great news at last. Likely to go lower as 4080 approaches?

Tommy_Here · 10 Jul 2022 at 09:22

Better late than never!

EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra - she is a beaut

Managed to install the 450w bios, now runs mid 70s but it's a beast! Always stays above 2ghz now.. and I can confirm mine is pulling the full 450w which I know some people had issues with some of their cards.

Kelt · 10 Jul 2022 at 11:11

Tommy_Here said:
Better late than never! EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra - she is a beaut

Managed to install the 450w bios, now runs mid 70s but it's a beast! Always stays above 2ghz now.. and I can confirm mine is pulling the full 450w which I know some people had issues with some of their cards.

IMO you'd be better off undervolting.

For example, I set mine (3080 Ti) with a curve of 0.9v/1950 and it uses around 330W max, but on average runs in the 280-300W range.

Runs at 1950 all day long when required, or lower with a less demanding game.

Never gets above 72C, even in the hot weather currently.

Tommy_Here · 10 Jul 2022 at 12:40

Kelt said:
IMO you'd be better off undervolting.

For example, I set mine (3080 Ti) with a curve of 0.9v/1950 and it uses around 330W max, but on average runs in the 280-300W range.

Runs at 1950 all day long when required, or lower with a less demanding game.

Never gets above 72C, even in the hot weather currently.

How do you undervolt please? AB doesn't have an option to undervolt?

Kelt · 10 Jul 2022 at 12:58

Tommy_Here said:
How do you undervolt please? AB doesn't have an option to undervolt?

This video explains it, really easy using AB.

The trick is finding the right balance between voltage and clock.

There is a thread devoted to undervolting the 30 series in the overclocking forum.