To that end, EVGA also pushed the FTW3 Ultra’s power limit to a staggering 420 watts, significantly higher than the stock 350W specification, and bolstered the card’s custom PCB and VRM setup to handle it. A trio of 8-pin connectors help feed this power-hungry beast even more juice. It embeds a multitude of iCX sensors throughout that provide real-time temperatures for 10 different areas of your card’s GPU, memory, and voltage regulator modules (VRMs). In addition to its sublime custom cooler, the EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra offers a dual-BIOS switch that helps overclockers recover from disaster with ease. All of it can be managed via EVGA’s excellent Precision X1 management and overclocking software. EVGA, on the other hand, equipped the FTW3 Ultra with an aluminum backplate, even more RGB, and headers on the end of the card that can connect a case fan’s performance to your GPU’s temperatures, and tie the card’s lighting into your motherboard’s own RGB capabilities. The MSI Gaming X Trio doesn’t offer many extras, and it packs a graphene-infused backplate that looks and feels like plastic. You won’t hear it.ĮVGA manages to justify the FTW3 Ultra’s premium $810 price thanks to its loaded feature set, however, especially if you enjoy tinkering with your pricey GPU purchase. Nvidia’s own RTX 3080 offering is significantly quieter than past Founders Edition models, while the MSI Gaming X Trio is just as cool and almost as quiet for $50 less, but the EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra tops them all. Even with all that energy coursing through the graphics card, the FTW3 Ultra stays at a chilly 72 degrees Celsius and never makes a sound.
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Make sure your power supply can handle the RTX 3080 before upgrading. Games that hit the CPU hard can send the power draw soaring higher, too. Our test system draws around 500W in whole system power with any RTX 3080 installed, but only the EVGA FTW3 pushes it over that mark for our power consumption test-and even over the $1,5 Founders Edition’s energy levels. It’s not perceptibly faster than the Founders Edition’s reference clock speeds in most scenarios though, and overclocking the GA102 chip definitely comes at a power penalty. The GeForce RTX 3080 is fast, and EVGA’s factory overclock puts the pedal even closer to the metal, delivering frames just as quickly as MSI’s rival $760 Gaming X Trio does, and it also boasts an 1800MHz boost clock speed. (Our original Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition review goes much deeper into ray tracing performance, and comparisons against prior GeForce generations.) This is something you couldn’t say with previous-gen RTX 20-series cards. Improvements to the Ampere GPU architecture inside the RTX 3080 also makes it possible to play ray-traced games at those lofty resolutions with Nvidia’s DLSS technology enabled.
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Avoid it for 1080p gaming, though, as this card is so fast that most games become wholly CPU- or engine-bound at that resolution, negating its monstrous performance advantage. It rocks for 3440x1440 ultrawide gaming, too. Pulling back to higher-level first, any GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card will knock your socks off for gaming at 4K resolution, or keeping a high refresh rate 1440p monitor well fed. The $810 EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra is a fantastic graphics cards for gaming enthusiasts, especially if you overclock. ASUS doesn't skimp on its ROG Strix family of cards, which is one of the first super high-end custom RTX 3080s through my lab (apart from MSI's custom RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO).ĪSUS has its new ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3080 OC Edition on Best Buy for $850.Credit: Brad Chacos/IDG Should you buy the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra? With all of the news of the cap issue on GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards, ASUS has your back (and the back of your card) as the company is used to the world of high-end power-hungry graphics cards. It also has the highest power limit possible (121%), a great triple-fan cooler, and an always-impressive ROG Strix design aesthetic. I have with me here today to review the OC Edition of the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3080, which has some of the best boost GPU clocks out of all of the custom RTX 3080 graphics cards.
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