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AORUS - the premium gaming brand from GIGABYTE had launched a completely new series of RTX 30 graphics cards, including RTX 3090 Xtreme, RTX 3090 Master, RTX 3080 Xtreme, and RTX 3080 Master.

Besides excellent cooling and superior performance, LCD Edge View is another spotlight of AORUS RTX 30 series graphics cards. LCD Edge View is a small LCD located on the top of the graphics card. What could users do with this small LCD? Let’s find it out.

LCD Edge View is a LCD located on the graphics card, you can use it todisplay GPU info including temperature, usage, clock speed, fan speed, VRAM usage, VRAM clock and total card power. All this information can be shown one by one or just certain ones on the LCD.

Besides that, there are three different displaying styles available and users could choose their ideal one. However, not just GPU info but FPS (Frame Per Second) in the game or other application could be displayed through LCD Edge View.

The LCD Edge View can also show customized content including text, pictures or even short GIF animations.Users could input the preferred text to the LCD, also set the font size, bold or italic. It also supports multi-language so users could input whatever type of text they want.

About the picture, LCD Edge View allows users to upload a JPEG file to it and AORUS RGB Fusion software will let users choose which region of the picture should be shown. The support of short GIF animations is the most interesting part.

Users can upload a short animation in terms of GIF to be shown on the LCD so they can easily build up a graphics card with their own style. All of the customizations above can be done via AORUS RGB Fusion software.

There’s something more interesting with LCD Edge View: The little CHIBI.CHIBI is a little falcon digitally living in the LCD Edge View and will grow up as more time users spend with their graphics card. Users could always check their little CHIBI through the LCD Edge View and watch it eat, sleep or fly around, which is quite interactive and interesting.

In conclusion, LCD Edge View can display a series of useful GPU information, customized text, pictures, and animations, allowing users to build up the graphics card with their own style. Users can also have more interaction with their card via the little CHIBI, the exclusive little digital falcon living inside the LCD Edge View, which brings more fun while playing with the graphics card.

In this review, we benchmark the GeForce RTX 3080 AORUS XTREME 10G from Gigabyte; yes AORUS is back with their super-premium model loaded with cooling, an LCD screen, and among the best factory tweaks available on the market.With their aim to perform at low acoustics combined with a beautiful design card that comes with a dual BIOS, one silent mode, and one gaming (perf) mode, let"s start this review, shall we?

It was 2017 when Ampere as a GPU architecture surfaced onto the web, and up-to earlier this year, NVIDIA has not listed this name in any of its roadmaps on the consumer side. It was with military-level secrecy that the Ampere consumer part was developed. Ampere, of course, is the base unit of electric current in the international system of units. But the GPU is named after André-Marie Ampère, a French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics. NVIDIA has a track record of naming their GPU architectures after mathematicians and physicists or closely related fields, of naming a few; Pascal, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, and more recently, Turing. While it was no secret that the new GPUs would be based on Ampere, we"ve seen much discussion about fabrication nodes, architecture, and specifications. Still, everybody seems to have forgotten that Ampere already launched earlier this year for the HPC market. The first product based on Ampere was the NVIDIA Tesla A100, outfitted with a GA100 Ampere GPU based on 7nm fabricated at TSMC; that product holds 54 billion transistors 6912 shader cores. September 1st of the year 2020, NVIDIA announced three Ampere graphics cards in its initial launch wave. A week before announcements, specifications of the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 took a twist; the shader core count doubled up from what everybody expected. The GPUs are fabricated on an 8nm node derived from Samsung. This process further develops Samsung"s 10nm process; no EUV is applied in production just yet. The first wave of announcements would see the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 being released first, and as a bit of a surprise, the GeForce RTX 3070 would be arriving in roughly the same timeframe as well. The initial Ampere for consumers launch entails the GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6, RTX 3080 10GB GDDR6X, and a 24GB GDDR6X based flagship, the GeForce RTX 3090. The lineup brings Gen2 ray-tracing cores and the 3rd iteration tensor cores. These cards will all be PCIe 4.0 interface compatible and offer HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a.

The overhauled AORUS XTREME series GeForce RTX 3080 is once again fitted with that NVIDIA GA102 GPU; it has a nice 8704 Shader cores activated and is paired with 10GB of all-new GDDR6X graphics memory. GIGABYTE (the company behind the AORUS brand) equipped the card with a semi-passive design; the three fans start to spin and cool once the GPU warms up. The card is beefed up pretty extreme. As explained, it has a dual BIOS with gaming performance and silent mode. Make no mistake; both modes offer the same performance, just at different temperatures and acoustics.

AORUS increased the power allowance as well as the turbo clock frequency. This card has a clock speed of 1905 MHz, the fastest on the market. The memory runs stock at 19 Gbps effective. XTREME has been fitted with a new "MAX-Covered cooling", which basically means they slapped on the biggest cooler they could find, as this one is thick alright. Next to that, it makes use of 2x 115mm and 1x100mm blade stack fans. That last one sits in the middle and is an alternatingly spinning unit.

This RTX 3080 also has a higher TGP value listed at 420W. To juice up such hefty values, the cards have been fitted with 3x 8 (6+2) pins, creating an issue with some power supplies cables and power-wise. So it would be best if you had at least a proper 750 Watt PSU for this graphics card. Weighing in at roughly 2kg, this baby is heavy and big, L=319 W=140 H=70 mm. Once the PC is active, it is a thing of beauty, alright ... Next page, please.

Just when you thought a gaming laptop couldn’t be any more beastly - introducing the new Razer Blade 15, now available with NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30 Series GPUs for the most powerful gaming laptop graphics ever. Still boasting the fastest gaming laptop displays with refresh rates of up to 360 Hz and QHD 240 Hz (G-Sync), enjoy unrivalled performance and speed housed in the smallest 15” RTX gaming laptop chassis.

FHD 360 Hz with 2 ms response, Up to 100% sRGB, Wide Viewing Angle, 16:9 aspect ratio, matte screen with 4.9 mm bezel, IPS-grade TFT-LCD, individually factory calibrated

15.6" QHD 240 Hz 2560 x 1440, G-Sync with 2.5 ms response, Up to 100% DCI-P3, Wide Viewing Angle, 16:9 aspect ratio, matte screen with 4.9 mm bezel, IPS-grade TFT-LCD, individually factory calibrated

FHD 360 Hz with 2 ms response, Up to 100% sRGB, Wide Viewing Angle, 16:9 aspect ratio, matte screen with 4.9 mm bezel, IPS-grade TFT-LCD, individually factory calibrated

15.6" QHD 240 Hz 2560 x 1440, G-Sync with 2.5 ms response, Up to 100% DCI-P3, Wide Viewing Angle, 16:9 aspect ratio, matte screen with 4.9 mm bezel, IPS-grade TFT-LCD, individually factory calibrated

OLED, 100% DCI-P3, 1 ms response time, Wide Viewing Angle, 16:9 aspect ratio, Touchscreen with Corning® Gorilla® Glass, thin 4.9 mm bezel, individually factory calibrated

The TUF Gaming GeForce RTX™ 3080 has been stripped down and built back up to provide more robust power and cooling. A new all-metal shroud houses three powerful axial-tech fans that utilize durable dual ball fan bearings. Fan rotation has been optimized for reduced turbulence, and a stop mode brings all three fans to a halt at low temps. Beneath, independent heatsinks for the GPU and memory keep thermals under tight control. Additional features, including TUF components, Auto-Extreme Technology, a new GPU bracket, and a backplate vent make the TUF a proper powerhouse. For builders looking for a new “old faithful”, this card has your back.

Excellent circuit design with the top-grade materials, not only maximizes the excellence of the GPU, but also maintains stable and long-life operation.

With the Ada Lovelace RTX 4000 series of graphics cards slated to launch soon, Nvidia has been trying hard to get rid of excess stock by offering hefty discounts. In yet another bid to empty shelves, Nvidia is bringing back a questionably-specced graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB. The move comes shortly after the SKU was discontinued mere months after its January 2022 reveal.

Twitter leaker MEGAsizeGPU (via Videocardz) has learned from industry sources that Nvidia has too many GA102 GPUs lying around in its inventory. It isn"t surprising, given that the increased demand for graphics cards during the mining craze has since died down since cryptocurrencies went belly up. Ideally, Nvidia shouldn"t have too much getting rid of its GA102 stock. After all, it does power a litany of graphics cards ranging from the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti to the original GeForce RTX 3080.

The GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is one of Nvidia"s more questionable Ampere releases For starters, there was never an official MSRP for the card, allowing sellers to charge exorbitant amounts for it. It offers an extra 2 GB of VRAM along with additional CUDA cores (8,960 vs 8,704 on the base RTX 3080), and a faster 384-bit memory bus. The bump-up comes with an increased TGP (350 Watts) and a lower base clock.

Now that the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is back in production, one can expect to see it sold at attractive prices. Ideally, one would be better off waiting for the RTX 4000 series for its unparalleled performance uplift and overclocking abilities. However, it wouldn"t be entirely unwise to buy a GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB now, provided that you get a good deal on it, as one could potentially have to wait until 2023 for the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 to hit shelves.

This is my seventh GeForce RTX 3080 review, this time from Colorful, one of the biggest players on the Chinese market. Their graphics cards have a long history of being just a little bit more over the top compared to others. The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 3080 Vulcan OC is the company"s flagship for the RTX 3080 series. Besides the massive cooler, it offers a unique feature, a small LCD screen that lets you display vital stats of your graphics card and CPU.

Out of the box, the Vulcan OC runs at 1710 MHz rated boost, which matches the NVIDIA Founders Edition clocks exactly. I hear you ask why this card is called "OC" then. Well, I was a bit surprised at first, too. It seems the OC settings are activated only when you press the dual BIOS "Turbo" button near the rear I/O bracket. With the Turbo BIOS active, the card runs at 1800 MHz rated boost, which is higher than most other RTX 3080 custom designs. At the same time, the power limit is raised from 320 W to 370 W—this will make a big difference, having more impact than just the rated boost clock. The difference between the BIOSes is so big, I decided to fully test both to show proper product performance.

Averaged over our whole game testing suite at 4K resolution, the Vulcan OC with the default BIOS is 1% faster than the NVIDIA Founders Edition, which is not a whole lot. The Turbo BIOS works much better, running 3% faster than the default BIOS, which brings the total uplift against the FE to 4%. Albeit not a huge difference, it is still a decent increase for a RTX 3080 custom design. Compared to the RTX 2080 Ti, the card is 37% faster, a pretty impressive gap. The uplift against the RTX 2080 Super is almost 65%. AMD"s top dog, the Radeon RX 5700 XT, will only give you half (!) the FPS of the iGame RTX 3080. AMD is announcing new graphics cards soon, which are expected to change this situation, but I doubt they"ll match the RTX 3080. RTX 3090 is less than 10% faster at much higher cost—barely worth it.

If you are looking for a fluid 4K gaming experience, the RTX 3080 is the card you want. At lower resolutions, many games are CPU bottlenecked though, so the card won"t be able to play out its full potential. The RTX 3080 is also a good option for 1440p high refresh-rate gaming, but I definitely wouldn"t spend that much money just for Full HD 1080p gaming.

Visually, the iGame RTX 3080 Vulcan looks great because of a mix of gray, silver, and black paired with an edgy cooler shroud that"s not too distracting. The Colorful thermal solution achieves very low temperatures of 67°C with the default BIOS and 72°C with the Turbo BIOS—both lower than many competing cards. Fan noise levels are higher, though. With 35 dBA and 37 dBA, they are sitting right next to the Founders Edition"s 36 dBA. Given the low temperatures, I feel like Colorful could have used a slightly less aggressive fan curve. On the other hand, I hear a lot of gamers in the Asian markets favor low temperatures over fan noise, which could explain the fan settings. NVIDIA introduced idle fan stop on their Founders Edition cards with the GeForce RTX 30 series, which makes this capability a standard feature to have. The Colorful iGame RTX 3080 Vulcan will turn off its fans in idle, desktop work, Internet browsing, and light gaming for the perfect noise-free experience.

With the Vulcan, Colorful is including a small LCD monitor that"s attached to the top edge of the graphics card, capable of displaying various important statistics, like frequencies and temperatures. The iGame Center software is required to send those stats to the LCD, though. The colors of the panel are crisp and the animations smooth, much better than other solutions we"ve seen in the past. You may customize which sensor values are displayed, with how much delay between them and in which order. You may also choose between a "one value + chart" or "two values" display format, and can show off your own uploaded logo.

Power efficiency is comparable to the Founders Edition. Actually, it is a tiny bit better. This is the case with both the default and Turbo BIOS. While the default BIOS matches FE power consumption exactly, the Turbo BIOS is slightly more power hungry, but offers higher performance at the same time, which is a fair trade-off. Other vendors increase the voltage for their factory overclock or compromise on the VRM design, which negatively affects power efficiency, not a problem with the Colorful iGame RTX 3080 Vulcan OC.

Overclocking on our sample with the default BIOS worked similarly to other RTX 3080 cards: gains are limited because the board power limit will cap the frequencies you can achieve. That"s also a big drawback of the default BIOS. Its manual adjustment power limit is set to 340 W, which is 30 W below the Founders Edition—strange. With the Turbo BIOS on the other hand, OC yielded excellent results because it lets you set a 400 W power limit, which is higher than most other RTX 3080 cards I"ve tested. At 400 W, overclocking potential was the best of all RTX 3080 cards so far: 7.8%, which is really close to what the stock RTX 3090 can achieve, at much higher pricing. I still feel the Vulcan OC could handle much more power, its 22+4 VRM configuration is stronger than on any other card. Colorful maybe can release an optional XOC BIOS with an even higher power limit, similar to what EVGA has been doing with their FTW3.

Colorful is asking $880 for the iGame RTX 3080 Vulcan OC, which is a steep $180 premium over the Founders Edition. No doubt, the big cooler, much better VRM circuitry, and LCD display cost money, but I still find it too expensive. The factory overclock can justify a few percent, but not 20%. ASUS is asking $850 for the STRIX, EVGA wants $810 for the FTW3 Ultra, and the AORUS Master is $850. A price point much closer to $800 would definitely help the Vulcan, but at this time, all RTX 3080s everywhere are sold out, and people are willing to pay much much more, so my pricing considerations really don"t matter.

Idle: Windows 10 sitting at the desktop (1920x1080) with all windows closed and drivers installed. The card is left to warm up in idle mode until power draw is stable.

Multi-monitor: Two monitors are connected to the tested card, and both use different display timings. Windows 10 is sitting at the desktop (1920x1080 and 1280x1024) with all windows closed and drivers installed. The card is left to warm up in idle mode until power draw is stable. When using two identical monitors with the same timings and resolution, power consumption will be lower. Our test represents the usage model of many productivity users who have one big screen and a small monitor on the side.

Media Playback: We use VLC Media Player to watch a 4K 30 FPS video that"s encoded with H.264 AVC at 64 Mbps bitrate, making it similar enough to many streaming services as well, without adding a dependency on internet bandwidth. This codec should have GPU-accelerated decoding on every modern GPU, so it tests not only GPU power management, but also efficiency of the video decoding hardware.

Average (Gaming): Metro: Last Light at 1920x1080 because it is representative of a typical gaming power draw. We report the average of all readings (12 per second) while the benchmark is rendering (no title/loading screen). In order to heat up the card, the benchmark is run once first without measuring its power consumption.

Sustained (Furmark): We use Furmark"s Stability Test at 1600x900, 0xAA. This results in very high no-game power-consumption that can typically only be reached with stress-testing applications. We report the highest single reading after a short startup period. Initial bursts during startup are not included as they are too short to be relevant.