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With the AORUS XTREME, Gigabyte brings a mightily impressive product to the market. Its factory tweaked deeply, comes with extended power utilization, and a cooler as thick as a brick. Next to that ethically it is a very pleasing product, with very subtle RGB elements and of course that LCD info/anim screen. Now, you"d think that with the extra power available, the beefed-up VRM, and the increased Boost clock frequency, that this card would be tremendously faster over reference. Ehm no, we stated this many times already, boost frequency matter less these days as the power limiter dumbs down that performance the second your max wattage has been reached. And for this product set in performance mode, that means 4% to 5% additional performance out of the box seen from reference.

Our performance paragraph is a generic paragraph used on all RTX 3080 reviews as the performance is more or less the same for all cards and brands. Gaming it can do well, with exceptional values. Yes, at Full HD, you"ll be quite often bottlenecked and CLU limited. But even there, in some games with proper programming and that right API (DX12/ASYNC), the sheer increase in performance is staggering. The good old rasterizer engine first, as hey, it is still the leading factor. Pure speaking from a shading/rasterizing point of view, you"re looking at 125% to 160% performance increases seen (relative) from the similar priced GeForce RTX 2080 (SUPER), so that is a tremendous step. The unimaginable number of shader processors is staggering. The new FP32/INT32 combo clusters remain a compromise that will work exceptionally well in most use cases, but not all of them. But even then, there are so many shader cores that not once the tested graphics card was slower than an RTX 2080 Ti; in fact (and I do mean in GPU bound situations), the RTX 2080 stays ahead by at least a margin of a relative 125%, bot more often 150% and even 160%. Performance-wise we can finally say, hey, this is a true Ultra HD capable graphics card (aside from Flight Simulator 2020, haha, that title needs D3D12/AYSNC en some DLSS!). The good news is that any game that uses traditional rendering will run excellent at 3840x2160. Games that can ray trace and manage DLSS also become playable in UHD. A good example was battlefield V with Raytracing and DLSS enabled, in Ultra HD now running in that 75 FPS bracket. Well, you"ve seen the numbers in the review; I"ll mute now. DXR Raytracing and tensor performance, the RTX 30 series have been received new tensor and RT cores. So don"t let the RT and Tensor core count confuse you. They"re located close inside that rendering engine, became more efficient, and that shows.

If we look at an RTX 2080 with port Royale, we will hit almost 30 FPS. The RTX 3080 nearly doubles that at 53 FPS. Tensor cores are harder to measure, but overall from what we have seen, it"s all in good balance. Overall though, the GeForce RTX 3080 starts to make sense at a Quad HD resolution (2560x1440), but again I deem this to be an Ultra HD targeted product. In contrast, for 2560x1440, I"d see the GeForce RTX 3070 see playing a more important role in terms of sense and value for money. At Full HD, then the inevitable GeForce RTX 3060, whenever that may be released. Games like Red Dead Redemption will make you aim, shoot, and smile at 70 FPS in UHD resolutions with the very best graphics settings. As always comparing apples and oranges, the performance results vary here and there as each architecture offers advantages and disadvantages in certain game render workloads. So, for the content creators among us, have you seen the Blender and V_Ray NEXT results? No, go towards page 30 of this review, and your eyes will pop out. The sheer compute performance has early exponentially doubled one step in the right direction. We need to stop for a second and talk VRAM, aka framebuffer memory. The GeForce RTX was fitted with new GDDR6X memory, it clocks in at 19 Gbps, and that is a freakfest of memory bandwidth, which the graphics card really likes. You"ll get 10GB of it. I can also tell you that there are plans for a 20GB version. We think initially the 20GB was to be released as the default, but for reasons none other than the bill of materials used, it became 10GB. In the year 2020, that is a very decent amount of graphics memory. However, signals are that the 20GB version may become available later for those who want to run Flight Simulator 2020; haha, that was a pun, sorry. We feel 10GB right now is fine, but with DirectX Ultimate and added scene complexity and raytracing becoming the new norm, I do not know if that"s still enough two years from now.

Depending on the airflow level inside your chassis, expect the card to hit 65 Degrees C range temperature-wise under hefty load conditions in performance BIOS mode. That is an excellent temperature; the tradeoff is that you"ll hover at 42 DBA on notice levels, which you can hear alright. The silent BIOS mode on its end, here noise levels will hit roughly 37~38 DBa, which still can be heard, but still is acceptable. Now your GPU will hit roughly 70 Degrees C maximum. It"s a choice you get to decide. The silent mode does run a little slower, however, that difference remains marginal at best.

The power draw under intensive gaming for GeForce RTX 3080 remains to be significant. We measured it to be close to the 400 Watt at its peak, and for typical power draw under load that value is roughly 375 Watt. That is steep for an RTX 3080 rated at 320W at defaults. IDLE power consumption also was high at 28W, we suspect that the RGB and LCD setup are responsible for this. We advise a 750 Watt model at a minimum as the rest of the system needs some juice, and you will want some reserve.

This GeForce RTX 3080 did hardly exhibit coil squeak, much less than the founder card we tested. Is it disturbing? Well, no, it"s at a level you can hear it softly if you put your ear next to the card. In a closed chassis, however, that noise would fade away in the background. However, with an open chassis, you can hear a bit of coil whine/squeak.

The AIB product is deemed and damned to be called the more premium products. And I already told you, that"s no longer the case anymore as NVIDA"s founder cards are directly competing with the AIB product. In a perfect scenario, I would like to see the AIB product cheaper than the founder edition. That"s not the case. This card will be more expensive seen over that founder edition card. The price is currently rated at 1350 EUR incl vat (in the Netherlands). This will vary per country and, of course, availability. It is incredibly expensive for an RTX 3080, if you can find one to purchase at all.

The card actually tweaks well for an RTX 3080. Gigabyte had already maxed out the power limiter for you, then add ~100 MHz on the GPU clock resulting in observed boost frequencies towards 2100 MHz (depends and varies per game title/application). Remember that on the SILENT mode BIOS you could go even a bit higher. The memory was binned as well; we reached a beautiful 21 GHz. All in all, that brings us a very healthy 8% performance premium seen from the reference model.

Gigabyte offers a gorgeous looking product with the AORUS XTREME, really nice. Though powered down it"s a bit of a big brick to look at, but when you turn on that PC of yours, everything comes together. Gigabyte did things right when it comes to the factory tweak, I mean 1905 MHz is the highest clocked value next to MSI SUPRIM that we have seen. There"s no room left on the power limiter either, they opened it up completely at defaults for you. The product comes with dual-BIOS and for good reason, we feel that the performance mode measured at 42 DBA is a bit too loud for a product in this category and price range. At the cost of very little performance, you can bring that back to roughly 38 DBa under gaming load with the silent BIOS mode. The truth be told though that I did expect better value with this ginormous cooler. The two-outer fans spin clockwise, the smaller middle one any clockwise "to prevent turbulence", but it is exactly that middle fan where the noise is coming from as when I slow it down with my finger, the card becomes silent. Gigabyte really should look into their own thesis. Lovely is the RGB setup, and beautiful is the little LCD screen that can display a whole lot of things. You will need to activate it with Gigabytes software suite though.So all the extra"s like the newly defined looks, backplate, LCD, cooler, and dual BIOS, is it worth a price premium? We doubt that a little. But it is over-engineering at its best. Nvidia"s project green light defines that all cards are more or less in that same performance bracket, and that results in a meager 3~4% additional performance seen over the FE edition, that rule of thumb goes for all amped and beefed up products. Make no mistake, it"s love and fantastic, but is it worth the price premium? We doubt that. Gigabytes challenge is the DBA values, they preferred temperature of 65<>0 Degrees C over acoustics. I think I would have been fine with say 75 Degrees C and slightly lower acoustics. But that is a dilemma based on a personal and thus more subjective note. We can only acknowledge that the sheer performance this card series brings to the table is anything short of being impressive. The new generational architecture tweaks for Raytracing and Tensor also is significant. Coming from the RTX 2080, the RTX 3080 exhibited a roughly 85% performance increase, and that is going to bring hybrid raytracing towards higher resolutions. DXR will remain to be massively demanding, of course, but when you can plat Battlefield V in Ultra HD with Raytracing and DLSS enabled at over 70 FPS, hey, I"m cool with that. This card, in its default configuration, sits roughly 4% above founder edition performance. Of course, pricing will be everything as the AIB/AIC partners need to complete with an excellent founder edition product. Gigabyte did a marvelous job with the AORUS XTREME, but in the end, that choice rests at the end-user level availability and pricing. It"s over-engineered in all its ways but granted, we do like that. This has to be a top pick.

Gigabyte’s refreshed Aorus 15G for 2021 has a subtle, all-black design that takes a page from the company’s more svelte Aero lineup of creator-focused laptops. It’s a nice upgrade, but there aren’t many other changes from last year’s model, for better or worse. It offers the same wide variety of ports (including the all-too-rare full-size SD card reader), and impressively, Gigabyte fit an excellent 15.6-inch display into a 14-inch wide chassis. But at the same time, the keyboard is cramped and the nostril webcam is awkward to use.

That kind of performance is great — and not necessarily a given just because a laptop has this graphics chip. Manufacturers can set its power level to balance performance and efficiency as they see fit. So, despite having a compact chassis, I was surprised to see it perform better with games than the Asus TUF Dash F15. It’s generally much quieter, too. Gigabyte found the sweet spot, and if you plug in an external mouse and keyboard, this machine is a blast to use.

The $1,799 configuration Gigabyte provided for review has the aforementioned Nvidia GPU, Intel’s 10th Gen Core i7-10870H with eight cores, 32GB of RAM, a 512GB NVMe SSD, a 99Wh battery, and its 15.6-inch 1080p display with a 240Hz refresh rate is Pantone-certified for color accuracy with 100 percent coverage of the sRGB color gamut. This isn’t Gigabyte’s top-of-the-line model, but it’s close. The step-up config for $200 more has the RTX 3080 and double the storage. A more affordable $1,499 model with the RTX 3060 is also available.

Even though, technically, a laptop with the RTX 3070 is middle of the road between Nvidia’s low- and high-end graphics chips, it can deliver fantastic results. Gigabyte’s Aorus 15G would probably like to credit its gimmicky built-in Microsoft Azure application that automatically optimizes performance with AI, but it’s capable out of the box with default settings. There wasn’t a huge difference in gameplay with or without the Azure app running, nor when I set the GPU and CPU to boost in Gigabyte’s pre-installed Aorus Control Center app. That’s fine by me; the less tweaking required, the better.

Getting right into game performance, Red Dead Redemption 2’s built-in benchmark running on ultra hit a steady average of 66 frames per second, dropping to just 44 frames per second at the lowest. Shadow of the Tomb Raider running at ultra settings with medium ray-traced shadows ran at an average of 93 frames per second. Bumping up the ray tracing to ultra knocked it down to 69 frames per second, which is still a smooth experience. None of these results come close to taking full advantage of the fast-refreshing screen, but older or less demanding games should be able to hit far higher frames per second.

Outside of benchmarks, Cyberpunk 2077 running at ultra ray tracing settings was easily my highlight testing the Aorus 15G. This machine had little issue keeping the game running above 50 frames per second in a more barren or enclosed environment, and it rarely dropped below 40 frames per second in crowded outdoor environments — again, that’s with the most demanding graphical settings cranked up (ultra with every ray tracing setting and DLSS on). The performance here will make a lot of people happy. I was also impressed by Gigabyte’s cooling system, which keeps things surprisingly quiet and cool under pressure. This is the rare gaming laptop you can actually keep safely on your lap while gaming.

I’m fascinated with Nvidia’s new RTX 30-series graphics chips. Not just because they’re good, but because they sometimes provide wildly different results depending on the laptop they’re in. For instance, in the MSI GS66 Stealth, its RTX 3080 delivers very similar performance to the chip inside of Gigabyte’s laptop here, even though it should blow it away. The reason is because this chip has a higher clock speed and power draw than what’s inside of MSI’s laptop.

Specifically, this 3070 tops out at a 105W power draw with 1,290MHz clock speed, whereas the 3080 in question is at 95W maximum power and 1,245MHz clock speed. In short, you’re getting a lot of power in this thin $1,799 machine. Paying $200 more for the Aorus 15G with the RTX 3080 might not get you allthat many more frames per second, as it also has a 105W maximum power draw but a slightly slower 1,245MHz clock speed. You might know all of this info, but you might not. Nvidia requires manufacturers to share it, though some of them are still being cagey about it. For the record, Gigabyte is one of the more transparent companies about its GPU specs. I’m keeping tabs on other manufacturers right here.

Outside of gaming, the Aorus 15G is unfortunately a less convincing product. It’s able to run my usual workload flawlessly, consisting of Affinity Photo, about 10 Google Chrome apps, Slack, and Spotify. Given the specs inside, I expected this. What came as more of a surprise is that they don’t translate so well to video production. During an Adobe Premiere Pro test that exported a five-minute, 33-second 4K video, it took about seven minutes each time to render.

There are several other trade-offs that might give you pause if you need a laptop as much for productivity as you do for gaming. The typing experience is fine but not helped by the cramped keyboard layout. It has a tiny trackpad, and its nostril-gazing webcam didn’t cut it for me. Also, Gigabyte claims up to eight hours of battery life, but I averaged around six hours per charge. The new Asus TUF Dash F15 excels at all things Gigabyte didn’t quite land and costs less, but its lack of a webcam is a huge red flag.

This is a fantastic machine if all you want to do is get 60 frames per second (and often, better than that) in most of your games without tweaking many settings. Doing that for under $2,000 is an achievement worthy of praise. But if you care less about mobility and having a thin form factor that Gigabyte’s Aorus 15G provides, MSI’s GP66 Leopard takes the RTX 3070 even further. Its thicker, heavier chassis affords the chip even more headroom to get better performance in games — for the same $1,799 price, no less.

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.

I lucked into the NewEgg Shuffle for a combo overpriced gpu and cpu...Aorus Master Rev 1 Z590 and Zorus Xtreme 3080 Rev 2..to the tune of $1500. I need a upgrade obviously. Well I hadn"t purchased a cpu/ram/cooler yet, and installed this GPU on my existing setup. I am currently plagued with the blank screen, monitor disconnect, gpu fans 100%, and the disconnect/reconnect beep of the hardware. ctrl-shift-winkey-b doesnt appears to do anything. I DDU and rolled the latest drivers...still nothing. I have used one rail to power two 8-pins and a separate cable to power the third. The disconnect is random, and typically blips so fast I can"t see what is happening. I notice stable 12.1, 12.2, 12.0 voltage on the 3-pins and even stable on the mobo voltage. I can run 3D MARK or play newer games with almost no fault running +2000mhz gpu, pulling +350 watts, and no issues. I go try to load satisfactory or outer worlds and it glitches by the time the first splash screen shows up. It is on a UPS with Sinewave output, I hear not clicking over to battery. I can run Iracing with Oculus, and wheel/pedals with no erroring out. It finally got bad enough that it locked my mbr up and I could not repair to get back into windows....which lead me to believe it may be failing ssd. I have experienced the blank screen and no boot before with the 1080ti in place. Sometimes I can go minutes, sometimes I can an hour or two before it happens.

I reformatted last night, loaded a game / latest nvidia driver on a fresh boot, and got the failure almost immidiately when going into the second splash screen.

I plan to invest in a CPU/RAM, since I already have the MOBO, but was hoping to be more successful with my GPU in its current setup. Is the old Z97 not up to the task? I feel the rails are providing full power and not hiccuping on the PSU.

Are you ready to review the most powerful RTX 3080? This is no other than the Aorus RTX 3080 Extreme 10G, most commonly known as the Aorus 3080. This model features, hands down, the highest performance cooling heatsink we have ever tested. An impressive graphics card in both performance and design, with super cool LCD side screen displaying live data about the card, on its 2.75 inches thick and 12.6 inches long measurements.

The Aorus 3080 comes with a custom triple fin fan system which allows us to have an overclock of 1905 MHz, translating into a very stable 2040 MHz clock in games. Put simply, there is no factory setting more extreme than this, although it is not for everyone or for all chassis. Keep reading this article to find out more. Here is a link with more information about the Nvidia RTX 3080.

This model starts from a base frequency of 1440 MHz, and will reach a boost frequency of 1905 MHz. In principle, the OC mode does not include a clock increase in the configuration, but in practice it goes from marking a stable 1980 MHz to 2055 MHz, almost hitting the limits for this graphic card. In the product manual’s overclocking section it says that the power limit cannot be raised more than it already comes from the factory, although it is really not necessary.

In terms of chipset and memory specifications, we have exactly the same characteristics as other models as is obvious. The GA102 chipset has a total of 68 SMs, which inside we find 8704 CUDA Cores, 272 Tensor Cores and 68 RT Cores. The capacity therefore rises to 272 TMUs and 96 ROPs, however, we expect to see improved performance figures for an RTX 3080 with its 450W custom TGP, 120W more than the base model would offer.

Finally reviewing the memory configuration on the Aorus 3080, we have a capacity of 10 GB with Micron chips of the GDDR6X type. These raise the effective frequency to 9500 MHz, thus reaching a transfer of 19 Gbps, 5 Gbps more than the previous generation. The bus width rises to 320 bits thanks to 10 32-bit chips, and the bandwidth to 760 GB / s.

As its name already suggests, the design of the Aorus RTX 3080 Extreme 10G can be summarized in the word “extreme”. The distinctive style and constitution you can find in the Gigabyte gaming division products is unique, and we could dare to say it is one of the best visually appealing cards on the market, although maybe this feature doesn’t help a lot when it comes to the price.

The case in the Aorus 3080 is made out of an excellent quality rigid plastic, with a thickness somewhat greater than a millimeter, which is considerably rugged. Improving the finishes, mostly all of the surfaces around the fans have a brushed-style metal plate and up to 3 RGB lighting zones. Two of them remain in the corners and part of the edge of the fans, having a ribbon running through part of the upper area with another metal plate.

Seen from a side we can realize how thick the Aorus RTX 3080 Extreme 10G really is, with 2.75 inches and no less than 5.5 inches wide. The clean and modern style is maintained on the card profiles, with the front completely covered and the visible side area. There are enough lighting regions in the card and a conspicuous opening for the power connections.

The most important thing about the Aorus 3080 design is its LCD screen that we can manage from the RGB Fusion 2.0 software. In it we can load predefined animations, text and personalized GIFs, images and of course real-time telemetry of the GPU such as temperature or frequency.

Discreetly on the edge, a Dual BIOS switch has been installed in the Aorus 3080 model, with silent mode and classic OC. In addition to changing the fan profile, it seems that the OC mode increases the clock frequency of the GPU and wit it, the TGP to 450W. In the CPU-Z sensor we went from 1980 MHz to a stable 2040 MHz, which is a huge improvement.

We have many ports and connection options in the Aorus RTX 3080 Extreme 10G for the fan and the lighting. As for video connections, there are 3 HDMI 2.1ports and 3 DisplayPort 1.4a. However, even seeing 6 display outputs, the maximum capacity will be four video sources at a maximum resolution of 8K. On the Aorus 3080 both HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPorts will be able to reach 8K @ 60 FPS, although the new version of HDMI will support up to 120 FPS and 144 Hz in uncompressed 4K.

The heatsink of the AORUS RTX 3080 Extreme 10G is the best we have seen in a graphics card, and has the advantage of being the thickest available compared to all other manufacturer’s models. It is composed of two blocks of approximately 5.5 cm high made of aluminum with diagonal fins. At their end, the fins are slightly twisted in order to channel the air flow in such a way it increases the contact surface.

The Aorus 3080 will not disappoint you at all. It has become the most powerful RTX 3080 version available. It is true that in other models we can manually raise the TGP and the frequencies by overclocking, but the AORUS RTX 3080 Extreme 10G already includes it out-of-the-box, without any tweaks.

This card has also a high-quality build, with a powerful 22-phase VRM that outperforms its rivals and a colossal heatsink improves the cooling in a considerable way. For practical purposes, temperatures are around the figures of other cards with 60oC in OC mode and 67oC in Silent mode, with a good set of fans. To this is added a modern, minimalist and at the same time very gamer oriented design with multiple lighting zones and even a customizable LCD screen. The only downside on this department is the size, therefore very few computer cases will support vertical mounting with this card.

The important thing comes in the performance section, beating the best models by about 3 to 5 FPS in most games, which is huge considering that the chipset and memories are the same. The optimization that the manufacturer has done giving it 450W of TGP and reaching home frequencies of 2055 MHz will be the best asset for the most demanding gamers. Of course, on a negative note, the price is also a little steeped as it sits around the $1800 USD, but it is the best of the best.

If I power up in "silent" mode, then switch it to gaming mode so that I can read the vbios information using nvflash, it says the EEPROM is inaccessible; "Adapter not accessible or supported EEPROM not found.."