ASUS TUF Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 OC Edition Graphics Card (PCIe 4.0, 12GB GDDR6X, LHR, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a, Dual Ball Fan Bearings, Military-Grade Certification, GPU Tweak)

Great card with great thermals. Running it in default or "silent" mode on GPU tweak 3 doesn't make too much of a difference. I haven't had time to play with a fan curve yet. No real need though. I got lucky and got a card with no coil whine noise. Fan's are a bit loud when the card is pushing to stay cool but they are not a high pitched sound like other GPU cards I've had. at max settings in Destiny 2 at 2K I'm getting anywhere between 190-250 fps. Main reason for the upgrade was because of my 3070 being from EVGA and them leaving the gpu space I knew that if I wanted to have the ability to send my card in for warranty repairs in the future I would have to get a card from a different manufacturer. The FPS difference isn't mind blowing but I can bump the settings up substantially and still maintain 60-80 fps. Thermal wise I've not had the card go above 75c during my testing. Load tested the card to check if I got a dud with Prime95 and superposition. Really fantastic card.I have it on a system with i7-10700K, 7 fans, a Mugen 5 cpu cooler, and a 850w power supply. The highest amount of power that the system draws is 545.5w, so a 850w power supply is more than enough. The card's temperature is 69-70 after hours of gaming. If you want to overclock the card even further than the manufacturer buy strix or ftw3 instead because the power limit on this card is only 107% (though I personally think oc does not make much difference in gaming). The card is also very quiet even on full load with 80% fan speed. I got 12 gb when it was on sale for $ 879. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a decent value rtx 3080.

Great card with great thermals. Running it in default or "silent" mode on GPU tweak 3 doesn't make too much of a difference. I haven't had time to play with a fan curve yet. No real need though. I got lucky and got a card with no coil whine noise. Fan's are a bit loud when the card is pushing to stay cool but they are not a high pitched sound like other GPU cards I've had. at max settings in Destiny 2 at 2K I'm getting anywhere between 190-250 fps. I don't expect to maintain 240 fps all the time but now I feel like I can get a lot more out of my Odyssey G7. Main reason for the upgrade from a 2080 super was for MSFS 2020. The FPS difference isn't mind blowing but I can bump the settings up substantially and still maintain 60-80 fps. Thermal wise I've not had the card go above 75c during my testing. Load tested the card to check if I got a dud with Prime95 and superposition. Really fantastic card.also note I was concerned about the size. If you have a Fractal Design Meshify C with Fans in the front it WILL fit. Even with just a little space between the front fan. (I run 2x 150mm fans in the front). I've also had no power issues with a 750 watt PSU. Do the research and check real power at the wall. I use a P3 Kill A Watt and the system during load testing and long gaming never pulled above 560 watts so far. Be careful of PSU calculators online. They either over estimate for possible extreme overclocking, or they are a vendor and trying to sell you a higher wattage PSU then you need. Feel free to ask a question on the Q&A area and put my name there if you want more specs, testing info.My PC SpecsSeasonic Prime 750 watt Platinum SSR-750PD2 80+ Platinum (Don't Cheap out on PSU! and the EVGA's are made cheap now fyi)Ryzen 59050x w/ Noctua NH-U12sAsus Tuf Gaming x570 wifi-plus32gb (4x8GB) G.Skill Trident Z Neo2x Samsung 970 Evo m.21x WD greenAsus Tuf RTX 3080 12gb2x Be quiet Silent Wings 3 150mm Fans (intake)1x Be quiet Silent Wings 3 120mm Fans (rear exhaust)Fractal Designs Meshify C (original)many usb devices connected at different times1x Samsung Odyssey G7 27in1x Samsung Odyssey G3

After buying this card I'm a huge fan af the ASUS TUF Gaming line and might just be sticking with them from here on out! The build quality is incredible. Cooling is great, might be. a bit better though if the backplate was aluminum, I'm pretty sure its steel (for rigidity I think) and steel doesnt cool as well.As far as the perfomance, It's a 3080 12gb so obviously the performance is fantastic. Right now it's one of the best GPUs on the planet.I highly recommend getting something to help with GPU sag with this GPU. I got a "JEYI Graphics Card Brace Support model: iBrace-8" here on Amazon for like $8, its a little telescoping thing that takes up like no space it works awesome.For all the details about this card check out hardware unboxed's very detailed review of it on YouTube they break it all down, it's got very good cooling etc.

Have been thinking of replacing an old gaming PC with Core i7 3770K/GTX 970 SLI BUT the unreasonably inflated graphics card prices put that plan off for a few years. The recent price drop for RTX 30 series was a welcomed opportunity and after some price/performance comparison, I decided to go with this Asus TUF RTX 3080 12Gb OC card on a Z690 MB with Core i7 12700K CPU.This TUF Graphics Card is well built, nothing fancy but practical, installation was straight forward and using the Asus GPU Tweak III for some tweaking. The overall gaming performance was really amazing, and can run any games smoothly in highest setting at 1080p. Now planning to get a 4K monitor to really test how good this card can be. Very satisfied.

This card has one of the best air coolers you can get in this price range. This thing runs cool and quiet and because of that leaves some headroom for tweaking. It is power limited so there's only so much you'll get, but it's a decent performance increase with very little to no noise associated with it like the other brands (I've tried most). No hint of coil whine either, which I found is usually associated with your PSU anyway. Runs good at stock speeds. Doesn't require extra tweaking to control temps, the factory fan curve is good. These 12gb variants are being discontinued, so if you don't want to wait for the 4k series and can get one at a decent price then go for it.