ASUS RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC Review

1. Introduction2. ASUS TUF RTX 3080 OC 10GB3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark Port Royal6. Control7. Death Stranding8. The Division 29. Far Cry New Dawn10. Gears 511. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint12. Metro Exodus13. Middle Earth: Shadow of War14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Shadow of the Tomb Raider16. Total War Saga: Troy17. Performance Summary (11 Game Average)18. Cost Per Frame Analysis19. Clock Speed20. Temperatures21. Acoustics22. Power Consumption23. Performance Per Watt24. Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes. We use GPU-Z to record the GPU core frequency during the Time Spy runs. We calculate the average core frequency during the 30 minute run to present here.

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Looking at the card's average clock speed under load, here we test both the Performance and Quiet BIOS. There isn't much of a difference at all, with the P BIOS averaging 1898MHz compared to 1875MHz for the Q BIOS. As far as I can tell, the only actual difference between the two BIOS is the fan curve, as both have the same 340W power target (more on that later) and rated 1785MHz boost clock. That means the small difference in actual clock speed is due to GPU Boost slightly dropping clocks for the Q BIOS, as it does run a little warmer. This is expected behaviour.

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