Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak and steady state GPU core temperatures under load. This data comes from running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

Thermal performance from the Founders Edition is very consistent. The GPU core steadily increased in temperature over the first five minutes, unit it hit 76C in our testing, where it plateaued for the remainder of the stress test.

This puts actual GPU temperatures pretty much in line with the 20-series Founders Editions, so the new design for the 30-series won't radically reduce temperatures to sub-60C levels.

However, we do have to bear in mind that the RTX 3080 has increased rated power draw over the RTX 2080 Ti by 28%, so to see the same sort of thermal performance (or better, when specifically comparing to the 2080 Ti) is highly impressive.

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