Palit RTX 3080 GamingPro OC Review

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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Throughout our game benchmarks, we saw the Palit GamingPro OC perform very slightly worse than the Nvidia Founders Edition in terms of in-game frame rate. This is explained by the fact that the GamingPro OC GPU was simply running slower in terms of its clock speed.

Despite having a rated boost clock of 1740MHz, which is 30MHz above stock clocks, in the real world the card averaged 1825MHz, which is about 30MHz slower than the Founders Edition. We can see in our second scatter graph, where we compare the clock speed behaviour over 30 minutes for both the Palit and Nvidia Founders Edition, that the Nvidia card is consistently running at higher speeds.

This isn't a case of the Palit card thermal throttling, too, as it remained above its rated boost clock at all times. It simply wouldn't boost as high as the Founders Edition, and the potential explanations for this are numerous – Nvidia has a 15-phase VRM for the GPU, compared to Palit's 14-phase VRM, while it could be that our particular sample hasn't performed well in the ‘silicon lottery'.

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