right here we've got the rtx 3080
tough gaming oc from zeus and ultimately
i am going to be recommending this card
right here
over the founders edition for three
reasons and we'll get into the first of
those
right now where we've got the
temperatures and cooling on this card
coming in roughly 15 degrees cooler out
of the box
this is one of the biggest reasons for
getting one of these cards you're going
to run
virtually the same noise i did notice
that the founders was ever so slightly
quieter
but at 15 degrees c that is a big cost
for that little difference in noise and
this ties in with the second reason
and this is our lower temperatures which
now allows us
to have sustainable overclocks and with
the founders edition i didn't recommend
overclocking that because i wasn't
comfortable with the temperatures
when it was overclocked and i feel like
with the founders edition
they've put all this extra metal on the
cooler
that isn't actually functional it's more
for aesthetic purposes
versus the tough gaming which has the
thin frame on the front near the fans
and then a thin back plate which does
add to the aesthetics so most of the
weight on this card is in the actual
cooling design
itself so it's a fantastic
implementation
for a tough gaming card to the point
where it feels more reminiscent of a
strix design
than a tough gaming card ever was
though when i started overclocking this
thing grabbing that slider
smashing the dial up on the memory the
memory then went to levels
i've never seen before and that is over
10 gigahertz which
essentially equals 20 gigabits per
second effective
and then for the core clocks we got over
130 megahertz out of the core
bringing this to a maximum of 2.1
gigahertz on
all those cuda cores on this gpu
and this led to big gains in the gaming
numbers
and i'll show you guys the 4k numbers
here today if you want to see 1080p
and 1440p numbers i'll refer you to my
founders review which i'll put the link
up for here
but basically the founders and the zeus
tough gaming oc card out of the box
these pretty much performed identical
they were both boosting up to around
1980 megahertz
the quiet mode was boosting up to very
similar levels
and when i tested the quiet mode in
shadow of the tomb raider it spat out
the exact
same fps as the other two cards did well
at least the tough gaming
in performance mode so for the rest of
the benchmarks i then left it
in performance mode and then moving over
to horizon zero dawn
this was giving us over 10 increase in
fps
and then over to mechwarrior 5 we saw a
similar trend to that of shadow of the
tomb raider
giving us a boost but not a huge boost
and then doom eternal
was giving us 176 average fps
versus 166 and then after that we had
the outer worlds
which gave us the biggest increase out
of the overclocking numbers in the
benchmarks here today
going from under 100 fps to now 111
average fps and then the division 2 gave
us 74
versus 78 average fps and then lastly
modern warfare
giving us a similar boost as we saw with
the division
2. so the overclocking numbers in my
opinion make it
really worth it if you're going to be
getting the latest and greatest graphics
card and you're gonna be running this at
4k
120 fps which if we saw in all those
games this was
max settings you can't max the dial
anymore
and you're getting pretty much close to
120 fps in a lot of these titles
and you can drop it down to high and
some of the other ones that aren't
getting
120 fps this card is capable of doing
that
and that's the biggest benefit of it
coupled with the hdmi 2.1
however one negative of overclocking of
course is the increased
power consumption and we'll pull up
those numbers
right here for you guys we can see
roughly a 40 watt increase
over the out of the box settings but the
total system power consumption
getting roughly 10 extra performance in
gains is worth that 10
extra wattage from the wall in my
opinion
and the founders was using a little bit
more than the tough gaming oc was
because it was running a little bit
hotter and so
basically the hotter the chips get the
less efficient they get
too so with reason two out of the way
we're now moving over to reason three
and that is the input output with the
founders card you get three display
ports
and one hdmi 2.1 with the tough gaming
oc
you get three display ports and two hdmi
2.1s
however it's also got a stainless steel
input output shield and i really like
this because especially if you live near
the beach
over time your cards can succumb to rust
especially those input output
ports where i've had to in the past uh
put a bit of multi-purpose spray
and give those ports a bit of tech yes
loving where i'm inserting a hdmi cable
like 20 or 30 times
to get the port working again this won't
do it because it won't rust out
and with all those raw numbers out of
the way it's time for a conclusion where
i'll talk also about the aesthetics
and i'll throw the dimensions of this
card right up here on the screen for you
guys
but you've got a little bit of rgb with
the tough gaming logo
towards the edge of the card another
benefit in my opinion is it uses two
8-pin connectors versus the 12-pin
nvidia's new school connector which i
personally prefer the old-school
because i don't have to run out and grab
a new power supply but speaking of power
supplies
this is out of the box one of the most
power hungriest cards i've seen
come through here at the studio so what
that means is you will
really want a good power supply not just
for the raiding
but also the thickness of the wires and
making sure
you're getting a power supply that has
the right gauge to deliver the right
amount of power to these cards because
if you don't have
the right amount of power then your card
can do some janky stuff it can cut out
it can give you lower fps the list goes
on but this card right here it works a
treat and if you're a gamer
and you can get your hands on one of
these you're going to be having happy
days but speaking of those happy days
right now
the supply is extremely limited i made a
video on pricing and supply
and it looks like you're going to be
getting one of these things towards the
end of october
at the earliest because they're pretty
much sold out everywhere
but that being said when it does come
back into stock i can recommend this
thing
at 750 usd and in australia i believe
the pricing should be around
1250 aussie dollars that's at least what
i'm told
it should be at even though the initial
launch prices were
higher however you're probably wondering
what about the ray tracing and dlss
numbers i'll just pull up the previous
numbers for you guys
where they pretty much came in identical
with the founders card
but one thing i will tell you is that
when i tried overclocking and then
running ray tracing
the games crashed out pretty quickly i
couldn't get any solid
ray tracing overclocked numbers for you
if that means
anything so if you want to turn on ray
tracing you probably just have to leave
the settings as they are
out of the box and turn on dlss 2.0
which
dlss 2.0 does do a good job in the games
that i've tested it in
anyhow in closing out i'm going to give
props to azus for the design
and implementation of this card it's a
fantastic job that they've done with the
card itself
despite all the other things going on at
the moment with the rtx 3000 launch
they've also used on top of the axle
fans dual ball bearings as well as
throwing in a
three year warranty on these cards which
if you're gonna be overclocking
and you'll be playing this for long
amounts of time i would want a card that
has a decent warranty
anyhow with that aside do let us know in
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