Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME review

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Graphics card temperatures

Graphics card temperatures

So here we'll have a look at GPU temperatures. First up will be IDLE (desktop) temperatures as reported through the software on the thermal sensors of the GPU. Overall anything below 50 Degrees C is considered okay, anything below 40 Degrees C is admirable. We add some other cards at random that we have recently tested in the chart. But what happens when we are gaming? We fire off an intense game-like application at the graphics card and measure the highest temperature of the GPU. 

     

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So with the card fully stressed we kept monitoring temperatures and noted down the GPU temperature as reported by the thermal sensor. These tests have been performed with a 20~21 Degrees C room temperature, this is a peak temperature based on a GPU stress loop.


Long Duration Stress Temperature and GPU Throttling clock

Before we start benchmarking, we always heat up the card. During the looped heat up a sequence of at least 15 minutes GPU gaming load, we observe at what dynamic clock the GPU will throttle at 1950~2000 MHz threshold once the GPU has warmed up. 
 
 

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Perf BIOS mode (default) The temps here close in at 65  Degrees C for this massively overclocked model, there is an acoustic compromise made here though.

 

Silent

 

Above Silent BIOS mode. here your temps drop to roughly 69 Degrees C under heavy load. Acoustics now runs at roughly 38 DBa (which is okay). We advise the default silent BIOS mode. However, SILENT mode offers a tiny bit less performance is opposed to a 1905 MHz boost clock it now sits at 1815 MHz with ~ 25W lower power consumption as well. You can also notice the measured boost now to be ~100 MHz lower compared to performance mode.

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