GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 Vision OC 10G (REV2.0) Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans, LHR, 10GB 320-bit GDDR6X, GV-N3080VISION OC-10GD REV2.0 Video Card

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Speaking for ourselves the answer is a flat no. R19 999 is more than our entire PC cost to put together and quite frankly dropping R19 999 on one component is irresponsible. Of course, one can get a Fold2 on contract and pay for the phone over a number of months, whereas a Vision OC requires putting down the full amount all at once. The vision alongside XFX’s Thicc III Pro RX 5600 XT. The WINDFORCE 3X cooling system features 2x 90mm and 1x 80mm unique blade fans, alternate spinning, 7 The obvious problem here however is that one can’t really link RTX 3080 GPUs together as there is no SLI support in these cards. So just how big of an upgrade is this GPU and is it just suited for gaming or could you slap one of these puppies in a workstation? Let’s find out. Spec Sheet vs Real World

Studio Drivers provide the best possible experience for key major creative applications. NVIDIA does extensive testing which focuses on the top creative applications and ensures the highest levels of performance, stability, and functionality are provided. What can’t show you with these graphs however is how smooth the experience is at 4K and that’s the real star here. While we noted a fair amount of lag caused by increased frame times in Horizon Zero Dawn’s benchmark, actually playing the game was a smooth experience with little to no hitches as displayed in the 95th percentile. But what about work? For Shadow of the Tomb Raider, visual fidelity was jaw dropping and we have never seen the game look that detailed or as smooth as we did with Nvidia’s AI tech enabled. What’s more is that the performance hit from both of these technologies is minimal and you will still be able to enjoy your games at 60fps or above depending on your system. The elephant in the room

Temperatures remain cool and following a firmware update we have not experienced a single crash while using this GPU.

Earlier this week we tested Acer’s Concept D which contains an Nvidia Quadro T1000 and it got us thinking, how would a consumer grade card fare in GPU intensive workloads for work?

For the rest of us though, we’re going to hang around for the RTX 3070 and rumoured RTX 3060. Triple fans help keep things cool. Conclusion

The availability of these cards is a meme at this point and we’re very thankful to Gigabyte for lending us one of its latest GPUs for testing. Is a great card. I was already at the stage of upgrading my graphics card anyway as part of a two step upgrade.I found that it was quieter than my previous card (1070 nVidia Founders) and supprisingly managed 4k ultra on games that only just managed 60fps at 1080p before. Very happy with that :)I guess the extra cooling capability comes from the size. This is the why I had to drop it by one point. I had to remove a front fan on my mid tower case so it would fit in.I needed something white or metallic to go with my whiteish build. The only downside was the purple strip across the side, but it has grown on me.Overall, great card, keeps cool, and no crashes at all after 5 months. The crux of all of this though is that the Vision OC is insanely fast and manages to keep its cool. So fast one really needs to experience it for themselves.With an MSRP of R19 999 this GPU is by no means cheap but then again, neither is a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2. For our RTX and DLSS testing we used Atomic Heart’s RTX tech demo and Shadow of the Tomb Raider with DLSS enabled. The graphics card uses the better power phase design to allow the MOSFET to operate at lower temperature, The unicorn of the tech world at the moment is not a billion dollar company, but rather the Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs.

Honestly RTX will illicit a “Wow” (or several expletives in our case) from your mouth and with the Vision OC it is as smooth as you’d want it to be with little to no frame time drops during testing.

One final thing to note is that while Gigabyte says this is a 2.7 slot GPU, considering that 0.7 covers other PCIe slots, treat this a triple slot card. We’re quite honestly bowled over at how great this GPU is. If you absolutely must have it keep an eye out for sales as we head into the festive season though we suspect those will be few and far between. With that having been said, if you need a card for gaming and CAD design, the Vision OC offers up that performance and it’s wonderfully quiet as well.