ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC White Edition Review

Test Setup

ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC White Edition
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Series DDR4 3600MHz
Corsair RM1000i PSU
Corsair iCUE H150i RGB Pro XT AIO
Corsair MP600 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
Corsiar Obsidian 500D RGB SE
Windows 10 x64 “May 2020” Update

Clock Speeds

The Strix has two BIOS modes, Performance and Quiet, but if you take the time to download their software you’ll find a third mode, OC mode. This boosts things even further, albeit at the usual price of heat generation and power draw, but it’s still free extra performance should you require it. This will be the mode we’ll use throughout our testing, although we’ve used both Performance and OC modes in Gears 5 for those of you who like comparisons, and all three options in our power and thermal graphs. This is the extra 30MHz that the OC mode shows in GPUz, although there are some under the hood changes too we suspect to the power target and the like.