Hi!
I recently purchased an ASUS Strix RTX 3080 V2 LHR from Overclockers, replacing my MSI Gaming Trio X 3080 which I sold on to fund it. Unfortunately, I've been left with a bitter taste in my mouth as it's seemingly underperforming. For reference, the advertised boost clock of the card is 1905MHz (1935MHz with GPU Tweak OC Mode).
Running Time Spy, my graphics score for the new card is in an average range of 17300-17400 out of the box...from what I can gather it's not far off ballpark for a 3080, but still pretty low for a card like the Strix in my opinion. My previous MSI card for reference, reached 17700-17800 out of the box. In real world terms, sure, it won't make a huge difference, but it's still a disappointing result.
ASUS Strix Time Spy
MSI Trio Time Spy
What I've noticed however, whilst the benchmark is running, the card will boost to 1935-1950MHz at the very start, but it will start to tumble pretty quickly as soon as it bounces off the power limit. It then spends the rest of the benchmark running in a range between 1830-1890MHz. In terms of temperature, I've not seen it break 72 degrees.
I figured I'd try some games to see if the same thing happens. In Control, once again, the clock speed drops to and settles around 1860-1890MHz with only the occasional increase back above 1900MHz when load reduces. Same thing with RDR2 and GTA5.
Things I've tried so far:
- Clean install of several different driver versions
- Reseated the graphics card
- I am using 3 separate, stock PCI-E power cables to a Corsair HX1200i
- Checked input voltages in GPU-Z (all ~12.1v minimum under load)
- Checked input power in GPU-Z (~110W on each of the 3 inputs, and ~40W from the PCI slot at max TDP)
- Uninstalled Armoury Crate, MSI Afterburner (just in case)
- Changing to High Performance power plan (nets me a slight increase to 17400-17500, nothing earth shattering)
- Running all case and GPU fans at 100% (nets only very small gains)
The rest of my system is:
Intel i7 10700K (stock, no OC)
ASUS Maximus XII Hero
32GB Corsair Vengeance 3600MHz RAM (XMP is on)
Corsair HX1200i
Corsair 5000D Airflow Case
My question is, should the card be able to sustain at least the advertised boost clock under load, or am I mistaken and just unlucky? I have pinged Overclockers support about it, but I figured I would try and gather some opinions while I wait for a response.
I recently purchased an ASUS Strix RTX 3080 V2 LHR from Overclockers, replacing my MSI Gaming Trio X 3080 which I sold on to fund it. Unfortunately, I've been left with a bitter taste in my mouth as it's seemingly underperforming. For reference, the advertised boost clock of the card is 1905MHz (1935MHz with GPU Tweak OC Mode).
Running Time Spy, my graphics score for the new card is in an average range of 17300-17400 out of the box...from what I can gather it's not far off ballpark for a 3080, but still pretty low for a card like the Strix in my opinion. My previous MSI card for reference, reached 17700-17800 out of the box. In real world terms, sure, it won't make a huge difference, but it's still a disappointing result.
ASUS Strix Time Spy
MSI Trio Time Spy
What I've noticed however, whilst the benchmark is running, the card will boost to 1935-1950MHz at the very start, but it will start to tumble pretty quickly as soon as it bounces off the power limit. It then spends the rest of the benchmark running in a range between 1830-1890MHz. In terms of temperature, I've not seen it break 72 degrees.
I figured I'd try some games to see if the same thing happens. In Control, once again, the clock speed drops to and settles around 1860-1890MHz with only the occasional increase back above 1900MHz when load reduces. Same thing with RDR2 and GTA5.
Things I've tried so far:
- Clean install of several different driver versions
- Reseated the graphics card
- I am using 3 separate, stock PCI-E power cables to a Corsair HX1200i
- Checked input voltages in GPU-Z (all ~12.1v minimum under load)
- Checked input power in GPU-Z (~110W on each of the 3 inputs, and ~40W from the PCI slot at max TDP)
- Uninstalled Armoury Crate, MSI Afterburner (just in case)
- Changing to High Performance power plan (nets me a slight increase to 17400-17500, nothing earth shattering)
- Running all case and GPU fans at 100% (nets only very small gains)
The rest of my system is:
Intel i7 10700K (stock, no OC)
ASUS Maximus XII Hero
32GB Corsair Vengeance 3600MHz RAM (XMP is on)
Corsair HX1200i
Corsair 5000D Airflow Case
My question is, should the card be able to sustain at least the advertised boost clock under load, or am I mistaken and just unlucky? I have pinged Overclockers support about it, but I figured I would try and gather some opinions while I wait for a response.