Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Graphics Card Review

Overclocking, Noise, Heat and Power

So far, we’ve found all of the RTX series cards to be fairly confident when it comes to overclocking. The Gigabyte card isn’t the highest specification. However, it still managed to boost the GPU clock by +165 MHz without any issue. Of course, that’s on top of the factory OC too. To improve matters even further, the memory managed a healthy +650 MHz. The end result, our 3DMark score of 23177 and Graphics Score of 27084 changed to 23028 and 27653 respectively. That’s a drop in the score, but an increase in the graphics. More beneficial to gaming than benchmarking scores, basically.

3DMark Firestrike

Acoustic Performance

The triple fan cooler is a good size and works pretty darn well. Idle temperatures are a little higher at low load, as the fans stop completely. Of course, this means the card is completely silent most of the time. Even when gaming, it maxed out at just 45 dBA, which is a tiny bit quieter than the Founders Edition. Overclocking resulted in +1dBa, but still very good overall.

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Overclocked

Thermal Performance

The card was idling at 46c, which is higher than some. However, as I said, the fans are at zero RPM, so that’s a fair trade-off. Even while overclocked, the zero RPM fan mode worked just fine. At full load the card reached 65c at stock and 69c at load; it’s likely it was at 70c limit that prevented our overclocks from giving bigger results.

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Overclocked

Power Consumption

The power consumption is as high as we would expect for a high-end GPU and competitive with other RTX 2080 cards we’ve tested. Nothing amazing, but nothing bad either.

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Overclocked