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Gainward RTX 2080 Phantom GLH in review – Reason card behind bars | igorsLAB

Overclocking

First of all, the good news: there is still a little bit in this card. But I have to push the bad news right away: it's at the expense of the socket. In the cold state, this card creates stable 2040 MHz, as long as you let the fans turn up fully and use the maximum power target of 112%, as well as manually adjust110 MHz more clock for the GPU. With a normal fan profile, it is still between 1965 and 1980 MHz. That's a maximum of 60 MHz more than the card already creates with factory OC and is not worth it. So you need the fans or a good water cooling.

Although it is due to the slightly increased Power Target, which is already slightly higher ex works, because we will see later that this map is approx. 25 watts more power than the VU. If you overclock up to the stability limit, then it is another 25 watts more. And it is precisely this last kick that is almost hardly worth it without better cooling for a card that is already well above the 1.8 GHz mark ex works. Everything else then somehow becomes questionable to the dance on the last groove.

The memory can be clocked slightly higher, with another 150 MHz still loose in it, also thermal. As nice as the 1-click tool may be, you can still achieve the slightly better overclocking values with a slightly lower power consumption in the end.

Benchmark results in WQHD (2560 x 1440 pixels)

We see that the difference to the GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is between 2 and 3 percent, depending on the game. If you then continue to overclock, it is between 5 and 7 percent, which then come up again. This, in turn, is no longer necessarily decisive about any playability, but only for the gallery of vanities. It's also getting louder. But since it was always desired to put the OC results into the charts: gladly happen.

Benchmark results in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixels)

 

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

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