Summary
For the overall performance of the whole GeForce RTX 3080 cards with 10 GB memory I already generated a long textwall in the launch article, I can’t and don’t want to repeat myself there. But: especially at higher resolutions, this card (always within the scope of its memory expansion) is a real board, because even if the lead over the GeForce RTX 2080 Super doesn’t always turn out in high double digits and you only beat the GeForce RTX 3080 FE by a wafer-thin margin, it’s always enough to reach the next quality level in playability. Right stop of many quality controllers included.
And always particularly if the games of the GeForce RTX 3080 and the new architecture lie, are also sometimes up to 80% increase compared to the RTX 2080 super in it and a RTX 2080 Ti is beaten with almost 40%. This too must be noted if one wants to be fair. But it is only the beginning and not generally enforceable with the game engines, unfortunately. It is also exactly the increase, because one has always demanded for example when playing in Ultra-HD.
Here you go, here’s a new offer for it. The fact that the RAM with its 10 GB could become scarce from time to time, at the latest in Ultra-HD, is due to the design by NVIDIA and also by many game manufacturers, who fill up with data exactly what can be filled up. Which of course would not be a blanket apology and thus the only point of criticism. It should have been doubled by now, price point or no price point.
Palit’s “beginner’s” card is actually quite successful, although you can definitely feel the will to save. This is then sometimes a little at the expense of noise emission, but never becomes an inferno and you don’t have quite as much to carry with the weight. For the 320 watts, I personally prefer this design with the agile fans, as it is quite plausible, because at least no components will quietly and silently celebrate their thermal exit at some point. Here the fans are in fact the safety rope. And RGB is also available.
If you want to watch how this card acts under water when the thermal shackles are missing, you may take a look at this one. Because this card of Palit in the video is the base for the dear Lara. The CPU limits a bit here, so that of course never 100% GPU load is generated. But you can see nicely (and that was the intention behind the video) how the wall stands like a one at 2.2 GHz:
Of course you always have to be lucky in the GPU lottery, that hasn’t changed with Ampere. The manual OC depends primarily on the chip, of course, and the maximum power limit of only 320 watts is rather due to common sense and lottery luck. This may or may not work. There’s no guarantee for boosting anyway, and even without manual tuning of any clock rates there’s enough performance.
Conclusion
Palit did a lot of things right and almost nothing wrong. With better voltage converters it would have been possible to get a little bit more clock speed, but it is the entry level model of what NVIDIA is unfortunately short of. But Palit can’t help it. Buying tips for scarce products always have a somewhat cynical character, so I haven’t even thought about it. But you do get a real performance boost, so that this thoroughly positive assessment has come about.
A little bit of air for the Top Dogs must still be left, otherwise nobody would buy them anymore. Seen in this light, the positioning in the Palit portfolio must also be considered (and the possible price) when assessing the overall work of art. Up to now there have not been many possibilities of comparison, so that a classification in the entire market is rather difficult. But I already wrote it at the beginning that I did not notice any real flaws or even mistakes. On the contrary, many things were definitely better than expected. Seen in this light, the colourful pixel world is also right again.
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