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MSI has the fastest GeForce RTX 3080 so far with its new GAMING X TRIO, and a radically chilled-out cooler. That RTX 3080 brute speed + 72C under load + WHISPER QUIET - you can't ask for more.

The Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming, with its excellent cooling and solid performance is easily the RTX 3080 for most people. It may be a bit large for the smallest PC cases out there ...

The MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio 10G slaps a monstrous cooler on Nvidia’s monstrous enthusiast-class GPU, with spectacular results. It’s powerful, yet cooler and nearly silent.

Today we're reviewing the Asus TUF Gaming RTX 3080 OC, the first third-party GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card to come our way and we're very interested to see how it compares to Nvidia's Founders ...

Indeed, getting your hands on a GeForce RTX 3080 of any stripe, whether the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 OC or the Founders Edition, may be very touch-and-go over the next few months. The ...

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming is powered by an NVIDIA GA102 GPU armed with 8704 Shader cores, paired with 10GB of all new GDDR6X graphics memory. The out of the box boost clock for this ...

Indeed, getting your hands on a GeForce RTX 3080 of any stripe, whether the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 OC or the Founders Edition, may be very touch-and-go over the next few months. The ...

Will you as an end consumer really care about it? We dispute that as well. The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 does exhibit some coil squeak however far less than the founder card we tested.

Released yesterday, the GeForce RTX 3080 dismisses all other high-end cards ... thermals and noise with its TUF Gaming OC. Let's take a closer look. There's little point in going small for RTX ...

Asus got in touch and offered us the chance to take the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for a spin. Normally of reasonable interest, what really piqued our attention was email missives detailing ...