Archaea
[H]F Junkie
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ASUS TUF O/C 3080 > EVGA X3 3089 in the look and feel dept.
The Asus feels heavy, beefy, high end. I'm really impressed with it. No plastic feel at all.
The EVGA X3 feels much smaller and more plastic by comparison. No backplate sorta leaves a bad taste in your mouth - just for cosmetics.
Asus packed the card with a nice thick black cardboard box with gold Asus logo, and big thick laser cut foam inside. The EVGA thin cardbox box protected a molded plastic shell. Both protect the card sufficiently, but the Asus packaging and presentation felt better too.
The Asus card is significantly larger than the X3. I had a EVGA 1080TI FTW in my case before. The EVGA X3 is significantly smaller than the 1080TI FTW, and the ASUS TUF OC is bigger - longer and taller.
The ASUS TUF OC has a bios switch on it to toggle between performance and silent. The EVGA X3 does not. Both have pretty lame RGB - just a single lighted area.
I have a completely open air case. It's the Thermaltake P3. The ASUS TUF O/C is effectively silent. In game, after 1.5 hours in CyberPunk with all settings maxed I cannot hear the Asus. Not at all unless I put my head right up to the card - inches away. All three fans just spin slow and cause no turbulence. My EVGA X3 typically has a low, non-obtrusive fan noise. I can hear it from my desk chair, but it is not a nuisance --- THAT IS until you play CyberPunk with Raytracing on Psycho. While the Asus Tuf stays silent - the EVGA X3 fans ramp up to be annoyingly loud without headphones.
See my video here:
No coil whine on either card.
Both the EVGA X3 3080 and the Asus Tuf 3080 overclock nicely. For crypto mining I can overclock both to +1467Mhz to get 101.5 - 102.5MHs with no failed submissions.
For some reason the Asus Tuf OC says in the excavator power use calculation that it uses 221 watts for this speed, while the EVGA X3 uses 245 watts.
The Asus Tuf OC is the better card in every way, except that the EVGA X3 is significantly smaller.
The Asus feels heavy, beefy, high end. I'm really impressed with it. No plastic feel at all.
The EVGA X3 feels much smaller and more plastic by comparison. No backplate sorta leaves a bad taste in your mouth - just for cosmetics.
Asus packed the card with a nice thick black cardboard box with gold Asus logo, and big thick laser cut foam inside. The EVGA thin cardbox box protected a molded plastic shell. Both protect the card sufficiently, but the Asus packaging and presentation felt better too.
The Asus card is significantly larger than the X3. I had a EVGA 1080TI FTW in my case before. The EVGA X3 is significantly smaller than the 1080TI FTW, and the ASUS TUF OC is bigger - longer and taller.
The ASUS TUF OC has a bios switch on it to toggle between performance and silent. The EVGA X3 does not. Both have pretty lame RGB - just a single lighted area.
I have a completely open air case. It's the Thermaltake P3. The ASUS TUF O/C is effectively silent. In game, after 1.5 hours in CyberPunk with all settings maxed I cannot hear the Asus. Not at all unless I put my head right up to the card - inches away. All three fans just spin slow and cause no turbulence. My EVGA X3 typically has a low, non-obtrusive fan noise. I can hear it from my desk chair, but it is not a nuisance --- THAT IS until you play CyberPunk with Raytracing on Psycho. While the Asus Tuf stays silent - the EVGA X3 fans ramp up to be annoyingly loud without headphones.
See my video here:
No coil whine on either card.
Both the EVGA X3 3080 and the Asus Tuf 3080 overclock nicely. For crypto mining I can overclock both to +1467Mhz to get 101.5 - 102.5MHs with no failed submissions.
For some reason the Asus Tuf OC says in the excavator power use calculation that it uses 221 watts for this speed, while the EVGA X3 uses 245 watts.
The Asus Tuf OC is the better card in every way, except that the EVGA X3 is significantly smaller.
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