We’ll switch things up and open with the power and temperature behavior of the graphics card first. We use Final Fantasy XV Benchmark to simulate a gaming workload but for those looking extreme loads, we do put our cards through Kombustor on first installation for stress testing to check for stability.
For our reviews though, we use Final Fantasy XV to simulate a true gaming scenario. Power draw is captured inline via PCAT or Powenetics so no other components affects readings. Readings are taken from the average 15 min idle readings for both load and idle.
In the charts above we can see that the Founders Edition of the RTX 3080 Ti clocks in around 1774Mhz during 4K gaming and pumps out 75*C while sipping 348 watts of power. This is within expectations but I personally imagined it doing much higher power draw. Temperatures are also a surprise with higher mid-70*C for what’s essentially an RTX 3090 with a slimmer cooler. For reference, we have a true reference card in the Palit RTX 3090 GamingPRO we reviewed recently, and here’s the clock speed chart:
The Palit RTX 3090 GamingPRO uses a different cooler, a triple fan one at that but at stock, we should take note of the close clock speeds we’re getting at 1750Mhz for the RTX 3090. Comparing that to the RTX 3080 Ti, its fairly close. Power draw is also just a tad bit different with the gaming load at 360W for the RTX 3090.
But many of you are asking how’s the temperature under extreme loads. Well, let’s see how it takes Kombustor in the next segment. The chart will also show some key readings related to the card including fan speed, voltages, etc. The room ambient is kept at 28*C as with all testing.
And here’s our comparative database compared to other GPUs:
