ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

The ASUS ROG STRIX LC GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is the company's flagship custom-design RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, characterized by its factory-fitted, all-in-one liquid cooling solution. The cooler combines an AIO liquid cold-plate to pull heat from the GPU and memory, while a set of heatsinks and lateral blower provide additional cooling. Interestingly, this cooler debuted with the Radeon RX 6800 XT STRIX LC, which along with the RX 6900 XT are believed to have triggered product-stack updates among NVIDIA's ranks.

If you want to bring a RTX 3080 Ti in to your gaming world you would do well to investigate the ASUS RTX 3080 Ti TUF. Its no-nonsense design is married to high performance and a, relatively (based on other 3080 Ti's), low price of entry and wins our OC3D Gamers Choice Award.

We come away with this look at the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti TUF Gaming safe in the knowledge that Asus knows how to build a solid card around Nvidia's premier GPU solutions. Eschewing some of the more garish bling adorning competitors, TUF Gaming is a restrained proposition that fits easily into a wide range of builds, and performance is exactly where we'd expect. Good temperatures run alongside reasonable noise levels, so we have little intrinsic criticism of how Asus has gone about the task. Pricing, however, remains a painful issue. Unless Asus can really whittle the retail cost down to supposed RRP levels of around £1,200 - we see no evidence of this right now - then we're afraid the TUF Gaming is not a great bet when the more powerful RTX 3090 cards are starting to appear at semi-sane levels. Bottom line: a fine card in its own right, the Asus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti TUF Gaming doesn't live up to its pricing promise.

Die Asus TUF GeForce RTX 3080 Ti OC ist mit Sicherheit keine schlechte Grafikkarte, wenn wir uns einmal nur auf die durchgeführten Benchmarks der Grafikkarte beziehen. Hier bekommt man ein Modell, mit dem auch aktuell noch so gut wie alles problemlos gespielt werden kann. Mit dem 12-GB-VRAM war die Grafikkarte zum Start Mitte 2021 gut bestückt, wenngleich aktuelle High-End-Modelle nunmehr mit 20- respektive 24-GB-VRAM daherkommen. Der Mehrwert ist allerdings noch überschaubar, wenn wir die GeForce RTX 3080 Ti direkt mit einer Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 vergleichen.