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Amazing Card, unfortunate that the current market is the way it is

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2021

First of all I'd like to say this card is amazing and Ive had this card for more than a month and it has been amazing in terms of performance at 1440p and 1080p both in ultra settings on all my games. Games run beautifully crisp and I love the way the card works with the X1 precision to tune the card for aesthetics as well as performance.

Secondly, don't let the low star reviews on this product dissuade you into thinking that there are issues with the card as I see people crying and complaining in the reviews about LHR. Those people need to get bent I'm sorry, but if your sole purpose was to use this card to mine crypto then I'm glad you guys got the rug pulled under you with this card.

I love this card, its lived up to my expectations coming from my faithful Msi gtx 1070 gpu. Honestly after so many attempts to try and get a 3080 card at a reasonable price for well over a year I just saved up money from the announcement days back in 2020 and pulled the trigger and purchased this card when I got an alert that the was stock.

And by all means I like many of us, I'm sure, don't like to overpay for things, especially with the current status of these cards. But this card was the one I wanted to buy and I got it with my hard earned paychecks. Additionally the card was delivered to me in perfect condition and I even registered the card no problem with EVGA.

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Paul

TEN MONTHS on the EVGA waiting list, but finally got 1 for $863

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2021

The backorder for these cards is ridiculous. Increase supply to meet demand and block 3rd party resellers from selling on Amazon. Nice Card.

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John Burch

Upgrade time!

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2022

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I previously had a EVGA GTX 1660 Super in my system and this is such a huge upgrade. Last year during The Great GPU Shortage, I bought a 165hz/1440p monitor which was a small oversight as my GPU clearly couldn’t even handle my monitor. Fast forward to now, I recently got a pay bonus from work and was back in the computer component market after seeing that GPU prices had dropped significantly. I’m very content with the price I paid for this 3080. Now onto the GPU itself.

The negatives:
- It is quite the space heater. A factor might be that I temporarily moved my setup into my bedroom from the office/studio to accommodate a guest. I also have case fans manually set to 100%, so I might tinker with that a little bit. It raised the ambient temperature of my room by probably around 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit (yeah pretty bad).
- It’s a CHONKER. GPU sag may occur. I bought a bracket/riser after I received it, since I didn’t know how large it would be.
- Not really a negative, but please, please buy a PROPER power supply to support this card. I’ve heard horror stories.

The positives:
- The performance is awesome, I’m actually able to reach 165 fps + 1440p on most games if I tweak the settings a little bit. I’ve been playing Forza Horizon 5 a lot and I have it set to mostly the highest settings (there’s a driver bug with the game currently, no biggie, barely see any difference anyway) and I get over 140 fps on average.
- Ray-tracing! It’s a given but honestly, I only turn this on for non-competitive games and if I don’t mind being below my personal target of 120-144 fps.
- The noise! It’s been really quiet for the most part, but keep in mind that I previously said I had the case fans set to 100% so that’s probably drowning the GPU fans out. Your mileage may vary here.
- Streaming/recording! I really like NVENC. While my previous card also had NVENC, it could not keep up streaming while gaming. I also have a Ryzen 5 3600 (yes I know I’m slightly bottlenecking, I have heard this many times), and while that CPU is a beast, it just simply doesn’t like being put to the streaming/recording tasks solo when gaming. It needs it’s good ol’ GPU encoder friend.
- I’ve owned 3 EVGA cards now including this one, and they’ve all been reliable so far. EVGA gets a plus here for that.

In conclusion, get this card if you have the capable budget and/or you’re looking to get some massive upgrade gains. Like I said, I don’t have the best CPU to support this, but it’s been working great so far.

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James M. Gates

Amazing performance...for one week (fixed, changed to 4 stars)

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2022

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Update 7/27/22
I decided to order a new display port to HDMI cable(I use a 4k Sony TV) to just see if my other 4k HDMI cables were for some reason not working right. Once I used this new cable the image is fine. What's weird is that the old 4k HDMI cables I used are fine now too. Very strange. Not sure why it decided that the cables weren't adequate after a week of working just fine, and now they are fine again. I'll just use the display port to HDMI cable going forward. It unlocks the 4k 120hz option via display port anyway. I hope this might help others having a similar situation. I'm glad I don't have a dead card and get to enjoy how awesome this beast is. 4 stars for hassle and the issue being an arbitrary vendetta the card had with cables that it now works fine with.

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I was very excited that the prices were finally reasonable so I took advantage and went for it. I was excited that it came in one day! installed it with no issues at first, updated all the drivers and bios for my motherboard, and enjoyed a few days of beautiful textures and frame rates at much higher settings than my tired old EVGA GTX 970 SSC could hope to accomplish. Then the fateful day, exactly one week into ownership I changed a couple settings in a game after a benchmark and quit the game. Out of nowhere my screen starts to strobe and flicker, then it went solid green. I restarted the computer and got this beautiful image.

I tried different cables, but this is all I see. I installed the old trusty 970 again with the first cable, and it works just fine. I tried putting them both in at the same time to access the settings for each card while I can actually see anything. Everything is up to date and it claims from device manager to be working but this is the only video output I see from the card. Tried different monitors and a TV. Reinstalled drivers, changed the resolution and refresh rate. Went back into that game and reset settings. I don't know what else there is to try.

I've always bought EVGA cards after my first fiasco into PC building when I had to replace a dead card with an EVGA GTX 460, then I had 2 GTX 660ti SSC cards, and my 970. I have never been let down until now. I'm not really sure if I should just try a replacement, or a different brand altogether. The ASUS TUF is supposed to be one of the other top versions of the card.. maybe that's what I'll do.

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Andrew

Awesome upgrade

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2022

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A beast of a graphics card able to run almost any game at ultra graphics settings without breaking a sweat.

Pros:
Beautiful customizable bright rbg across the side and top of the card (can be turned off if that's not your thing)

Comes with a retention bar in the box but I didn't use it but there is minimal sag in the card regardless, it's very sturdy and secures nicely.

Does not overheat at all and stays very cool and quiet, ran kombustor benchmark at 2k resolution with all settings maxed for over 30 mins and temps never went over 81°c (I did not overclock for any benchmarks, this is stock power)

Cons:

The only bad things I can think about this card are not even bad at all.

Most likely will not fit in most mATX cases and if it does it will be a very tight fit so check dimensions of your case before you buy this card

Requires 3x 8pin pcie cables for supplemental power, my power supply was modular but only came with 2 so I had to buy an extra pcie cable for the card (no big deal because you can buy individual cables for fairly cheap, just make sure the cable is compatible with your specific power supply or things could get damaged)

Overall this was an amazing buy and definitely worth the price compared to what they used to cost (I bought mine new for $778) I would definitely recommend for anyone who wants to beef up their computer or enjoyes maxing out graphics settings in games.

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SaaberWith2girls

EVGA IS THE GOAT

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2022

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If your waiting for 4000 series remember the 3060 was supposed to beat the 2070super cough cough.

This card is well worth the investment, the temperature sensors will allow you to maintain your card and see issues with thermals in a couple years before they become a problem.

It’s massive power delivery and binned gpu will make it capable for 4k AAA gaming for the next few years and the with DLSS it is even more likely to stick with the times.

Running a 10700k, a NVME game drive, and a EVGA 1000w P5.
I currently have played ELDEN RING 4K, all max solid 60fps.
Cyberpunk 2077 4K High, Rt all on and 60fps (DLSS pushes it to 80)
RDR2 4K high (No TAA) 60fps solid

Thermals have been very good topping out in CP2077 at 72*c in my IN WIN 301 on the OC bios with no extra clocks.

Precision X1 will say you need a firmware update when you power on the card if you allow it the GPU will light up red and it’s fans will spin up 100% for the 30seconds it updates. Man was that exciting not knowing it was gonna happen lol.

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Cody

REALISTIC COMPARISON

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2022

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I’m here to help the FPS players trying to decide.
Nvidia 2070 Super (Overclocked) -> 3080 (Stock)
5600x amd
32 gb ram
970 m2 ssd
1080p Highest settings it will go including ray tracing
Warzone (caldera 125 render res) 125 avg -> 195 avg
Warzone (Rebirth) 140 -> 210
Fortnite 140 -> 200

Other games
Wow 70/125 -> 180
Marvel Spider-Man 70 -> 140

Pretty much seen a very good to amazing increase in every game. 1440p will yield different results however this thing is crazy good. Most reviews of any pc parts always include pc exclusive games, it always makes me guess at how much better for example warzone will run. Not Microsoft flight simulator haha. Hopefully this helps someone!

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Sean R

Card is a beast

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2022

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I was running an old setup with 1080ti in it which is still a decent card today, but now that prices are looking okay, I built a new setup with AMD 5 Ryzen 5600x and this card. I have never seen the card go above 60-65 Celsius while gaming on ultra with raytracing and all that.

Easy to install. Worked out of the box and you can control the RGB and other settings using EVGA's software. I just use it to control the RGB on computer startup and then close it, leaving MSI afterburning on to control fan speed.

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Jmet

Used this in my first ever pc build

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2022

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Its been two weeks since i installed it and its been working great so far, I paired it with a i7 12700k and ive been able to play all my games on ultra settings without any lag, my pc has yet to blow out any warm air while im gaming but it is in the fractal torrent case paired with a noctua d15, then i added a extra 140mm noctua for exhaust.

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Zyri

Big powerful thing

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022

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I'm glad there's a way to turn off the LEDs but if you wanted to know, they glow quite nicely. Comes with a program to change colors, fade type, and brightness. The works. integrates with other things too allowing full immersion. Hella powerful, can emulate even. Silent, can't hear a thing. It can do 4k as well. only has 1 HDMI however. you CAN have other screens attached to it if you're displaying this way but it uses a different input. a display input, I'm not sure what it is at the time of this review, I don't plan on getting more than one monitor for quite some time.

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Josh16

Amazing GPU for Gaming

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022

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It's a true gaming GPU, it works really good for any games BUT you need a lot of fans tho, more than just 4 to be specific (i have a master cooler that has 2 fans and cooling my CPU and the whole pc.) But it still works amazing in general then that part.

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sebastian

I love it

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2022

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Great card, I think the price is good, I definitely did not want to spend 800$ at the time but when I saw this card I was thinking it was perfect and so I bought it.

Had it for about a month now and I really am satisfied with it, have had no issues with it at all.
Only thing I wish it had was more memory but other than that it's great

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