ABK792

talon951

ABK792

Xatos1337

brandonb21
i just installed my 3080 TI and i ran heaven benchmarks at 1440p max settings it was hitting 79-80C is that bad?

Not bad, just higher than average. No issue whatsoever, but it isn't the card that's the problem it's probably your case and airflow. These cards don't dump heat out of the back of the case like your last card probably did. Welcome to 2021. Time to upgrade your cooling and airflow. 

I also have pretty high temps. I set my two front intake Scythe Kaze Flex 1800RPM fans to full speed (in case you never heard of these fans they push crazy air at max RPM and are well reviewed) and I sety a constant 80% fan speed on my FTW3 80 Ti which is as high as I would ever want it in a normal scenario. My case is a fractal Meshify 2 which is generally considered a good air flow case especially if you upgrade the fans, which I did. I also have two exhaust fans in the back which are just the stock 1000rpm fractal fans but that should be perfectly fine for exhaust purposes.

Genuinely curious what I'm apparently doing wrong with air flow in my case. Techpowerup also had this GPU hitting around 80c as stock settings so it doesn't seem to just be a me problem. Though too be fair before settings my case fans to a constant 100% and the GPU 80% it actually hit 86c. Which is pretty damn hot even if I did have very bad airflow, (I really don't). It really feels like a problem on EVGA's end, while technically they're charging less than most other AIB's for this card right now, under normal circumstances this would be priced similarly to a Strixx. So It's a bit disappointing how it performs thermally.

At this point I'm going to be forced to undervolt the card and run the fans higher than I would like due to noise concerns.

Did you try the OC bios position? It has a more aggressive fan curve. Might keep temps down without needing to set a fixed speed or a custom curve.

I haven't but as I said I set the fans to a constant 80% for a 3dmark + I set my case fans to 100% speed which in my mobo's custom fan curve I have maxed around 75% because they're loud as hell above that. So I set the fan speeds higher than I would I normally want them and it still hit 80c in a short 3dmark benchmark. There's not exactly much thermal headroom. I think my only play here is to undervolt. If you look at the TPU review, the out of box clock speeds are almost identical to the Founder's Edition and yet it's consuming way more power. That must be why it runs so hot even though this cooler should perform a good bit better than the FE. It seems like it just pulls way more power than it needs to at stock speeds for effectively no increase in performance.

cyrax2768
My 3080TI FTW3 even at stock is running 86c under load.  Even when I undervolt the temps remain roughly the same. I have a Phanteks Evolv X case with plenty of fans and air flow so that can't be the issue.  I'm coming from a 3080 FTW3 Hybrid and that was always in the 60s under load.  I'm wondering if this TI I got just has a bad thermal paste application.  Performance on the card is great though but I'm not liking how hot its getting.  It's even creeped to 91c at times.

cyrax2768
Yea I do, my CPU AIO is in front and then I had the 3080 AIO up top but now I just put Noctua fans up top for exhaust.

brandonb21
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/62578380?
 
Heres a update, im slowly getting it dialed in 1100mhz on memory & 132 on the core
 
It needs undervolting 

wadood

brandonb21
 
 
just broke 20600 damn
 
probably farthest I'm getting without water 

Can you paste a screenshot of your settings?

wadood

brandonb21

wadood

brandonb21
 
 
just broke 20600 damn
 
probably farthest I'm getting without water 

Can you paste a screenshot of your settings?

here you go
 
 

Thanks!

razor_pk
Can you share full model name .

ABK792
I'm thinking I might just return mine. I'm really having a tough time here and I think I just got really bad silicon which sucks considering the FTW3 is a more premium model. I know it's not exactly a Kingpin but I still excepted better silicon at this price range. I just straight up can't run it at stock settings as it produces way too much heat in my already hot room here in Florida. And I can't get reasonably stable speeds undervolted either. Even .925 at 1890mhz is slighty unstable in longer testing, you should honestly be able to hit that number on this GPU.
 
If I run this GPU at stock settings it hits 86c, my 3080 FE hit 80c at stock settings. I know this card is drawing over 100 more watts at stock to stock settings between the two but I thought the superior FTW3 cooler would be able to at least match temps with the higher power draw. It really seems like Asus is the only company that was able to produce a good air cooler for these 3000 series cards. I don't know what magic they're pulling with their heatsinks/PCB design but clearly they're just clowning on every other GPU manufacturer in the cooling department. And considering how relevant cooling is to actual clock speeds due to how GPU boost works, that also gets them the best performance on their air cooled cards compared to the competition.
 
Also, I heard before that the fans EVGA uses produce a lot more of a whooshing noise at high speeds instead of a whiny noise which I would really prefer. So I'm kind of upset that it doesn't seem to be the case, these fans start getting super whiny at 70% fan speed and higher. It's really a shame because I've always respected EVGA a lot due to the way they treat their customers and still do even though I've never owned one of their GPU's before. I've had my 850W G2 for over 5 years now and it has served me well, and the queue system is the only reason I was able to get this 3080 Ti. But man, this really feels like a subpar product that I spent over 1k on. Though too be fair a lot of that has to do with Nvidia pricing it at $1200 instead of $1000, which isn't EVGA's fault.
 
EDIT: So I looked up the Techpowerup review of the EVGA FTW3 3090 and something is really wrong with the 80 Ti. It seems maybe the issues is on the 3080 Ti GPU itself and not just on the FTW3 cooler and how much power EVGA is pushing through it. I'm attaching two pictures, the FTW 3090 is massively cooler/quiter even though they have very similar power draws and are using the same exact sized cooler (in the 3080ti picture the leftmost temps is the GPU temp where as the other two are memory temp and hotspot temp which is not in the older 3090 review so ignore those). What exactly is going on with the 80 Ti's?