NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Binning: 60 Percent Chance of Getting a “Good” GPU

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As many of you are aware, no two graphics cards perform identically due to differences in silicon quality. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs aren’t excluded from these annoying variances, but thanks to a new report from Igor Wallossek, we have a pretty good idea of how their binning is going and whether green team’s decision to go with Samsung’s 8 nm process was wise or not.

According to Igor’s sources, you have a 60 percent chance of getting a “good” GeForce RTX 3080 and 30 percent chance of getting an acceptable one in the early months. The rest of these cards, which are the cream of the crop, will obviously be the most difficult to obtain at 10 percent.

“The sources speak almost unanimously of an average of up to 30% of chips with Bin 0 [“ok”], approx. 60% with Bin 1 [“good”] and only 10% with Bin 2 [“very good”] for the RTX 3080, which is still quite good for such a short production period and actually speaks for Samsung,” Wallossek reported. “By the way, most of the custom models intended for press sampling are of course the top dogs of the respective manufacturers and thus Bin 2. You should have this in mind, because NVIDIA’s Founders Edition is no longer a ‘cheap’ reference card, but rather a highly sophisticated product.”

Wallossek also suggested that highly binned versions of the GeForce RTX 3090 would be even harder to get, but the theory is hazy because board partners have received limited stock. There’s nothing said about the GeForce RTX 3070 models.

If you manage to get your hands on a highly binned GeForce RTX 30 Series GPU, consider yourself lucky. These quality cards typically allow for higher clocks and lower temperatures at similar voltages.

Tsing Mui
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