GIGABYTE RTX 3080 Ti EAGLE Default Frequency
Before we look at performance, we need to find out the actual real-world gaming frequency the video card performs. With both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs today, the GPU frequency is very dynamic. What may be quoted as the “Boost Clock” is not necessarily the performance it will actually run at. Typically, GPUs today can exceed the “Boost Clock” dynamically. We need to find out what it actually runs at, in this way we can see how well things like cooling, and power headroom are working.
To do this we will record the GPU clock frequency over time while playing a game. We use Cyberpunk 2077 for this with a very long manual run-through at “Ultra” settings. We also record GPUz sensor data to look at GPU temperature, Voltage, and Power.
The default GPU Boost clock speed on the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 Ti EAGLE 12G is 1665MHz, which is the NVIDIA reference speed on the Founders Edition. We have 1665MHz on the graph as the bottom line of the graph. As you can see, the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 Ti EAGLE 12G is benefiting from GPU Boost and the better cooling and power headroom increasing the clock speed well above the quoted boost clock. You can see that it sustains a clock speed of around 1755MHz. The average clock speed shown above is 1764MHz. This is a 6% GPU frequency boost over 1665MHz.
According to GPUz it hit this boost at 68.7c and 75.1c hot spot at 78% fan speed on automatic. That’s quite a bit higher fan speed than we thought it would be, but the fans were very quiet so we didn’t even notice. The memory temperature was lower than the Founders Edition, it is 90c here, while the Founders Edition was 94c. The only problem that we really see is that the TDP is already exceeding the 100% mark. GPU Voltage is at 1.0750V.
