Power and Temp
Power
All wattage was taken from GPUz logs indicating Board Power Draw (W).
The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING weighed in at 394W which is 14W under the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB FTW3 ’s power draw of 408W and EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB FTW3’s of 361W. Overclocking the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING added 29W to its total draw.
Temperature
The ambient room temperature at the time of testing was 22 degrees Celsius.
From what we can tell, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING’s default fan curve is set to maintain 78-ish degrees Celsius as it leveled off at 78.3 degrees Celsius. It maintained that with the fans running but not audible without an issue. That was vastly warmer than the ASUS TUF RX 6800 XT which leveled out at 69 degrees Celsius and the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3’s efforts at 72.3 degrees Celsius. With the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING maxed out on both core clock and fans, it dropped to 73 degrees Celsius.
For comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 10GB Founders Edition ran at 81c. Therefore, the cooling on the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING slightly improves upon the Founder’s Edition temperature.
Discussion (3 replies)
Join Discussion →Great review! I have this card in my main PC, and it's been great so far. I actually downgraded from my Aorus Master 3090 to this card and seen zero performance differences. To compare your findings on the temperatures my card never goes over 70C while gaming, so it may be the card you tested with possibly. That is my only real complaint with this card is that it runs hotter than the Aorus 3090 I had, but not enough for me to regret my purchase.
I've got the 3090 version of one of these in my 4930K rig. The fans handle it but they do seem to ramp up to max more than other 3090s I've used. Still a great card though, just seems to work a little harder to keep the same temps.
I agree that the fans do ramp up quite a bit.