ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC

[cancel077]

Why does my 3080 TUF draw over 100 Watt in Idle?

Looks like your card is working on performance mode. Change it to Adpative power under Nvidia 3D settings and restart your PC. It should work.

 

[Pointi]

Looks like your card is working on performance mode. Change it to Adpative power under Nvidia 3D settings and restart your PC. It should work.

That did the trick

Now I have to work on that abmyssal 11290 Port Royal Score

 

[Dan87]

I flashed the BIOS and DDU as well. The fans now dont spin at idle, but they go crazy again whenever I play any videogame.

Is the issue connected to the board power draw? And is there a fix?

Thanks.

 

[Pointi]

I flashed the BIOS and DDU as well. The fans now dont spin at idle, but they go crazy again whenever I play any videogame.

Is the issue connected to the board power draw? And is there a fix?

Thanks.

Can you post a screen of GPU-Z when under 100% Load and include temps of your case too?

 

[Dan87]

Thanks for the reply Pointi. Actually, another software seemed to be the issue (Nvidia Broadcast). I uninstalled it and everything works fine now.

 

[kingsaizE]

Hello there,
so i kinda got the same problem. So here is my story so people will be able to follow me and my thoughts.
I got last friday my Rog Strix 3090 OC been mega happy about it etc ... my mod kinda changed after i installed the new asus armoury crate/aura after that nothing worked anymore got problems with my whole RBG setup (motherboard rog strix z370-f gaming, rog strix flare and ofc the rog strix 3090 oc) so i had to roll back to the older version to be able to see at least any rbg lights on but i cant change the them on the motherboard anymore ... so i just gave up and wanted to chill and play some games
Today i decided to make the bios update which ended in a catastrophe while doing the update i got a bluescreen after that my motherboard decided to not find anymore my gpu ... so got already scared as fuck ... after some time doing multiple DDU's in safemode and reinstalling the driver it finally worked again but ofcurse i got new problems which are that my gpu/memory clock keep going on max/min all the time but i didnt have this before so i asked for help in the asus rog discord and found a guy which told me to reset/reflash the bios again which i did but the problem stayed with the clock speeding up/down all the time. the guy from the discord told me to check for any app's that might be running in background 2D/3D and i found that the WALLPAPER ENGINE is cursing a error with GPU Tweak 2 ...
I changed now the multi display power saver as well and everything is back to normal which i'm not sure because as i said that i didnt have this problem before the failed BIOS update.
My question is now is it bad if the clocks are going up/down all the time in idle on the destkop (leaving multi display power saver off)
I guess i will leave it on anyways now but find it kinda shitty from ASUS that they are giving out hardware so expensive and many things are just not working at all
Thanks for reading

 

[cancel077]

Hello there,
so i kinda got the same problem. So here is my story so people will be able to follow me and my thoughts.
I got last friday my Rog Strix 3090 OC been mega happy about it etc ... my mod kinda changed after i installed the new asus armoury crate/aura after that nothing worked anymore got problems with my whole RBG setup (motherboard rog strix z370-f gaming, rog strix flare and ofc the rog strix 3090 oc) so i had to roll back to the older version to be able to see at least any rbg lights on but i cant change the them on the motherboard anymore ... so i just gave up and wanted to chill and play some games
Today i decided to make the bios update which ended in a catastrophe while doing the update i got a bluescreen after that my motherboard decided to not find anymore my gpu ... so got already scared as fuck ... after some time doing multiple DDU's in safemode and reinstalling the driver it finally worked again but ofcurse i got new problems which are that my gpu/memory clock keep going on max/min all the time but i didnt have this before so i asked for help in the asus rog discord and found a guy which told me to reset/reflash the bios again which i did but the problem stayed with the clock speeding up/down all the time. the guy from the discord told me to check for any app's that might be running in background 2D/3D and i found that the WALLPAPER ENGINE is cursing a error with GPU Tweak 2 ...
I changed now the multi display power saver as well and everything is back to normal which i'm not sure because as i said that i didnt have this problem before the failed BIOS update.
My question is now is it bad if the clocks are going up/down all the time in idle on the destkop (leaving multi display power saver off)
I guess i will leave it on anyways now but find it kinda shitty from ASUS that they are giving out hardware so expensive and many things are just not working at all
Thanks for reading

If I understand you correctly, the core clocks change from low (lets say as minimum 200mhz) to max (lets say 1985mhz whatever your max is) depending on your use and heavy loads of your gpu? Then yes that's perfectly normal. That means your performance on your gpu is set to adaptive which means it'll change depending on the usage. For light loads, it won't always stay at 200mhz, it'll fluctuate but it'll be low. As you open browsers, YouTube, it might put a small load and thus go up a little. Under idle, it should still fluctuate 200-500mhz let's say, depending on whatever is running in your background. As you game it should fluctuate as well but towards the max of your gpu. It is perfectly normal. I may have not understood your question so if I didn't answer it forgive me.

 

[kingsaizE]

Well I know that the clockspeed should be going up on loads youtube/games etc but i didnt have this problem before just been idle on desktop going all the time up/down non-stop and not only once
I was worried because i never saw anything like this before and as i mention i also didnt have this before the failed bios update

 

[cancel077]

Well I know that the clockspeed should be going up on loads youtube/games etc but i didnt have this problem before just been idle on desktop going all the time up/down non-stop and not only once
I was worried because i never saw anything like this before and as i mention i also didnt have this before the failed bios update

It should still go up/down while idle but not much. 200-500mhz probably. I think that's how mine does it, but I can check if you when next time I'm on my PC.

You didn't mention, but when you say up/down, what are you actual clockspeeds during idle?

 

[kingsaizE]

well they are going from max 1995 to min 300 gpu clock and max 19504 to min 810 memory clock while doing nothing on the destkop beside having Wallpaper engine on when i turn it off everything is on min
As i already mentioned i didnt have this before the failed bios ... i just wanna get rid of it not sure if a format would help it

 

[cl3232]

Lock the GPU in P8 (lowest state) and all is fine. If you need the power of the GPU, you can add the process to 3D Mode. I use MDPS since I had a GTX 260

 

[BlobUmad]

Hi,
Can someone explain to me how to get 375w with a 3080 Tuf OC like in the review? I am stuck at 355w.
I did the bios update (94.02.26.48.40)

thanks

 

[cancel077]

Hi,
Can someone explain to me how to get 375w with a 3080 Tuf OC like in the review? I am stuck at 355w.
I did the bios update (94.02.26.48.40)

thanks

Did you use msi afterburner and max out the power limit slide?

On average mine is about 355w as well but I can get to about 373W when I stress my GPU during benchmarks.

 

[vvoid]

I can confirm that the TUF doesn't seem to reach its max 375W power limit, no matter which BIOS version.
And yes, of course the slider is 110% PL on TUF OC, respectively +117% for non-OC.
I've got the OC version, even flashed the P-non-OC BIOS onto the Q-BIOS slot, no change. These cards seem to limit power to ~360W, wtf Asus?!?
Edit: And what about the reviewers, haven't they noticed???

On average mine is about 355w as well but I can get to about 373W when I stress my GPU during benchmarks.

Can you please provide a screenshot with your BIOS version and confirmation that you see 373W in AB's power graph?
Sorry, but I cannot believe it. Tested it extensively and max is around, actually below, 360W, no matter what. Thanks!

 

[cancel077]

I can confirm that the TUF doesn't seem to reach its max 375W power limit, no matter which BIOS version.
And yes, of course the slider is 110% PL on TUF OC, respectively +117% for non-OC.
I've got the OC version, even flashed the P-non-OC BIOS onto the Q-BIOS slot, no change. These cards seem to limit power to ~360W, wtf Asus?!?
Edit: And what about the reviewers, haven't they noticed???

I mean, you can confirm that YOUR TUF card can't reach it. But for my TUF OC card I was able to reach 375W (give or take a few watts). Only thing is, it's just during stressing not during normal gaming.

 

[vvoid]

I mean, you can confirm that YOUR TUF card can't reach it. But for my TUF OC card I was able to reach 375W (give or take a few watts). Only thing is, it's just during stressing not during normal gaming.

Power draw has nothing to do with "silicon quality", if that's what you're hinting at. But please, just show a screenshot with BIOS version and AB's power graph...

 

[cancel077]

Power draw has nothing to do with "silicon quality", if that's what you're hinting at. But please, just show a screenshot with BIOS version and AB's power graph...

Will do when I'm on the computer tonight.

Power draw has nothing to do with "silicon quality", if that's what you're hinting at. But please, just show a screenshot with BIOS version and AB's power graph...

Here you go. It took me a few tries, but asus for sure is not letting it reach 375W that easy. Majority of the time I was around 365W. It just shows that the board CAN reach 375W, but it is not efficient in keeping the power high so I do get power limits all the time before reaching 375W.

 

[alvarobasi]

Hi guys! Did someone noticed that the fans of the 3080 TUF OC have a little rattling noise when spinning, regardless of the rpm? It gets worse when the rpm is increased... The fan noise itself hides it a little bit, though.

 

[vvoid]

Here you go. It took me a few tries, but asus for sure is not letting it reach 375W that easy. Majority of the time I was around 365W. It just shows that the board CAN reach 375W, but it is not efficient in keeping the power high so I do get power limits all the time before reaching 375W.

Thanks very much! Strange, same BIOS than I am on, never saw 375W as max, no matter what.
Which benchmark/stress test did you run?
Edit: You know, I had a 3080 FE before and there I saw constant 370W, reaching its specified power limit permanently. That's actually what we want to see from the TUF also, right?

Hi guys! Did someone noticed that the fans of the 3080 TUF OC have a little rattling noise when spinning, regardless of the rpm? It gets worse when the rpm is increased... The fan noise itself hides it a little bit, though.

No, totally silent in the rattling-area. Sounds like something is wrong with one of your fans, sorry about that.
Actually, I'm very impressed with how silent those fans actually are for the temps the card is holding. Top notch in this regard!

 

[cancel077]

Thanks very much! Strange, same BIOS than I am on, never saw 375W as max, no matter what.
Which benchmark/stress test did you run?
Edit: You know, I had a 3080 FE before and there I saw constant 370W, reaching its specified power limit permanently. That's actually what we want to see from the TUF also, right?

I used unigine heaven, superposition and MSI Kombustor. For the unigine benchmark programs, it's average I would say is 355-360W for me, but it would hit 365 more often for the peak. I tried it a few times but I can only hit the 370s when I stress test it with msi kombustor.

When my board is 355W (even 360W) or below, I am able to reach above the 2000Mhz range (whether it's at the stock core speed or on OC mode), but as soon as it starts giving me power limits I'm below that, low to mid 1900Mhz.

Although, I hit the 370W mark, it's very inconsistent and I think it hits it during power spikes to be honest. The overclocking headroom on this card is pretty much nonexistent. I know it can hit it (as shown) but it's not properly configured in the bios in my opinion. If the board could easily go up to 375W, I think overclocking would be possible (even if it's just a little bit more).

 

[vvoid]

Thanks, I see we're on the same understanding. It's a shame Asus doesn't deliver the spec'd 375W for the TUF, hope this is going to be fixed with a future BIOS update.
I will try Kombustor though and see if I can hit >370W with that.

Ok, so with Kombustor I was able to hit that, but it's only very briefly and in no way how a power target should behave.
Asus, there's something fundamentally wrong with PT on the TUF, please clarify.

 

[amon.akira]

Thanks, I see we're on the same understanding. It's a shame Asus doesn't deliver the spec'd 375W for the TUF, hope this is going to be fixed with a future BIOS update.
I will try Kombustor though and see if I can hit >370W with that.

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Ok, so with Kombustor I was able to hit that, but it's only very briefly and in no way how a power target should behave.
Asus, there's something fundamentally wrong with PT on the TUF, please clarify.

yep something is wrong, i haven't tried combustor but with my 3080tuf +117% i get max 355watt, then gpu start to cut mhz cuz the tdp limit...seems like 320 +110% 352w limit... i have tried with gigabyte aorus bios too (370w default +0%) and nothing always 350/355w but i got better clock because seems this bios use bit less pl....i think can be a pcie wattage limit problem (different mainboard? i have z370 k6 fatality)

 

[vvoid]

I think it's a general issue where the TUF is not able to perfectly balance all 3 power inputs and thus not able to saturate all of them to 100%. Maybe not actually achievable at all, but the FE is showing 370W permanently, so it _is_ possible to approach the maximum.
Anyhow, I'm going to shunt-mod it now, at least the two 8-pin shunts. Not for daily use, but because out of interest and some OC-fun.

 

[gasolina]

May i ask about the length of the Pcb for custom diy heatsink

 

[D3ssel]

I think it's a general issue where the TUF is not able to perfectly balance all 3 power inputs and thus not able to saturate all of them to 100%. Maybe not actually achievable at all, but the FE is showing 370W permanently, so it _is_ possible to approach the maximum.
Anyhow, I'm going to shunt-mod it now, at least the two 8-pin shunts. Not for daily use, but because out of interest and some OC-fun.

mhmm... Maybe the problem is with the motherboard itself, not the GPU.

As we all know, the PSU is only capable of delivering 300watts directly through the two PCIe connectors the TUFs have. Anything over that gets delivered through the PCI-E slot of the motherboard, which, unless I'm mistaken, typically tops at around 70 watts or so.

Perhaps the issue here is related to the motherboard having a hard time delivering near max capacity?

Just some food for thought.