Packaging

The Card

The MSI GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB Suprim X looks identical to the RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X and RTX 3090 Suprim X. These are some of the largest graphics cards in the market, with dimensions and aesthetics that make the already large RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio look much smaller. A premium brushed aluminium shroud dominates much of the card, with cleverly designed cutouts for the vents and some sharp edges and RGB LED diffusers. The amount of RGB bling is about the same as for the Gaming X Trio, but somehow comes across as more subtle and classy.


Dimensions of the card are 33.5 x 14 cm, and it weighs 1901 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include one HDMI 2.0 and three DisplayPort 1.4 ports.


The card has three 8-pin power inputs. This configuration is rated for up to 525 W of power draw.

You'll also find the dual BIOS switch here, which lets you toggle between the default "quiet" BIOS and the "gaming" BIOS that runs the fans at higher speeds for lower temperatures.


The GeForce RTX 3080 does not support SLI.

Teardown

MSI's cooling solution for the RTX 3080 Suprim X features two large aluminium fin stacks paired with seven heatpipes. A mirror-finish, nickel-plated copper base pulls heat from the GPU, while a flattened heat pipe runs around this plate, pulling heat from the surrounding memory chips. Thermal pads for the memory make contact with both this heat pipe and the GPU base plate.


Once the main heatsink is removed, you're still left with this black stabilizer plate which helps protect the card against sagging.


A metal backplate completes the card; this card has thicker thermal pads to fill in the gap of the missing rear memory chips found on the RTX 3090 Suprim X.