Gigabyte Aorus RTX 2080 Xtreme 8G Review

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte Aorus RTX 2080 Xtreme 8G3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Clock Speed11. Temperatures12. Acoustics13. Power Consumption14. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games15. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

Considering this card is already factory overclocked to 1890MHz – a full 180MHz faster than reference – I was not expecting much in the way of manual overclocking headroom. Sadly, that is exactly how it played out, as I could only add +70MHz to the GPU core. The already overclocked memory, however, was receptive to another +780MHz, though, bringing the total speed to 14920MHz.

3DMark and Games Testing

Not surprisingly, this overclock didn't bring massive gains – we saw a jump of just over 1000 points in Fire Strike which proved to be the biggest margin of increase, but we only saw an extra 1-2FPS in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Shadow of the Tomb Raider when played at 4K resolution.

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