MSI RTX 3080 Ventus 3X Plus, the high-end GPU available and at a low price

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Scarcity, speculation and mining are the enemies of gamers who simply want to add GPUs in their PC gaming. With exploding prices and availability as meager as it is anecdotal, many players have not been able to get their hands on a good GPU like the RTX-3080.

This high end graphics card is driven by a flea GA102a chip on which is housed** 8704 CUDA Cores**, 68 RT Cores (for the Ray Tracing) and 268 Tensor Core (for calculations ofAI and the DLSS). Everything is accompanied by 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAMa new type of memory, more economical and above all faster, allowing up to 760 GB/s of bandwidth by a 320 bit bus. The frequency of the chip changes to 1740MHz (versus 1710MHz for the Founder Edition) thanks to a overclocking factory. This card thus advances an extraordinary power, cut to propel the games in 4K with the Ray Tracing activated.

This version Ventus 3X Plus OC custom made by MSI add a backplate made of graphene alloy, more resistant to shocks, bending and twisting. The wide cooler embark 3 Torx fans for optimized airflow and dissipates spilled watts in the heatsink thanks to the heat pipes Core Pipes from MSI. The manufacturer did not forget to stick many thermal pads to keep the temperature at respectable levels, especially on the GDDR6X chips. To top it off, the cooling is semi-passiveturning off the fans when the board is down and starting automatically when the mercury rises.

Question performance, this chip should easily propel all the latest games in 4K simultaneously activating the Ray Tracing as well as the DLSS. According to our tests, most games display a frame rate exceeding the bar 60fpsas Shadow of the Tomb Raiderturning at 70fps. If you don’t have a screen 4Kdo not panic, the games should easily approach the bar of 144Hz in 1440p. The best for the gaming in QHD.