We're overclocking the EVGA FTW3, ASUS TUF, and Gigabyte Eagle variations of NVIDIA's RTX 3080 GPU (and using the stock coolers).
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We're going to use 3DMark (mostly Port Royal) for 3D graphics benchmarking. Our goal is to quickly bin our RTX 3080s to find the best one, because we're going to need to put one of these under liquid nitrogen for overclocking this weekend with Joe from Bearded Hardware. Initial overclocking efforts are focused on the air coolers (stock coolers) and on figuring out who has the highest power target, which is the most common limiter. We may have to do shunt mods to expand it further.

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Test bench setup is below.

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