Which Asus Strix 3080 should I get?

[spiral ether]

I want to get an asus strix 3080 for gaming but don't know which variation is better my options are: Asus GeForce RTX 3080 ROG Strix Gaming OC V2 LHR 10GB / Asus GeForce RTX 3080 ROG Strix Gaming LHR 12GB
Help would be much appreciated

[winged whale]

@spiral ether what games do you play and what other things do plan on doing using it

[spiral ether]

mainly just games, but mainly Rocket League, GTA, Forza Horizon 5

[winged whale]

OC seems to be better performance but less memory

And might run hotter

[spiral ether]

ye it does

but overall do you think there will be massive differences

between them

[winged whale]

Price and temps mostly

[spiral ether]

okay thankyou for your help

[winged whale]

If your a student I would recommend seeing if you can get a student discount

[spiral ether]

price is not the worry really i can get a good discount on either of them which is gud

but ye true

[winged whale]

Ok good luck with whatever you decide to go with

[spiral ether]

will do thankyou

[grizzled pumice]

Depends if you go 4K get the 12GB edition

More memory 🤷‍♂️ usually helps , OC helps with speed . but the 12 GB only helps if you go in higher resolutions

[spiral ether]

I have triple monitors would that mean 12 gb could be a bit better?

[winged whale]

What quality do you run them at

And what is your cpu

[spiral ether]

1080p for each and 5950x

[heady spoke]

More Vram doesn't make multimonitor experience where programs aren't gpu intensive. 1080p games are typically more cpu bound than gpu.

If the price is about the same, buy extra because why not. Better to have just a little extra performance, but in reality at 1080p gaming, the difference between 10 and 12 is likely little

Oh btw, If you do have framedrops in RL esp at 1080p, but seen it happen on 2k and 4k, it may be related to your 5950x. If RL process jumps threads on from one chiplet to another chiplet, it can cause a split second of instability due to the latency from that process. AMD has a thing on the mobo where it won't load the process across across all of those juicy 32 threads. It will try and load them on the 'best (fastest) core'. I turned that setting off in the bios and manually choose the cores RL runs on to prevent that from occurring.

This can happen with other games ofc, but I'm most sensitive to it in RL. I was pretty upset with my 5950x when I realized that.

[spiral ether]

ah okay

[spiral ether]

so better to have 12gb or 10gb?

[grizzled pumice]

depends 4K 12 GB , 1080p just use the 10GB

am on a 3080 10GB , and not much difference for me 🤷‍♂️
check your wallet and your sense if you need it.
for normal use? nope, for intensive 4k gaming maybe.

[heady spoke]

The core count difference between the 10 and 12gb is 3%

Is 3% more cores and 2gb more gddr objectively better? Yes

Will you benefit from the objectively better product at 1080p gaming. Highly likely not. In past games and in likely future games in the coming years will not bottleneck the vram

Some people will make me install a 3090 with 24 GDDR6X and all they play is like League of Legends. It is objectively the best(then) product. But will they benefit from it? Uh, no lol. Not with their work loads

[grizzled pumice]

my 3080 or 3090 🤷‍♂️ gamewise I would maybe get 10 % more performance ? for 300-600 euro more?

[heady spoke]

I do think 3080 for 1080p gaming is generally a bit silly. RL at 2k is def worth doing if you get a 3080. 4k not so much. More frames is def important for input latency

[heady spoke]

This becomes a value judgement at that point. Although I have seen some edge use cases that surprised me the positive effects. I never tested it but I heard from an old collegue about the dramatic difference in random frametime instability by moving from a 3080 (10gb) to 24gb on the 3090.

But yeah, some people would pay extra just to squeeze a little extra performance.

[grizzled pumice]

And add that point I have to wonder why not 4080? why not 4090?

[heady spoke]

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