ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER AMP Extreme – Full TU104 Amped Up

Synthetics, Power Draw, and Thermals

Firestrike Extreme

Firestrike is running the DX11 API and is still a good measure of GPU scaling performance, in this test we ran the Extreme version of Firestrike which runs at 1440p and we recorded the Graphics Score only as the Physics and combined are not pertinent to this review.

Time Spy

Time Spy is running the DX12 API and we used it in the same manner as Firestrike Extreme where we only recorded the Graphics Score as the Physics score is recording the CPU performance and isn't important to the testing we are doing here.

Thermals

Thermals were measured from our open test bench after running the Time Spy graphics test 2 on loop for 30 minutes recording the highest temperatures reported. The room was climate controlled and kept at a constant 22c throughout the testing. The default fan curve for the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 2080 SUPER Amp Extreme leaves the fan disabled until the card warms up, but allows the card to run upwards of 79c while maintaining a faster than FE clock rate and is dead silent even when putting your ear up next to the card.  But, I would hapily trade that absolute silence for some more favorable temperature results.

Power Draw

Power draw numbers were taken from the total system power draw by measuring with a Kill-A-Watt. We ran Unigine Valley for 30 minutes and observed the highest sustained load. Something to keep in mind when observing total system power draw is that there are times where a GPU simply being faster and requiring more from the CPU can cause the total system power draw to increase with the like of the Core i9-9900K. That said, the total system power draw is still important as it is how much power it is taking to run the system.

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WCCFTECH RATING

At 1440p and UW 1440p the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Amp Extreme, when overclocked, offers up great performance but stock performance leaves a bit to be desired.

Pros

• Highly tunable
• Overclocks Very well
• Incredibly fast memory
• Excellent RGB implementation
• Quiet even when fans are running at higher RPM
• Price in line with non-SUPER variant of card

Cons

• Stock performance only slightly better than FE
• Stock fan curve too conservative

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