CONCLUSION

   It’s been roughly 5 years since I had anything by Gainward in the office/lab so the Phoenix GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB (or GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Phoenix) was a very pleasant surprise. You see it’s not only one of the most powerful/fastest graphics cards out there but it’s also among the smallest RTX 3080 Ti models (294mm vs 320mm for most) something which I expect to appeal to many potential buyers. Now for reasons I haven’t had the chance to check even though the Phoenix GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (and probably all RTX 3080 Ti models – got another review coming up soon so I’ll be able to check that) does an extremely good job in 4k (2160p) it falls a bit short on Full HD (1080p) and so if you plan on gaming on that resolution, you really have very little reason to look this way (very high refresh rate monitor owners excluded). Performance aside noise levels are also set at good levels, build quality is very good and as for looks, well, if you don’t have another card installed right next to it, yes it looks great. Temperatures however were a tad high and even though you can fix that by adjusting fan curves this also means increased noise levels.

   Even though the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB graphics cards didn’t see their prices more than doubled in recent months like their lower-end brothers they did get more expensive and so the Phoenix GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB by Gainward currently retails for no less than 1949Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de – seems to be out of stock currently). Even at around 1200Euros (launch price) the Phoenix GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB by Gainward was still not what I’d call affordable so at around 1900Euros things are even worse than that. Price aside however we’re still talking about one of the top 3 most powerful cards in the market today and since it also delivers in build quality, features, available outputs and even looks the Gainward Phoenix GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB certainly deserves no less than the Golden Award.

PROS

- Top Of The Charts Performance (4K)
- Build Quality (Backplate / Reinforced Metal Frame)
- Good Overclocking Headroom
- Noise Levels / Power Consumption
- ARGB LEDs
- Support Bracket Included
- Size (294mm Long)
- Supported Technologies (2nd Generation Real Time Ray Tracing & Deep Learning Super Sampling)

CONS

- Size (3 Slot Card)
- Price (For Some)