I guess now we know why Zotac gimped their 30 series cards

[mat690]

Seen the reviews of the Zotac cards and there seemed to be some built in performance limit which made it slightly worse than the FE card.

I guess they knew about the issue with the cheaper power deliver system causing instability and limited performance accordingly.

I've ordered the ASUS Tuf OC 3080, it looks to be the best card right now.

 

[otester]

Seen the reviews of the Zotac cards and there seemed to be some built in performance limit which made it slightly worse than the FE card.

I guess they knew about the issue with the cheaper power deliver system causing instability and limited performance accordingly.

I've ordered the ASUS Tuf OC 3080, it looks to be the best card right now.

I cancelled a Zotac order after finding out about that and also apparently they used poorer materials vs the TUF whilst also charging a premium.

 

[ChrisJSY]

Yup looks like ZOTAC's answer was not to use better capacitors, but to lower the power usage to get around it.
I wonder what the long term problems this will raise, hopefully someone gets a big slap on the wrist.

 

[Dean Guile]

Seen the reviews of the Zotac cards and there seemed to be some built in performance limit which made it slightly worse than the FE card.

I guess they knew about the issue with the cheaper power deliver system causing instability and limited performance accordingly.

I've ordered the ASUS Tuf OC 3080, it looks to be the best card right now.

According to this guy, the MSI Trio X is better than the TUF