It’s faster than the 3070 Ti FE too, but is it a card you should buy? If you consider your PC to be a piece of art as much as a box stashed under the desk then the answer is probably yes. It’s got loads of outputs, an attention grabbing LED screen, a highly capable cooler (albeit one that’s a little too loud under its default setting) and a four-year warranty. The Aorus Master offers everything you’d hope for in a flagship version of a GPU. Using Metro Exodus at 1440p as a test, the final OC result was 90.1 fps compared to the default result of 85.9 fps and the FE’s result of 84.0 fps. This resulted in a bandwidth increase from the stock 608.3 GB/s to 736.3 GB/s. We were able to set the memory to 1,438MHz, an increase of 250MHz from the default 1,188MHz. The card had a lot of memory overclocking headroom, however. Still, being able to hold a clock of over 2GHz is impressive. AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 remains a very competitive offering, but you can't forget Nvidia’s strong feature set and ray tracing performance advantage.īecause it's already seemingly at the limits of the GPU already, our Aorus Master sample only had a little overclocking headroom, likely due to power limits. Once you start hitting 310W+ you’re getting near RTX 3080 territory, and that’s a much faster card. The Aorus Master is consistently faster than the FE but at the cost of some 20w+ of additional power consumption. It’s perfectly capable of performing well at 4K but it’s better suited to a 1440p gamer with a high refresh rate monitor. Storage: 2TB Adata S70, 500GB Samsung 980 ProĬompared to the RTX 3070, the RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition may not have given us the frame rate leap we hoped for, but with the additional cooling capacity of the Aorus Master, it’s possible to squeeze every last drop of performance out of the GA104 GPU. RAM: 2x 8GB T-Force Xtreem ARGB DDR4-3600 Motherboard: Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
The Aorus Master consistently ran 80MHz higher than a Founders Edition sample and an impressive 65MHz more than the MSI Gaming X, though the MSI was all but silent. There might be RTX 30-series cards that boost higher under stock conditions, but you can probably count them on one hand. In fact, the card was able to hold a boost clock of 1,980Mhz after 10 minutes of load. Speaking of boost clocking, the excellent thermal performance of the cooler means the card is able to boost to very high levels. Compared to the 70% of the default BIOS, the difference is minor, but with no loss in performance noted, we’d be inclined to use the silent BIOS all the way. This resulted in a long run fan speed of 68%. We ran a test with the silent BIOS mode enabled. Does it have the effect of trapping some hot air inside? We aren’t too critical though, it’s easy to adjust the fan curve to achieve lower noise levels, though at the inevitable expense of a bit of boost clock. We’re left wondering if the cooler shroud is a little too restrictive. It’s not an intrusive noise, and its sound is more like the movement of air rather than the mechanical whirr of fans. In fact the card’s fans ramped as high as 70%. During a stress test, we saw a peak temperature of just 68☌ which is great, but it does come at the expense of an elevated level of noise. Gigabyte appears to have tuned the cooler for maximum performance.
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