With the advent of breakthrough NVIDIA RTX graphics cards on the Ampere architecture, many companies have revised their range, updating existing lines, removing outdated ones and replacing them with something more interesting. One of the companies that switched to new names was Zotac. And if someone needs a conditional GeForce RTX 3080 from Zotac, then he will be able to choose from 4 options in different lines, which differ not only in clock frequencies, but also in PCB and cooling system.


The Trinity series occupies one of the dominant positions in this hierarchy, and only flagship video accelerators with massive triple IceShtorm are selected for its ranks. In the case of RTX 3080/3090 models, it consists of several radiators with seven copper heat-conducting tubes of direct contact with the GPU. All this stuff is blown by three turntables with an independent rotation speed. The cards are a little dispersed out of the box, the difference with the reference samples is literally a couple of percent. Zotac does not see the point in squeezing all the juices out of the already fast video cards, they say, why put a cylinder of nitrous oxide in a racing Ferrari?

If the soul requires overclocking, then this activity falls on the shoulders of the user. Here is the software for you, here we will cut for additional nutrition, here is a custom dropsy, if you want exotics. And this is a very curious moment, since Trinity models are a rare example of video cards with upgrade capabilities from third-party developers. So, on the RTX 3080 and 3080 models, instead of regular coolers, custom water blocks or additional panels for passive cooling from EKWB can be installed.