Among ordinary people, the opinion quickly took root that the root of all the troubles of the GeForce RTX 3080 family is the so-called 8-nm technical process of Samsung, according to which gaming GPUs with the Ampere architecture are manufactured. Numerous conspiracy theories say that it is he who not only limits the yield of good GPUs and causes a shortage of video cards in the market but also does not offer adequate frequency potential.

For example, in the track record of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card based on a 12nm graphics processor, you can find a record with overclocking up to 3 GHz using liquid nitrogen – the corresponding milestone was conquered in September of this year by a group of Brazilian specialists who used a GALAX video card in our country known as KFA2. Video cards based on 8nm Ampere chips have not been matched to such a frequency in overclocking until recently.

But now we can conclude that Samsung’s 8nm process technology does not limit the frequency potential of Ampere GPUs. All they need is powerful cooling and decent food. This is proven by an experiment by a Greek enthusiast who raised the GPU frequency in the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card to 2880 MHz. True, for this he needed a special ElmorLabs power management module, which in its evolutionary development has already reached the third revision and is sold for $ 29. In other words, the power subsystem of the GeForce RTX 3090 video card manufactured by ASUS, which the author of the experiment had at his disposal, has undergone a serious hardware modification.

The author of the new frequency record for the GeForce RTX 3090 does not report any other details about the experimental conditions, referring only to the use of liquid nitrogen to cool the graphics card.