Question 3080 10G ROG STRIX OC vs MSI GeForce RTX 3080 12G vs Manli 3080 TI

[Culogep]

Hello dear forum members!

I am planning on upgrading my 3060 TI and I've read a lot of articles and watched a bunch of youtube comparisons ect but at the end I could not decide so I would like to ask someone who is more relevant in this thread. So I want to upgrade my graphics card to either a used 3080 or a 3080 TI because the price dropped drastically. So my question is basically which would be better for my needs. I usually play some CPU heavy competitive games so I am in 1080p (not planning on upgrading at all) but now there are some competitive games which are also using Unreal Engine 5 and I want to upgrade to a better GPU.

So I've found 3 good options.
One of them is an ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3080 10G GAMING OC which I've seen has a bit more memory and boost frequency than other 3080's.
The second option would be MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING TRIO PLUS 12G LHR which has 12 GB VRAM.
And there is also a cheap looking Manli GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6X.

Basically 30 USD difference between them, ROG STRIX being the cheapest. For my needs which card would be the best choice? I've also considered a 4070 to it's power efficiency and almost same performance but you can find really good deals at 3080's now. Is the Strix worth the price or a basic Zotac or Founders Edition would have the same performance? Because there is literally a really cheap Zotac GAMING AMP Holo RTX 3080 (10GB 320Bit) right now which is even 60 USD cheaper then the ROG STRIX. I don't really trust the brand Manli and it's also look like crap, but at the end look does not matter if its a trusted band after all but theres hardly any information about it, I know it's the Zotac and Inno company's other chinese brand but thats about it. 12GB VRAM might be useless for me because 1080p does not require as much VRAM if I am correct, only the memory bandwith would be beneficial but at the ROG STRIX side there is a higher boost clock and memory which I assume would be more beneficail in 1080p high FPS games?

Edit: For GPU's I always go for NVIDIA, I also stream sometimes and I need Nvenc Encoder.

Thank you for the answers in advance!

 

[XxDarkMario20xX]

Brands they use there own cooling for there GPU and all the rest are the same features and chips. Higher boost clocks are more better then vram when you only gaming at 1080P. Also there will be some new gpu coming out soon and maybe that will lower others more. ASUS GPU can be more expensive then others but there really good brand. Before upgrading you need to think about your PSU can it handle it.

 

[Culogep]

Brands they use there own cooling for there GPU and all the rest are the same features and chips. Higher boost clocks are more better then vram when you only gaming at 1080P. Also there will be some new gpu coming out soon and maybe that will lower others more. ASUS GPU can be more expensive then others but there really good brand

You mean the 4xxx series Super? Thats a good call, but mine might as well go down probably.

 

[XxDarkMario20xX]

You mean the 4xxx series Super? Thats a good call, but mine might as well go down probably.

Yeah there coming out so things might go cheaper because they have to fit prices in between 4060 to 4070 4070 to 4080 4080 to 4090.

Also with 3080ti it will have more cores then boost and that can be good performance!

 

[bigbacon]

Whatever you get make sure it has more than 10gb of vram at this point.