someone bolted a monster cooler onto an RTX 3080 and cut temps 54°C. the FPS gain? …9%

a 360mm server cooler on a five-year-old RTX 3080 dropped VRAM temps by 54°C. The frame-rate gain was under 9%, and that gap is the most useful… Aliteq Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor

VRAM temps fell from 100°C to 50°C — a 54-degree drop.

Frame rates improved only 4.7% to 8.2% depending on the title.

That gap exists because the card wasn't leaving much performance on the table to begin with.

The real value of a mod like this is longevity and frame-time consistency, not FPS.

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