The ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3080 has been fundamentally improved to bring the next level of gaming performance to market with Nvidia's impressive Ampere chips. A fresh design and more metal encase a group of Axial-Tech fans. The uniform fan arrangement of the previous generation has been replaced with an innovative rotation scheme and specialized tasks for the main and auxiliary fans. Below the blades is a larger, more impressive heatsink designed to handle even the most demanding thermal loads. The PCB has some modern tricks up its sleeve, and even the backplate has received some performance-enhancing changes.