Quiet, fast and hungry as needed: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X 11G in review

No, kleckern is not their thing and MSI likes to put one more on it when the specifications of the standard or Reference models ("Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB in Test") do not appear pompous enough. Why not, as long as you have the consequences of the... The board at a glance MSI relies on a rather tidy multi-layer board with a somewhat unconventional design, which was probably also developed from a thermal point of view. How to use the GPU as a whole... Benchmarks in 2560 x 1440 pixels We have deliberately dispensed with Full HD (1920 x 1080p) as the card runs into the CPU limit even in the highest settings. In WQHD (2560 x 1440 pixels), on the other hand, the actual working environment and the MSI ... Benchmarks in 3840 x 2160 pixels The MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X 11G is between 7 and 9 percent faster than a GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition or ge's game, depending on the game. TitanX (Pascal). Overall, many tite... When it is up to the power, we first need to know that the card with the factory settings at 290 watts has been set a limit. This Power Target is almost exploited in gaming and almost completely used in stress testing. The increase i... In fact achievable clock rates The actual achievable clock is subject to some influences. Even if GPU quality plays a bigger role here - unfortunately you can't influence it as the only one. And so in the end it is quite possible that ... Summary If the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is generally a fast card, the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming 11G is all the more so. MSI has actually (almost) solved everything perfectly and delivered a fast yet quiet card that...

When it is up to the power, we first need to know that the card with the factory settings at 290 watts has been set a limit. This Power Target is almost exploited in gaming and almost completely used in stress testing. The increase in the afterburner to the maximum of approx. 330 watts, on the other hand, is almost pointless, because the card of it alone is no longer faster, either because the voltage limits or the temperatures limit the boost steps, or everything together.

With the tensions, we see the reason in direct interaction with the warming of the map. If the full 1.0625V is still in the beginning, the value drops quickly to a maximum of 1.05 volts during the course of the heating, but can also be significantly lower if the load on the GPU increases sharply in places. This effect can also be seen in the Torture Loop, which is much deeper.

More about the gaming loop

Let us now consider the curve for the power consumption separately according to the individual supply rails (rail) in a higher resolution over the period of two minutes. Despite our intelligent low-pass filter, some spikes remain visible, reaching up to 360 watts in places.

For this purpose, the curves of the currents look identically hectic:

Torture test in detail

Since the load is more constant, the power consumption increases again somewhat as an average value, but the peaks are almost completely eliminated. We see very nicely where Boost is already starting to reduce the power consumption.

Again, analogously, only the view of the flowing currents:

Limits: Maximum OC and Stress Test

If you increase the Power Target to the set maximum of approx. 330 watts, then the curves become a bit more hectic and you can also see besides the tips also many incisions, which are due to limitations by Boost.

The currents also show no abnormalities in terms of load distribution on the rails.

Utilization of the motherboard slot

This point has been repeatedly demanded by readers since the launch of the Radeon RX 480 (also for Nvidia cards), so we will now include this point in every test. With the card tested today, however, the concern is unfounded, because the slot is in fact hardly used. From the point of view of balancing and the very expandable power target, this is certainly a very good decision, especially since it also simplifies the board layout a little.