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Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC in review

Asus uses the same board as the ROG Poseidon Platinum hybrid card, but with slight modifications to capacitor assembly. Otherwise, the Strix cooler of course has much more space, which can only be advantageous. The Kart... Asus uses its own design for this board. The two 8-pin sockets for the external power supply are followed by two coils in the input area for smoothing the tips. Asus relies on a design of 5+2 phases, with the 5 phases for the GPU being designed. 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 kar... Benchmarks in 3840 x 2160 pixels The card is also significantly faster in this high resolution than a GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition or GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition. TitanX (Pascal) in Nvidia reference design. Overall, many titles are quite good in ... Power consumption at different loads The power consumption in the gaming loop is pretty much exactly on the point that Asus set as the Power Target with 275 watts in the BIOS. In the Torture loop, the power consumption even drops below this value. Au... Overclocking Manual overclocking with air cooling is average, if you can withstand the fan, which then operates at maximum speed at over 3500 rpm. On the one hand, of course, as always, we have the GPU lottery, on the other hand it is now m... Cooling system and backplate The special feature is the use of a "sandwich" system, which uses a kind of cooling and stabilization frame between the top of the board and the actual heat sink. On an integrated VRM heatsink in the ... Summary The ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC is conspicuously unobtrusive, apart from the unavoidable RGB effects. Asus has left the Power Target at a reasonable 275 watts ex works, which is quite sufficient. Even if you...

Asus uses the same board as the ROG Poseidon Platinum hybrid card, but with slight modifications to capacitor assembly.

Otherwise, the Strix cooler of course has much more space, which can only be advantageous. The map follows the Strix line purely visually, even though some minor cosmetic surgeries have been performed.

DirectCU was yesterday and we present in advance the scheme of the Aus-PR, which should explain the map and its structure in detail. We will of course go into all areas in more detail and with our own measurements:

Since the actual performance of all board partner cards depends more on the actual boost clock achieved, and thus causally depends on the cooling, the power target and above all the quality of the respective chip, any test based only on benchmark bars is more of a Random snapshot of a single specimen. This is precisely why we have focused on the actual technical implementation of each model and have been able to document this very well with our equipment.

Unboxing, dimensions and connections

The accessories are limited to the usual three-handers such as DVD, manual and 8-pin adapters. Otherwise, there is only the card. We will discuss their exact board and cooling design separately later. The most important features are first summarized in a table:

Overview of installation dimensions, features and connections
Installation length:
30.0 cm (slot aperture to end cover)
Installation height:
12.5 cm (upper edge slot to top card)
Depth:
4.8 cm (2.5 slot)
0.5 cm baking plate
Weight:
1263 grams
Backplate: Yes, without passive cooling function
Cooling: Air
Horizontally aligned cooling fins
Fan:
3x 9 cm (8.5 cm rotor diameter)
Connections Slot blend:
3x DisplayPort 1.4
3x HDMI 2.0
1x Dual-Link DVI-I
Other shots:
2x SLI Connector
Power supply:
2x 8-pin PCI-Express

Exterior views

Let's start by looking at the map from the outside. Asus, like many others, is back on a matte, graphite-coloured plastic cover that is haptic and visually fine, but does not rip off the stool. Color applications outside the RGB light effects are searched in vain.

The backplate is purely for the look and carries an RGB backlit ROG logo. The two 8-pin sockets of the external power supply are installed rotated by 180°. The logo on the top is also equipped with an RGB backlight and can of course also be customized by means of its own software.

The cooling fins are vertically aligned, which pushes the exhaust air undirected against the top of the motherboard and the front panel of the case.

In addition to the two DisplayPort jacks, the connectors are based on two HDMI outputs, which is e.g. VR glasses, of course. The Dual-Link DVI connector is a nice, but now hardly necessary entry.

Specifications

The GPU-Z screenshot shows us the most important key data in advance, whereby the actual boost achieved was of course higher with our model. This in turn relativizes such theoretical data a little, so that we really want to refer to the following test results later:

Finally, the whole thing again as a tabular comparison to the other relevant graphics card models:

  Nvidia
Geforce
GTX 1080 Ti FE
Asus ROG
GTX 1080 Ti
Strix OC Gaming
Nvidia
Geforce
GTX 1080 FE
Nvidia
Geforce
GTX 980 Ti
Gpu
GP102 GP102 GP104 GM200
CUDA cores
3584 3584 2560 2816
Base clock 1480 MHz 1569 MHz
1607 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost clock
1582 MHz+ 1683 MHz
1733 MHz+ 1076 MHz+
Memory Size & Type
11 GByte
GDDR5X
11 GByte
GDDR5X
8 GByte
GDDR5X
6 GByte
GDDR5
The size
471 mm2 471 mm2 314 mm2 601 mm2
Technology
16 nm 16 nm 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors
12 billion 12 billion 7.2 billion 8 billion
Streaming Multiprocessors (SM)
28 28
20 22
GFLOPS (basic clock)
10.609 11.247
8.228 5.632
Texture Units
224 224 160 176
Texture fill rate
331.5 GT/s 351.5 GT/s
257.1 GT/s 214 GT/s
Rops
88 88
64 96
Pixel fill rate
130.24 GPix/s 138.1 GPix/s
114.2 GPix/s 116.7 GPix/s
Storage data rate
11 Gbps 11 Gbps 10 Gbps 7 Gbps
Storage bus
352 bits 352 bits 256 bits 384 bits
Memory bandwidth
484.4 GByte/s 484.4 GByte/s 320 GByte/s 336 GByte/s
L2 cache
2816 KByte 2816 KByte 2 MByte 3 MByte
Tdp
250 watts 275 Watt (PT)
180 watts 250 watts

Test system and measurement methods

The new test system and the methodology have already been described in great detail in the basic article "How We Test Graphics Cards" (English: "How We Test Graphics Cards") and therefore, for the sake of simplicity, we now only refer to this detailed Description. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so. However, we have improved CPU and cooling once again in order to largely exclude possible CPU bottle necks for this fast card.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview:

Test systems and measuring rooms
Hardware:
Intel Core i7-6900K -4.3GHz
MSI X99S XPower Gaming Titanium
Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3200
1x 1 TByte Toshiba OCZ RD400 (M.2, System SSD)
2x 960 GByte Toshiba OCZ TR150 (Storage, Images)
Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 11, 850-watt power supply
Windows 10 Pro (all updates)
Cooling:
Alphacool Ice Block XPX
Alphacool Ice Age 2000 Chiller
2x Be Quiet! Silent Wings 3 PWM (Closed Case Simulation)
Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut (for cooler change)
Housing:
Lian Li PC-T70 with expansion kit and modifications
Modes: Open Benchtable, Closed Case
Monitor: Eizo EV3237-BK
Power consumption:
non-contact DC measurement on the PCIe slot (Riser-Card)
non-contact DC measurement on the external PCIe power supply
Direct voltage measurement on the respective feeders and on the power supply
2x Rohde & Schwarz HMO 3054, 500 MHz multi-channel oscillograph with memory function
4x Rohde & Schwarz HZO50, current togor adapter (1 mA to 30 A, 100 KHz, DC)
4x Rohde & Schwarz HZ355, touch divider (10:1, 500 MHz)
1x Rohde & Schwarz HMC 8012, digital multimeter with storage function
Thermography:
Optris PI640, infrared camera
PI Connect evaluation software with profiles
Acoustics:
NTI Audio M2211 (with calibration file)
Steinberg UR12 (with phantom power for the microphones)
Creative X7, Smaart v.7
own low-reflection measuring room, 3.5 x 1.8 x 2.2 m (LxTxH)
Axial measurements, perpendicular to the center of the sound source(s), measuring distance 50 cm
Noise in dBA (Slow) as RTA measurement
Frequency spectrum as a graph

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