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...

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 make full use of the manual possibilities, the voltage restriction imposed by Nvidia limits in the end and you are at the end as a customer at the end of the day helplessly at the mercy of the GPU lottery anyway.

The cooling concept with the three fans works quite neatly, even if you can hear a kind of oscillating sound at higher speeds under load, since never all three fans really run at the same speeds. We also miss a decent VRM heat sink that could have avoided warming up the board to the GPU.

However, this weakness can only be noticed with longer loops in the stress test and then only in the built-in housing, which puts the whole thing somewhat into perspective. But it's not really optimal.

The bottom line, however, is that it is meckering at a high level, the Asus has designed the fan speeds rather conservatively, which allows relatively quiet operation under full load. Here you could counteract yourself and manually increase the speeds a bit.

Per	Balanced	Cons
– moderate Power Target . relatively light – hardly spool-feathers – external fan connections – RGB output for stripes	– adequate factory OC – adequate air cooling – acceptable noise level	– relatively expensive – Oscillating fan noise – VRM cooling not optimal

Conclusion

We still award the purchase tip, although this decision was not easy for us at first due to the not quite optimal VRM cooling. In the end, however, the overall concept as such convinced us, because Asus has finally found its way back to the desired path with the heatpipes and the neatly processed heat sink and on the other hand the map is quite consistent in itself. The factory OC fits Power Target and fan curves; the conclusion is almost consistently positive.

Asus has managed to bring a not-too-heavy card into the performance range, where competitors sometimes need nearly 300 grams more for the cooler to offer a similar performance. That alone is worth a recognition, especially since It doesn't have to buy Asus at an extreme volume.

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