At home in the air and underwater: Asus GTX 1080 Ti ROG Poseidon Platinum in test

1 - Einführung und Übersicht 2 - Platine und Spannungsversorgung im Detail 3 - Gaming Performance: 2560 x 1440 Pixel (WQHD) 4 - Gaming-Performance: 3840 x 2160 Pixel (Ultra-HD) 5 - Leistungsaufnahme Im Detail 6 - Temperaturen, Taktraten, OC und Wärmebildanalyse 7 - Kühlerdetails und Geräuschentwicklung 8 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

All of this sounds simple at first, even in practice. Instead of a water block, simply place a flat heatpipe on a large heat sink and optionally let water pass through to absorb and remove the waste heat. A relatively simple knitted water cooling system is finished, which can be used in parallel with normal air cooling and can even completely replace it.

Today's test will show that such a compromise, because it is one, can still work quite well. However, one should not expect miracles, also because of the necessary technical limitations and specifications, especially from the water cooler.

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 map is powerful, visually striking and otherwise not a shameful wallflower, but rather a self-confident exotic. However, we will discuss the interesting cooling design separately later.

The most important features are first summarized in a table:

Exterior views

Now let's look at the map from the outside. Asus attaches great importance to a good first optical impression, but the entire front cover is only made of simple plastic. The only accents are the RGB effects on the top and back, as well as the visible radiator connection with the threaded connectors. To enlarge, please click on the respective picture.

Specifications

The GPU-Z screenshot shows us the most important key data in advance, whereby the actual boost achieved with our model was significantly higher:

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

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: