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

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 the waste heat and transfer it. 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 duplicated... 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 UH... Power consumption at different loads We measured the power consumption of the air-cooled map. When operated as a water-cooled card, the power consumption at full load is approx. 3-5 watts lower (fan). Compliance with the main... Overclocking The overclocking with air cooling is almost hopeless, because the card is already quite neatly overclocked from the factory and thus reaches its physical limits, especially in the closed housing. With a good water cool... Cooling system and backplate The special feature is the use of a hybrid system that can be operated both in a water cooling system and only alone with air cooling. The advantage is that the buyer is... Summary There is no egg-laying woolly milk sow, even with graphics cards. After this test, we must hold this honestly and fairly. The Asus GTX 1080 Ti ROG Poseidon Platinum has no serious flaws and does nothing ...

Summary

There is no egg-laying woolly milk sow, even with graphics cards. After this test, we must hold this honestly and fairly. The Asus GTX 1080 Ti ROG Poseidon Platinum has no serious flaws and doesn't really do anything wrong. However, it does not occupy the top position in the respective radiator target group, either air-cooled or with connected water cooling. To do this, one simply had to make too many compromises in the practical implementation of the hybrid concept.

What saves and makes the card interesting in many ways, however, are two things: the already quite high clock ex works and the very simple possibility to change this card without changing the radiator (including a looming loss of warranty) into a real custom-loop water cooling system. to be installed.

But what are the weaknesses of the concept? You only have to install them horizontally in a closed housing once in order to explore the slight deficits of the air cooling compared to the place deer under the air icuss. But this is exactly where it is likely to have several disadvantages compared to the Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Strix. It's not really overly loud and hot, but it would be better in any case.

This also applies to water cooling, because a small, U-shaped curved heatpipe as a continuous heater does not replace a real water block with micro-channels. In addition, we have had to accept almost halving of our water flow, which is tolerable, but also not really exemplary. For such a simple solution, however, the result achieved is still acceptable.

Per	Balanced	Cons
– high factory OC – flexible use – hardly spool-feathers – external fan connections – RGB output for stripes	– adequate air cooling – acceptable water cooling – average noise level (air)	– significantly reduces water flow – relatively expensive – low-frequency bearing noise – Heatpipe quality not optimal

Conclusion

We almost award the "Tested" award, because the card does exactly what you expect from it. Nevertheless, we struggle with a purchase tip in that it is a rather expensive niche solution, which can ideally be a perfect solution, but for the wide number of buyers of a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is eliminated.

Those who have really committed themselves to air OR water will surely find better and cheaper offers in both areas. You have to be so objective about it. But those who wave and are afraid of a loss of warranty during conversion or their own motor skills are welcome to strike. The card is really not bad, but it's a little too special.

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