- The RTX 2000 series has brought many a conflict,
feelings between that of ups and down,
though this card right here, the Asus Strix ROG 2080 Ti,
is definitely one of the uppers
when it comes to this line of Turing graphics cards.
Booting straight into the details: overclocks.
This one was a solid overclock,
gaining about 140 megahertz on the core,
and memory close to that of 200 megahertz.
This enabled, as I'll put up on the graph here,
a max core clock of 1965 megahertz out of the box,
and when overclocked, it hit an absolute mind-boggling
2115 megahertz on the core.
And the best thing was, it still managed to do so
whilst remaining relatively quiet,
though more on that later.
This enabled this card right here
to pull anywhere from 30 to 50% ahead in the benchmarks,
as we'll see later, when compared to that of
the custom gigabyte RTX 2080 overclock we have here,
and also the GTX 2080 Ti OC that is also here
in the TechYeah studio, so strap on in,
ladies and gentlemen, because this on is about to get
hot, pretty, and downright ugly.
That weird analogy, of course,
relates to the inner struggle between you and your wallet,
because make no doubt about it,
the 2080 Ti is an expensive card.
(upbeat rock music)
The Asus 2080 Ti ROG Strix weighs in at
about 1.47 kilogram, is triple slot in my eyes,
although Asus officially calls it 2.7 times.
It has RBG LED lighting in the rear, sides,
and underneath of the card
that is controllable via software
and can connect to or sync on your motherboard
and other components.
There are three 80 mil axial fans
tat feature an all around better design
than previous models that are IP 5X dust-resistant too,
something I'll test in due time
with the DataVac, of course.
Asus are also implementing auto-extreme technology,
which has to do with soldering of the components
on the card itself.
It's automated and it's all done in one pass,
hinting to the fact that it would be
more aligned with the product,
which will go the longer distance.
It also, in my opinion, has one of the best aesthetics
of any graphics card today.
Though, of course, how does it perform
at both 1440p ultrawide and 4K, might you ask?
Well, pulling up the first graph here for you guys,
Far Cry 5, 1440p, showing that there's a small boost
at this ultrawide setting.
At this stage, it was only taking the lead here
by roughly 20%, but 4K results were soon to show
that this was more of a CPU limitation
than 1440p ultrawide, and honestly, a CPU limitation
on a demanding title like Far Cry 5
on maximum settings at 21 by 940 and 40p
is no small feat, might I add.
I'm running these tests on a 7820x
at 4.5 gigahertz, and DDR4 memory
is running at 3200 megahertz.
Moving on with Scum.
The results showed anywhere near a 30 to 35% gain
at 1440p ultrawide, and then moving onto 4K
showed a similar trend continuing,
though PubG was soon to show what the ROG RTX 2080 Ti
was really capable of, gaining roughly a 40 to 50% boost
over the other cards here.
I honestly had to go back and
double check these numbers to make sure,
but sure enough, 1440p and 4K showed some massive gains,
allowing the overclocks on this graphics card itself
to flex over even its default clocks.
Moving on with Destiny, just a PG-friendly benchmark
of me plying some soccer at the farm,
and 1440p showed an average framerate,
pulling ahead by, again, roughly 45 to 51%
compared to the 1080 Ti.
4K continued a similar trend,
managed to cap an impressive 52%
overclocked versus overclocked,
though I could've received a golden sample here.
Well, maybe that's just as Asusa's claims
of implementing the best style of air cooler in the buiz
are showing some truth.
Though, it was pretty eye-opening to see
how aggressive the results were
when looking at the overclocked numbers,
though looking at our simulated 2880p
World of Warcraft benchmark,
this is over double the pixels of 4K, by the way.
Things came back down a bit here to reality,
and our simulated results only showed
a 24 to 27% increase over the 1080 Ti
and the RTX 2080, then around a 30% difference
overclocked versus overclocked.
Next up, we had the infamous Crisis 3
and that question that didn't get answered
in the RTX 2080 review.
If you haven't seen it, I'll put it up here,
was can it run Crisis at 4K,
and we were honestly so close to
that magical 4K 60FPS number, it was disheartening.
It got almost there, 58 FPS
when it was overclocked,
and we're using very high settings,
which is pretty much the max settings you can use,
with two times MSAA.
And here it's scored overclock versus overclock,
around about a 38 to 49% lead
over the other two top dogs in the race,
and non-OC, 30 and 40% over the 2080
and 1080 Ti respectively,
though 1440p was roughly the same as 4K,
so the CPU limitations were not present
in either benchmarks.
The Final Fantasy XV benchmark, they do say
it does have DLSS enabled.
This netted some massive gains for the 2080 Ti,
not just over that of the 1080 Ti,
interestingly enough, but also its little brother, the 2080.
It was nearly a 33 and 36% gain
overclocked versus overclocked versus the boys,
and non-OC saw a 27 and 30% increase respectively.
And moving on with some other simulated benchmarks,
and these are pretty important because,
unfortunately, I don't have
any other 2080 Ti cards here
to compare the ROG card to,
so it's going to give you, the viewer,
a rough estimate of how well
this card can perform at both stock
and at overclock settings,
and the overclock settings indeed showed
nearly a 10% boost in performance
over the stock settings, which is massive,
especially on a flagship card,
but it also showed how well the card could pull ahead
of both itself and the 1080 Ti,
scoring about 48% more points,
and roughly 40% more than the RTX 2080 from gigabyte,
though Firestrike showed a mere 23% increase
over the 1080 Ti, and roughly 30%
over the RTX 2080.
Guess it needs more magical eye candy
for it really to pull ahead.
Of course, at this stage, it is important to mention
that I'm still yet to come into
any real world applications that utilize
tentacles and ray tracing.
The star reflections demo was capped at 24 FPS,
and it's just not really a good benchmark
to get any solid indicator of performance
with these graphics cards,
especially since there's no gameplay involved in it.
Though, back to the Strix itself.
Power consumption was quite big,
both stock and overclocked,
coming in well ahead of that of
both the 2080 and 1080 Ti.
Stock total system power consumption
is up nearly 31% compared to that of the 2080,
and 15% compared to the 1080 Ti.
Overclocking sees the consumption balloon out
to 47% and 30% respectively, of course,
with a lot more Cuda Cores at 4352
than both the 2080's 2944 and 1080 Ti's 3584,
it is bound to use a bit more power.
It also features the faster GDDR6 memory,
same as the 2080, and has 11 gigabytes of it
verus eight gigabytes on the 2080
and 11 gigabytes of GDDR5X on the 1080 Ti.
It also, just like the 1080 Ti,
features a mind-boggling 352 bit wide memory boss,
bigger than that of the 2080's 256 bit.
Though fan speeds and noise, this is where Asus's
implementation of their cooler proved that
the 2080 Ti Rog Strix showed they could
easily keep the heat under control,
and the sweet spot here was 60% fan speeds, in my opinion,
though people who hate noise will be glad to see that
I actually had to physically stop
the CPU cooling fans to get an accurate reading
of 39 DB when it was on auto.
So yes, the temperatures went up to 75 degrees on auto,
but the noise was ridiculously low for a flagship card,
and the fans only spun up to 35%.
I mean, it could just be that this Strix here
is indeed the best Strix of them all.
Though Max Core Clocks, as we mentioned before,
showed that this card pulled well ahead
in the overclocking department,
so it seems Asus's claims
to having the best implementation of a cooler
are coming to fruition,
beating that of gigabyte's
lower power consuming 2080 by roughly 5%.
Lastly, finishing off on the features,
the card features a three year warranty,
has an additional button
to turn RGB LED lighting off instantly,
and when this card is set to auto,
that's the out of the box settings,
it has a silent fan feature.
When they idle on the desktop,
the fans will just simply stop spinning.
It also has a fatter PCB at 11 and a half centimeters,
at least compared to the standard design
of the RTX 2080 we have here.
It also has two eight pin connectors,
USB type C at the back, and two display ports,
and two HDMI 2.0 outs.
Which I do prefer, as a lot of people who I built PCs for
do tell me they like having an HDMI
for their basic monitor, and one for VR,
so it fits the bill nicely.
It also has a clean back plate
with the ROGI RGB shining through,
and finally, there is a brace
going through the side of the card
to help prevent GPU sag.
Quite a nice idea, since the card is very heavy and bulky.
So, when it all comes down to it,
this card right here is a beast.
Out of all the graphics cards I have tried in the past,
I like this thing the most,
only ever so slightly over
the hall of fame design, however.
I do really like that too.
But I'm honestly not liking the price tag.
It is very expensive for a gaming graphics card,
make no mistake.
I actually don't know the official MSRP in Australia,
but going by previous years of ROG Strix cards,
will mostly likely command a slight premium
over the reference MSRP.
At the moment, Nvidia's 1199 USD Founders' card,
or Anoz 1899 ES2 slot
has a massive amount of unnecessary metal on it
that doesn't help to cool the card,
and doesn't look anywhere near as good as
this card right here in my opinion,
so if it's anything to go by,
the premium is going to be easily worth it
for basically a card that has had
everything beefed up on it,
from the PCB, to the VRM, to the cooler,
which will enable you to overclock
to higher levels of performance,
or have extremely low levels of noise,
which on a flagship, is dare I say, highly desirable.
Yes, it's expensive, and no,
you're not going to get the best frames per dollar,
but I can't help but actually like the 2080 Ti
a lot more than the 2080 especially,
as it actually gives us something new,
and that is higher performance
over the existing flagship.
But if you are in the market for this card
and you're going to know that
you either want it or you don't,
and if you are that person who wants a 2080 Ti
and you want the best of the best,
then this is certainly going to deliver that,
and if premium is what you are prepared to pay,
then this thing will definitely give you
a premium experience.
Anyway, guys, hope you enjoyed today's review.
If you did, then be sure to overclock that like button.
Let me know in the description below,
have you ever used a Republic of Gamers card?
If so, what was your experience like with it?
If not, do you want one?
Love reading your thoughts and opinions, as always,
and I'll catch you in the next tech video very soon.
Peace out for now, bye.
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