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hello hey Josh I left my define s and our six in the same room together last night and now there's a third case like what's going on oh right never had a baby let me guess it's got a PSU shroud flexible yeah actually wait hold on how do two computer cases you know make a baby I don't have time to explain this to you you need to know how humans do it first I gotta go okay okay I gotta ask you guys do you like touch dust filters or something is Lou be the non-conductive is there thermal paste involved and if so you know where does it go now stay in silent okay good talk just wrap it up next time I'm running out of space the define s2 from fractal design features front panel USB C ample water cooling support and a clean interior layout for your next custom build click the link below to learn more all right is so we're doing a GPU showdown today it's gonna be sort of a battle on multiple fronts because not only are we comparing at inboard partners we're also sort of battling out different GPU architectures with Pascal and Turing going head-to-head so it should be pretty exciting guys on the left or my left here right I have the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 TI for the win three and in the other corner we have the asus rog Strix RT x 2080 gaming OC it's a classic battle of old versus new but don't underestimate the gtx 1080p i just yet it's still a very relevant card here in 2018 with superior pricing and availability to the RT x-series so hold on to your butt's people because these cards are coming in hot not into your but just in general some expression why do you look disappointed now a moment ago I briefly mentioned pricing and availability so let's talk about that really quick on Amazon right now you can find this EVGA card for a whopping 810 --is-- dollars u.s. which is pretty steep IMO however it is in stock and you can purchase it right now on the other hand the Strix r-tx 2080 is going for eight hundred and sixty nine dollars on new egg right now which is not a whole lot more than our for the win three card when you're paying nearly a grand for a graphics card because our TX is a fresh GPU launch it's near impossible to find these cards right now at semi reasonable rates and it could be weeks if not months until we see them reach normal supply levels also you should definitely consider other GTX 1080p eyes that aren't this one because there are cheaper options out there that can be had for a lot less than either of the cards we're talking about today so moving on to the overall design of these cards aesthetics I'm not going to go over really because that's highly subjective but size is definitely objective so both of these cards actually have the exact same length at eleven point eight inches however the EVGA card is about half an inch taller so if you're anticipating GPU height clearance to be an issue in your case that's something to be aware of I do like the fact that this card keeps a very strict two slot design because that's certainly not the case on our Strix card with a two point seven slot cooler this thing is incredibly thick and I can see two main concerns here the first of which is mounting it vertically inside of your case the the GPU shroud might be rubbing up against your tempered glass side panel too closely and cutting off any circulation or air flow to the fans and that would not be good similarly in a Mini ITX case with a power supply basement that PSU shroud could be rubbing up too closely to the bottom of your card and that could also result in some heating issues so things to be aware of in those specific scenarios now if you're into RGB lighting you might be disappointed but the Strix isn't the most conducive to vertical mounting because most of its lighting elements are on that side of the shroud there's a little bit of backlit ROG branding on the front but it's definitely not as much and we have 100% of our lighting on the front side of our EGA card you can see it's just very blatant in-your-face no lighting whatsoever on the bottom of the card so if you vertically mounted this guy you wouldn't be able to see much lighting unless you are looking from above both cards have dual eight pin power connectors and bio switches to target performance or acoustics but the Strix card also has a stealth button that will allow you to kill all the RGB lighting in one fell swoop it also has an addressable a 12 volt four pin addressable RGB LED header and two four pin pwm fan headers on it that will ramp up or down depending on the temperatures of your GPU as far as GPU sag is concerned the gtx 1080i is has virtually no set it's pretty straight across the board it feels very secure when mounted in there the Strix has the slightest amount of GPU sag it's so minimal that most people won't notice unless they're actively looking for it I think my main concern here is how much worse that might get over time due to that thicker heavier heatsink now the rear i/o and graphics cards is typically not very interesting but I think it's worth pointing out that the r-tx cards are featuring that new virtual link USB type-c connector so that if you want to seamlessly connect a next-generation VR headset you can do so over a single USB type-c cable both of these cards have received the triple fan treatment but the GPU on the Strix card is actually staying about two degrees cooler on average thanks to several things including these new axial tech fans that increase the amount of static pressure that's firing downward onto the fin array the larger fin stack in general is just providing more surface area and you've got things like the max contact technology from Asus that they've carried over from the previous generation all those elements make this the quieter card as well that's not to say that our 1080 Ti is super loud or anything it's actually I got really good acoustics but the Asus card is just it's just bragging rights at this point it's just so impressive how damn silent it is under load so here's a quick sound test so you can hear for yourself now both of these cards ship factory overclocked but that doesn't mean we can't push them further so you can see here that we actually had a bit more headroom on our core clock for our Strix card and so I was actually able to push the the core clock offset for that a lot further whereas our EVGA card clearly had more Headroom when it came to memory these are the final settings that I used for all today's testing along with the latest driver from Nvidia that's wickel driver for sixteen dot sixteen jumping into our benchmarks you can see in fire strike ultra the GTX 1080 Ti has a pretty substantial lead but as we've seen in the past this doesn't always reflect real-world performance as we're about to see in a bit as far as game testing goes I did omit 1080p benchmarks one because I wanted to reduce the amount of CPU bottlenecking so that we can just see these cards shine without being bogged down by any CPU performance and two because of relevancy I think if you're buying a card that's $700 or more you're probably gonna be gaming at resolutions higher than 1080p so with that said here's a look at our 1440p results you can see I've bunched all the games together today now apart from Pascal edging out Turing in ashes of the singularity the results here are basically identical remember there's a margin of error here from 1 to 2% and even our 1% lows are basically the same across the board so it seems at least at 1440p if performance is the only thing you care about you really can't go wrong with either of these cards it's a pretty split drop i thought maybe things would change a little at 2160p but no same story here and it looks like EVGA has added doomed to its short list of victories but apart from that this is the closest performance stalemate between two GPUs that I've seen in quite some time what the scores do show us is that these cards can easily hit 100 FPS at 1440p and 60 FPS at 4k in most triple-a titles at max settings now wrapping things up here if you're absolutely set on purchasing one of these pricier high-end options the Strix r-tx 2080 is is the go-to card if you care about early adopter technologies like ray tracing DL SS and next-gen VR there's always that risk with early adopting because you don't know how the technology is going to perform let alone if you're going to enjoy it in the first place so that's something that you'll have to decide for yourself the Strix definitely runs cooler and quieter than its competitor but it's also the bulkier of the two so it's less ideal for vertical mounting and mini ITX cases now you want a GPU stat if you need one right now then go at the for the win three because this card isn't actually available right now you can purchase it today if you wanted to like I just said it's not as cool or quiet as the Strix but noise and temps are still great overall just beware if GPU high clearance is an issue in your case this is a tall card now if you want my personal take and you just want me to decide for you I would go with the RT X 2080 just because it's the newer architecture it still has a long way to go there's still a lot of optimizations that can be had in the driver and game development department whereas I don't know the 10th series has kind of run most of its course at this point we're probably not going to see much more improvement with future driver releases as we will with RT X hypothetical scenarios aside though I would highly suggest that you guys check out some of the other gtx 980ti offerings that can be had for quite a bit less money than either of these cards despite their power and beauty that's gonna do it for me guys let me know what your thoughts are in the comments below feel free to toss a like on this video if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech content on the way if you'd like to start watching my videos a whole week early without ads you can check me out on floatplane for three bucks a month I'll put a link for that in the video description until next time guys thanks again for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next