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welcome back to hardware unbox today I have a shiny new graphics card from gigabyte or is it Oris gigabyte horas anyway this time around it's a little less confusing because there is just a single Extreme Edition version of their new GT X 1080 Ti this latest extreme model falls under the Auris branding while the gigabyte 1080 TI uses the more traditional windforce 3x cooler back in February I got my first look at a Norris Brown product the GTX canady Extreme Edition I want two superb graphics card it was in terms of looks in design I think the Auris extreme was the best example of a GT x 1080 I've seen so what's their new 1080i model like well without going any further I can quite comfortably say that this graphics card is going to be awesome simply given the fact that it is based on the same design as the previous horas TT X 1080 extreme edition they looked at of course the GPU has been swapped out and upgraded to the 1080 TI version there's also a little more gddr5 memory it's also a bit faster as well so standard 1080 Ti stuff then it's almost disappointing there isn't anything radically new to explore that said though the previous model is only a few months old and it did bring about a number of refinements over the Gigabyte extreme models that came before it the Auris extreme kept the GTX 1080 at around 60 degrees when gaming and even with the maximum overclock applied it didn't hit 70 degrees perhaps more impressive was how quite the card remained went under maximum low to date I've only checked out the Nvidia founded edition of the GT x 1080 Ti and that quickly hits around 80 degrees when gaming and will go as high as 84 degrees before it starts to throttle and that's with an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees so it's a hot bit of kit and not in a good way this means overclocking with the founder's Edition is likely compromised due to this high operating temperature so I'm keen to see what the Auris model can do as this is essentially the same cooler found on the GTX 1080 Ti model reviewed a few months ago I will just quickly cover a few of the important details the largest detail of them all is of course that mass wind forced a cooling system which employs three 100 millimeter fans featuring an innovative overlapping design one of the coolest features though can be found on the backside of the graphics card that awesome looking or ass backplate with the copper insert previously gigabyte claims the copper insert reduced the GPU load temperature by three degrees the claim being that it did this by removing built-up heat on the backside of the PCB mixed results were found no and it seemed for the most part the conference that made little to no difference honestly though I wasn't too concerned by this and it is difficult to prove false advertising here of course the main reason I didn't really care about this like most people is I thought it looked awesome and it really helped to the extreme edition standout the copper plate also featured small raised fins which help to dissipate heat by maximizing the surface area additionally there were also a few thermal pads found on the backplate which helped remove built-up heat from the VRMs adding a bit of bling to the card is of course RGB lighting the LED power ex illuminates the center of the shroud while there's another LED powered Oris logo and brand name on the side creating an awesome effect for those with case windows there's also a large LED logo on the back plate as well so gigabytes RGB game is again on point here removing the cooler reveals a massive copper base that covers not just the GPU but also the gddr5 X memory chips there's also six very long six millimeter thick copper heat pipes snaking their way through two large arrays of aluminium fins by removing the cooler we now have access to the PCB and what we have here is a completely reworked masterpiece that measures 267 millimeters long and 121 millimeters tall gigabyte has employed a 12 plus to power phase design which when compared to the seven phase in video reference design should allow the extreme Edition to work at lower temperatures and provide more stable voltage output both of which should improve overclocking and extend the life of the card another cool feature is the aerospace-grade PCB coating which gigabyte claims protects the graphics card and all its vital components from dust insects drop screws drill shavings and abrasion probably more useful for power users other moisture resistant properties which are said to prevent unwanted contour paths that ultimately lead to boy failure the card is also backed by the extreme care four year warranty though it isn't entirely clear if the warranty covers water damage moving on we find dual eight pin PCI Express power connectors capable of feeding the graphics card up to three hundred and thirty Watts at the end of the PCB there is an internal hdmi connector which is designed to connect to the extreme VR link module interestingly gigabyte had previously included two HDMI connectors here but now we only get one unlike the extreme gaming models that we've checked out previously the extreme additions don't appear to come in a premium pack which includes the VR link module so this would have to be purchased separately those of you want to do a little bit of overclocking can turn to the Auris xtreme software which works very well the software enables easy overclocking and allows the user to increase the thermal target as well as the power target the user can monitor the GPUs vitals and easy overclocking modes exist along with a more complex manual overclocking option voltage states can be adjusted and custom fan curves can also be created finally the all-important igb lighting can be configured here and there's a few of the more standard effects to play with out of the box the card comes at a base clock speed of sixteen hundred and seven megahertz which allows for a boost clock of at least seventeen hundred and twenty one megahertz there is an OC mode which can be enabled the click of a button and this boost the base to sixteen hundred and thirty two megahertz resulting in a boost clock speed of at least seventeen hundred and forty six megahertz this means out of the box the card comes with a 9 percent factory overclock so not bad still if you prefer to apply your own overclock let's see what can be achieved with a little bit of tinkering the core was able to accept a frequency of sixteen hundred and fifty-two megahertz while the gddr5 X memory was good for fifteen hundred megahertz or a transfer speed of twelve gigabits per second of course due to the way in videos GPU boost 3.0 works we know the card can run faster than the suggested boost clock speed is kept under the thermal and power targets in the case of the Extreme Edition this allowed the card to hold an operating frequency of two thousand and fifty megahertz after a 20-minute stress test which was most impressive for those wondering in it out-of-the-box configuration the card operated at or above 1886 megahertz under load before I do jump to the benchmarks please note this won't be a detailed benchmark review in terms of frame rate performance we already know where the 1080 Ti is positioned we're mostly interested in how much faster this horas version is than the founders Edition and we won't require more than a few games to work that out testing with battlefield one at 1440p we find the Auris gtx 980ti is good for an average of 113 fps using the ultra quality settings not bad although this is just 4% more performance from the founders edition overclocked we were able to extract 7% more performance from the Auris card hitting a very impressive 142 FPS on average while never dipping below 128 fps now at 4k we find the Auris card is 6% faster than the founders Edition and impressively 30% faster than the GTX 1080 extreme edition overclocked we were able to extract a further 5% allowing for 78 FPS with a minimum of 70 FPS that's pretty incredible formance at this extreme resolution moving a Far Cry primal the margins look much the same to what we're seeing when testing with battlefield 1 the Auris GT x 1080 TI is just 5% faster than the founders edition and once again overclocked it's squeezed out 7% more performance I was however impressed with the fact that out of the box this new OS GTX 1082 I was 31 percent faster than the older gigabyte GTX today extreme edition now 4k the Auris GT x 1080 2 I can be seen delivering 34% more frames than the gigabyte GT X 1080 extreme edition so again that is extremely impressive it was also nice to see that once overclocked we were able to break the 60 FPS barrier the last game I'm going to benchmark with is for honor and this time we find the Auris gtx 980ti delivering 8% more frames than the founders Edition once again 7% more performance was achieved by overclocking and this made the overclocked Dorris 1080 Ti an impressive 41% faster than the gigabyte GT x 1080 extreme edition the 4k performance was also very impressive and here we again find that once overclocked the horas GTX 1082 is able to break the 60 FPS barrier when it comes to power consumption the gigabyte cards are generally power-hungry critters here we can see that the vanilla GT x 1080 from gigabyte sucks more juice in the 1080i model from Nvidia meanwhile the or SD T X 1080 T I push total system consumption 15% higher than the founders edition model and 30% higher once overclocked I have to admit I was pretty surprised to see the RS gtx 980ti reach 71 degrees in our stress tests I realize that the founders Edition is still a good bit hotter at 84 degrees but even so I was expecting the Auris card to sit somewhere in the 60s however upon closer inspection I noticed how slow the fans were spinning at around 1500 rpm the founders Edition for example hums along at 2,300 rpm and while far from loud it can be heard over my case fans therefore I manually increase the fan speed to 2,000 rpm which had no noticeable impact on the operating volume and yet temperatures plummeted to just 63 degrees that's more than a 20 degree improvement over the founders Edition while still maintaining a quieter operating volume well this probably won't surprise many of you but I really love gigabytes new horas GT X 1080 Ti extreme edition there really isn't much in the way of bad things to say about this graphics card pretty much awesome but said a few small details while vastly superior to the previous generation gigabyte extreme edition graphics cards the fan shroud is still a bit flimsy the aluminium is quite thin though they've done quite a good job of reinforcing it so doesn't Bend all over the place and of course they have kept it thin to keep the weight down because this card already weighs 460 grams so it's a bit of a porker so yeah gigabyte couldn't afford to overdo it with the fan shroud also that big copper insert on the back probably doesn't help with the weight either but it looks freaking cool I guess you could complain about the card's enormous weight and claim that at risk damaging your motherboard or that the triple slot design makes it a bit of a man spreader but none of those things bother me if it's not cracking a keg don't bother charging over $700 u.s. and the more slots it takes up the more impressive it looks and the more reassured I am that spending this much money on a gaming graphics card was the right choice on a more serious note the software while quite powerful does look a tad dated and the interface is a little clumsy it also doesn't scale well on a 4k display so I a hell of a time fine tuning the overclock with my magnifying glass but what about the good stuff I hear you ask well it's big really big did I mention that the reason this is a good thing is because that big heavy cooler means that even when overclocked through the Macs it runs very cool and quiet especially if you tweak the fan profile it's not just a big intimidating lump of a graphics card either the Auris Extreme Edition lights up like a Christmas tree and I think by now it's well-established that all gamers love RGB lighting despite the slightly flimsy fan shroud overall build quality is excellent and gigabyte appears to have made good use of high quality components overall performance was excellent of course I wasn't expecting it to be world's faster than the founders edition model we pretty much know what to expect from board partner cards built around the Pascal GPUs at this point that of course being a dramatic improvement in thermal performance with a very minor bump in fps performance priced at $750 u.s. or 1240 Yazzie gigabytes flagship horas brown GG X 1080 Ti is surprisingly well priced I mean yeah by GT X 1080 TI standard that's well priced of course it's still expensive because it is a GT X 1080 CI but given that the base models start at $700 u.s. or eleven hundred and thirty Australian you aren't exactly paying a huge premium for this truly massive graphics card it's around a 10% markup for us kangaroo riding Aziz which is a bit but then the asou Strix model cost thirteen hundred and eighty dollars so by comparison the Auris is a bargain anyway let's wrap this up shall we I can highly recommend the gigabyte or s GT X 1080 Ti to anyone seeking the ultimate single GPU solution because that's exactly what it is I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys