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this is the asus rog Strix r-tx 28 an overclocked beast with a hefty price tag it's going on sale October 17th that's tomorrow from today's filming for around 850 a US dollars that's right so we compare this garden tour 1080 Ti I want you to keep that in mind 1080 eyes are selling for between 7 and 800 USD in the new market making them slightly cheaper than their r-tx counterparts with minimal performance losses but again we're talking about Pascal and not touring but we all know what was going on with Nvidia in my past videos I think that they're playing on a future of ray tracing and hoping devs catch on sooner rather than later but if you're considering our KX 2080 for the time being this one from Asus is the one you should strongly consider and here's why I've made my propensity to resist RT x anything but a secret these last couple of months I do think this card is overpriced I do think the used market holds true value at the moment and I do believe a huge chunk of this card's architectural features will go unused for several months if not years again it all comes down to the games you play and the settings you enable but let's assume for the intent of this video that you're sold on this generation of cards why is this one of the top contenders well I put it through the ringer several torture workloads and coding scenarios and games in 1440p and 4k buying this card for 1080p by the way makes absolutely no sense at all i'm referring to gaming it won't be tested in this video so don't expect to see it in fact our CPU often becomes the bottleneck at this resolution so it make no sense to test it in this resolution anyway starting with this card's design I think it's one of the sexiest on the market it stays true to the original Strix form but with added Flair and subtle improvements basically everywhere for starters it sports a beefier cooler no doubt to accompany the roughly 225 watt TDP card we'll talk about power draw later and oddly enough despite having a lower value than a 1080 Ti and video recommends a beefier power supply for its Turing lineup this may be attributed more or less to sharper fluctuations and clock speed under load this card does overclock just a bit and we'll get to that soon as well other physical qualities I'm enjoying here the black now back plate that's a nice touch you'll find two HDMI ports to display ports and a USB type-c port for virtually support and VR that will become the standard I expect very soon I find it strange ledee soos decided to strip its card of the third DisplayPort connection that's something the FE model does have so if you were hoping to link up three DisplayPort monitors discreetly you'll need to look elsewhere that's kind of a letdown these HDMI ports however are USB 2.0 be compatible meaning that you could run 1440p at a high refresh rate assuming your monitor supports a connection as well via the same interface which honestly is a rare find all this to say it's typically much easier just to deal with display ports because you know that your resolution and refresh rate are more than likely going to be supported which is why this is such a bummer to see the shroud of the Strix 2080 is plastic inline with LEDs throughout these can be changed with aces or a software and/or a via dedicated on/off switch built straight into the top of the card this is convenient for those uninterested in dealing with RGB x' at all and I like the the subtle touch they're a large geforce r-tx logo spans the side of the card along with smaller Strix and rog logos the latter of which is LED illuminated to sync with the remainder of the lighting scheme also on this side are two eight pin supplemental power connectors something we'll be sure to test in this video we'll grab power draw from these wires assuming a saturated PCI slot and take note of node temps as well just in case you were interested in just a little more detail there by the way a nifty addition is a BIOS toggle dead center P mode stands for performance and does exactly what it says while Q mode keeps things nice and quiet at the expense of clocks or so the claim is so we'll be able to customize this further of a GPU tweak tools and whatnot but I do want to test that in this video lastly on this side is the envy link setup if you were wanting to tag-team two of these cards which would cost you upwards of $2000 that's beside the point now the backplate is a metal and purely an aesthetic play it carries no thermal properties since no thermal pads align the space between it and the custom PCB underneath it's always a nice added touch that I like to look for in cards of this caliber but I don't see that here I am glad that the backplate does exist though and I'm glad the ROG logo lights up again it is better synced by the way with the remainder of the cards lighting scheme so it won't say look blue when the LEDs elsewhere up here are white and so something I noticed with my Strix 1070 I do want to bring up the nickel plated copper cooler one more time before diving into the benchmarks it's definitely been upgraded over the previous gen stuff and as a result is slightly thicker than before and because stirring doesn't run to much hotter than Pascal in general that means this card's gonna run extra cool under load now much like it's 20 atti sibling this one ridges and deep into the third PCI slot meaning things will be cramped if you decide to stash two of these in a system with a single slot between this by the way it's what you'd have to do if you intend on saturating both 16 Lane slots on some motherboards in fact most of them have that single slot in between you know two slot thick cards just something to keep in mind by the way just above the coolers are these cool fans three of them with blades connected to their circular chassis we'll see how this helps or hurts the Kart and we run our sound test so starting with gaming performance you'll find between three and five different benchmark scenarios in the upcoming graphs I've got my trusty EVGA GTX 1080 I bought for 300 bucks just as the value proposition in today's video a gtx 1080i gaming overclocked sent from gigabyte and three different passes with this card right here depending on the scenario I ran a couple of tests with quiet mode enabled instead of performance mode just to pick up on the margin and I also played around with manual overclocking for the highest stable frequencies I could obtain those were a 2000 70 megahertz at poor and 70 700 megahertz on the memory this card was very difficult to overclock past its out-of-the-box frequencies which are already considerably higher than its founders Edition counterparts so out of the box was about 1950 and then 7000 megahertz on memory so very good to be honest and that means that if you don't feel like manually overclocking you're not gonna lose much in terms of performance these are the set ups and other components used it's the same as always feel free to pause we want to look at this in more detail otherwise here we can go now something else to keep in mind while analyzing these results is that this is by no means an apples to apples comparison between a twenty eighty and a ten atti obviously the gtx 1080 just plain old 1080 is at a disadvantage all around but in the real world we'd expect a typical 1080p eye to keep up with a typical 2080 now ever since the gigabyte card we're using here isn't particularly beefy or enthusiasts great I would say the gap is slightly larger than what you might have seen from other reviewers typically these cards will trade blows I did manually overclock the gigabyte card just a bit more than stock to make up for some of this difference but both power and thermal imitations prevented me from getting very far starting first with the superposition benchmark we see a solid lead for our Strix 2080 when manually overclocked though it oddly falls behind our 1080 Ti under stock conditions in fact our 1080 SC isn't even far behind these 2080 results this is likely attributed to external optimization factors because this doesn't actually replicate itself in other tests another thing we notice here is that the difference between quiet and performance profiles is entirely negligible when seen in the context of short gaming spurts in fact throughout my testing the two profiles were nearly indistinguishable which is why I stuck to the performance setting for the duration of these tests is just a validation of sorts we'll discuss audible differences shortly so stay tuned for that now 3d mark time spy reveals a more expected result our 2018 edges out a victory under stock conditions and blows away its competition when manually overclocked past 2000 megahertz the extreme version of this benchmark which you're seeing here is a 4k synthetic just FYI up next is GTA 5 and 1440p and virtually max settings save anti-aliasing 20/80 takes the cake with an average frame rate of 139 dropping to 91 among the lowest 1% of frames recorded the 1080 Ti mind you wasn't far behind only four frames on average which is arguably within the margin of error at these high frame rates another important note the gap between these contenders and the 1080 is quite wide so a noticeable jump there and 4k reveals a similar story the 2080 and 1080 TI trade blows near 90 FPS while the 1080 struggles to keep things above 60 this is for K maxed after all so it actually isn't too bad when seen in the context of a $300 graphics card now our SAS ins Creed Odyssey is up next and this thing cost me 60 bucks and all I'll ever probably do with it is benchmark so you better believe I threw it in this video the 18:10 atti achieved 64 and 62 FPS on average respectively while attend 80 edges out just under 48 1% lowest fall in line with around 45 FPS for a to more powerful cards in 4k things become very difficult though I couldn't even hit 60fps on average with either card in the ultra preset and the 1080 rendered a scene that was practically unplayable this thing crushes GPUs and frame buffers F 1 2017 was a bit of a relief between our heaviest benchmarks the 2080 clearly wins across the board here and the 1080 closes the lead surprisingly in 4k this game is playable in both resolutions with all cards in this ultra preset shadow of the Tomb Raider was a tough one for all in question I promised I would include this one instead of rise of the Tomb Raider from now on barely 70 FPS in 1440p just over 45 and 4k this game was unplayable in the 4k ultra preset with a 1080 though we shouldn't be surprised by this one thing I did notice was a slightly higher 1% low average in the 4k resolution for the 1080 Ti at 32 fps this card edged out a narrow win with respect to stuttering and lower frame rate scenarios perhaps a testament to the current state of drivers for turing cards lastly we looked at pub G for a bit of fun in the sand hawk map in 1440p I was pleasantly surprised 133 FPS is no laughing matter despite the inconsistent stuttering associated with poor optimisation standards these results across the board are to be expected nothing out of the ordinary to report on here now with respect to power draw under load conditions I do want you to remember that this is a custom PCB designed for higher power tolerances not that you'll be able to push things past about 125 percent or so that's respect to the power limit imposed by Nvidia themselves this card when fully maxed out we'll pull approximately 310 watts from the wall assuming a fully soaked PCIe slot using a clamp meter on the hot lines running through the dual 8 pins and adding 75 watts to account for PCIe draw we're just breaking 300 watts which puts us somewhere in the realm of 30% additional power consumption for this particular model over the FE model running a stock config out of the box bumps this figure down to approximately 285 watts with the same assumption which should place most gamers in a comfortable spot with a 6 to 700 watt power supply though I should note that a Singh GPU CPU config in the consumer space at least should still be perfectly fine with something as low as a 500 watt power supply if absolutely necessary all in all these are the results we should expect from AI be partners with BV custom implementations they always consume more power than their founded editions or reference standards and this card is certainly no exception though I think that the pros outweigh the cons in this case a few additional comments I'd like to make for starters the Asus Strix 2080 I tested had little to no coil whine which was a nice change from the gigabyte 1080 Ti that coil one on that card was louder than the fans themselves under load oh my gosh and I'm being serious here just a bit excessive another thing that struck me with the Asus card was how quiet it was under load even in the performance BIOS preset I could hear the CPU cooler more than I could the fans on the graphics card under load and that's saying a lot because the dark ROC TF i was using from be quiet is in fact very quiet already temperatures under load and made performance config barely scraped 66 degrees Celsius in our unit in heaven loop and with the manual overclock to roughly 2070 megahertz that number of jumped by a mere four degrees to 70 C under load needless to say we had plenty of headroom left over as a testament to both how beefy this cooler is and how efficient the custom PCB is it's just a shame that we couldn't push things higher from voltage stand points or just from from power limits stand points because this car has so much more potential when it's being locked by the bios and by Nvidia so this card really is just it's a card that you're gonna buy more or less for being quiet than for being an excellent overclocker because you'll run into other limitations apart from just thermal limitations because this court has way more headroom than it actually needs given the constraints and NVIDIA puts on it by the way and I entered this earlier if you aren't as interested in manual overclocked switch make anywhere between a four and eight percent difference on paper you'll be better off in the quiet BIOS config frame rates go virtually unchanged in situations where airflow is ample and the card stays ultra quiet in the process the quiet mode just forces this card to keep the fans a little quieter which means that when things get a little hotter the card's gonna you know down clock the the and here's dynamic it has been since Pascal you next what does it so when the card gets pretty hot then the clock speed that the core will actually drop a little bit to compensate but because this cooler is so beefy up front and there's really no thermal limitation associated with this card so it's never gonna hit a point at which the clock speeds need to drop significantly and that's why I don't think there's really even a point to have a quiet versus performance bios switch on this card because that's not the issue at all here speaking of which when manually overclock the asus strix 2080 didn't exceed forty six decibels in our testing placing it just below our EVGA 1070 TI which is a triple slot card and is also overclocked this is one of the quietest cards i've ever tested believe it or not and without a screeching coil whine will run under the radar in most rigs with a decent airflow metrics so I'm willing to conclude with my hands tied that this is one of the best r-tx 2080s on the market both in terms of performance and audible metrics it crushes games and even the 4k resolution and you saw here how we basically maxed out all in game settings so cutting back on these just a bit should yield at least 60 FPS and nearly all triple-a titles today in that resolution but the elephant in the room is of course the price this thing is not cheap it's actually about $200 more expensive than the gtx 980ti compared this to in this video meaning from a strictly frame per dollar perspective the r-tx 2080 is a much worse value and there's no other way to put it the way I see it the only reason why you should buy this card is if you plan the game at 4k but can't afford a 20 atti and if price is that big of a concern to you compromising on a 1080p eye instead should still get the job done I'm in a predicament here because I absolutely love this card I just hate the prices at which these things are launched and look if this thing was selling for around 700 bucks I'd be all over and I would never recommend a 1080 TI again and in my opinion that's where the price of this card should be I think it should be around 700 to 750 bucks but NVIDIA has other plans and that includes liquidating its ex as Pascal inventory so if you want to save money you got to buy the older gender kind of forcing your hands here it's still perfectly viable in 2018 but not the newest and that's a problem for some people they gotta have the newest and greatest and they'll be sure pay for it so look if you're gonna get an RT X 2080 if you're absolutely set on the 2080 and nothing can change your mind look here by this one no one's paying me to say this and I have a few other 2082 laying around so nothing special - how is treated here by a soos I just think it's the best one of the bunch it's the best looking the best performing and ouch the most expensive I suppose you get what you pay for but touring is just expensive all around and I'll always circle back to that so I suppose we should stop here because like this video let me know my goodness want to come so if I appreciate it thumb thumping the opposite feeling or if you hate everything about life but you leave a comment down below now little thumbs down but you can leave a comment in general I'll chat it up with you guys down there click the red subscribe button if you haven't already join us we want to become a member be a special member of the science studio family you get a little deep perks and stuff in the comment sections and live chats 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