ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC Edition Review

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ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC Edition – The Best ASUS Has For Turing

ASUS currently has three NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card models on the market today. They have the Turbo Edition that has a blower style GPU cooler that boosts up to 1560MHz, a dual-fan OC edition that boosts upwardly to 1650MHz and and so you have the flagship ROG STRIX model with three fans that boosts up to 1665 MHz. Today we'll be taking a look at the best that ASUS has to offer, the ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC Edition that is available for $1249.

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 OC

The ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC is simply a behemoth every bit it takes upward 2.7 slots thanks to a massive GPU cooler that is topped off with three centric-tech cooling fans. When it comes to clock speeds the ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC Edition comes out of the box running at a 1350 MHz base clock with a boost clock of up to 1650 MHz. If you install the optional ASUS GPU Tweak II software utility y'all tin can run the bill of fare in OC manner that allows information technology to boost up to 1665 MHz. This is 120 MHz higher than the base specification for this model and 30 MHz higher than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Atomic number 26. The ASUS design for this model stretches the length out to 12-inches, then it is roughly one.5-inches longer than 2080 Ti Fe. When it comes to retentivity, this model has 11GB of GDDR6 memory running at fourteen Gbps simply like the 2080 Ti reference specs and FE models.

ROG STRIX 2080 Ti OC GeForce RTX 2080 FE GeForce RTX 2080
Boost Clock 1665 MHz (OC)
1650 MHz (Gaming)
1835 MHz (Silent)
1635 MHz 1545 MHz
Base Clock 1365 MHz (OC)
1350 MHz (Gaming)
1335 MHz (Silent)
1350 MHz 1350MHz
11GB GDDR6 14 Gbps fourteen Gbps 14 Gbps
Length 12″ 10.v″ 10.5″
Cost $1249.99 $1199.99 $1099.99

ROG STRIX 2080 Ti Retail Box

The card that we are reviewing today is the ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Overclocked Edition 11GB GDDR6 that is sold under part number ROG-STRIX-RTX2080Ti-O11G-GAMING. This model is backed past a 3-year warranty and is priced at $1249.99 shipped.

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 OC Front

The ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 ROG STRIX Ti OC Edition has an all blackness finish with bold angles for a mod look.

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 OC LED Lights

The ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC has RGB lighting around the top and bottom of the fan shroud to help boost the visual appeal for RGB enthusiasts effectually the world.

ROG Strix 2080 Ti Video Card Back

Hate RGB lights? Just below the NVLINK bridge connector at that place is a large on/off button that controls the RGB lighting! This is swell news for those that don't want to install ASUS Aura Sync software to control the lights. This is also a good time to bespeak out that ASUS includes a total coverage backplate on the STRIX RTX 2080 Ti that looks actually precipitous.

ROG STRIX 2080 Ti RGB Off Switch

Moving around to the end of the carte du jour you'll observe two viii-pivot ability connectors with LED lights to let you know if the power is hooked up correctly. ASUS recommends a 650W ability supply for this model. Annotation that in order to have the best cooling performance, the ASUS STRIX-RTX-2080TI-O11G-GAMING occupies 2.7 slots. Please double bank check yous PC case and motherboard layout to ensure that this 12-inch long card won't exist an issue.

2080 Ti BIOS Switch

Spinning the card around and looking at the top edge of the PCB, you'll discover a dip switch that controls the cards 2 vBIOS profiles. The labeling on board is poorly done, only to the left is Performance 'P' Mode and to the correct is Serenity 'Q' Mode. Our carte du jour shipped in Performance mode and co-ordinate to ASUS that will requite us 40% lower temperatures at the cost of more fan noise. Flipping the switch over to quite fashion will give yous around 15-25% less racket, but the card will run hotter. Nosotros left the board in 'P' Style for testing, but used GPU Tweak software to run the card in 'OC' Mode and nosotros'll talk about that in a minute. You can switch between two BIOS profiles without whatsoever software, only to run the highest manufacturing plant clock speeds you'll need to use ASUS GPU Tweak II.

ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 OC Display Outputs

When it comes to display connectors it looks like ASUS deviated from the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Atomic number 26 carte and offers two DisplayPort and HDMI connectors forth with the VirtualLink USB-C port. The motion away from 3 DisplayPort connectors might upset some with an NVIDIA Surround monitor setup, but in that location are others with a dual-monitor setup that would like to have two HDMI ports.

STRIX 2080 Ti Diagram

We won't exist fully tearing down our review sample since nosotros want to preserve the factory thermal interface material for future testing. So, nosotros'll include some ASUS marketing slides that show y'all the internal layout. It also shows that ASUS is using their Automobile-Extreme production procedure and uses a metal frame to reinforce the PCB.

STRIX 2080 Ti Power Phase Design

ASUS went with a 16+three power phase (Super Alloy Ability 2) blueprint on their STRIX RTX 2080 Ti for enhanced immovability and efficiency. This shot too clearly shows the location of the RGB header for those that desire to sync the card with ASUS Aureola Sync software.

GPU Tweak II

We installed the ASUS GPU Tweak II utility in order to become the most performance we could from the ROG STRIX-RTX2080 Ti graphics card. This ways that we used the utility to run fix the card to OC Fashion to accept the highest clock speeds out of the box for benchmarking. Yous can still manually overclock the carte du jour for higher clock speeds and we'll do just that in our overclocking section.

Let'due south accept a quick look at the test system and then we'll await at how the ROG-STRIX-RTX2080Ti performs in some games and applications.