ASUS STRIX Gaming GTX 1080 8GB Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 10.11.16Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | ||
| The GTX 1080 Strix Gaming with 8 Gigabyte of GDDR5X memory is a very quick card. The new DirectCU III cooler, which is capable of deactivating the fans, when the card is in idle does a great job. Apart from that there is a high quality power design, yet overclocking capabilities with this card are limited, since the factory OC is very close to the chips limit already. Looking at the performance this card is really fast, overclocking itself to a maximum boost clock of a staggering 2'050 MHz. Combine that with the 2560 CUDA cores, and you can grasp, that this card is seriously fast. Putting it through all the different games, we noticed, that it is capable of running at UHD smoothly even when the detail levels are high. Basically there is only one drawback with this card: it is quite expensive. Already the reference GTX 1080 is able to tear quite a hole into your pocket and the GTX 1080 STRIX from ASUS costs about 80 Euro more than the reference card. |
- Cooling
- Design - Noise level |
- Contact area of the DirectCU III cooler is not well manufactured | |
| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| As noted earlier, the DirectCU III cooler on this particular card is really powerful. We very much like the fact, that in idle this card is inaudible, since the fans are not spinning at all. Under load the card is still very silent and the cooler maintains a maximum temperature of 66°C, which is simply excellent. |
- Inaudible in 2D - Silent in 3D |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Compared to the reference design, this card features a 170 MHz factory overclock regarding the boost clock. Therefore the performance is significantly higher, than what you would be getting from a reference card. On average this card performaned 6.1 percent faster than the reference GTX 1080. When it comes to power consumption we see that our system burns 63 Watts in idle and 285 Watts under full load. Overall power consumption is on the level we expected it to be and the high quality power design helps scraping off a few Watts every here and there. |
- Perforamnce - Factory OC |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| At the moment we find this card listed in Europe for 780 Euro. At this price point the ASUS STRIX Gaming GTX 1080 8 GB is anything but cheap, but keeping in mind that this is one of the fastest single GPU cards available today, the price is adequate. As we already mentioned the this particular custom card costs about 80 Euro more than the reference model, and keeping in mind, that you get a capable but no perfect cooler as well as a complex custom PCB, the extra is just about ok. Should you be looking for an insanley fast single GPU card and should the price not be a concern, then this is an very good choice. |
- 2160p Gaming - Silent PC |
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| The ASUS STRIX Gaming GTX 1080 8GB receives excellent 4 out of 5 stars. | |||
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