Best GTX 1080 Ti version?

[Atrumoris]

For gaming of course. When I started looking into this graphics card I was gobsmacked when I found out how many versions of this GPU exists. There are even several versions of this card from single manufacturer. After some research I personally concluded that the best version in terms of raw power is GTX 1080 Ti - RoG Strix from Asus, while the most aesthetically pleasing is the original one, Founders Edition from Nvidia. This is, as I stated earlier, just my personal opinion and since I'm not really that much of an expert when it comes to hardware I'd like to hear it from you peeps.

BTW if you think there are even more powerful GPUs for gaming please let me know, I'd definitely like to check those out as well.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Messaggio originale di Atrumoris:

BTW if you think there are even more powerful GPUs for gaming please let me know, I'd definitely like to check those out as well.

Nvidia TITAN V is 20-30% faster than GTX 1080 Ti, Benchmarks and buying Link below-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zmKdNGWvE&t=65s


https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/

[[☥] - CJ -]

Messaggio originale di Cloud Boy:

Messaggio originale di Atrumoris:

BTW if you think there are even more powerful GPUs for gaming please let me know, I'd definitely like to check those out as well.

Nvidia TITAN V is 20-30% faster than GTX 1080 Ti, Benchmarks and buying Link below-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zmKdNGWvE&t=65s


https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/

may want to try a more legit reviewer, one that doesnt have to resort to playing music during the whole thing :/

[Kaihekoa]

Titan V isn't a gaming card and costs $3000....

[[☥] - CJ -]

Messaggio originale di Kaihekoa:

Titan V isn't a gaming card and costs $3000....

Thats true
can still be used as one though

[Monk]

He asked if there was anything better, not if it was a good option lol,, to the same point, there's always sli 1080ti's if one isn't enough :)

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Messaggio originale di ☥ - CJ -:

Messaggio originale di Cloud Boy:

Nvidia TITAN V is 20-30% faster than GTX 1080 Ti, Benchmarks and buying Link below-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zmKdNGWvE&t=65s


https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/

may want to try a more legit reviewer, one that doesnt have to resort to playing music during the whole thing :/

Both are Nvidia products, No one will gain anything by tempering those benchmarks.

Trusted reviewing source is important when comparing 2 different brands, Like AMD vs Nvidia,
or AMD vs INTEL.
To avoid bias judgement.

[John Doe]

Messaggio originale di ☥ - CJ -:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAD7H5UD5589
<333

While I had this card and it was really a good GPU (had like 10 thermal sensors for every spot), you have to be stupid to pay $1200 for it. That's overpricing at its finest.

As for the so called "binning" process, it doesn't matter if you're going to OC the GPU yourself. A FTW3 might OC more than a Kingpin or the other way around. It's a luck of the draw. Just because one card is clocked more than the other over stock clocks doesn't mean it will OC more. Only a fool would believe in that.

Out of the air cooled cards, I like Galax HOF the most due to its white PCB and rigid VRM. Out of the others, Gigabyte Waterforce Xtreme is nice with that 120mm AIO attached to the GPU. They're both expensive though. A more simple Asus Strix is likely all you need.

[Butters]

Messaggio originale di John Doe:

Messaggio originale di ☥ - CJ -:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAD7H5UD5589
<333

While I had this card and it was really a good GPU (had like 10 thermal sensors for every spot), you have to be stupid to pay $1200 for it. That's overpricing at its finest.

As for the so called "binning" process, it doesn't matter if you're going to OC the GPU yourself. A FTW3 might OC more than a Kingpin or the other way around. It's a luck of the draw. Just because one card is clocked more than the other over stock clocks doesn't mean it will OC more. Only a fool would believe in that.

Out of the air cooled cards, I like Galax HOF the most due to its white PCB and rigid VRM. Out of the others, Gigabyte Waterforce Xtreme is nice with that 120mm AIO attached to the GPU. They're both expensive though. A more simple Asus Strix is likely all you need.

I agree I got mine a lot cheaper.

Good card.

[Monk]

The binning kind of does matter, it's not as extreme with the 1080ti kingpin as on previous generations, however the guaranteed of of 2025 on air isn't something g all cards can achieve, beyond that, it is however luck of the draw, in sli it's harder still to keep the cards above 2000MHz due to temperature playing such a big role on peak clock speeds with pascal.
Having had 7 ftw3 cards be probably got a better idea than most of the sort of variance there is in the 1080ti silicon, disregarding one card that wouldn't hit stock speeds, the other 6 varied from 1950MHz to 2150MHz when overclocked, my final pair seem to be capable of 2076 and 2088MHz under water, on air they struggled to remain above 2000.
That is where the binning can help f you have money to burn, but kingpins are really designed for LN2 and serious tinkering for extreme overclockers and not really gaming.

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

Messaggio originale di Monk:

The binning kind of does matter, it's not as extreme with the 1080ti kingpin as on previous generations, however the guaranteed of of 2025 on air isn't something g all cards can achieve, beyond that, it is however luck of the draw, in sli it's harder still to keep the cards above 2000MHz due to temperature playing such a big role on peak clock speeds with pascal.
Having had 7 ftw3 cards be probably got a better idea than most of the sort of variance there is in the 1080ti silicon, disregarding one card that wouldn't hit stock speeds, the other 6 varied from 1950MHz to 2150MHz when overclocked, my final pair seem to be capable of 2076 and 2088MHz under water, on air they struggled to remain above 2000.
That is where the binning can help f you have money to burn, but kingpins are really designed for LN2 and serious tinkering for extreme overclockers and not really gaming.

Are you saying it's like sillicon lottery with CPUs - that one can be lucky to achive way above what is expected?

[Monk]

Yep.
Of my 5 failed cards I had 1 that hit 2150 and one that bit 2120 but they had faulty memory sadly, one had a dead fan that hit around 2020, one barely hit 1600 and cooked itself and a final one cooked itself but atleadt hit 1950 ish.
With 1080ti, 2000 is average, 2050 is decent 2100 is good 2150 is golden lotto won it seems.

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

Messaggio originale di Monk:

Yep.
Of my 5 failed cards I had 1 that hit 2150 and one that bit 2120 but they had faulty memory sadly, one had a dead fan that hit around 2020, one barely hit 1600 and cooked itself and a final one cooked itself but atleadt hit 1950 ish.
With 1080ti, 2000 is average, 2050 is decent 2100 is good 2150 is golden lotto won it seems.

Sweet!

Do you think it's possible to reach these kind of speed with blower fans?

[Revelene]

Messaggio originale di Monk:

The binning kind of does matter, it's not as extreme with the 1080ti kingpin as on previous generations, however the guaranteed of of 2025 on air isn't something g all cards can achieve, beyond that, it is however luck of the draw, in sli it's harder still to keep the cards above 2000MHz due to temperature playing such a big role on peak clock speeds with pascal.
Having had 7 ftw3 cards be probably got a better idea than most of the sort of variance there is in the 1080ti silicon, disregarding one card that wouldn't hit stock speeds, the other 6 varied from 1950MHz to 2150MHz when overclocked, my final pair seem to be capable of 2076 and 2088MHz under water, on air they struggled to remain above 2000.
That is where the binning can help f you have money to burn, but kingpins are really designed for LN2 and serious tinkering for extreme overclockers and not really gaming.

Not a guarentee, true, but it is very likely to get a card over 2ghz. Sounds like you just had bad luck.

Funny how you say Kingpin cards are designed for LN, yet the record holder at just under 2.5ghz used LN on a reference card.

Goes to show that Pascal really doesn't that wide of a performance metric between high binned and bottom barrell.

[Monk]

Problem is keeping the cards cool enough to maintain those speeds, once the card hits 50c ish it's dropped from its max possible clock, another drop is around 63 with a final big drop around 80c.

Yesi had bad luck getting 5 faulty cards, but I suspect most of those issues were a result of the components being swapped from the stock frame to the elites, even then, only the 2 cards that had severe heat issues (as in 90 degrees within minutes) failed to hit 2k, had 2 true winners and a trio of 'good' cards, atleast clock wise.

The reason the kingpins are designed for LN2 and extreme overclocking is the triple bios, uprated components, reinforced PCB, voltage measurement points etc all designed to make it far aside and pointless for those who don't.

[John Doe]

Messaggio originale di Monk:

The binning kind of does matter, it's not as extreme with the 1080ti kingpin as on previous generations

No, it doesn't. My reference 1080 Ti EVGA OC'ed more than the FTW3. If it did matter, then the FTW3 would have OC'ed more as it was clocked higher. Look at this:

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_1080_Ti_Xtreme_Gaming/33.html

FE overclocking higher than custom cards. You're spreading nonsense.