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.

[John Doe]

You mean, PCI-E power connectors, not ATX. ATX connectors are the motherboard ones.

[tacoshy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย John Doe:

You mean, PCI-E power connectors, not ATX. ATX connectors are the motherboard ones.

yes it is PCI-e but in the end its still atx pins...

[Monk]

Thought some of the 460's were !Ike the 1050tiand don't have additional power.

[tacoshy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Monk:

Thought some of the 460's were !Ike the 1050tiand don't have additional power.

that might be true. All the ones I had in my hands needed a 6-pin connector. And thats how I intreped it.

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Monk:

Thought some of the 460's were !Ike the 1050tiand don't have additional power.

Well they're being powered through the Motherboard (but I guess it's already obvious).

[Revelene]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Monk:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Revelene:

In the grand scheme of things, even with temp and voltage limitations of Pascal, it is quite easy to maintain over 2ghz.

Seriously, it just sounds like you have had terrible luck. Out of all the Pascal cards that have came across my bench, both personal and business, have been faulty. Faulty cards are not exactly a measure of the ability for Pascal clocks. Each card replacement worked as intended and had no problem reaching over 2ghz.

You keep saying that Kingpin is for LN2, yet the record holder is a reference card on LN2. Just goes to show that all the extras just really isn't necessary with Pascal, especially when these extras don't change the limitations of Pascal.

Yes I had bad luck,most I believe caused when they upgraded the stock ftw3 cards to the elite model with the custom shroud.

As for most hit 2GHz very few if any 1080ti boost to 2GHz out of the box, they pretty much all need to be overclocked, and when they are temperature from prolonged use, bad airflow or extra heat from sli will often drop it below that point as the max clock is hit under 50c, something no air cooled card will do under load in a case, in an open air bench for a quick boot up test is different, but I have my doubts how many 1080ti's you get in to check if they run and the do a full overclocking process on.

Pretty much all Pascal cards overclock similarly, especially 1060 and up. The only cards that didn't make it to 2ghz all the time were 1050 Ti's and lower.

I happened to have had a decent amount of 1080 Ti's pass by my bench. Getting over 2ghz was (is) always easy. It either does it stock or it just needs a simple slide of the power limit. Sometimes needed a custom fan curve. A few lower end models did need a manual overclock.

Typically overclocking 1080 Ti's never netted over 2.1ghz on air, but getting over 2ghz over 50c is quite easy. Even with some pretty terrible air cooling, like the MSI Armor, could still net 2ghz, and just under at worst, depending on case cooling efficiency.

Around 100hz difference for most air cooled cards is hardly yields a difference in real world performance. Get a decent air cooled card and that is about all that really matters. These extra PCB components don't really do much of anything for Pascal. Even if you shunt mod, the reference model can handle the extra voltage without issue.

If one wants over 2.1ghz, then that is when you'll want to care about staying under 50c. Liquid cooling can sometimes manage over 2.1ghz, but even then voltage is still the limiting factor. Liquid cooling plus a shunt mod tends to yield close to 2.2ghz for some, but anything higher will need LN2.

So, moral of the story, get a decent air cooled card and be done with it. A 1080 Ti, is still a 1080 Ti.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

one word "Hybrid"