Review: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X (11GB)
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Noisiv
Oh boi... that's some serious firepower.
2.5-3x faster than R9 290
Up to* 2x faster than 980Ti/FuryX
*NV/AMD lingo 😀
Ideal for 2560x1440, and perfectly viable for 4k if you're willing to drop few settings.
Hmm... 25x16 ULTRA or 4K @HIGH settings. Which one gives better IQ?
Proly 4K.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
I doubt that. They are submitting the new 1080 with all the sensors in it though.
For the 1080 Ti I expect over the next few days boards from ASUS, Zotac, Gigabyte likely next week and in roughly two weeks Palit. So that is roughly the overview of Ti boards we'll check out.
mattm4
Beast of a card, if I gamed in 4k purely this would be the one for me. Great Review!!!
Camaxide
Yey thanks - been waiting weeks for this review! 😀
C-Power
I am so glad I went for Ultrawide 3440x1440 screen, for me it's the perfect balance of pixel density, work space, and way easyer to drive then 4K while still being very impressive to game in/at.
This also seems the perfect res for the 1080TI - So yeah I'm a very happy camper - apart from the fact I have my setup-refresh planned for June, so a bit of patience required still 😀
Edit:
Also glad to see aftermarket cooling/boards is/are actually useful this time around compared to the vanilla 1080, which didn't really matter which board/cooling/FE you had, they all clocked roughly the same 🤓
Noisiv
2560x1440: bigger, easier to drive, much better for still overwhelmingly popular 16/9 content, more content compatible overall, no issues with games whatsoever. ABC reasons for being better in games
3440x1440: higher PPI(better IQ, less aliasing), much better for 21/9. XYZ reasons for being better in games.
For me anno 2017., 25x16 still wins. And only 4K is a proper upgrade.
pegasus1
My MSI FE had an Ek block on from the start, i maxed the power and temp levels and the card boosted to 1800 on its first run of Time Spy hitting 35C.
Now have it boosting to 2000mhz but waiting for Afterburners official voltage support before going permanently higher (benched stable at 2050mhz).
Han2K
750-800€ range? Based on the launch of the 1080 this MSI Gaming X (and most top tier cards) should be priced 100€ more than the FE. That's 920€ :leave:
Mufflore
Another use at 1080p is 4K DSR for anti aliasing, looks great, pushes the card hard.
And a 1080ti is extremely useful for VR. Its not all about single screen gaming.
Han2K
GTX680: "It's overkill for 1080p"
GTX780: "It's overkill for 1080p"
GTX780 Ti: "It's overkill for 1080p"
GTX980: "It's overkill for 1080p"
GTX980 Ti: "It's overkill for 1080p"
GTX 1080:"It's overkill for 1080p"
GTX 1080Ti: "It's......" and so on.
tensai28
It's finally possible to play new titles in 2160p ultra at 60fps on a single card. This is great! Unfortunately I already have a 1070 and this is a little too much for me to pay for a GPU. At least things are looking good for the next generation of GPUs. If things follow recent patterns, the next 70 card(2070?) will most likely perform equal or slightly better than this card at a lower price making it decent for 4k(granted games will become more demanding by then so you might have to knock a setting or two down on some games) and the next 80 card (2080?) will most likely be the card to have for 4k.
Solfaur
I've been waiting for this a looong time. Great review and I can't wait to see this bad boys hit the stores already. I am prepared! :eyebrows:
Glottiz
Hehe exactly. I heard "overkill for 1080p" sentence so many times for almost a decade now 😀 And then some demanding game will come out this fall that runs below 60fps on 1080Ti at 1080p and cycle will continue 😀
Netherwind
I always enjoy your reviews Hilbert, thank you!
I've ordered mine but I'm not sure when it arrives.
fantaskarsef
Thanks for the review Hilbert, much appreciated. Still love the GPU shootout, hope it gets filled with some more 1080TIs if you get the samples 😀
Solfaur
Hey, I had 2x680 lightnings (still have one as backup gpu) and believe me when I say this, the new twinfrozr coolers are way more silent. I also had 2x970s which had the twinfrozr 5 and now a 1070 (soon 1080Ti) which use twinfrozr 6. Basically with every edition the cooler became more silent.
Some months ago out of boredom I stuck in my 680 along my 1070 and I was shocked how loud it was when running at 100% compared to my 1070.
This is the custom profile I've been using for years for my GPUs, it might not be the most silent, but I prefer higher clocks + cooling vs noise and as said, twinfrozr 6 coolers even at 80+% are silent to me. :P
https://preview.ibb.co/nyoAov/forum.jpg
bigfutus
Should be available on 2.4. in local shops. My last high end card was GTX 285, so i am thrilled. Lets be bamboozled by Nvidia again 😀
Stormyandcold
I can almost feel the power of this card just by looking at the numbers alone...crushing my "puny" GTX1070.
Really nice to see options for gamers up to 4k available now.
I can only imagine what Nvidia have planned for us with Volta...
Mr_ALLroy
I called MSI sales in Canada here, they called my local store, Memory Express. Memory Express called me and now I'll have one put aside for me. Mid-April is what I was told when to expect it in stock. Damn, I'm excited. Having just stepped up my monitor from 1080p to 1440p, this will be a nice addition. Est price I was quoted was $1069 CAN. The founders edition, here in Canada are going for $999.
This review, along with having a GTX 1080 gaming X just solidified my purchase of this particular card. I can say, that the Twin Frozr is an awesome cooling solution and is very quiet while maintaining pleasingly low temps. Especially handy at a +100 OC on the gpu and +350 on the Vram. I'll be putting my 1080 up for sale to make some of that money back.
Thanks for this review Hilbert.
kakiharaFRS
- MS store is not a normal gaming environment it's separated from everything else like if you had a "virtual smartphone" in your computer
- MS store is continually decrypting and encrypting files while you play so it's a pretty bad CPU-GPU way to compare games, a lot of ressources are used "not for gaming"
- MS store doesnt support SLI so you wouldn't be able to compare FH3 in single graphic card or SLI (for example me I have 2x980GTX now and I wanted to know how it compared to 1x1080Ti)
- MS store is a less stable and "controlled" environment than games played on steam/uplay/origine with regular drivers so the benchmarks you do today will probably mean nothing anyway (think of the upcoming supposedly revolutionary win10 update)
