It is rather difficult to rate the cost to performance ratio of GTX 1080's as the prices and availability are in a constant state of flux but we can certainly peg the overall performance of the cards. [H]ard|OCP recently strapped the new ASUS ROG GTX 1080 STRIX GAMING GPU to their testbed to see how it performs. Right out of the box the cards base clock is 1759MHz with a boost clock of 1898MHz and 10GHz GDDR5X, which [H] successfully raised to 1836MHz base, 1973MHz boost with in game frequencies reaching 2139 MHz and the GDDR5 running at 11.3GHz. This had an effect on performance.
"Today we review in full detail our first custom GeForce GTX 1080 video card. ASUS has decked the ROG GTX 1080 STRIX GAMING out with a factory overclock, the STRIX cooling system, and a fully customizable lighting system. Let's see this beast overclock and compare it to the previous gen's GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 Fury X."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 @ Bjorn3d
- MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G RGB @ Kitguru
- MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8 GB @ techPowerUp
- Radeon RX 480 @ Hardware Secrets
- The OpenGL Speed & Performance-Per-Watt From The Radeon RX 480 To HD 4850/4870 @ Phoronix
Don’t really get the hype
Don’t really get the hype over EVGA cards. Yep, sure, their customer service and warranty is great. But overall, their cards and cooling are a bit meh to be honest. I’ve had 3 of their cards, and 2 of them had coil whine, and one of the those two had loose screws on the cooler. So I don’t know, I think they’re a bit overhyped.
If I had a list from best to worst it would be:
1: Asus
2: Gigabyte
3: EVGA
4: MSI
5: Palit