MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio Review

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The 1080 Ti is based upon the GP102 graphics processor from Nvidia, it is a Pascal 16 nm FinFet architecture based GPU, and with 12 billion transistors, 3,584 shader/stream cores, and 11 GB of GDDR5X, it’s an impressive product series, even a nice Ultra HD capable graphics card solution. 


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The GPU empowering it all is called the GP102-350-A1 GPU, which is Pascal architecture based. It has a nice 3,584 CUDA cores, while texture filtering is performed by 224 texture units. The reference (Founder Edition) cards have a base clock frequency of 1,480 MHz and perform texture filtering at 332 Gigatexels/sec. The cooler and power design are lovely, plenty spare for a nice tweak.

 

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The 1080 Ti cards (reference) have a 250 Watt TDP, 75 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot, but 150+150 Watts through the 2x 8-pin PEG (PCI Express graphics) power connectors, that means a board power design of 375 Watts.

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And yes, it is a heavy bloke at roughly 1.5kg. In a normal PC that will be fine, however if you move around the PC a lot (LAN parties) then you probably would like a little more stability with all that weight hanging in your PC, well MSI now includes a metal bar so that you can tighten and secure the card in place. Probably the first card with that anti-roll bar construction as an optional ;)
 

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The new cooler is pretty awesome as we'll show you in the tests we ran. The card under full stress reached 67~68 Degrees C, but was pretty much the most silent card ever tested at a 32~33 DBa rating (and that was with the fans spinning). 


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The cooler is big alright and measures roughly 32cm in length, please make sure it actually fits inside your chassis, most of them will. But in a compact chassis, I dunno man.


 

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Once you installed the card and juice it up, then at the front-side you'll nice subtle red LED elements. These are quite diffuse and subtle. I think that looks downright great, but also understand that taste is a personal and subjective thing. But there's more to it though, next photo please:


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The backside comes with a programmable RGB strip (controllable with mystic LIGHT APP). At default it's in a rainbow animation fading in and out real slowly, very tranquil really. This I find RGB done right, nothing too much or screamy just spot on really. photos are difficult though and do not do the card much justice.

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