ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.
  

So the product can be spotted under product (SKU) code ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING. The card has lovely new looks and we're quite thrilled to test out that new cooling solution. The card is based up-on a nice matte black PCB with 10+2 phases and two power headers (8-pin) for a little more overclocking headroom. The card has two HDMI ports, for optimal HDMI VR support. You will also spot RGB headers which you can connect a LED strip to, we have no clue why these would be needed on a graphics card. Leave that stuff on the motherboard I'd say.

As board partners are allowed to release the 1080 Ti model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions, mostly based on customized PCB/component and the obviously mandatory different cooling solutions. The STRIX edition has nice clocks and a back-plate, all quite impressive as well. The card has default clock frequencies of 1683 MHz (boost) / 1569 (base) MHz with a reference clocked 11 GB GDDR5X / 11010 MHz effective data-rate on the memory. ASUS also has that OC mode available, which clocs 25 MHz higher but requires their software to be ran at all times in the background.

 
 
The card itself is a dual-slot solution at 11.73 x 5.28 x 2.07 inches 29.8 x 13.4 x 5.25 cm, it weighs in at roughly 1200g. The new and updated cooling is heat-pipe based, the GPU is cooled by a nickel-plated copper base plate connected to six heatpipes Pipes on this graphics card. New ROG Strix graphics provides 40% more heat sink surface area for heat dissipation compared to previous 2-slot designs for dramatically cooler and quieter performance. In low-load situations the three fans do not spin. Thus up-to roughly 55 Degrees C, the fans won't even spin. The LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with the the Aura software suite, though we haven't tried it (due to lack of time) the LEDs and LED STRIPS are RGB configurable with six animations as well. At the backside you will see a LED activated ROG logo and sure, a thick sturdy metal back-plate with plenty of venting spaces applied as well. 

The card will offer five display connectors; you'll spot two DisplayPort connectors, two size HDMI connector and yay, we have DVI again. The dual-HDMi is done with VR in mind. As a PC gamer I would have preferred triple DP connectors personally. DisplayPort is 1.2 certified and DP 1.3/1.4 Ready, enabling support for 4K displays at 120Hz, 5K displays at 60Hz, and 8K displays at 60Hz (using two cables). The card includes three DisplayPort connectors, one HDMI 2.0b connector, and one dual-link DVI connector. Up to four display heads can be driven simultaneously from one card. The GTX 1080 Ti display pipeline supports HDR gaming, as well as video encoding and decoding. New to Pascal is HDR Video (4K@60 10/12b HEVC Decode), HDR Record/Stream (4K@60 10b HEVC Encode), and HDR Interface Support (DP 1.4).