MSI GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X Review

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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.
  

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So the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X is well .. looking familiar. I do wonder if MSI perhaps shouldn't move towards some new color-schemes for the gaming series as we have seen red for many years now. You will spot a nice matte black PCB with 8+2 phases and two power headers (8-pin) for a little more overclocking headroom. The PCB is as mentioned matte black in color, and of course the new revision TwinFrozr VI cooler is being used. 

 

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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. This is the X edition of the Gaming series, meaning it has high but not the highest clocks and a back-plate, all quite impressive as well. The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X 11G has default clock frequencies of 1657 MHz (boost) / 1544 (base) MHz with a reference clocked 11 GB GDDR5X / 11008 MHz effective data-rate on the memory.



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The card itself is a dual-slot solution, almost triple actually as it is 51mm thick, it weighs in at 1257g. The cooling is heat-pipe based, the GPU is cooled by a nickel-plated copper base plate connected to Super Pipes (8mm heat pipes) on this MSI GAMING series graphics card. A SU heat pipes layout increases efficiency by reducing the length of unused heat pipe and a special SU-form design. Zero Frozr technology eliminates fan noise in low-load situations by stopping the fans when they are not needed Up-to roughly 60 Degrees C, the fans won't even spin. The LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with the MSI Gaming APP, though we haven't tried it (due to lack of time) these are RGB configurable with a few animations as well.  Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate with plenty of venting spaces applied as well. 


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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).

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