MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X 11 GB

[thebluebumblebee]

Stock or overclocked?
If there is a noticeable difference, then of course it's worth it.

Stock clocks, 72°F room. It was causing it to thermal throttle, which is a failure in my book. Now that was with F@H which puts a full load on it 100% of the time. Most likely, gaming would not put such a high consistent load on it.

 

[idx]

300W and 2.5 slot, kinda disgusting.

 

[lors]

The differences are called margin of error. The changes in terms of % are so small as to be indistinguishable.

Noise level overall will be impacted by case used / cooling setup etc 2 dBA is a noticeable difference but at levels below 40 its nearly impossible to detect over other components. I review coolers anything sub 40 dBA is essentially silent at 30cm / 1ft compared to say the PSU or a mechanical HDD in use. For reference i use a 980Ti Gaming X and even under heavy load the typical case fan at 1000 RPM is louder. Total system noise is 39 dBA at 30cm

While FPS difference is there in tests it generally falls under the typical 3% margin of error. so 100 fps gives a leeway of 6 fps 3 under to 3 above being essentially an acceptable margin of error range. looking at overall performance charts for the difference between the ASUS and MSI vs the FE version we see the MSI at 4k offers a 7% lead average across the board while the ASUS offers 5% out of box. The difference overall being a paltry 2% which anything from a driver revision to game patch to CPU used to memory subsystem can influence. Now even with driver revision differences. Looking at 4k results MSI / ASUS the typical average difference is 3% and usually that comes down to 2 fps or so.

Its basically a wash pick which vendor you like better lol. In which case i personally lean more toward MSI than ASUS. Considering how bad ASUS fucked me over with the 7970 DirectCU II TOP back in the day.

thanks for the info!

i preordered the MSI at amazon for 753€, so i save 100€.

 

[Agentbb007]

Bummer I was going to upgrade my MSI 1080 to a MSI 1080 ti but only 2 display ports is a deal killer for me. I run 3 monitors that only have DP's and I don't want to mess with converters that might or might not work with certain resolutions/refresh rates. Guess I will just wait for Volta in 2018.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

HDMI to displayport adaptors work fine. Its a digital to digital connection.

 

[Agentbb007]

HDMI to displayport adaptors work fine. Its a digital to digital connection.

Naw I've been down that road before, never again. Many of the adapters will only work at certain resolutions and I have yet to find one that says it will support 1440p 144Hz. Many of these adapters are USB powered so that will use up one of my USB ports, not to mention majorly clutter up the back of my rig with a clunky adapter, no thanks.
If I was to buy a 1080 ti I would go for the Gigabyte Aorus or EVGA SC2 since both of these have 3 DP's. But I've been really happy with my MSI 1080 and love how quiet it is so would like to stick with the MSI brand.
It's ironic because when I upgraded from my Titan Maxwell to 1080 I moved from Asus to MSI because the Asus 1080 only had 2 DP. Now MSI has done the same stupid thing so I might move to EVGA or Gigabyte.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

To each their own havent had any issues granted still using 1200p / 1080p across multiple screens here. I didn't feel like being a test dummy for newest tech such as Gsync / 4k etc since none of that stuff really works as intended beyond a few screens or basic 60hz display. Its all a pain in the ass in general.

 

[Vayra86]

To each their own havent had any issues granted still using 1200p / 1080p across multiple screens here. I didn't feel like being a test dummy for newest tech such as Gsync / 4k etc since none of that stuff really works as intended beyond a few screens or basic 60hz display. Its all a pain in the ass in general.

Amen to that!

 

[ddarko]

Can you clarify what seems to be a discrepancy with the out-of-box core clock rates for the MSI and Asus 1080 Ti cards? The MSI review conclusion says it's clocked higher than the Asus, coming in 7% versus 5% higher, respectively, than the reference Founder Edition card. However, the spec charts in the MSI and Asus reviews lists the MSI's core clock as 1544 MHz while the core clock for the Asus is 1569 MHz, which is obviously higher than the MSI. Which one has the higher out-of-box core clock?

 

[W1zzard]

Can you clarify what seems to be a discrepancy with the out-of-box core clock rates for the MSI and Asus 1080 Ti cards? The MSI review conclusion says it's clocked higher than the Asus, coming in 7% versus 5% higher, respectively, than the reference Founder Edition card. However, the spec charts in the MSI and Asus reviews lists the MSI's core clock as 1544 MHz while the core clock for the Asus is 1569 MHz, which is obviously higher than the MSI. Which one has the higher out-of-box core clock?

Base clock is higher on ASUS, actual clocks after Boost, in gaming, are higher on MSI, refer to the chart at the end of the temps page in both reviews.

 

[ddarko]

Thanks for the clarification. I had interpreted "out of box" to mean the default core clock rate that's hardwired into the card BIOS but it seems your usage of the term also encompasses what can be achieved through the overclocking software. I focus on the BIOS clock rate because I avoid installing the overclocking software and would rather go with a card that has a higher default BIOS clock rate over a card that can be overclocked higher with software. My experience with Asus software has made me allergic to it.

 

[W1zzard]

Thanks for the clarification. I had interpreted "out of box" to mean the default core clock rate that's hardwired into the card BIOS but it seems your usage of the term also encompasses what can be achieved through the overclocking software. I focus on the BIOS clock rate because I avoid installing the overclocking software and would rather go with a card that has a higher default BIOS clock rate over a card that can be overclocked higher with software. My experience with Asus software has made me allergic to it.

Out of the box in my terms means without any manual overclocking and without vendor software installed.

You do know about NVIDIA GPU Boost?

 

[johnwayne117]

Is there an error in review?
"The uPI uP9511P is the same voltage controller as on the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070."
But picture shows it is NCP81274. wtf?