That's the lowest priced ones. For 999 dollars you get a 2080ti with the blower cooler that can't cool the card properly... Expect prices from asus/msi/evga etc... to be around 100 dollars above those prices.
I don't care. I have high end heatsink+2x 120mm fans i will slap on it. As far as i'm concerned it may well come without a cooler.
The heatsink is Raijintek Morpheus II. I own Zotac GTX 1080 AMP. Not a bad aftermarket cooler but with this heatsink i dropped temps from 84c to 60c under load (overclocked too).
Im pretty sure it will surpass every single aftermarket cooling solution that AIB's come up with. So i don't really care about their RGB infested monstrosities.
Well it seems Internet is on a frenzy again with pitchforks and blindfolds. So much BS flying around it could block out the sun.
Last time this happened was when ME:A launched, then when SW:BFII launched. People did not even care about the underlying game. They just went along with the bashing because it was "in" and "cool" at the moment.
Complaint NR1: Too expensive. Well is someone holding a gun to your head asking to buy the fastest GPU? Do you even have a system to drive it without bottlenecking? And no - a Core i3 and a 1080p monitor does not count.
Also everyone is citing the pre order prices for FE models as the end all be all price. AIB models WILL be cheaper. For example 1080Ti MSRP was 699$. In my country the cheapest one is 760€ which is reasonable. And not it's not a blower model. So aside from the initial month or two the prices will be near MSRP which is OK.
Complaint NR2: No benchmarks for rasterization perf. This is true to a point. They did run UE4 Infiltrator demo on a 2080Ti. It achieved 78fps vs ~35fps for 1080Ti. That's a 2x increase.
Complaint NR3: Cost per frame is same as Pascal. I fail to see the point of this metric. In the end you are getting better performance. And if you're so concerned about it then grab a used Pascal for cheaper. No one is forcing you to buy the latest and greatest. I swear sometime people think companies are running charity funds or something. Do you expect them to give 2080Ti away for 299$ or something?