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INFINITY LOOP! ASUS ROG MATRIX 2080TI UNBOX & REVIEW

ADMIN — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:42:56 +0000

A few days ago, ASUS sent us the latest water-cooled graphics card – the much anticipated ROG MATRIX PLATINUM 2080TI P11G. This card uses an integrated water-cooled system, it has no exposed radiator, and the design is very avant-garde. According to ASUS, the MATRIX card uses a hand-picked chip and an Elite bios, meaning you are guaranteed maximum overclocking performance. According to ASUS, the MATRIX 2080TI is the best 2080TI graphics card in the market. So let’s take a quick look.

The Package Appearance

The outside package

Package Front

Package Back

Package Sides

Opening the box

The internal card package, full of ROG elements

The package has a very unique unboxing experience, really awesome

The top side of internal package also contains a metal ROG logo

Inside the package, there are only 2 items – A graphics card and an accessory box

The accessory box contains the driver disk, instruction menu, ROG magic strip pack, ROG A4 sticker, and a welcome card

The welcome card has a brief introduction for this beast of a graphics card

The driver CD

The graphics card front. Triple fan design with a mirror RGB plate with Mayan style inlay

The graphics card back. The oblique groove design makes the whole back plate more solid and increases heat dispersion

The MATRIX logo has the same design as the Thor power supply

The dual-8 pins power cord Dual design saves space and makes cable management much simpler

The graphics card side. There is enough space in the middle of the card and heatsink to cool the radiator, very smart design

The front I/O contains 1 12V RGB port and 2 synchronised 4-pin fan connectors

The back I/O, contains 2 DP ports, 2 HDMI ports and 1 USB-C port

The full card thickness is around 60mm, so it’s about 3 PCI slots wide

The total weight of this graphics card is around 1.56kg

The LED switch on the back of the graphics card

Perfermance Tests

We tested this graphics card on 2 bench machines:
GRA: ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 2080TI P11G
CPU: INTEL CORE i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz
MTB: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS IX APEX
MEM: GSKILL TRIDENT Z RGB, 32GB(2x16GB) @3600MHz
SSD: SAMSUNG 960EVO 250G
PSU: CORSAIR RM1000i 1000W
CAS: LIAN-LI DK-04X
HSF: CORSAIR H100i v2 + ML120 x 8
DRV: 430.86
SYS: WIN10 64 1809
TES: GPU-Z 2.21.0 ROG | 3DMark 2.8.6578s64

GRA: ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 2080TI P11G
CPU: INTEL CORE i9-9900K @ 5.10GHz
MTB: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI FORMULA
MEM: GSKILL TRIDENT Z RGB, 32GB(4x8GB) @4266MHz
SSD: SAMSUNG 970PRO 512G
PSU: ASUS ROG THOR 1200W
CAS: COOLERMASTER C700P
HSF: ASUS RYUJIN360
DRV: 430.86
SYS: WIN10 64 1903
TES: GPU-Z 2.21.0 ROG | 3DMark 2.8.6578s64

GPU-Z

3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme @ Bench machine 1 non-OC

3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme @ Bench machine 1 OC

3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra @ Bench machine 1 non-OC

3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra @ Bench machine 1 OC

3DMARK Time Spy @ Bench machine 1 non-OC

3DMARK Time Spy Extreme @ Bench machine 1 non-OC

3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra @ Bench machine 2 OC

3DMARK Port Royal @ Bench machine 2 OC

Overall
Since ASUS’s VBIOS has always been very conservative. Rising the high voltage load can give a boost of over 100% in FURMARK, which will effectively eat up your power supply wattage, so make sure you have a beefy power supply. We can conclude that this card is still very easy to overclock, and there is no terrible heat consumption (less than 65 Celsius) during the whole OC process. If we want this card to go further, it may take longer to test the combinations of voltage and frequency to pull the GPU clock above 2200MHz. This is an overclockers dream after all.

Overall, this card does give us a lot of surprises. The design of the water-cooling system, the appearance of the graphics card, the special-picked chip and the superior overclocking performance make this card an outstanding performer. However, the high price seems to limit the value of this card. If you spend $100 more, you have a TITAN RTX, what would you choose?

EPIC PC RATE SCORE: 87/100

EPIC REWARD: EDITOR’S CHOICE & DESIGN AWARD

ASUS ROG Matrix GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/ROG-MATRIX-RTX2080TI-P11G-GAMING/

MAXIMISE THE ROG POWER! ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080TI O11G REVIEW

ADMIN — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:19:52 +0000

ASUS has released their flagship ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti gaming video cards into the Australia market. With NVIDIA’s latest Turing architecture, the three cards support GDDR6 memory and VirtualLink specifications. In addition, ASUS has added four exclusive functions: dustproof (IP5X international dustproof rating), noise prevention, heat protection, and hardware protection, which can greatly improve the operational stability and durability of the card.

This review covers the latest ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti OC edition, let’s dive into the details!

Package appearance
The package design is nearly the same as their previous version
Package Front

Package Back

Package Side

Package Bottom Side

Opening the box

The second layer of the box

Everything inside the box

The accessories box

Product Analysis
The main body of the video card
The whole card utilises premium materials, equipped with the latest Axial-tech fans. It features a long fan blade and an annular seal to reduce the size of the fan hub, which enhances the speed and improves the cooling, while drastically reducing the noise it produces. At the same time, in order to improve the quality of the ROG Strix series, the PCBs of this model are built completely by machine, a process ASUS has dubbed ‘Auto-Extreme’, which finishes all the through-holes and surface soldering at one time. This reduces the thermal strain and improves the stability of the graphics card.

An inner metal stand holder has been implemented on the video card to ensure the card will never bend. This is an issue we have witnessed in many previous generations

The front & back view

The side view

The rear I/O, different from other brands, ASUS has added an additional HDMI Socket

The heatsink side view

The top I/O, includes an RGB header(12v 4pin) and 2x4pin PWM fan headers

The Golden finger for PCI-E & NVLINK

The dual-8pin PSU header

The RGB on/off switch

The bios mode switch
The 19-phased superalloy power supply will demand more than 500Ws of input power. The unique dual BIOS switch allows players to choose between silent mode and performance. Even in performance mode, the noise is only 5dB higher than the ambient noise.

In the silent mode, with furmark burn test running for a long period of time, the fan speed only runs around 30%, the noise is almost inaudible, and the heat consumption is better than most aftermarket RTX 2080 Tis

Although the ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti is top-notch, the frequency might not be enough for some gamers or OCers. The base frequency is the same as the Nvidia version at 1350MHz, and the Boost frequency is only 1650MHz, which is only 15MHz higher. Despite this, thanks to the powerful cooling system and the conservative VBIOS settings, the ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti runs 20°C lower than the nVidia version when running AAA games, making it possible to run at high frequencies for a long time, which increases the performance by 3%.

GPU-Z

Under our overclocking capability test, most of the graphics cards we tested have a maximum frequency of 2040MHz in the 3DMark valid score test, while the ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti has reached a frequency of 2130MHz.

GPU-Z

Unfortunately, 2130MHz will cause the program to crash sometimes, to keep the testing software running smoothly, we dropped the frequency to 2100MHz and passed 3DMARK Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme.

12444 | 3DMARK Time Spy

6676 | 3DMARK Time Spy Extreme

However, we are not satisfied with this score. After some minor adjustments, we decided to keep the frequency at 2115MHz.

AFB

In the 3DMARK Fire Strike testing, we got to the top 100 of the FSE and FSU Hall of Fame.

28503 | 3DMARK Fire Strike https://www.3dmark.com/fs/16942720

17755 | 3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme https://www.3dmark.com/fs/16942770

3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme HOF RANK

9320 | 3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra https://www.3dmark.com/fs/16942908

3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra HOF RANK

The Unigine benchmark

Overall
ASUS is the last manufacturer to launch their flagship Strix 2080TI. In appearance, it adheres to the STRIX series’ consistent style, without a fancy RGB front-end and complicated lighting effects. ASUS has opted to focus on solid quality design and luxurious materials to make the graphics card far superior to other brands in overclocking and stability. This is in tandem with additional features to the RTX 20 series cards, such as dual BIOS, onboard RGB switch and other user-friendly improvements. In terms of the price, ASUS is about 13% more expensive than other brands, but for its performance and materials, as well as overclocking and stability, it is not that expensive. This card will become a milestone for ASUS.

EPIC PC RATE SCORE: 88.5/100

ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080TI O11G OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.asus.com/au/Graphics-Cards/ROG-STRIX-RTX2080TI-O11G-GAMING/