Q: Why did you buy it?
A: It's here, I spent the cash for it, it was only $400 more than what I paid for my Asus Strix 1080Ti just a few months ago, and I need to game at 4k.
Q: Do you care about ray tracing or DLSS?
A: No
Now that we got that out the way, let's talk about the card itself.
Purchased the Asus Dual RTX 2080ti variant from newegg on Friday with expedited shipping and received it today (Monday).
The card is clearly no ROG STRIX and is very simplistic. No LED or lighting bling. Simple block cooler with dual fans, hence the very clever name.
First thing I did after installing was set up a custom fan profile with the Asus GPU Tweak 2 utility, because the default fan profile sucks. With the profile I have set up temps peak at 76 degrees C (compared to 71 degrees C with my ROG Strix 1080Ti). This is with fans at 70%, going to 100% if it ever hits 80+ degrees.
Fans are also quiet. At 70% they are only slightly louder than my ROG Strix 1080Ti at 50%.
After getting up to date drivers and setting up my fan profile, I proceeded to test some games. Alot of these games do not have built in benchmarks, so I basically load my last save point and looked around for the LOWEST framerates in the scene I was in. The 1080ti screenshots were captured over the weekend.
Tested on an 8700 with default boost clocks. See systems specs on left. Vsync turned off when measuring framerates. All detail slider settings maxed out beyond what the highest presets provided, with the exception of Kingdom Come Deliverance. Resolution for all games is 3840x2160.
ELEX
All detail slider settings maxed out including SMAA at 3840 x 2160
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
Elex plays at 60 fps locked the majority of the time with vsync enabled. This was never a CPU limited game as was suggested in the 4k thread. The 1080Ti would linger in the low to mid 40's, compared to vsync locked at 60fps 95% of the time with the 2080Ti.
Evil Within 2
All detail slider settings maxed out including TAA + FAA hybrid at 3840 x 2160
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
Framerates taken in the safe house because for some reason the safe houses always gave the lowest frame rates in the game when I played. With the 2080Ti, its locked at 60fps all the time, compared to being in the 40's with the 1080ti.
Quantum Break
All detail slider settings maxed out EXCEPT for Upscaling which remained ON.
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
Upscaling turned OFF will tank framerates. Talking about framerates in the low 20's for the 1080Ti at 4k, didnt bother to test that with the 2080Ti.
The reason why upscaling turned OFF tanks framerates is because of the crappy engine design. With Upscaling off the game will take the native 4k image and STILL upsample it 4 times to stitch together the final image. There is no way to turn this behavior off and just let it render at native 4k without any shenannigans, it's just part of Remedy's shitty engine design.
A: It's here, I spent the cash for it, it was only $400 more than what I paid for my Asus Strix 1080Ti just a few months ago, and I need to game at 4k.
Q: Do you care about ray tracing or DLSS?
A: No
Now that we got that out the way, let's talk about the card itself.
Purchased the Asus Dual RTX 2080ti variant from newegg on Friday with expedited shipping and received it today (Monday).
The card is clearly no ROG STRIX and is very simplistic. No LED or lighting bling. Simple block cooler with dual fans, hence the very clever name.
First thing I did after installing was set up a custom fan profile with the Asus GPU Tweak 2 utility, because the default fan profile sucks. With the profile I have set up temps peak at 76 degrees C (compared to 71 degrees C with my ROG Strix 1080Ti). This is with fans at 70%, going to 100% if it ever hits 80+ degrees.
Fans are also quiet. At 70% they are only slightly louder than my ROG Strix 1080Ti at 50%.
After getting up to date drivers and setting up my fan profile, I proceeded to test some games. Alot of these games do not have built in benchmarks, so I basically load my last save point and looked around for the LOWEST framerates in the scene I was in. The 1080ti screenshots were captured over the weekend.
Tested on an 8700 with default boost clocks. See systems specs on left. Vsync turned off when measuring framerates. All detail slider settings maxed out beyond what the highest presets provided, with the exception of Kingdom Come Deliverance. Resolution for all games is 3840x2160.
ELEX
All detail slider settings maxed out including SMAA at 3840 x 2160
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
Elex plays at 60 fps locked the majority of the time with vsync enabled. This was never a CPU limited game as was suggested in the 4k thread. The 1080Ti would linger in the low to mid 40's, compared to vsync locked at 60fps 95% of the time with the 2080Ti.
Evil Within 2
All detail slider settings maxed out including TAA + FAA hybrid at 3840 x 2160
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
Framerates taken in the safe house because for some reason the safe houses always gave the lowest frame rates in the game when I played. With the 2080Ti, its locked at 60fps all the time, compared to being in the 40's with the 1080ti.
Quantum Break
All detail slider settings maxed out EXCEPT for Upscaling which remained ON.
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
1080Ti:
2080Ti:
Upscaling turned OFF will tank framerates. Talking about framerates in the low 20's for the 1080Ti at 4k, didnt bother to test that with the 2080Ti.
The reason why upscaling turned OFF tanks framerates is because of the crappy engine design. With Upscaling off the game will take the native 4k image and STILL upsample it 4 times to stitch together the final image. There is no way to turn this behavior off and just let it render at native 4k without any shenannigans, it's just part of Remedy's shitty engine design.
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