Got my Asus Dual RTX 2080Ti

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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).

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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:
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2080Ti:
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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:
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2080Ti:
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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:
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2080Ti:
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1080Ti:
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2080Ti:
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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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Assassins Creed Origins: Curse of the Pharoahs


All detail slider settings maxed out with AA set to HIGH.

1080Ti:
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2080Ti:
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Curse of the Pharoahs is more demanding than the main campaign, especially this shitty afterlife level which tanks performance. With vsync on that 50 you see there goes to 30fps the majority of time in this level. With the 2080Ti I'm vsync locked at 60fps. I put off finishing Curse of the Pharoahs because of the shitty 1080ti performance, now I can resume playing.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider


EVERYTHING maxed out here, going beyond what the highest preset does. TAA antialiasing is used.

1080ti:
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2080ti:
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Haven't started this game yet, just using it for benchmarks. With everything maxed game is still very playable, but I will likely back down or just use the highest preset without the extra sliders to maintain 60fps at all times.


Kingdom Come Deliverance


VERY HIGH preset used.

1080Ti:
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2080Ti:
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34 fps on a 1080ti at 4k. :lol:

48 with the 2080Ti. Still not ideal, but far better than before. Performance is worst in that particular view, walking around elsewhere in that starting area the performance jumps higher to mid 50's.


Finally, snapshot of GPU Tweak II:

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max temp of 76 after running through many games, and seems to settle at a boost clock of around 1900. AIBs with better cooling can probably get this to 2000+, but I'm pretty satisfied with the significant performance boosts seen here.
 
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Nice. Great performance for most games.

We need performance solutions for games that are heavily cpu Hz dependent however.
 
At 4K there are no CPU dependancies.

There isn’t much being CPU bound by a 8700K @ 5Ghz though.
 
Basically a roughly 20fps upgrade. Since youre gaming at 4k thats the difference between unplayable and playable if you are anal(;)) about having 60 fps.
 
I like the results, thanks for taking the time to do this. I don't think I like them enough to pay the price though, just to make a stand on the price hike. :(

Disappointing though on the noise, temps, and relative fan speeds. :hmm:
 
OverclockN' said:
I like the results, thanks for taking the time to do this. I don't think I like them enough to pay the price though, just to make a stand on the price hike. :(
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I think this is where most of us are at. If NV had asked for a $100-200 price premium then perhaps but these prices are idiotic.
 
Thanks for the replies.

Yeah the price is a sticky point, but the card makes all the games I previously put off playable at 4k either at 60fps locked or close to it, at highest in game settings. Kingdom Come Deliverance is now playable at 4k at Very High settings, it was a shitfest with my Asus ROG Strix 1080Ti before, even in OC mode.

There won't be any new cards until May/June of next year, either from AMD or Nvidia. That's a long time to make compromises in 4k with a 1080Ti.

So **** it, I bought it, now I get to enjoy 4k gaming at the detail settings I want with very little compromise, if any. And when the next big thing comes out that beats this at 4k, be it from AMD or Nvidia, I'll get that too.
 
OverclockN' said:
Disappointing though on the noise, temps, and relative fan speeds. :hmm:
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Yeah I don't like that it runs hotter than my 1080Ti and I had to set up my own fan profile, but once I set it up, that was it. Peak temps are 76 degrees which is only 5 more than peak temps for my Asus ROG Strix 1080Ti in OC mode. I couldn't tell a difference acoustic wise when playing games. That might be because I game in the living room with a nice home theater setup, the PC is off to the side.

I tested the fans at 100% and as expected, that is loud. I set it up so it will only hit that if GPU temps hit 80 degrees C, and so far it hasn't. 70% appears to be sweet spot at least in my case. There's probably room for a better fan profile that's not as aggressive, but haven't felt a need to touch it again after all my testing.

So in a nutshell I just fire up a game and enjoy. :)
 
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why is the lighting substantially better in the 2080ti screen shots compared to the 1080ti? In every single game.
 
There is no difference in lighting.


Also pretty sure you can get a locked 60fps @ 4k in every game under the sun if you just play on High instead of Ultra, medium shadows and no Ambient Occlusion.
Three things that make a massive impact on framerate for an imperceptible loss in IQ.

I get that it's a 2080Ti, but 4k is still not conquered. And locked 60fps feels :drool:.
 
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