ASUS ROG RTX 2080 Ti Strix OC (O11G) Review – £1,500 beast!

1. Introduction2. ASUS ROG RTX 2080 Ti Strix OC3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Clock Speed11. Temperatures12. Acoustics13. Power Consumption14. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games15. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

Having already analysed ASUS ROG's RTX 2080 Strix model, today our attention turns to the company's flagship RTX 2080 Ti offering. It's overall a very similar card to the Strix RTX 2080, but with all the power of the RTX 2080 Ti, it promises to be an absolute beast. It definitely has a price tag to match, however, as this card comes in at an eye-watering £1499.99, making it £400 more expensive that Nvidia's own Founders Edition 2080 Ti., could it possibly be worth it?

Given that the RTX 2080 Ti Strix OC (O11G) is ASUS ROG's flagship card, it is no surprise to see that it ships packed to the gills with features. If you have read our review of the Strix 2080, many of these features will be familiar to you – but to pick out some of the highlights, there is dual-BIOS functionality, an on-board Aura RGB header, completely redesigned fans and a factory overclocked GPU as well.

Even then, asking £400 more than Nvidia's Founders Edition is certainly brave to say the least, so we will have to see if this card is worth it. £1,500 is a lot of money.

GPU	RTX 2080 Ti (FE)	GTX 1080 Ti (FE)	RTX 2080 (FE)	GTX 1080 (FE)
SMs	68	28	46	20
CUDA Cores	4352	3584	2944	2560
Tensor Cores	544	N/A	368	N/A
Tensor FLOPS	114	N/A	85	N/A
RT Cores	68	N/A	46	N/A
Texture Units	272	224	184	160
ROPs	88	88	64	64
Rays Cast	10 Giga Rays/sec	1.1 Giga Rays/sec	8 Giga Rays/sec	0.877 Giga Rays/sec
RTX Performance	87 Trillion RTX-OPS	11.3 Trillion RTX-OPS	60 Trillion RTX-OPS	8.9 Trillion RTX-OPS
GPU Boost Clock	1635 MHz	1582 MHz	1800 MHz	1733 MHz
Memory Clock	7000 MHz	5505 MHz	7000 MHz	5005 MHz
Total Video Memory	11GB GDDR6	11GB GDDR5X	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR5X
Memory Interface	352-bit	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	616 GB/sec	484 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	320 GB/sec
TDP	260W	250W	225W	180W

Being an RTX 2080 Ti, the Strix OC model we are looking at today shares all its core specs with every other 2080 Ti on the market. That means 4352 CUDA cores, 544 Tensor cores and 68 RT cores, while the 11GB of GDDR6 memory operates over a 352-bit bus, with a total bandwidth of 616GB/s.

What this ROG Strix card changes compared to Nvidia's Founders Edition card, however, is clock speed. Out of the box, the Strix runs at 1650MHz – 15MHz faster than Founders – but there is an OC mode within ASUS' GPU Tweak II tool which adds an extra 15MHz on top, giving a rated boost clock of 1665MHz. That makes the card 30MHz faster than Founders, but 120MHz faster than Nvidia's reference design. We did our testing with OC mode enabled to get the most from the card, though we also look at manual overclocking later.

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