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3DMark is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our [FutureMark’s] most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.
We run 3DMark Fire Strike (1080p), Fire Strike Extreme (1440p) and Fire Strike Ultra (4K).
The MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X Plus is faster across the board but the margin of improvement is fairly slim, around 5 per cent over the Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming that operates at 1695MHz core versus 1683MHz for the MSI card. Clearly some of the performance gain for the MSI card is negated by the faster clock speed of the Gigabyte model.
I’ve had this card for 3 weeks now and paid £503 before the £43 cashback. I bought it to replace a 290X which I advertised and sold within one day for £200 (is Bitcoin mining still a thing?), so all in this new card has cost me £260. That’s the only way I can justify paying such a ludicrous amount for a GPU.
My 290X Vapor-x was a brilliant card but it was huuuuuuge, 2.5 slots, triple fan, weighed a ton and was seriously loud more so under any sort of Overclock. My first impressions of the MSI GTX1080 Gaming X was just how small it seemed, small but wide, this made sense as the fans are a lot bigger. Once I installed it I visited the MSI site and was bombarded with software: afterburner, MSI app, streaming software, in an ideal world I’d love to see it all under one program but I understand some non MSI owners just want afterburner. As for the card, I’ve been blown away by just how many games I can play with the fans in stop mode and as for the triple AAA titles, I’m playing them all at Ultra 1440p and the fans are totally inaudible in my Phanteks Evolv mATX Tempered Glass. I can’t recommend this card highly enough.
Double posting as I have a question and a note:
Firstly at 1440p I’ve restarted The Witcher 3 and everything is on Ultra/Max whatever you want to call it with Hairworks on all and I’m seeing a steady 85-90fps.
Secondly If I got a 4K GSYNC monitor I know the card is not upto the resolution in all games so I know I can drop the settings from Very high to high etc, but if I drop the resolution from 4K to a lower resolution for select games does GSYC still work as intended?
I’m torn between a 4K monitor or a Very good 1440p higher refresh rate monitor.
Take both.
What kind of game are you playing ?
All the new stuff from Esports to Cinematic, so Overwatch to Witcher 3, Battlefield 1, Total warhammer, minds gone blank cos I’m at my folks…. hi burglars I’m watching you, but heavy heavy gpu stuff. I will get my money’s worth. Thanks in advance for any advice.
G-Sync doesn’t care about resolution.
That’s good to know, thanks.
I’v got a 27″ (1440p) IPS DELL (60hz) and I think, from what read about, i’m going to upgrade to 27″ 144hz. I’ll keep my DELL for Photo stuff but for gaming, 144hz might be the point of no return.
Don’t expect to see good IPS 2160p 144hz monitor anytime soon. Plus, there is no graphic card today capable of running a 4K game (with high settings) at +100fps. So what’s the point ? :p
For game way slower like witcher 3 a 60hz should be fine.
For people wanting this card a user has posted his came with 210W nominal and 220W max power limits vs the review card which has 220W nominal and 250W max.
What gives? Is MSI up to their old tricks with 1080’s by giving reviewers cards with higher performance than retail? This is pretty disgraceful if so and makes a mockery of reviews.
X Plus VBIOS 86.04.66.00.52 with 220W max power limit. https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/193984/193984