[SOLVED] Asus RTX 2080 TI

mrwicked650

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So I finally have the money to buy an RTX 2080 TI so I said screw this and decided to get one of the best cards as up right now. I decided to go with asus, evga or msi. I would rly apreciate if you could recomand me some of the best performing cards in the 2080 TI series lineup ( I mean the "premium" for each lineup). I ve been online all day but the asus lineup seems poorly advertised to me, i found around 6 cards, 3 of which are "STRIX" and one rly expensive ROG and they all had similar specs ad were around the same price (withing 50$ in range of eachother) .
Aaaanyway if you have any recomandations plz leave a comment it will help alot ty <3
 
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At the end of the day, they all run a 2080TI GPU at their core - and are already essentially "premium" cards.

On an ASUS front, they actually announced/listed their 2080TI's in order of "premium" models:
https://rog.asus.com/articles/gaming-graphics-cards/introducing-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-and-rtx-2080-graphics-cards-from-rog-and-asus/

With the Strix OC edition being top of the heap.

EVGA's top-tier card (on air, anyway) is the FTW3, AFAIK.
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-2487-KR

On the MSI front, it's the Gaming-X Trio (for air) or SeaHawk (for hybrid)...
The chips each of those GPUs are made by Nvidia. The only difference is cooling and factory overclocks. Most of the 2080ti GPU's have very good cooling and a factory overclock can be achieved in a few minutes at home. So I would not go for the most expensive 2080ti you can get because in the real world it wont perform any different than the cheapest.

If it was my money I would go with the EVGA Black. It is not their highest SKU, but it is one of the better priced 2080ti.

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-2281-KR
 

Barty1884

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At the end of the day, they all run a 2080TI GPU at their core - and are already essentially "premium" cards.

On an ASUS front, they actually announced/listed their 2080TI's in order of "premium" models:
https://rog.asus.com/articles/gaming-graphics-cards/introducing-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-and-rtx-2080-graphics-cards-from-rog-and-asus/

With the Strix OC edition being top of the heap.

EVGA's top-tier card (on air, anyway) is the FTW3, AFAIK.
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-2487-KR

On the MSI front, it's the Gaming-X Trio (for air) or SeaHawk (for hybrid)
https://www.msi.com/comparison/graphics-card/?unique=id1547501119958&compare_list=[%22R2VGb3JjZS1SVFgtMjA4MC1UaS1HQU1JTkctWC1UUklP%22,%22R2VGb3JjZS1SVFgtMjA4MC1UaS1TRUEtSEFXSy1Y%22]

Whether they are worth the "premium" markup over a more mid-range cooler etc, is debatable.... personally, I'd lean towards no.


If you want to splurge on a "premium" card from one of those vendors though, those are the cards you'd be looking at.

As for performance between them, you're likely to see them trade blows back & forth with no clear winner in any one category.
 
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shknawe

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I always go with the best warranty first, Price second and performance third. At the end of the day with some overclocking, say on Msi afterburner they all perform at same speed. There is only a difference in performance at stock speed level. Why pay more for a card when a cheaper card will overclock well past the "premium" cards stock speed. Warranty first then price IMHO.