GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Discussion Thread

BTW, running +215 on the core now. Haven't touched voltage, only increased the power limit.
 
RamonGTP said:
33dba for the Strix vs 39dba for FE. That's roughly 25% of the noise FE makes. The facts appear to dictate your last sentence is made up. I'm willing to bet the difference between FE and Strix is greater than Strix vs water. Water still requires fans, not to mention a pump.

At any rate, if you're looking for higher clocks from Asus, the card to get is going to be the ROG Strix.
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AIO with a stock card is still a better option, like the EVGA 1080 Hybrid. You don't need a custom loop.
The 1080 STRIX didn't have great QC just like the one before it. Having just experienced ASUS RMA first hand, I'll keep away like the plague.
 
Anybody doing a displayport daisy chain with the 1080 Ti? Can't get Win10 to see the last 2 Dell U2415s in my 3 monitor setup. Worked fine with the 1080. Cables are certified and short.
 
WorldExclusive said:
AIO with a stock card is still a better option, like the EVGA 1080 Hybrid. You don't need a custom loop.
The 1080 STRIX didn't have great QC just like the one before it. Having just experienced ASUS RMA first hand, I'll keep away like the plague.
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That's not what you said though. You didn't say water is a better option. You said anything that isn't water is only for aesthetics which is clearly a false statement.
 
RamonGTP said:
That's not what you said though. You didn't say water is a better option. You said anything that isn't water is only for aesthetics which is clearly a false statement.
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This is what I've been saying:

WorldExclusive said:
The 10 series is quieter than you remember.
With AIO solutions now becoming the norm, even a single rad is a better solution over an overbuilt custom cooler that will still throttle under load.

No custom air cooler is going to keep you under 60C when OC'd.
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WorldExclusive said:
If you hate noise, I'd think you have kept your cards under water.
It's either stock or water. Everything else is aesthetics.
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It remains consistent. AIO or a custom loop is water. Both use a rad, pump, water block and tubing to cooling the GPU.
Stock or water. I stand buy it. Custom fans solutions are aesthetics.

That one has two fans.....oh but this one has three fans, more phases, RGB etc.. None of which will result in higher performance/fps on pascal.
 
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WorldExclusive said:
This is what I've been saying:



It remains consistent. AIO or a custom loop is water. Both use a rad, pump, water block and tubing to cooling the GPU.
Stock or water. I stand buy it. Custom fans solutions are aesthetics.

That one has two fans.....oh but this one has three fans, more phases, RGB etc.. None of which will result in higher performance/fps on pascal.
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I can stand by an incorrect statement too, it just makes me wrong. 6db difference between reference and strix. You can preach about standing by your comment in every post for the rest of your life. It was false the first time you said it, it'll remain false each subsequent time you stand by it.
 
Got my two from nVidia today:

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Two 1080s next to 1080 Tis:

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In their new home:

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Initial benches of RoTR at 4k in SLI seem to be in line with other reviews. Noise levels don't seem any different at stock that the 1080s. But I can easily feel the extra heat when standing behind the exhaust.
 
soon....
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If you don't want to bother with a full water loop like me, you can buy AiO 120mm hybrid coolers separately from evga (prob the easiest DiY) or you can buy something like a corsair H90 140mm AiO cooler (or H55, or the nzxt versions), nzxt kraken G10 brackets for around $35 each, and some M2.5 25mm screws + a copper shim. It adds to the cost considerably though, per card... and that's not even counting if you replace the stock fans with two hydro-dynamic bearing ones on each radiator for push/pull. You could also just wait on the (120mm) hybrid version of the card of course which are typically $120 or more than the stock card.

I'm waiting on the SC ACX or ICX model because it has higher stock boost clocks and more importantly because they have a mid plate which acts as a heat sink and protective layer covering the vram and everything else other than the gpu. The mid plate/cover works better for taking off the stock hsf and installing AiO cooling, without having to mess with gluing on after market mini heat sinks to the vrms (which could fall off over time depending on how well adhered vs heat, incidentally). I already have bags of extra screws, shims, vinyl washers from the first time I did this, and I have two spare nzxt g10 brackets and can re-use my 140mm Cougar CFV14HB fans so I'm all set on those misc parts.

This is how I did it on my two 780ti sc 's with 140mm corsair H90 coolers (two Cougar CFV14HB hydro bearing fans push/pull on each radiator not pictured). Swapped out the stock bracket vrm fans with ARCTIC F9 PWM Rev. 2 Fluid Dynamic Bearing, 92mm PWM fans too ..
http://imgur.com/a/Sy9mL
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Got mine yesterday, but it took until this morning to fully resolve issues with the driver issues.

My god this is an insane improvement over my 980. when I was doing the purchasing I was pretty sure my ivy bridge at 4896Mhz wouldn't hold it back. Now I'm not so sure, especially since the 1080 ti doesn't seem to like the 102blck
 
I just scored 12,853 in Time Spy, does your 6950X and 64GB of memory account for the extra 2,000 points you get over my 4770k and 16GB?

Just closed f.lux and running again, will post links in a minute.

Endgame said:
My god this is an insane improvement over my 980
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I'm coming from 780Ti-SLI. Time Spy was a slide show with those...the jump with 1080Ti-SLI is insane!!!

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Ok, closing f.lux made little / no difference. My score is here:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/18651382?

Fire Strike Ultra:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/18651541?

Regular Old Fire Strike:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/18651621?
 
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Anyone have a recommended overclocking tool / fan profile tool for a Nvidia FE card? I was using Asus GPU tweak (shamefully I was only using it because it came with my Asus 980, never did any research) but am open to using the best available tool.
 
I think most people use MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision OCX. I think either should work with FE cards but I'm not 100% sure about that.
 
Syphon Filter said:
I think most people use MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision OCX. I think either should work with FE cards but I'm not 100% sure about that.
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Afterburner does. I'm using it on my NVIDIA reference cards. I don't know about EVGA Precision OCX. I thought that one did a check to see if the cards were actually EVGA cards so I didn't try it.
 
Syphon Filter said:
Anyone tried Ghost Recon Wildlands? On the Ultra preset at 4k I can barely squeeze 40fps...
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I have. I get between 45 and 60FPS. It does sometimes dip into the high 30's. It's fucking demanding. SLi doesn't scale well but it does help.
 
i saw a yt vid from some random, they had sli and a 7700(not oc'd) and was getting 50-90fps @4k. so your performance seems aboot right.
 
Dan_D said:
I wonder why I'm not getting that level of performance?
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I'm getting right at 50 FPS average in the canned benchmark with spikes into the 90s. I've not done in game benchmarking but seems to run pretty smooth at 4k ultra present.
 
heatlesssun said:
I'm getting right at 50 FPS average in the canned benchmark. I've not done in game benchmarking but seems to run pretty smooth at 4k ultra present.
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I get 58.8FPS average in the canned benchmark. I'll have to check when I get home, but there may have been some things not set by the ultra-preset that I changed in the settings.
 
Dan_D said:
I get 58.8FPS average in the canned benchmark. I'll have to check when I get home, but there may have been some things not set by the ultra-preset that I changed in the settings.
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Hmm, we'll I seem to off in this game as well. Didn't really do a lot of testing just spot checked games with canned benchmarks. Actually played a good bit of Forza Horizon 3. The 1080 Ti definitely is smoothing things out, almost able to keep a constant 60 FPS with brief dips in to the upper 50s. OCing should help out.

So far very impressed with these cards. And it actually is a pretty significant upgrade even over the 1080, at least at 4k.
 
Syphon Filter said:
Mine are here...just installed them. Running Time Spy now. Will post back in a bit.
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What monitor are you running? I have 2 coming for my 1440p 144hz setup. I may consider a 4k 144hz monitor when available. I figured 1 is less than my 980ti's at 1500mhz and so I'd need 2 for an upgrade.
 
We need a dedicated thread for 3dmark for 1080TI. Firestrike regular, the one in the middle can't remember the name, firestrile ultra and timespy.
 
I got my Gigabyte FE 1080 Ti yesterday and went ahead and bumped the power and temp limits to max with MSI afterburner. I played GTA V for about an hour and saw clocks up to 1860 on the core but it mostly settled at about 1830. According to the temp monitoring it never broke 70 C.. I have a linear fan speed profile set up so 20C = 20% fan, 40C = 40%, etc on up.

I get my second card today and my second EVGA Hybrid AIO cooler Saturday. That means next week they both get water cooling! :D
 
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caw2007 I am seeing exactly the same thing on my FEs. Power and temp whacked up to max and card seems to settle around 1830-60 for me too. I think it's hitting power limit, this image shows 20 minutes or there abouts of Fire Strike Ultra Combined Test on Loop:

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Max temps 79 and 74.
 
mgulbran Thank you for posting those tips, I will run a test on my machine and report back shortly.

EDIT: Ok I just tried this @4k using the Ultra preset.

Turf On - 33.66fps
Turf Off - 37.89fps

Not exactly what I hoped for! I'll try some other settings and report back.

EDIT II: Ok, Borderless kills performance. Run Fullscreen.

Turf Off - 54.88
Tur Off / No AA - 67.12
Tur Off / No AA / Shadows High - 71.44
 
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What kind of insane feats do you think I could perform with this card at 1080p in GTA V and Skyrim in terms of mods. Right I am running dual GTX 980 but I don't have a lot of VRAM. I expect with this card's massive vram a lot of mods are possible.
 
mgulbran said:
Just a note but with my 1080SLI I get bad stuttering and and low frames if 'Turf Effects' are on - at every resolution (1080p -> 3440x1440) - if I disable that one setting after hitting Ultra preset the game runs fine for me. If you get chance to do a before and after benchmark of Ultra and then Ultra w/Turf Effects off I'd appreciate it.

Also, I get weird 'mediumish™' range texture flicker with SLI. If I go to the nvidia control panel and set the power to 'prefer maximum performance' it goes away. I have no idea why.
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This might be worth investigating.

1-28-2016
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...erformance-actually-do-/post/4791706/#4791706
the setting will definitely lock the video card to High Performance Mode and your clock speeds & voltages won't fluctuate, the PCI-E slots also won't power down to lower spec PCI-E when the video card is idle. The problem is that during the 2xx.xx driver era Nvidia introduced a bunch of "hidden" profiles for Windows components and web browsers, these hidden profiles feature the Power Mode setting set to "Adaptive". Because some of the components are active the moment Windows starts and persist for the entire Windows session, they will cause the video card to remain in "Adaptive" mode/ignore the Global Setting because Application Specific profiles take precedent.

It WAS mentioned in the Release Notes included with several driver releases but it seems Nvidia has tried to erase all mention of the introduction of hidden application profiles.

In order to fix Global setting to work correctly you will need to make a application profile for each of the following programs in the Manage 3D Setting portion of Nvidia Control Panel (Some processes may only exist for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10):

C:\Windows\system32\dwm.exe
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Steam etc.
Microsoft Cortana
Microsoft Shell Experience Host

When the profiles are created for the above applications they will have the Power Mode set to Adaptive instead of Use Global Settings. After creating these profiles you will need to change them all to "Use Global Setting" for Power Mode and also make the Global Profile Prefer Maximum Performance. Reboot your PC when finished.

Video tutorial:


Your video card will now never under clock, never under voltage and the PCI-E slots will always perform at maximum spec (PCI-E 2 slots won't drop to PCI-E 1 spec for example). You can verify this with GPU-Z, MSI Afterburner, AIDA64 etc.

Now you get to experience how the Prefer Maximum Performance setting originally worked. I do a Clean install of each new driver release and re-perform these profile changes every time and have never run in to issues since I started doing this (Around 2010).
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Weird thing I'm seeing in 3DMark, my single 1080 Ti was recognized as valid with no problem yesterday. Today my SLI config, even though it clearly shows two Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in my system info, every result was invalid because the cards are seen as Generic somehow..lol

Also of note, in GPU-Z, my Gigabyte branded card shows NVIDIA under subvender, while my EVGA branded card shows as EVGA under subvender and has a different BIOS revision..
 
So I just started doing some overclocking:

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Ran Heaven 4 and Time Spy, got about a 10% boost in those with these settings. But, wow, gets pretty loud, just about at the edge of being uncomfortably so and a lot of heat. But pretty insane performance. This making think about AIO cooling.
 
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