Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Graphics Card Review

Final Thoughts

Price

This is the flagship graphics card from Nvidia and right now, the fastest card on the market isn’t going to be cheap. It clocks in at £699.00 directly from Nvidia, which is comparable to the launch price of the GTX 1080, which has since been lowered to £545. That makes the Ti about 25% more expensive, and for the most part, we saw similar or greater % improvements in performance too.

Overview

This graphics card is freaking amazing, what else is there to say beyond that? A lot! Nvidia is already a market leader in terms of sales, and they’ve certainly been in the lead a lot recently regarding performance. So, for them to come out with a card that gives such an impressive performance boost over their last flagship card, the GTX 1080, is crazy, but they’ve done it.

I own the GTX 1080 personally, and it’s fantastic for gaming at 4K resolutions, high-frame rate gameplay, and all the other usual joys of high-end PC gaming, but dialling games up to ultra settings can still cause dips below 60FPS. The Ti gives a strong boost to overall performance, often removing the need to compromise on visual quality to get to your target frame rate.

The stock performance was impressive, and we even managed a modest overclock that gave us an extra 10% improvement in performance. However, we’re confident that this card has more to offer if only we could keep it from thermal throttling. It won’t be long before 3rd-party cards hit the market, then we’ll see how hard we can actually clock this new and improved GPU core. Of course, if you’re going for custom loop cooling, this founders edition does have an easily removable cooler and may be cheaper for those who want to overclock the card themselves.

The price is pretty steep, but it’s around what we expected compared to the last few premium cards from Nvidia. Keep in mind, that this is faster than cards such as the Titan X, which was much more expensive at launch, although not quite the same class of gaming card as the 1xxx series, even if it is based on similar hardware.

The design is great, the build quality is rock solid, the performance is the best you can get right now, and when it comes to high-resolution gaming, the card loves to stretch its legs when faced with a challenging game, no doubt reaping the benefits of having 11GB of blazing fast memory.

“The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti sets a new standard for high-resolution and high-framerate gaming, delivering a huge performance increase over the GTX 1080 that makes easy work of any and all PC games!”

Pros

• Exceptional performance
• Perfect for 1440/2160p gaming
• 11GB of GDDR5X memory
• 10% performance boost from overclocking
• Faster and cooler without increasing acoustic levels
• Incredible gaming performance

Cons

• Stock cooler is holding back the overclocking capabilities

Neutral

• It’s a little out of many peoples price range, but you do get what you pay for