party application - perhaps even
from competitors which are a
little more feature rich than
what AORUS has to offer.
So finally, how does it
perform? Well you can’t say
you’re surprised by now. The
card is definitely fast, in fact it’s
undoubtedly one of the fastest.
4K gaming is a reality and you’re
not going to run out of grunt
anytime soon. There wasn’t a
single game tested which could
not be played at absolutely the
highest detail level possible.
In the games that proved
particularly problematic, one
simply lowers or disables anti-
aliasing and your performance
is back to normal. Should you
need even more performance,
you could of course overclock
the graphics card. It won’t get
you much as you’re going to
end up at 1999MHz on the core
during heavy graphical loads
and perhaps 2050MHz under
light loads. That isn’t enough
to change how you perceive
game performance, but if you
overclock the memory, you may
see some useful and meaningful
gains. The graphics card has
a fairly respectable memory
overclock out the box, but you
can go even further and increase
it to 1520MHz~ or so without
risking any stability (Works
particularly well if you don’t
adjust the GPU core clock at
all). It will net you better gains
at 4K with AA than increasing
the core clock marginally does.
Whatever you decide to do with
the overclocking options if
anything at all, the performance
is plentiful and it does justify its
price. A $60 premium isn’t much
to ask perhaps.
It’s difficult to dislike this
graphics card. It has all the
trappings that any other GTX
1080 Ti would have, which have
nothing to do with AORUS but
NVIDIA. However, in taking what
NVIDIA gives and smoothing
out all the rough edges of the
Founders Edition, the AORUS
XTREME does an admirable job
and one that one cannot fault.
This is a good if not fantastic
gaming graphics card for
gaming exclusively. For the
asking price you’re not going
to do better so you should
definitely consider this if you’re
in the market.
TheOverclocker
Summary
As far as high end gaming
graphics cards go, the
AORUS Xtreme edition
ticks all the obvious
boxes. It’s as fast as any
GTX 1080 Ti you’re going
to find on the market.
If you’re looking for
something that is suitable
for even liquid nitrogen
cooling, then you’ll
need to look at another
graphics card as this
is not built for that. For
everything else, however,
there’s absolutely no
reason why this shouldn’t
be your GTX 1080 Ti of
choice.
Would you buy it?
The regular model most
likely, failng that - YES.
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