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you can use a maximum of five at
one given time. Great for surround
gaming, but you may want to go SLI
if you truly plan to go that route.
This brings us to another point,
if indeed SLI is appealing for your,
do note that space between the two
cards will be limited. The Xtreme
card is technically 2.5 slots in width,
but for all intents and purposes it’s
a three-slot card.
A big feature or at least one of the
big features on this card is the RGB
component of it. There are three
lighting zones in total, including
the rear of the card (AORUS LED
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logo), the top where GIGABYTE logo
is located and of course the three
fans. All these can be controlled
independently with RGB Fusion. As
you may be well aware, the software
isn’t great (come to think of it, not a
single VGA card vendor makes great
software. It’s all adequate at best
but not great, especially where UX is
concerned) but it’ll get the job done.
When it comes to performance,
well what can be said? It remains the
most powerful GPU on the market
and that means gaming at maximum
or highest detail at 50 to 60FPS at 4K
resolutions depending on the game. In
RTX enabled titles, one will need to use
DLSS to maintain that high frame rate
at this resolution, but for none DXR
titles it should be able to maintain such
high frame rates with relative ease.
As has been the case for this
generation and the last, overclocking
is rather limited. At least more so
where the core is concerned. Between
NVIDIA’s Turbo algorithms, power
management and temperatures,
overclocking the core may not yield
much, but increasing the power limits,
fan speeds and memory clocks seems
to do the trick.
As stated earlier, operating