Final Thoughts and Conclusion
The ASUS ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti is an absolute monster of a graphics card. There just isn’t enough good I can say about this card. I’ve always been partial to ASUS cards. Especially since they dropped the black and red color scheme for more neutral colors. The brushed aluminum backplate looks great with the RGB ROG eye logo. Although this is a 2.7 slot card, it doesn’t look as large as say the MSI Gaming X Trio or EVGA FTW 3 cards. However, this could just be my imagination. The triple fans Strix cooler looks great, as usual. The ROG Strix 2080 Ti doesn’t overdo the RGB lighting on the car either. There is lighting above and below each fan, on the backplate and on the side of the card. It’s subtle, so it works well. The ROG eye on the backplate looks great illuminated. However, the LED OFF button on the back of the PCB is the best feature on any graphics card, ever. Especially since I had issues with their Aura Sync software, it was great to have an alternate way to disable the lighting.
The cooler is massive on the Strix 2080 Ti and it shows in the performance. While playing an average game, the temperature of the Strix 2080 Ti usually hovered around 60°c. Occasionally I’d see it hit 62°c or so. Even while running synthetic benchmarks, the Strix 2080 Ti usually stayed in the lower 60’s. Even under a heavy load, the card never went above 66°c. This was due to the beast that is the Strix cooler. With the combination of their new Axial-Tech fans, their MaxContact Technology, six heat pipes and the 2.7 slot design of the ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti, this card stays cool, even under the heaviest of workloads. 
The performance of this card was stellar. many of the games even averaging over 60 frames per second, even in 4k. With some of the games averaging well over 200 frames per second in 1080p, it shows you that this card is not meant for 1080p gaming. The ROG Strix 2080 Ti is designed for 4k gaming, VR and video editing. I wouldn’t recommend this card to anyone building a gaming PC for playing games in 1080p. I would, however, recommend this card to everyone else. The Strix 2080 Ti is a great card for someone who games on a 21:9, high refresh rate monitor. Even more so, the Strix 2080 Ti is a great card for the professional video editor. Even with editing 4k videos, my render times were drastically cut down when I went from a 1080 ti to a 2080 Ti.
But the ASUS ROG Strix 2080 Ti isn’t for the enthusiast on a budget. At the time of writing this review, you can pick up the ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti on Amazon for a cost of only $1,279.99. That’s down for around $1,450 at launch. However, if this is something you can afford, I couldn’t recommend it more. You’ll won’t have to worry about lowering your graphics settings for a long time to come. Also, if you’re interested in learning more about the ROG Strix 2080 Ti, check out our soon to be released, and even more in-depth review on our sister site, pctestbench.com. Over there, we’ll dive into even more benchmarks, video rendering, overclocking, SLI benchmarks and more.
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