Delivers competitive performance to other popular vendor-overclocked GTX 1080s while costing a bit less and running cooler. Unless you're wanting to go much past 2GHz clock speeds, this is a fantasticly good pick.
- Great performer out of the box; Won't even break a sweat at 1080p and does great at 2K resolutions with ultra detail settings; - Plenty of room to overclock; Using MSI Afterburner, I was able to hit 1950 MHz core / 5375 MHz memory (effective) at 108% power without even touching the...
- Fans get a bit noisy once they spin up past 60-70%; - Has a very small amount of coil whine - Only has one 8-pin connector, which implies that it might not overclock to the ragged edge (2GHz+) quite as well as some other 1080s