ASUS Turbo GeForce GTX 1080 Review | 118 Data compared

The ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 TURBO is a budget-friendly, baseline graphics card powered by a Pascal GP104 GPU, running at a reference base clock of 1607MHz and a boost clock of 1733MHz. It features 8GB of GDDR5X graphics memory and requires a single 8-pin power connector, which allows the card's power draw to reach up to 225W when the power target is increased to its maximum 120% TDP. Benchmarks demonstrate that its performance remains stable and in line with standard GTX 1080 expectations, scoring 14,810 in 3DMark Fire Strike and achieving 118 FPS in the FurMark 1080p preset stress test. While the GPU sits at a cool 30°C at idle, it hits 79°C under heavy loads at default settings, and climbs to 83°C when overclocked. The core advantage of this card is its price point, offering high-end graphics capabilities to buyers who want GTX 1080 performance without a premium price tag. However, these savings come with notable compromises in build and thermal design. The card completely lacks a backplate for mechanical protection and heat dissipation, has no out-of-the-box factory overclocking,...

This review evaluates the three-year-old Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics card using an ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo reference design to establish a baseline for its Folding@Home performance and energy efficiency. Tested in a Windows 10 environment on an AMD FX-based system, the card achieved an average of 730K Points Per Day (PPD) over a two-week duration. The reviewer optimized performance by overclocking the core clock by 175 MHz and increasing the power limit by 20% via MSI Afterburner. When measuring system power consumption at the wall, the computer consumed an average of 240 Watts, resulting in a system computational efficiency score of 3044 PPD/Watt. The major benefit of the GTX 1080 is its excellent overall computational efficiency, cementing it as an extremely capable card for distributed disease research. However, the review highlights several downsides, notably that it only delivers a minor 4.3% performance increase (30K PPD) over the cheaper GTX 1070 Ti, which features nearly the same number of CUDA cores. Additionally, despite sharing the same 180 Watt Thermal Design Power (TDP) rating as the 1070 Ti, the GTX 1080...