Foreword
Saying that the GeForce GTX 1080 public graphics card is seriously out of stock can be described as a hard-to-find card, and the recent non-public version of the GTX 1080 has been shipped one after another. Although it is still a sizzling rhythm, it is still compared to the previous public version of the moment. It is much easier, and the landlord has been fortunate enough to get a copy of the public and non-public GTX 1080. If there is any game in the world where a nuclear bomb might not work out, then come two! Hong Kong Zhen, originally asked me to take a non-public version of the public version of the SLI I refused, but after trying the public version of the temperature and noise are not very satisfied, so the non-public version of the GTX 1080 is still a bit .
This GALAXY GTX 1080 GAMER is the most inexpensive GTX 1080 on JD. It has a lower grade than GALAXY's own HOF Hall of Fame. It also has fewer items, only manuals, certificates, driver CDs and 8Pin power cords. One, in my opinion, these are all dispensable for users who purchase this price display card. Compared with the public version, GALAXY GTX 1080 GAMER adds a 6-pin power supply interface, and the default frequency is also increased from 1607MHz to 1683MHz.
As mentioned in the previous article, for non-public graphics cards that like a stack fan, don’t worry about yourself if you don’t have three fans.
In addition to the heap fan, it seems that the non-public version of the video card is still popular playing lights, GALAXY GTX 1080 GAMER add a circle around the fan LED light belt, here to sell a child, the following show again.
Compared with the public version, it is commonplace for the non-public version to be a little bit wider and wider. After all, it looks like it will be more valuable.
Also with a backboard design, the public version uses a two-part design to enhance the air duct in the second half of the detachable case with the Doka SLI in close contact, while the GALAXY GTX 1080 GAMER uses a partially hollow design.
After saying that the appearance of the public version is used, the design of the exposed heat pipe is somewhat unsuitable.
Two graphics cards in the hands feel the public version to be a little bit heavy, but the numbers on the screen told me wrong, maybe GALAXY this card shell looks relatively strong because of plastic reason.
Run on the machine
In standby mode, the fan speed is less than 2000 RPM, and the GPU temperature is 35°C, which is 4°C higher than the room temperature.
Since the default frequency is higher than the official version, it is entirely reasonable that the final 3DMAEK run points will be higher than the public run runs in the red circle.
The Furmark pager, who ran for 10 minutes, had a maximum GPU temperature of 76°C (up to 87°C in the public version). The core frequency has been kept at about 1.8GHz, and it has not been downgraded to 1.5GHz like the public version, and the fan speed has never exceeded 2000 RPM. Compared to the 3000RPM version of the public version, the noise is much lower, and it must be said that the stack fan is still A little effect.
GALAXY GTX 1080 GAMER is equipped with a control software called MAGIC PANEL PLUS. In addition to frequency, fan speed, video card status monitoring, and other functions such as one-key overclocking and LED light control, the interface is simple, intuitive and easy to use. However, there is no Chinese interface or a little regret.
Saying that it is not only a peripheral, even the graphics board and so on have played RGB lighting effects. In addition to the adjustable color, the lighting status includes two types, the constant light and the breathing light, and the frequency of the breathing light is adjustable. It is also possible to choose to display different light colors according to the unused status, and the lighting effect has a certain playability.
If you like, you can experience the killing of Matt on the video card.
If you are willing to spend money, you can buy a backplane with LED lighting effect to replace the original backplane, but this has not yet been found to sell, if the price is not very outrageous can be considered.
Dual deck SLI test
Now with two graphics cards, the chassis feels a lot richer.
The SLI hard bridge named "New SLI HB Bridge" was released along with the GTX 1080. The interface frequency was increased from the previous 400 MHz to 650 MHz. However, due to the difference in the width of the two graphics cards, the hard bridge cannot be found under this combination. Used, so rummaging to find two SLI soft bridges is to make use of, but this old-style soft bridge interface frequency is only 400MHz, compared to the new version of the SLI bridge 650MHz to be a little lower, the performance will cause some loss this is currently no condition test. Then I want to mention that since the original hard bridge is connected to the two interfaces of the SLI golden finger, I used two soft bridges to connect, but then pulled out and then ran away and found that there was no What is the effect of this?
Many non-public versions now like to personalize things in the position of the bezel, but the GALAXY GTX 1080 GAMER is exactly the same as the public version, but I found a problem in the test, the public version of the GTX 1080's HDMI port with the monitor can not be achieved 4K 60Hz, either 4K 30Hz or 1080P 60Hz, if forced to set the 4K 60Hz into the system will be a black screen, and GALAXY this piece does not have this problem, during several HDMI 2.0 data lines tested are the same results, for unknown reasons.
As the saying goes, match the red and green matches, what is the match, but I think it's not bad.
However, it was found that the temperature was too high when using the public version of the main card. The last two cards changed their positions, and the lights of the Yingchi GTX 1080 were also set to be green. There was no sense of guilt between the two graphics cards. rare.
In order to open the SLI after inserting two cards, you have to go to the graphics control panel to set it. When you see “NVIDIA SLI†in the GPU-Z as Enabled, it means that the SLI has been successfully opened.
Let's verify the effect of SLI. I don’t know if the current driver is not perfect or the old SLI bridge reduced the interface frequency. The efficiency of the GTX 1080 dual-card SLI is much lower than that of the 7-series and 9-series N cards I’ve tested before. Three test items run down. Dual cards are only 31%, 59%, and 70% more efficient than single cards. The efficiency is not high, but from the comparison we can see that the higher the efficiency of GTX 1080 SLI is, the higher the load is, certainly not because The current version of 3DMARK is not enough for the optimization of GTX 1080 SLI.
After running 3DMARK, we tested the performance of SteamVR. Although the same evaluation is very high fidelity, the scores of the double cards are lower than the scores of single cards. If the results are not wrong, the current GTX 1080 dual card SLI does not have any bonus for VR.
The game has directly tested the GTA5 and the "Sorcerer III" full-on effects and anti-aliasing at 4K resolution. Both games can achieve more than 60FPS of full-shot effects and anti-aliasing before single-card 1080P resolution, so this Sub-double card to skip 1080P directly measured 4K resolution.
Running "GTA5" Whether it is the game Benchmark or the actual number of frames in the game, the number of frames in the GTX 1080 group after SLI is almost double the increase compared to the single card, and the efficiency is much higher than before running 3DMARK. Most of the games in the game can run around 50FPS. At this time, there is no obvious Catton, and the fluency is good.
"Wizard 3" before the single card 4K resolution full effect and anti-aliasing is also about 30FPS, now the number of dual-card SLI frames increased to more than 50FPS, some scenes can go to 60FPS, the efficiency is also good.
Dual SIM SLI Power Test
The previous two games have good support for the GTX 1080 SLI. The dual cards are very efficient. To play cool at 4K resolution, these game masterpieces seem to be doomed to pay a lot of money. Similarly, the electricity bill is also doomed to save.
Dual card standby power consumption is about 75W.
If you run the game, you will see between 400W-480W.
Open Furmark directly to two graphics card full load, power consumption immediately flew to about 570W, it seems to play cool GTX 1080 dual card SLI, for them to prepare a standard 750W power supply is more responsible approach.
to sum up
GALAXY is currently selling the cheapest GTX 1080 in Jingdong, which is better than the public version in terms of performance or thermal noise performance. For those who like to play lights, there are RGB lighting effect blessings, plus 400 yuan less than the public version. Not a small number, but compared to the public version, GALAXY GTX 1080 GAMER still has a slight difference in workmanship and texture. The difference of 400 yuan is actually a matter of faith or cost performance. This is not an easy question to answer, but I believe you will Have your own answer.
As for the GTX 1080 dual-card SLI, the dual card has the ability to challenge 4K resolution in the case of a single card meeting the full-scale anti-aliasing effect of the mainstream game 1080P resolution, but the dual card efficiency is also affected by the driver and the game optimization effect. Affected by other factors, there is still a big gap between perfection. For example, the VR test is not a cold for dual cards. From the icing on the cake to getting more done, there is still a long way to go.