What is the best ?

[JayBee805]

Aftermarket 2080 ti available right now? 

[Fasauceome]

Have you checked out any reviews? What models were you considering?

[Emanbaird]

I've heard really good things about the Strix cards, they have beefed up power delivery.

 

In all honesty overclocking GPU's without bios/hardware mods is pretty much dead for now, at least with Pascal/Turing does not allow you to overclock too much, and even then they are pretty small improvements, this is mainly due to locking down the voltage. 

 

This is why there is almost no difference between different models nowadays.

 

but the big thing at least with 2080 ti's right now, is the a and (non)a chips. 

[AndrewB121]

2080ti is objectively the the best consumer card, with the best model probably being the most expensive EVGA one. Alternately there are cards like the Titan RTX which are even better but for insane prices. 

[mitchpman13]

I've been trying to find this out for the past few days myself, It's been hard to tell due to nobody testing with the same methodologies. Out of the box, top clocked are the Zotac amp extreme than the Gigabyte Aorus. As for the best OC'er, well it's kinda stuck due to Nvidia locking things down and obviously taking the best-binned chips for themselves (unless this has changed and I'm just unaware). Asus supposedly has one of the best VRMs, but it doesn't matter much unless maybe using LN2, but maybe it'll last longer overall with an OC on it. The KINGPIN card was announced early January, but still, no launch yet.

[JayBee805]

33 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Have you checked out any reviews? What models were you considering?

The evga ftw 3 & Asus rog strix 

[JayBee805]

3 minutes ago, mitchpman13 said:

I've been trying to find this out for the past few days myself, It's been hard to tell due to nobody testing with the same methodologies. Out of the box, top clocked are the Zotac amp extreme than the Gigabyte Aorus. As for the best OC'er, well it's kinda stuck due to Nvidia locking things down and obviously taking the best-binned chips for themselves (unless this has changed and I'm just unaware).  The KINGPIN card was announced early January, but still, no launch yet.

I’m not liking the look of the kingpin too much 

[JayBee805]

23 minutes ago, Emanbaird said:

I've heard really good things about the Strix cards, they have beefed up power delivery.

 

In all honesty overclocking GPU's without bios/hardware mods is pretty much dead for now, at least with Pascal/Turing does not allow you to overclock too much, and even then they are pretty small improvements, this is mainly due to locking down the voltage. 

 

This is why there is almost no difference between different models nowadays.

 

but the big thing at least with 2080 ti's right now, is the a and (non)a chips. 

Idc much for OC just want the most powerful one that’ll give me 4k 60 FPS most of the time ... I don’t play competitive or shooters only single player games so I stick to 4k 60

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, JayBee805 said:

The evga ftw 3 & Asus rog strix 

Strix O8G is the highest tier Asus card, among the ranks of MSI lightning Z (although I prefer the Duke) and the K|ngp|n 

[mitchpman13]

Just now, JayBee805 said:

I’m not liking the look of the kingpin too much  

Yeah, same. plus it does have a rad on it, so you'd have to make room for that or just pop out your real case fan.

 

Just now, JayBee805 said:

Idc much for OC just want the most powerful one that’ll give me 4k 60 FPS most of the time

Well, spec wise, Zotac has the best out of the box numbers. (as far as I've seen)

[Firewrath9]

4 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Strix O8G is the highest tier Asus card, among the ranks of MSI lightning Z (although I prefer the Duke) and the K|ngp|n 

strix is not K|NGP|N territorry, or Lightning Z, as it lacks many LN2 features, and its vrms are worse than both Lighning Z & K|NGP|N.

Strix is FTW3 ultra gaming and Gaming X trio territory

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Firewrath9 said:

strix is not K|NGP|N territorry, or Lightning Z, as it lacks many LN2 features, and its vrms are worse than both Lighning Z & K|NGP|N.

But what about for casual users who only OC with the included heat sink?

[Firewrath9]

Just now, fasauceome said:

But what about for casual users who only OC with the included heat sink?

then they shouldn't buy the Lightning Z or the K|NGP|N. and as far as I am aware, the Lightning Z cooler is the same as the Gaming X trio, so a "casual user" would have no reason to get the Lightning Z, unless they want the carbon fiber backplate, as the major selling points: really good vrms, LN2 features, and extra power ports) would have no use. 

Ditto with the K|NGP|N, its just a FTW3 hybrid with an extra power plug, LN2 features, and a souped-up vrm.