Looking at the 2080Ti

[PCDesignerRy]

From my Asus Strix 1080Ti I am suddenly getting a funding surge that is allowing me to take a heavier look at 2080ti cards. Now, I've heard about some issues with 2080Ti's that are causing overheating issues in Nvidia cards. I haven't determined if that is true or just a rumor, but I've also been looking at hybrid 2080Ti's as well. SO! My question to you is: 

Q. If you had to crown a single 2080Ti as the top of the top, whether it be a hybrid card or non, which 2080Ti would you say is the real king of the GPUs currently? With the EXCLUSION of custom liquid cooled cards, because I don't do any custom loop cooling in my builds. The Asus Strix 2080Ti? One of the hybrids? The RTX FTW3 2080Ti? I am looking to get my hands on the best card for a gaming environment that a person can get currently. 

As always, thanks for any time and knowledge that you can afford me

EDIT: 
I remembered the other question I had now(A few): 

Q. Would it be better to get a 2080Ti from a 1080 or to two-way SLI the same card? I've never done SLI of cards before. 
Q. With SLI of cards does the capabilities of this apply to everything or only certain cases? I guess I mean to ask: Is SLI the sort of thing that just runs all the time or do you have to activate it and point it at what you want to use it for. 

[LIGISTX]

4 minutes ago, PCDesignerRy said:

From my Asus Strix 1080Ti I am suddenly getting a funding surge that is allowing me to take a heavier look at 2080ti cards. Now, I've heard about some issues with 2080Ti's that are causing overheating issues in Nvidia cards. I haven't determined if that is true or just a rumor, but I've also been looking at hybrid 2080Ti's as well. SO! My question to you is: 

Q. If you had to crown a single 2080Ti as the top of the top, whether it be a hybrid card or non, which 2080Ti would you say is the real king of the GPUs currently? With the EXCLUSION of custom liquid cooled cards, because I don't do any custom loop cooling in my builds. The Asus Strix 2080Ti? One of the hybrids? The RTX FTW3 2080Ti? I am looking to get my hands on the best card for a gaming environment that a person can get currently. 

As always, thanks for any time and knowledge that you can afford me

FTW3 I would think. But new GPU’s will be out “soonish”. So may be worth waiting for 3000 series. 

[PCDesignerRy]

1 minute ago, LIGISTX said:

FTW3 I would think. But new GPU’s will be out “soonish”. So may be worth waiting for 3000 series. 

That's always something to consider, I just want to make sure I'm not always just waiting for the newest thing until I find that I'm never doing an upgrade to wait for the newest and best. 

[PCDesignerRy]

So, I'm looking at this one then: 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KVKRLG2/?ref=idea_lv_dp_ov_d

[Jurrunio]

Hybrid cards cool just like the top air cooled cards while being physically smaller (so you get 2 slot thick cards rather than 3 slot) at the cost of being more likely to fail in the long run (asetek expects their AIO to start doing badly if not failing due to fluid loss with permeation for example), so it depends on how long you plan on keeping the card. Not all hybrids follow this trend though, the ROG Matrix for example

 

As for performance, basically all the high end cards are nice. Asus Strix, MSI Gaming X Trio, Sea hawk, EVGA FTW3 Ultra, Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme, Inno3D iChill, Galax HOF etc. 2080ti is just so expensive that you can't really find one that's bad, and once you filter out the lower end of stuff all of them are good.

[LIGISTX]

5 hours ago, PCDesignerRy said:

That's always something to consider, I just want to make sure I'm not always just waiting for the newest thing until I find that I'm never doing an upgrade to wait for the newest and best. 

I know, but they are literally just months away.... It would be a good time to wait, especially since you have a plenty powerful card as it is. A few months of waiting is probs worth it right now.

[SteveGrabowski0]

5 hours ago, PCDesignerRy said:

That's always something to consider, I just want to make sure I'm not always just waiting for the newest thing until I find that I'm never doing an upgrade to wait for the newest and best. 

Microsoft just announced a 12 TFLOPS Navi 2 gpu in the XBox Series X which would put it nearly on par with a 2080 Super in traditional gaming (no details on the RT support though). So you gotta think Nvidia's going to need some kind of serious response to keep people buying their gpus instead of going to console.