Asus Strix Gtx 1080 8G overclocking

[Stefano Bae]

Hi guys, I'm about to buy an Asus Strix Gtx1080 and i saw there are versions of it: 8G A8G and O8G.

I'm kinda out of money and the prices are very differet: the 8G costs in amazon italy 595 euros while the A8G and the O8G 663eur and more.

The only different thing between the tre gpus is the clock speed... So my question is: can a 8G get the same overclock of an A8G or a O8G?

 

[Vegetable]

Basically all aftermarket 1080's hit the same clock speed wall at 2.1Ghz or so. Provided temperatures are in check, they realistically will all OC about the same. 

[Stefano Bae]

@Vegetable So in you opinion is better to spend less money to buy a 8G and overclock it manually right?

[Vegetable]

2 minutes ago, Stefano Bae said:

@Vegetable So in you opinion is better to spend less money to buy a 8G and overclock it manually right?

Yes, exactly. No point in buying a real expensive card if they all do the EXACT same when overclocking. 

[Rainbow Dash]

There was a new GTX 1080 that came out with 11GB/s VRAM. But it's not even worth the price. I have the GTX 1080 STRIX OC with the non-11GB/s VRAM, and all I did was max out the VRAM clock and it basically was the samething. It was suppose to help with 4K gaming, but it was not a huge difference.

[Mick Naughty]

They will both boost over their rated speeds. So I don’t see a reason buying a oc version.  

 

Tried to talk my friend out of it when we both bought ours. My none oc version still boosted higher. But that also comes up to the lottery. 

 

Doesnt metter regradless the end result will be identical. 

[Stefano Bae]

@Rainbow Dash @Mick Naughty Thank you for the answers

 

I saw on youtube that an 8G version can be turned in to an O8G by flashing a new O8G bios, so it means that all the hardware is the same on all of the 3 versions and the only difference is that each of the cards have a different software limitation... do you guys think that is safe to do that? I never tried such a thing but if it works that would be really great. 

[Mick Naughty]

I wouldn't bother flashing a card when its gonna perform the same regardless of the bios. Best to just oc the card yourself if you feel you need 1-3 more fps.

[Darkseth]

20 hours ago, Stefano Bae said:

Hi guys, I'm about to buy an Asus Strix Gtx1080 and i saw there are versions of it: 8G A8G and O8G.

I'm kinda out of money and the prices are very differet: the 8G costs in amazon italy 595 euros while the A8G and the O8G 663eur and more.

The only different thing between the tre gpus is the clock speed... So my question is: can a 8G get the same overclock of an A8G or a O8G?

 

easy. Even the Models with a "stronger" overclock is still a joke of what most GTX 1080 chips can achieve.

You would be really really unlucky already, if your Chip couldn't do like 2025-2050 Mhz stable, or at least break the 2000.

So far, almost every single User could hit 2000 Mhz easy. Most of them with an undervolt too.

 

My GTX 1080 can do 1974 Mhz (downs to 1961 Mhz, because of how Nvidia Boost 3.0 works) with only 0.900 volt (Standard are 1.031-1.05 Volt), giving me the same stock performance including a +500 Mhz Memory OC, and the whole Card consumes 175-180 Watt, instead the stock 220w. So still some OC headroom above.

 

 

TL;DR: You can buy the cheapest variant, and OC the difference if you need it. But i promise you, you will NEVER notice a difference - especially if you use G-Sync.