Coming from the 1080 ti Aorus Xtreme 11g, I have the following to say:
Update 30.03.21: With the introduction of Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077, the card, with everything on Ultra and Ray Tracing on PSYCHO at 1440p 100% native resolution, has an average fps of 30 and a temperature of 70, with the Junction reaching 88, with the fans at 50%! With Ray Tracing on medium, it reaches 40 fps, making the game more playable, but still falls behind compared to the Ray Tracing of the 3080, which has +10-15 fps at the same settings. In comparison to Metro Exodus, which produces exactly the same fps in RT as the 3080, you enjoy it more there.
Update 24.03.21: Regarding Coil Whine, I connected 2 PCIE VGA cables, each one with 2x6+2 pins. So, from each PSU cable, I connected 1x6+2 pin to one port and the other 1x6+2 pin from the second PSU cable to the other port, and as a result, the coil whine disappeared and the performance increased by 2% in FPS. This was a solution suggested in the forums to make the card work more stable and prevent coil whine, which can also be applied to other graphics cards.
Updated 18.02.2021:
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Average FPS at 2K Resolution:
CS GO: 330
Destiny 2: 159
Just Cause 4: 301
Star Wars BattleFront 2: 201
Red Dead Redemption 2: 89
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1% LOW FPS:
CS GO: 177 xDDDDDD
Destiny 2: 88
Just Cause 4: 144
Star Wars Battle Front 2: 144
Red Dead Redemption 2: 59
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Continuing,
The card is huge (about 32 cm) and you can feel the quality of its construction. It weighs around 2 kg and it fit a bit difficultly in my tower. I undervolted the card from 1125mv to 1000mv and overclocked it from 2250 to 2675mHz!!!!! I stress tested it for 8 hours without crashing, with an average temperature of 60 and the fans at 45%. All the settings were done through the AMD software and not through Afterburner.
The card reached a maximum power consumption of 300 watts at 2675mHz and an average of 140 watts at 2200.
Pros:
- Insane overclocking headroom
- Low temperatures (in Red Dead Redemption, 2K, ultra, 59 degrees with the fans at 0 RPM!)
- AMD software is simply perfect for all settings, to the point where MSI Afterburner is useless to me.
- It gave me the exact same performance as the RTX 3090 (in benchmark scores and Red Dead Redemption) at lower temperatures, which is funny considering I bought it for 900 euros while an RTX 3090 now costs 2000 euros.
Cons:
- Large card size (32cm) and it took up 3 slots in my tower.
- Only 2 years of warranty (while RTX cards have 3-4), but in the current times, if it breaks, it will take months to get a replacement since there is nothing available. The same applies to RTX cards.
- High price, guys, yes, I agree, the prices are now doubled in all RTX and Radeon models, especially when people are selling used 5700XT and 1080ti for 600 euros, you don't have many options for an upgrade.
- Beta drivers and unstable in many games such as Destiny 2 and Star Wars Battlefront (crashes/flickering etc)
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No matter what we do, the price of bitcoin keeps rising (thanks to Elon xD) the duo of AMD / NVIDIA are not producing any more cards (we ran out of Silicon) so the prices are not going to change anytime soon, unfortunately.