ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC Edition Review

Temperature & Power Consumption

The gaming performance on a graphics card is the most important factor in buying a card, but you also need to be concerned about the noise, temperature and power consumption numbers.

ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC Temperatures:

Temperatures on the ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti OC with the ‘P’ BIOS switch setting and the ‘OC’ mode in the GPU Tweak II utility were great. The fans always ran in this mode, but they were barely spinning at idle (800 RPM) and the GPU tempearture was just 27C in a room where the ambient was 26C. After gaming for over an hour the temperatures never passed 59C with the fans running at speeds of up to 1750 RPM. Very impressive temperature results, but we expected this card would have great thermals since the GPU cooler design takes up three motherboard slots (actually 2.7, but what are you going to do with that last 0.3) .

Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we ran Rainbow Six Siege at 1440P and recorded the peak power number while the in-game benchmark was running. This is done to ensure the results are repeatable.

Power Consumption Results: The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 Ti OC Edition uses just over 30 Watts more than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FE. The higher clock speeds, extra fan and additional RGB lighting cause this card to sip a little more power at all times.