Test Rig
For our tests, we used a new test rig which is comprised of a MSI MPG Z390I Gaming Edge AC Motherboard, along with an Intel Core i7-8700K at default clock speed of 4.7GHz, as well as 16GB of DDR4-4000 ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.7GHz (Coffee Lake) |
| Cooling | Noctua NH-D15 Premium CPU cooler |
| Motherboard | MSI MPG Z390I Gaming Edge AC Motherboard |
| Ram | 16GB Geil Super Luce RGB DDR4-4000 |
| HDD | Adata SX 7000 240GB PCIE M.2 SSD |
| PSU | Thermaltake 850W |
| VGA card | ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 2080 Ti AMP Extreme (11GB GDDR6) |
| Nvidia Drivers | GeForce Game Ready – WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Firestorm Software
The Firestorm software allows users to fine tune and monitor your graphics card including fan speeds, Spectra Lighting, GPU and memory clocks as well as voltages and temperatures.
You can also use the Firestorm software to overclock your card even further, but be warned … please be very careful. Any overclocking is done at your own risk.
Load Temperatures
Load temperatures reached a high of 71 degrees Celsius. It may seem high, but this is a power hungry card eating up to 300W at full load. There is good news however, the ICE STORM 2.0 cooling solution from Zotac along with the triple fans handled it with no issues.
PassMark – Performance Test 9.0 (3D Test)
Test the speed of your 3D video card by selecting from options such as fogging, lighting, alpha blending, wire frame, texturing, resolution, color depth, object rotation and object displacement. Separate tests for DirectX 9,10,11 & 12. With support for 4K resolution.
