ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Gaming A8G Review

Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy game set in the future where descendants of humans (called Post- Humans) and a powerful artificial intelligence (called the Substrate) fight a war for control of a resource known as Turinium.

Players will engage in massive-scale land/air battles by commanding entire armies of their own design. Each game takes place on one area of a planet, with each player starting with a home base (known as a Nexus) and a single construction unit.

We opt for the Extreme quality profile and run the GPU-Focused test using the DX12 game mode.

Gigabyte's slightly higher boost clock for GTX 1080 G1 Gaming puts it ahead of the ASUS ROG STRIX A8G when running at 1080p. But once the demand is ramped up to 1440p and 4k, ASUS' card is able to etch out a couple of minor victories.

The performance switch is likely due to the ASUS card's ability to maintain its maximum boost clocks (which, as we know, go higher than the number written on specs sheets). The additional 6-pin PCIe power connector may be showing its worth here.

With that said, performance between the two custom-cooled GTX 1080s is very close at all rendering resolutions and ASUS' option is able to out-muscle the GTX 1080 FE by a couple of FPS across-the-board.

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