Test Rig
For our tests, we used a new test rig which is comprised of a ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Motherboard, along with an Intel Core i7-8700K at default clock speed of 4.7GHz, as well as 16GB of DDR4-3200 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 | Custom Loop with all Thermaltake watercooling components |
| Motherboard | ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 |
| Ram | 16GB Thermaltake WaterRam RGB DDR4-3200 |
| HDD | Adata SX 7000 240GB PCIE M.2 SSD |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower XT 1275W |
| VGA card | ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Extreme Core (8GB GDDR6) |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest GeForce Game Ready – WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
GPU-Z Information
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 75 degrees Celsius. It’s a little high for my liking, but this is a power hungry card using up to 225W or higher at full load. However, there’s no real need to worry, Zotac’s ICE STORM 2.0 cooling solution along with the triple fans can easily handle the high temperature 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.
Mmmm … something wrong here. We’ll give another test later on and re-visit next month.
