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ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Gaming A8G Review

We first measure power while the card is sat idling at the Windows 10 desktop for 5 minutes. Gaming power draw is recorded by running Unigine Heaven DX11 benchmark for 5 minutes. As a maximum stress test, Furmark is run for 5 minutes and the cards' power draw levels are recorded.

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Power consumption numbers for the ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 A8G are positive. For its small performance improvement over the GTX 1080 FE, the STRIX A8G requires an additional 10-20W of power under a gaming load. The STRIX A8G is also about 10W less power-hungry than Gigabyte's marginally higher-clocked G1 Gaming GTX 1080.

You could probably get away with powering an overclocked Core i7-6700K and ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 A8G gaming system using a good quality 450W PSU (not that we'd necessarily recommend it). That really is a testament to the power efficiency of Nvidia's Pascal GPU architecture.

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