The very best Nvidia GTX 1080 card deals for 2019

The 1080 may not be the most powerful graphics card going anymore, due to the RTX 2080 Tis now very prominent position in the GPU market place. However, it still remains one of our top favourites offering great performance for a reasonable price—it remains much cheaper than the 2080 Tis—so it remains a worthy candidate for picking up, particularly if there is a cheap deal going. And that’s where we come in; right here is the place to be for all the best GTX 1080 graphics cards deals going right now.

The GTX 1080 is still nice and quick and utilises Nvidia’s Pascal GP104 architecture brilliantly. In our review of the GTX 1080 you can see why we have a soft spot for it and, short of the newer 2080, this is still the best graphics card to pick up if you want premium graphics for your eyeballs. But how do you decide which model of the GTX 1080 to buy? Or which manufacturer to go with? There are a variety of makers who offer their own options and below we’ve rounded up the best.

To check out the alternatives in both ‘directions of capability’, check out the best Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 deals and the best Nvidia GeForce 2080 prices to ensure your bases are covered. 

The best Asus GTX 1080 deals

Asus has a handful of good options for Nvidia’s beast of a graphics card. The company’s ROG Strix O8G has an OC mode base / boost clock speed of 1784 / 1936 MHz, which is much higher than the 1607 / 1733 MHz on Nvidia’s reference card. It’s also got a custom cooler which Asus says keeps the card 30 percent cooler than the reference.

The best Gigabyte GTX 1080 deals

Gigabyte’s custom cards are boosting both the clock speed and the memory speed compared to the reference card. It offers a card which has a base / boost clock of 1784 / 1936 MHz, and the memory speed is up above the 10,000 MHz of the reference version at 10,416 MHz. There’s also a water cooled version of this card if you’re looking to keep temperatures down. 

source: gamezpot.com