Reviewers Liked
- Large overclock out of the box
- Good performance increase over Founders Edition
- Much faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Very high price
- No idle fan stop, but extremely quiet in idle
- Memory not overclocked
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z
91
8.2
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