Ok guys need a second opinion on these cards now the price has stabilised a bit.
The contenders are:
ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 TURBO, 8GB DDR5, PCIe3, DVI, HDMI, 2 DP, 1733 MHz,- VR READY
Features:
- NVIDIA Adaptive V-Sync: NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync adjusts VSync to current frame rates for maximum playability
- NVIDIA PhysX ready: Dynamic visual effects like blazing explosions, reactive debris, realistic water, and lifelike characters.
- SLI Support: Multi-GPU technology for extreme performance
- NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready: Bring games to life with NVIDIA Surround multi-monitor gaming on a single card
- PCIE 3.0: Delivers double the bandwidth per lane of PCIe Gen 2 for faster GPU - CPU communication
Specification:
- GPU: GeForce® GTX 1080
- CUDA cores: 2560
- Video Memory: 8GB GDDR5X
- Memory Bus: 256-bit
- Engine Clock Base: 1607 MHz
- Boost:1733 MHz
- Memory Clock: 10,000 MHz
- PCI Express 3.0
- Display Outputs: 2 x DisplayPort 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DL-DVI
- HDCP Support: Yes
- Multi Display Capability Quad Display
- Recommended Power Supply 550W
- Power Consumption 250W
- Power Input 1x 8-pin & 1x 6-pin
- DirectX 12 API feature level 12_1
- OpenGL 4.5
- Slot Size 2.5 Slot
- SLI Yes
- Supported OS Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista
- Dimensions: 10.5 x 4.376 x 1.5 inches, 26.67 x 11.12 x 3.81 cm
- Warranty: 3yr
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti ARMOR 8192MB GDDR5 - VR READY
Technical Specifications
Device Type Graphics card
Bus Type PCI Express 3.0 x16
Graphics Engine NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Core Clock 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 1683 MHz
CUDA Cores 2432
Max Monitors Supported 4
Interfaces DVI-D (dual link) ¦ 3 x DisplayPort ¦ HDMI
API Supported DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5
Features Nvidia 2-way SLI ready, Military Class Components, MSI Afterburner, NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync, NVIDIA G-Sync ready, NVIDIA GameWorks, Torx Fans, Armor 2X Thermal Design, MSI Zero Frozr technology, Nvidia GeForce GTX VR Ready, FinFET technology, NVIDIA VRWorks, HDCP
Memory
Size 8 GB
Technology GDDR5 SDRAM
Effective Clock Speed 8008 MHz
Bus Width 256-bit
System Requirements
Required Power Supply 500 W
Additional Requirements 6 pin PCI Express power connector, 8 pin PCI Express power connector
Miscellaneous
Power Consumption Operational 180 Watt
Software Included MSI Afterburner
Compliant Standards MIL-STD-810G
Width 3.7 cm
Depth 27.9 cm
Height 14 cm
Weight 832 g
Enclosure Colour Black, white
GIGABYTE 8gb Geforce GTX 1080 WINDFORCE OC - VR Ready
The WINDFORCE 3X cooling system features 3 pure copper composite heat-pipes, special fin architecture, unique blade fan design, together delivering an effective heat dissipation capacity for higher performance at lower temperatures.
Main Features:
Powered by GeForce© GTX 1080
Integrated with 8GB GDDR5X 256bit memory
WINDFORCE 3X with Blade Fan Design
Support up to 8K display @60Hz
Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chipset Model Name GTX 1080
Base Chip Clock OC Mode: 1657 MHz; Gaming Mode: 1632 MHz
Boost Chip Clock OC Mode: 1797 MHz; Gaming Mode: 1771 MHz
Cooling System WINDFORCE
Memory
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Clock 10010MHz
Memory Type GDDR5X
Memory Bandwidth 256bit
Interfaces/Ports
HDMI Port 1 x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort 3 x DP 1.4
DVI Port Dual link DVI-D * 1
System Requirements
System Requirements 500w PSU - 1 x 8-pin
Physical
Width 114 mm
Depth 280 mm
Height 41 mm
Item Details
Manufacturer Gigabyte
Part Number GV-N1080WF3OC-8GD
EAN 4719331328290
UPC 889523006405
Condition Retail Boxed
Warranty 3 Year
GIGABYTE Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti GAMING 8GB GDDR5 VR Ready
Specification:
- GPU: GeForce® GTX 1070Ti
- CUDA cores: 2432
- Video Memory: 8GB GDDR5
- Memory Bus: 256-bit
- Engine Clock Base: 1607 MHz
- Boost:1683 MHz
- Memory Clock: 8000 MHz
- PCI Express 3.0
- Display Outputs: 3 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DL-DVI
- HDCP Support: Yes
- Multi Display Capability: Quad Display
- Recommended Power Supply: 500W
- Power Consumption: 150W
- Power Input: 1x 8-pin
- DirectX 12 API feature level 12_1
- OpenGL 4.5
- Cooling: Blower
- Slot Size: Dual Slot
- SLI: Yes
- Supported OS: Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista
- Card Length: 266.7mm x 111.15mm
- Warranty: 3 Years
My guess is you are going to say its between the two 1080's but the 1070 Ti are good cards as well and only £20 price diffrence between all of them.
So unless i find something better around the £650 price range i will be getting one of these just don't know which one.