Top-of-the-line: ASUS ROG POSEIDON GTX 1080Ti / ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080Ti O11G GAMING
High-end: ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 A8G GAMING, ASUS CERBERUS GTX 1070Ti A8G
MAINSTREAM: ASUS DUAL GTX 1060 O6G, ASUS ICE KNIGHT GTX 1060 O6G GAMING
Entry: ASUS GTX 1050Ti A4G Cerberus, ASUS ROG Strix GTX 1050Ti O4G
ASUS can be described as a giant in the 3C field, ROG gaming laptops, wireless router and motherboard business are the top manufacturers in this field, in contrast, although the graphics card business is slightly inferior, but it is also one of the top manufacturers, and motherboards, notebooks are listed as the three pillars of ASUS's business, stimulated by mining demand, ASUS graphics card shipments in 2017 reached about 1 million, ranking among the top three in China.
From the perspective of shipments, although ASUS is far from winning by volume Colorful and Shadow, but in terms of sales, ASUS graphics cards rank third with a market share of 12.66%, and the gap between the top two Colorful (14.5%) and Shadowrun (15.9%) is not big, which shows that ASUS's profitability is much higher than that of Colorful and Shadow.
As a first-line manufacturer, ASUS graphics cards span the two camps of N card and A card, N card accounts for more than 80%, and there are many series, from high to low, it is roughly divided into the top POSEIDON / DRAGON Dragon Knight series, the sub-flagship Paladin series, the high-end ROG Strix (Raptor) / Ice Knight (GAMING), the low-end SI Battle Knight / EX Long March Edition / CERBERUS Cerberus / DUAL Snow Leopard / TURBO Wind Knight / PH Phoenix Edition, Among them, the Paladin series has not released new products for several years, and the Long March Edition, Battle Knight and Wind Knight are all industry-specific versions, which are basically not seen in the retail market, so for the average consumer, POSEIDON POSIDON GOD > DRAGON KNIGHT> ROG STRIX Raptor≥ Ice Knight> CERBERUS > DUAL SNOW LEOPARD > PH PHOENIX EDITION.
ASUS graphics cards are mainly high-end products above 2000 yuan, and there are almost no products below 1,000 yuan, in addition to the series positioning, there are also some differences in the suffix, such as O8G, A8G, 8G, 8G is video memory, O8G represents the high-frequency version, A8G is based on O8G and 8G, 8G is the public version frequency, the lowest positioning.
POSEIDON is ASUS's flagship series, POSEIDON 1080Ti has won the German Red Dot Design Award, using an air-cooled and water-cooled combination of heat dissipation scheme, which can be used directly as an air-cooled graphics card, or connected to a water-cooled radiator to obtain a better heat dissipation and silent effect, which is a feature that other brands of graphics cards do not have, and the price of tens of thousands of yuan also makes it the most expensive graphics card in addition to the TiTAN series. ALTHOUGH LOWER THAN THE POSEIDON SERIES, THE DRAGON KNIGHT IS HIGHER THAN THE RAPTOR, AND WILL ONLY APPEAR ON MODELS WITH 7 (SUCH AS THE GTX 1070), AND LIKE THE POSEIDON SERIES, THEY ARE AIMED AT HIGH-END PLAYERS, WITH A HIGH PRICE AND LOW AVAILABILITY.
ROG Strix Raptor series is the main series of the current ASUS, the series is subdivided into two versions of Raptor and Raptor Warrior from high to low, the similarity between the two is very high, the difference is that the core frequency of Raptor is higher, and the Raptor Warrior is a low-frequency version, the price is more than 3000 yuan, and the high can reach nearly 10,000 yuan; The Ice Knight series is slightly inferior to the Raptor series, but the gap is not big, it is at the same level as the Raptor Warrior, it is the main model of channel retail, the online market is relatively rare, there is generally no prefix, and the end is named after GAMING, and the price is about 3000 yuan.
In the low-end product series, the DUAL snow leopard series is the main product of online e-commerce, which used to be more white, and in 2018, it was black and white, and the workmanship materials are not as good as the ice knight, but the frequency is slightly higher than that of the ice knight, and the price is more than 1,000 yuan; The Cerberus series is a series that ASUS just released this year, and it is positioned slightly higher than the Snow Leopard series in terms of price and configuration, and it is also designed with dual fans, but the frequency is higher than that of the Snow Leopard series, and it is equipped with a back panel, and the price gap is not large; The lowest positioning is the Phoenix version, starting with PH, such as ASUS PH GTX 1050Ti 4G, mainly entry-level GTX 1050, the whole line is single-fan cooling, and the price is basically below 1,000 yuan.
ASUS Snow Leopard DUAL GTX 1060 O6G Although the positioning in the product line is not high, but as a mainstream graphics card, there should be everything, the appearance of the snow-white dual fan is very eye-catching, the highlight is that it can be overclocked to1809 MHZ, this frequency and the higher positioning of the Ice Knight GTX 1060 1873MHz The gap is not big, but the price of 2399 yuan is obviously more cost-effective than the Ice Knight's 2899 yuan, which is very suitable for users who pay attention to practicality.
Extreme cost-effective users can also choose ASUS DUAL RX580 O8G in the A card camp, in the graphics card ladder diagram, RX580 theoretical performance is slightly higher than GTX 1060, but DUAL RX580 O8G core frequency is less than 1400MHz, the actual game performance should be about the same, the price is about 200 yuan cheaper than ASUS DUAL GTX 1060 O6G, but RX580 full load power consumption is much greater than GTX 1060, 500W or even 550W power supply is required, please pay attention to the purchase.
Under medium picture quality,Entry-level1050TiIt can basically meet the needs of chicken,ASUS's current 1050TiThere are two main models,ASUS GTX 1050Ti A4G Cerberus and ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1050Ti O4G,From the positioning point of view,STRIX is significantly higher than Cerberus,At the same time, it is equipped with RGB lighting effects,The core frequency is also slightly higher than that of Cerberus,But the actual performance gap is not big,The price difference is about 200 yuan,Users who pay attention to practicality can choose Cerberus , and those who value personalization can choose the STRIX 1050Ti.