EVGA 1080 UPGRADE
EVGA 1080 PC

The EVGA FTW’s card’s base clock is 1721MHz, up 114MHz over the reference Founders Edition base clock, and the EVGA boost clock is 1860MHz, 127MHz higher than Nvidia’s guaranteed minimum reference boost of 1733MHz. Here are the specifications and key features for the EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC+. As a recap, here are the specifications for the reference GTX 980 Ti:

RGB LED control (on EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW).

K-Boost Function – Maximize your clocks with this exclusive feature.

EVGA OC ScannerX Integration – Automatically find your optimal voltage/frequency curve!.

DirectX 12 OSD Support – See the on screen display on DirectX 12 games.

The GDDRX memory, the fastest available, is also kept up to 13% cooler, while overall noise is reduced by up to 15% the fan will even shut down when the card is not under load.Įxclusive Features for EVGA’s GeForce GTX 1080 ACX 3.0 including the FTW: What this means is that this card is kept cool while being very quiet.

ACX 3.0 coolers also feature optimized swept fan blades, double ball bearings and an extremely low-power motor. According to EVGA, a memory MOSFET Cooling Plate reduces MOSFET temperatures up to 13%, and optimized Straight Heat Pipes additionally reduce GPU temperature by 10C. The GTX 1080 FTW card features EVGA’s ACX 3.0 cooling technology which improves on the current Maxwell EVGA ACX 2.0+ cooling technology. Select EVGA ACX 3.0 models including the FTW will even feature a 10CM fan and RGB LED, allowing complete control over the color from EVGA’s PrecisionX OC. EVGA gives increased heatpipes and copper contact area for cooler operation, and optimized fan curve for even quieter gaming than the earlier version. EVGA ACX 3.0 once again brings new features to the award winning EVGA ACX cooling technology and is a step up over the GTX 980 Ti ACX 2.0 cooling which we reviewed in May of last year. This EVGA GTX 1080 FTW is clocked the highest of any of the currently available air-cooled EVGA cards which also feature EVGA ACX 3.0 cooling technology. The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 featuring EVGA ACX 3.0 cooling has arrived with a retail price of $679, or $20 less than the Founders Edition of the GTX 1080 which is priced at $699. Let’s briefly look at the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW to see what it brings compared with the GTX 1080 Founders Edition.

EVGA 1080 UPGRADE

This evaluation is focused on each card’s performance, primarily comparing the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW against the Founders Edition of the GTX 1080, and we will try to answer the question, which card should you buy? We will then place this evaluation into our larger context of 13 video card configurations which we call “The Big Picture” to see if you should consider an upgrade or not. We will not recap Nvidia’s Pascal architecture here as with our GTX 1080 Founders Edition launch article, but will instead focus on the performance of the new EVGA GTX 1080 FTW versus the Founder’s Edition and against the Fury X. For this review we have updated our benchmark suite to Nvidia’s latest WHQL 368.39 GeForce drivers, and for Fury X, we used the latest 16.6.1 Crimson Hotfix beta drivers.

We have already benchmarked the reference Founders Edition of the GTX 1080 and also overclocked it, and found it is generally more than 30% faster than the TITAN X and the GTX 980 Ti. Since all three cards retail for over $600, they make for a natural comparison, and we will use 3 resolutions up to 4K to determine the overall value/performance winner. We compare the FTW’s performance – at EVGA’s factory overclock and further overclocked by us – with the Founders Edition and also with the Fury X.

EVGA 1080 PC

We have put it through its paces with what is probably the largest PC game benchmark suite in the English language, 26 games. BTR has recently received an EVGA GTX 1080 FTW which is factory overclocked by EVGA right out of the box. Five weeks ago, Nvidia released its Pascal flagship, the GTX 1080 reference Founders Edition video card which decisively took the performance crown from Nvidia’s TITAN X and from the GTX 980 Ti as well as easily beating AMD’s flagship, the Fury X.

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