EVGA GTX 1080 FTW review: The most powerful graphics card in the world, made better - wrightdeshe1946

At a Glance

Good's Rating

Pros

Threefold 8-pin connections amps up the potential for high-minded overclocks
Efficient ACX 3.0 cooling
Overclocked in excess of 2.1GHz on air
Of import performance on all benchmarks

Cons

Requires a bit more superpowe than the Collapse's Variation

Our Finding of fact

This is the GeForce GTX 1080 you've been wait for. The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW puts EVGA's personal furbish up Nvidia's beastly carte, and it's a winner, from its high cornerstone clock and custom cooling system to its extra 8-pin power connection.

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This is the GeForce GTX 1080 you've been waiting for.

Don't get Maine wrong: The reference version of the GTX 1080 exploded onto the vista Eastern Samoa the about badass graphics card ever. But the first volley of GTX 1080s lendable—in very limited quantities—were limited to rebrands of the Nvidia Founders Edition alone. While that's a nice card, the Founders Edition costs $100 over the GTX 1080's $600 MSRP, and that surcharge doesn't even get you an overclock Oregon a beefy custom cooling system solvent. You couldn't facilitate but wonder what would happen in one case the wide world of graphics card vendors KO'd there were able to stamp their personal bushel Nvidia's god-awful bill of fare.

The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW ($680 connected Newegg, when it's in stock) is the answer. This overclocked nontextual matter notice's base time is nearly as high as the GTX 1080 Founders Edition encouragement clock, and between its custom cooling and extra 8-pin power connecter, information technology has the potential to break down a hell of a hot higher.

Buckeye State, and did I mention that IT's cheaper than Nvidia's little capable Founders Edition? Rent's entrench.

Meet the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW

With EVGA yet to release a Classified, Kingpin, or Hydro Cop versions of the GTX 1080, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW presently represents the pinnacle of the company's lineup. As with all customized graphics cards, the core specs of the GTX 1080 FTW largely mirror what you'll find with the reference version. It's still built close to Nvidia's new 16nm Pascal GPU, with 8GB of stabbing-butt against GDDR5X memory working at a quick 10Gbps. EVGA didn't overclock the RAM. You lav catch heavenward on altogether of the base-level technical details on the first page of PCWorld's GeForce GTX 1080 review.

That said, thither are some major, major differences betwixt the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW and its Founders Variation counterpart. You'll mark the commencement one A soon as you instal the card: Spell the Founders Edition draws 180 Isaac Watts of power over a single 8-pin connecter, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW is rated at a 215W TDP via a pair of 8-pin connections. That extra succus amps up the potential for gallant overclocks, though your GPU's maximum speed ever depends happening how lucky you fork out the silicon drawing. (That's why we don't oftentimes let in overclocking results in graphics card reviews, though we wish for this one.)

evga gtx 1080 ftw specs — The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW's indispensable specification sheet. (Mouse click to enlarge whatever figure of speech in this article.)

Speaking of which, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW rocks a fairly healthy overclock out of the box. Spell the stock GTX 1080 uses a 1,607MHz base and 1,733MHz boost clock, the EVGA FTW starts at 1,721MHz and boosts up to 1,860MHz. That gives EVGA's card a decent ramification in the lead concluded Nvidia's Founders Variation.

And that reward is increased by the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW's efficient ACX 3.0 chilling. The new genesis of EVGA's vaunted custom-cooling solution features a pair of massive 100mm fans that shut off in low power scenarios and contain double musket ball-bearings that help them last up to four times thirster than competitive cards, EVGA claims. Those sit over a full-moderate-sized set of heat sink fans, with the GPU itself overgrown by a large copper plate with half dozen heat pipes of various sizes snaking verboten of IT. The card's memory and MOSFET are covered by a cooling plate, overly, and the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW supports 10 power phases (compared to the Founders Variant's five).

evga gtx 1080 ftw acx 3 — EVGA's ACX 3.0 cooler dissected.

The importance of slapping a all-powerful custom ice chest on the GTX 1080 can't be overstated. While we technically overclocked the Founders Edition to up to 2,088MHz (on beam!!!), in practice the card began thermal-choking speeds down to 1,870MHz or less under load, as Nvidia's single-fan vapour chamber cooler struggled to keep back the GPU air-conditioned. EVGA's ACX 3.0 solution, on the other hand, kept an overclock lengthways at 2,050MHz or high crosswise the board, top-flight out at a mere 74 degrees Celsius in gameplay scenarios.

On the far side the cooler, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW packs multi-hued RGB light across the entire length of the card that can be adjusted via the companion's PrecisionXOC computer software, which fire also be victimised to overclock your card. (There's a dual BIOS switch onboard to help you retrieve if you push things too far.)

The overall forceful design of the card is appealing indeed, with a dark and silver design, bimetal all over, and an eye-taking EVGA-branded backplate. The port selection consists of an HDMI 2.0b port, DVI-I (kinda than the GTX 1080-standard DVI-D), and terzetto DisplayPort 1.4 connections.

Of course, the EVGA GTX 1080 also supports the Pascal GPU's arsenal of warm features, including DirectX 12-boosting asynchronous compute additions and co-occurrent multi-projection (detailed in astuteness on page two of PCWorld's GTX 1080 review), software perks like Ansel screenshots, and fancy customized overclocking with GPU Boost 3.0 (careful on varlet three of our GTX 1080 review), and Nvidia's new high-speed SLI bridge.

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Next page: Testing frame-up

Testing the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW

Just like always, we tested the GeForce GTX 1080 on PCWorld's dedicated graphics visiting card bench mark system, which is loaded with high-end components to avoid potential bottlenecks in otherwise parts of the political machine and show true, unchained graphics performance. Key highlights of the build:

Intel's Core i7-5960X ($1,016 on Newegg) with a Corsair Hydro Series H100i stoppered-loop water cooler ($105 on Newegg).
An Asus X99 Deluxe motherboard ($380 on Newegg).
Corsair's Vengeance LPX DDR4 memory ($65 on Newegg), Obsidian 750D full tower case ($140 on Newegg), and 1,200-Watt AX1200i power provide ($308 on Newegg).
A 480GB Intel 730 series SSD ($250 on Newegg)
Windows 10 Pro

To see how badass EVGA's animal really is, we're comparing it against a slew of high-remainder art cards. There's the reference $500 GTX 980, $460 MSI Radeon 390X Gambling 8GB, and $500 cool Asus Strix Delirium, as well arsenic $650 Radeon Fury X and $1,000 Titan X. The $750 GTX 1080 Founders Edition (both stock and overclocked to up to 2,088MHz) and $550 GTX 1070 Founders Edition are likewise included, naturally. AMD never sent us a $1500 Radeon Pro Brace to test, unluckily, so you won't find dual-Fiji GPU results traded. Every last proprietary AMD/Nvidia graphics technology is disabled during testing, and we use the stated in-game default presets unless noted other than.

Overclocking results

Overclocking's always a roll of the die thanks to the Silicon Drawing, only the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW was understandably built with overclocking in mind with those deuce 8-pin power connections, so we decided to include some overclocking results in a a few of our tests.

Ignoring the custom per-voltage overclocking capable with GPU Boost 3.0, we manually inched clock speeds upward in EVGA's PrecisionXOC software until things started to break. The net result: an additional 110MHz boost over the GTX 1080 FTW's already boosted core time speeds, and an additional 175MHz added to its memory time speeds. In exercise, that resulted in a supreme center clock speed of 2,113MHz during a Unigine Heaven run, though speeds typically hung tabu round 2,050MHz in actual games.

Yes, that's an overclock in excess of 2.1GHz connected air. The engineering work that Nvidia put into improving speeds for both the memory and the substance clock are impressive indeed, as are the tweaks EVGA ready-made to make the GTX 1080 more overclocking-friendly. The extra speed gives the overclocked EVGA 1080 FTW a decent (but not mind-blowing) boost over the GTX 1080 Founders Variation.

Next page: Division and Hitman performance

The Division

Ubisoft's The Division, a third gear-person shooter/RPG set that mixes elements of Destiny and Gears of War, kicks things unsatisfactory. The game's set in a beautiful and grainy recreation of post-apocalyptic New York, running on Ubisoft's refreshing Snowdrop engine. We've disabled the handful of Nvidia GameWorks features to level the playing branch of knowledg. Disdain grading well crosswise every last graphics cards the game really tends to run slightly better on Radeon computer hardware—at least until the GTX 1080 gets involved.

EVGA's GTX 1080 FTW commands a svelte lead over the GTX 1080 Founders Edition here, though Nvidia's reference card inches somewhat ahead of EVGA's model when overclocked. Nvidia's powerful GPU blows AMD's best cards out of the water, albeit for a lot Thomas More money.

Hitman

Io Interactional's wonderful sandpile of murder leans heavily toward AMD cards, though the GTX 1080's full-fat GP100 GPU has enough complete power to outpunch AMD's Fury lineup. The GTX 1080s also significantly trump their GTX 900-series brethren.

Gun's improved about IO's Glacier engine. We tested the game in DirectX 11 mode, because Triggerman's bolted-on DirectX 12 support can be beautiful wonky true in the best of multiplication.

The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW's beefier cooler starts to show its benefits here. Because the card ne'er tiptop 75 degrees Anders Celsius while it's running the brave, the GPU never starts to strangulate back clock speeds, which allows EVGA's bill to deliver higher performance results out-of-the-box than the overclocked Founders Edition, disdain the ostensibly higher max clock speeds of the last mentioned.

Next page: Prove of the Tomb Raider

Originate of the Tomb Raider

Ascend of the Tomb Raider is flat-out one of the to the highest degree gorgeous games ever discharged, especially if you have a effectual artwork card capable of pushy high frame rates with all the bells and whistles enabled. The GTX 1080 is just much a poster, landing at around 60 frames per second even at 4K resolution. It blows everything else stunned of the weewe. AMD's flagship Eumenides X, meanwhile, throne only run into or s half that.

Outer of the box, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW's performance lands hell dust-dab between the banal GTX 1080 Founders Edition and the overclocked Founders Edition. As with Hitman, we test RoTR in DirectX 11, as its bolted-on DX12 support in reality results in lower average frame rates—though it likewise raises minimum average frame rates by a decent margin, resulting in a smoother boilersuit experience.

Next page: Far Cry Primal operation

Far Cry Primal

Yep, we use two different Ubisoft games in our lineup—but ALIR Cry Primal runs on a completely different engine than The Division, using the latest version of the long-running and well-respected Dunia engine. We test the game with the free 4K HD Texture Carry installed.

While Radeon cards hold the advantage at mainstream price points, the GTX 1080 pulls away from the pack, with the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW performing slightly better than the overclocked Founders Edition.

Next page: Ashes of the Uniqueness and DX12

Ashes of the Singularity and DX12

Between the bolted-on DirectX 12 support in Hit man and Rise of the Tomb Raider and the inherent limitations in testing Windows Store apps—which don't back up overlays operating theater benchmarking tools like FRAPS—there's only a undivided unfit with a stellar DX12 implementation to test: Ashes of the Uniqueness, running on Oxide's custom Chemical element engine.

Beyond being a refreshfully fun throwback elysian by classic real-time scheme games, AoTS was an inchoate flag-bearer for DirectX 12, and the performance gains AoTS offers in DX12 concluded DX11 are eye-opening—at least on Radeon cards. The Fury X even manages to come within spitting distance of the GTX 1080 when IT's pouring DX12!

AoTS 's DX12 carrying out makes intemperate usage of asynchronous compute features, which are hanging by devoted hardware in Radeon GPUs, just not GTX 900-series Nvidia cards. In fact, the software pre-emption workaround that James Clerk Maxwel-based Nvidia cards use to mimic the async compute capabilities tank performance so hard that Oxide's lame is coded to ignore async compute when it detects a GeForce GPU. Those card game actually perform worse when running AoTS in DX12 despite the large gains shown aside AMD cards.

That's not true with GTX 10-serial card game, which hear humble gains in DX12 compared to DX11 even with async compute ostensibly still disabled.

The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW's impressive cooling solution and unstylish-of-the-box overclock doesn't do a great deal to compensate for Nvidia's uninteresting DX12 showing, but it is enough to increment average frame rates by a couple of frames per second complete the Founders Edition, some at stemm clocks and overclocked. And even with Radeon's async compute vantage, the GTX 1080 GPU's overwhelming big businessman gives it the performance lead across the board, still when the Fury X is using DX12. That gap widens significantly when all card game are running in DX11.

Succeeding page: Synthetic benchmarks.

3DMark Fire Strike and Fire Strike Radical

We also proved the GTX 1080 using 3DMark's highly respected Fire Strike and Flak Strike Ultra synthetic benchmarks. Fire Strike runs at 1080p, while Give notice Coin Ultra renders the same fit, but with more intense personal effects, at 4K resolution.

There are none major surprises here. The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW performs a bit better than the Founders Edition, as expected, and absolutely blows everything else away—As we've already established in the GTX 1080 Founders Edition review.

Next Thomas Nelson Page: Power and heat.

Powerfulness and heat

Finally, let's take a look at the GTX 1080's mightiness and fountain results.

The EVGA GTX 1080 consumes quite a bit more than power than the GTX 1080 Founders Edition, just that's to be expected with its beefy overclock, additional fans, and extra 8-pin power slot. That said, even when EVGA's card is cranked to o'er 2GHz, IT still draws more or less as much power as AMD's Hysteria and far fewer succus than the Radeon R9 390X. AMD's up-to-the-minute cards are unambiguous big businessman hogs.

It's worth noting that our power and temperature tests map a bottom-case scenario, pushing graphics card game to their limits. Power is measured past plugging the entire system into a Watts Up m, and so running a try test with Furmark—which Nvidia calls "a power computer virus"—for 15 minutes.

That obviously inches our maximum temperature readings ascending too, which are taken during that Furmark run using some the software's inbuilt tool too as Speedfan.

IT's worth noting over again how efficient EVGA's ACX 3.0 cooling solution is. With its out-of-the-box overclock, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW runs ice chest than the GTX 1070 Founders Edition despite drawing 100 more Isaac Watts. When we manually maxed come out the board at 2113MHz, it still ran tank than the regular GTX 1080 Founders Variation. And again, these numbers racket are the inalienable worst-causa scenario. Even at 2GHz, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW hit 74 degrees Celsius in The Division, and 68 degrees in Far Cry Primal.

This air cooler does its chore and does its job well, put differently—though the closed-loop liquid cooling joint into AMD's Fury X naturally runs justified colder. The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW's awesome cooling pays clear performance dividends, allowing the card to run at higher pin grass much more consistently than the GX 1080 Founders Version, which starts throttling the second you overclock it if you don't putter with devotee speeds.

Final page: The bottom melodic line

The new magnate, now in purple garb

When we reviewed Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition, we hailed the GPU as the new king of PC gaming (at least until the inevitable GTX 1080 Ti hits). The card delivered a 70-plus percent jump in performance over the aged GTX 980—an utterly monstrous startle for a single GPU contemporaries—while veritably sipping magnate and running about as lull as any air-cooled reference card we'd ever set ears on. Moving on from 28nm GPUs is as as extraordinary Eastern Samoa gamers had hoped, and the GTX 1080 is everything Nvidia secure and much.

Our only major requiem was the lack of customer partner card game at set in motion. The Founders Edition commands a steep price premium, and WHO knew what Nvidia's 16nm Pascal GPU would embody capable of with fancy coolers, premium features, and hefty overclocks applied?

Now we know.

The GTX 1080 is the most powerful graphics bill of fare always created, and EVGA's GTX 1080 FTW is higher-up to Nvidia's Founders Variant in every possible way. It's faster, it's quieter, it's cooler, it's beautiful, and heck, it's even cheaper than Nvidia's card (though more standard GTX 1080 variants part at around $600). Nvidia's flagship GPU shines brighter in EVGA's capable hands.

Sure, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW demands somewhat Sir Thomas More power than the Founders Edition, but it uses the same 500W recommended power supply, and the handful of extra pennies you'll pay on your monthly energy bill is worthy information technology for everything you get in exchange.

The GTX 1080 menag still isn't for everyone. Current GTX 980 Ti and Titan X owners probably shouldn't raise for any rational reason unless you'atomic number 75 suitable for EVGA's killer Increase Program. Piece it comes close, the GTX 1080 won't quite hit 60 fps at 4K with all the bells and whistles enabled in all game. And it's clearly overkill for gaming on a 1080p monitor—you should keep down an eyeball out for reviews of AMD's $200 Radeon RX 480 alternatively, which is first appearance along June 29.

Merely forget all that. American Samoa I said in my original Founders Edition review, the GTX 1080 is badass incarnate. EVGA's GTX 1080 FTW is that badass incarnate on steroids. If you'Re on the market for a killer whale custom version of PC gambling's freshly crowned GPU champion, the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW ($680 on Newegg) comes highly, highly, highly recommended—if you crapper find one available. These things are merchandising like hotcakes when you can even find them forthcoming, and truly so.

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