Review: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW

by Tarinder Sandhu on 27 June 2016, 14:35

Tags: EVGA, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Conclusion

We consider it an above-average offering in all areas, though not truly outstanding in any one...

The GeForce GTX 1080 isn't a value-for-money GPU. £600 buys you an aftermarket card based on a relatively small die. Getting past that nugget of truth enables the user to concentrate on which GTX 1080 to buy, funds permitting of course.

Hitting that £600 price point, for now at least, and offering a very solid mix of size, build quality, features, warranty, performance and overclocking potential is the EVGA FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 card. We consider it an above-average offering in all areas, though not truly outstanding in any one, so if the new cooler livery appeals to you and space is potentially an issue inside the chassis, the FTW is perhaps the best current choice.

We'd recommend EVGA try to separate the FTW from the majority of the AIC pack by overclocking the GDDR5X memory out of the box. Should it do that and keep pricing the same the card becomes a serious winner in our eyes. Even without this extra cherry on the top of the performance pie, the FTW is a card with no obvious weaknesses at its current £600 price tag. Recommended.

 

The Good
 
The Bad
Good speeds out of the box
Conservative size
Fans turn off
Fully-custom card
Overclocks well enough
EVGA warranty
 
No memory overclocking



EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW Gaming ACX 3.0

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I have to say that with regards to the overclocking…..is that it?
I'm truly shocked.
I got a Gigabyte GTX1080 Founder edition literally yesterday and it's running +200 core and +500 memory. Giving 2100 boost clock and 5500 memory. Ontop of that after an hour of running Unigene valley on a lopp at max settings @ 2k it was only hitting 80c.
If you are only getting +95/505 on this something is wrong surely.
Plasmastorm makes a good point, that should be addressed.

Also, I have to say, I've been a fan and user of EVGA cards for a long time, but IMO these shrouds look horrible. Also can't help thinking all those little cut out areas would end up becoming major dust gathering places in the long term.
Plasmastorm
I have to say that with regards to the overclocking…..is that it?
I'm truly shocked.
I got a Gigabyte GTX1080 Founder edition literally yesterday and it's running +200 core and +500 memory. Giving 2100 boost clock and 5500 memory.
If you are only getting +95/505 on this something is wrong surely.
The card is already overclocked by 125 so it's actually 230/505. Also Hexus tends to get lower overclocks than other reviewers.
Plasmastorm
I have to say that with regards to the overclocking…..is that it?
I'm truly shocked.
I got a Gigabyte GTX1080 Founder edition literally yesterday and it's running +200 core and +500 memory. Giving 2100 boost clock and 5500 memory. Ontop of that after an hour of running Unigene valley on a lopp at max settings @ 2k it was only hitting 80c.
If you are only getting +95/505 on this something is wrong surely.

Are you running any increased voltage though?
I'm a bit frustrated by Hexus, you keep overclocking each of these cards without giving us the overclocked results of the other after market 1080 cards.

This has been done for the last 2-3 1080 reviews and it annoying that you don't post these results as well so we know how each card's overclock fairs against the other.