EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Gaming Graphics Card Review

Peter Donnell / 7 years ago

Final Thoughts

Price

It’s expensive, but in today’s market, find me a GTX 1080 Ti that isn’t! For the privilege of owning one, you’ll be pulling out £766.99 for the FTW3 GAming that we reviewed today. If you want that in a hybrid AIO and air cooling variant, £849.98, and if you want it with their sexy Hydro Copper custom loop block, you’ll barely see any change from £900. Is it worth it? Oh hell yes. The FTW3 is about the same price as competitors cards, but in terms of performance, it’s the fastest, simple as that.

Overview

I can’t think of a single thing about this card that I don’t love. EVGA has a long history of delivering some of the best built, best designed, and best performing cards in the world, and they proved that’s still true today.

“Peter, you’re crazy, do I remember the problem with the overheating cards?” I hear you typing in the comments. Of course I do, but find a company that hasn’t dropped the ball at least once. What’s important here is that EVGA remember. This card has a completely revised design, and from a past failure, the iCX design makes this one of the fastest, coolest, and safest overclocked cards on the market today. It monitors temperatures in more parts of the card than any competitor does. It manages its fan to deliver cooling where and when it’s needed, and it’ll push harder in gaming than anything else on the market too.

Extreme Performance?

Put simply, the only way you’re going to get faster performance in gaming is to either buy the water cooled model or by two of them. For the PC gaming enthusiast, it’s going to deliver the performance you desire on high frame rate displays, 4K displays, and beyond.

Added Value

Raw performance, check, great design, check, great cooling, check, big price tag, also check. That’s the “GTX 1080 ti Official Checklist” complete. OF course, we want more value, so what else do you get? The new iCX cooler with 3 x asynchronous fans, adjustable RGB LED lighting, a ventilated heatsink and backplate design, live thermal display system, Fuse Tech protection, Precision XOC software, and plenty of display connections. Happy? Now go crack open your piggy bank.

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Pros

Stylish cooler design
Pre-installed backplate
RGB lighting
Asynchronous fans
iCX technology
Massive factory overclocks
Runs cool and quiet
Fastest gaming GPU we’ve ever tested

Cons

None

“The fastest gaming graphics card we’ve ever tested is sure to deliver the performance you desire. From Ultrawide, HDF, HDR, 4K and many other fun acronyms, it’s simply the best GPU on the market today.”