EVGA 1080 ti SC Black vs FTW3 (pics)

[TahoeDust]

The FTW3 is a beast physically! Bigger in every dimension except thickness and is markedly heavier. The SC is a very high quality feeling card, and the FTW feels even better. Performance wise in stock form the FTW3 boosts higher, clocks higher, runs cooler, and is quieter. Overclocking with the two is interesting. In memory they both overclock about the same. I can get the SC core to run a higher clock than the FTW3 by a bin or two The SC would bench stable at 2025MHz, the FTW3 only managed 2000MHz with flash to 2012MHz. The interesting thing is that even at a little slower clock the FTW3 out performed the SC by 2%-3% in the graphics test on Firestrike.


Here are some pics:

Firestrike results and comparison:
Run with my 2700k @ 5.1GHz on a Asus P8Z68 Deluxe and 16gb DDR3 1866MHz

FTW3:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/12706164

SC Black:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/12606417

Comparison:
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/12706164/fs/12606417

 

[Chaptorial]

Thanks for posting this. I'm upgrading my GTX 1080 FTW to the 1080 Ti SC Black via EVGA's 'Step-Up' program and was considering just trying to sell the card outright and purchase a FTW3. While the FTW3 looks to be a bit more powerful I have no regrets now utilizing EVGA's service. The addition of the 9 thermal sensors, RGB lighting, and asynchronous fan control is nice but its not a game changer for me.

You're not kidding about the FTW3 being bigger. lol You can definitely tell in the pics provided and I can only imagine it's even more noticeable in person.

 

[TahoeDust]

Nice! I used the step-up program to go from a 970 to a 980 ti about 18 months ago. It is an awesome program.