These Asynchronous fan speeds reduce noise as two fans at the same speed/frequency are louder. When the core gets hot, the GPU fan will spin up, but the other fan for the memory and PWM stay slower, or faster, as needed. In order to get to the final product, countless engineering hours led to a total of 11 newly acquired, or in process, patents for the iCX Technology.ĮVGA, through their Precision XOC monitoring tool, allows for Asynchronous cooling or allowing the the fans to spin independent of each other. Your power bits tend to run warmer than the core in a lot of cases, true, but using nine additional sensors (three on the memory, five on the PWM, and one on the GPU) to run your fans can lead to quieter operation. Traditionalists would say it is, but this tends to leave an imbalance between the PWM area and the core. EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 Gaming iCXĢ66.7 x 128.6 x ~40 mm (11.73″ x 5.28″ x ~1.57″)įeatures – iCX Technology Slide from iCX Day Presentation at EVGAĮVGA has taken a look at the graphics card and asked itself if one sensor was really enough for the best cooling on a video card. You can find all details in the table below and the thumbnail of their specification page below it well as the website. A (quality!) 500W power supply is recommended for the system. You will still need two 8-pin PCIe power connectors to drive this 180W card. The FTW2 has the same display outputs in a single DVI-D, three DisplayPorts, and a single HDMI. The clocks come in at 1721 MHz base, 1860 MHz boost clock which is the same as the original FTW Gaming ACX it replaces. It is a standard GTX 1080 sporting its 2,560 CUDA cores and a 8GB GDDRX5 on a 256-bit memory bus. Read on! Specificationsīelow is a list of specifications for the FTW2. We will take a look at some of the changes, and have a lot of other cool things to show you in this review, including a tour of the new EVGA facility where we learned about all the new technology on the card. The first implementation of this technology comes in the form of the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 Gaming iCX sporting the new iCX cooler, an evolution of their formidable ACX cooling solution. This new integration will help keep cards cool where it needs to be cooled allowing for better control of thermals and fan noise. Fast forward numerous years and accolades later, we come to another turning point, a deeper integration of the GPU with their new iCX Technology. Oddly, there are two layers of film at some places, and someone screwed the screws through it so we were not able to remove the plastic film completely.EVGA has been on the forefront of GPU technology since they came on the scene back in 1999. As you can see it is fully covered 'protected' with plastics film. The ACX 3.0 cooler has most advanced illumination system that we have seen so far, and it looks great, as you can below. EVGA Precision XOC Utility provides interface to customize those light effects.īefore we continue, we want to show you how the card looks out of the box. The ACX 3.0 cooler comes with a large heatsink and it relies on two 10cm fans for good cooling. Next image shows Gainward GTX 1080 Phantom graphics card with a 3-slots wide cooler. GTX 1080 FTW at least keeps standard width. Some AIB partners resort to a bulky triple-slot coolers to reduce noise and allow higher clocks, while keeping the GPU under the thermal threshold. A quick look over what other Nvidia's AIB partners have done for the GTX 1080 shows that almost all of them have made oversized coolers in order to keep low GPU temperatures. But still, we’re talking about 2-slots width, with a card which is 2cm taller than standard. The new GTX 1080 FTW measures 26.67cm x 12.86cm, and this is the confirmation that we are looking at an oversized graphics card. The next image shows the new GTX 1080 FTW graphics card followed by the GTX 980 Ti FTW and the GTX 980 Ti Classified. It has its roots in the in the GTX 980 Ti Classified which was equiped with an oversized ACX 2.0 cooler. Now for the GTX 1000 series EVGA has crafted ACX 3.0 cooler, which is much bigger. We were impressed with the cooling performance and the build quality. Of 12 A closer look at GTX 1080 FTWĮVGA has created ACX 2.0 cooler for the Geforce 900 series.
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