![]() Rise of the Tomb Raider, a gorgeous game to begin with, was absolutely stellar with its graphics settings maxed out. In all benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX outperformed the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition roughly by five percent. Title=More%20Comprehensive%20GPU%20Reviews&type=articles%2Cvideos&tags=tech-gpu-review&count=6&columnCount=6&theme=articleīenchmarks were run at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 (4K) resolutions in full-screen mode and always set to maximum or ultra quality. I tested the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX on IGN’s shiny new test system equipped with an Intel 4.2GHz Core i7-7700K, 8GB RAM, a 500GB Intel SSD and an Asus Prime Z270-A motherboard running Windows 10 Home. There are also blue LEDs in the fans but they are hard to see unless you look underneath the card. The card also sports a nifty illuminated logo that offers RGB lighting with the traditional options for having it be static, breathing, etc. Nvidia removed the DVI-D port on the Founder's Edition in order to make room for additional cooling, but EVGA added it back since it's cooling was sufficient as-is. The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX hardware itself is solidly constructed. This boost clock is impressive enough, but keep in mind that before I even overclocked the GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX I saw it hit 1,920 MHz under heavy benchmarking load, so as always the specs of these cards are somewhat irrelevant once Nvidia's GPU Boost 3.0 gets to work. The GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX is tuned for a 1,556MHz base clock, compared to the Founder's Edition 1480MHz, and the SC2 has a 1,670MHz boost clock, compared to 1,582MHz. The card's audacious cooling allows it to run at higher clock speeds than the Founder's Edition, generally speaking. The iCX sensors displayed in PrecisionXOC Even after overclocking I never saw temps above 72C, whereas the Founder's Edition regularly ran at 84C.The big difference between the Founder's Edition's "blower style" cooler and the SC2's dual fans is the FE card exhausts the heat outside of your chassis whereas the SC2 card circulates it inside the chassis. ![]() Combine that with a more efficient VRM heatpipe design and this card is one cool cat. Title=More%20Expert%20Tech%20Roundups&type=articles%2Cvideos&tags=tech-roundup&count=6&columnCount=6&theme=articleĪll that data is used to control the speed of the two fans (one for GPU and one for memory modules and power) separately, and you can see more temperatures in its PrecisionX software too. EVGA’s iCX has 10 sensors total to monitor the GPU, the back of the GPU, the power controllers, and the memory modules. The TLDR version of this situation is EVGA's previous GPUs had inadequate cooling on its VRM modules, and that lead the company to come up with iCX, which is an array of temperature sensors all over the card instead of just the usual single temperature sensor. First off, the SC2 has what EVGA calls iCX technology, which is the result of the company fixing an issue it had on its previous generation of cards. The biggest difference between EVGA’s SC2 card and the Founder's Edition (FE) is the cooling apparatus and the resulting clock speeds. That makes the $750 SC2 with iCX model EVGA's midrange offering, and it costs $50 more than the Founder's Edition, so let's see if it's worth it. The first of them, the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX is here (See it on Amazon) / (See it on Amazon UK), and yes, this bad boy’s performance is everything I expected, and the version I tested isn’t even the fastest 1080 Ti card EVGA offers, as there's a FTW3 model that sits slightly above it in the EVGA product stack, and one below it too dubbed the Black Edition. At that time it was known that once the Founder's Edition was launched, Nvidia's partners would begin to deliver their take on the GPU with extreme cooling and aggressive overclocking, and I waited with bated breath for those to arrive. I recently reviewed the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder’s Edition, which I dubbed “The Beast” because it was by far the fastest GPU I had ever tested, destroying every benchmark that stood in its path and demonstrating a shockingly smooth gaming experience at 4K resolution.
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