EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING and the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and has 2560 texture shaders and 20 execution units.

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which has 3584 shaders and 28 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip GP102-350-K1-A1
Pascal Architecture Pascal
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
2560 Shader 3584
64 Render Output Units 88
160 Texture Units 224
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition can access 11 GB GDDR5X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 484 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 11 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR5X
1.251 GHz Memory Clock 1.376 GHz
10.0 Gbps Memory Speed 11.0 Gbps
320 GB/s Memory bandwidth 484 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 352 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING clocks in the base with up to 1.721 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is 1.480 GHz.

1.721 GHz Base Clock 1.480 GHz
1.860 GHz Boost Clock 1.582 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING is 180 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

180 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING is 267 mm long, 129 mm high and -- wide.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is 266 mm long, 111 mm high and 40 mm wide.

267 mm Length 266 mm
129 mm Height 111 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1060 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING was released in Q2/2016 at a price of 599 $ (Reference).

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition was introduced in Q1/2017 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

08G-P4-6686-KR Part-no --
Q2/2016 Release date Q1/2017
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW2 GAMING
8 GB GDDR5X
114 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
11 GB GDDR5X
146 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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