My hasn't arrived yet, but in my head it's already achieved 1721 MHz. I call it Gerald.

EVGA GTX 1080 FTW: I have the core clock running at 2152, and memory running at 5454. 

That's some high OC on air. Can you also post your fan curve? 

My FTW OC's like garbage..  So I paid more for what exactly? 
Not even 2000.

vidathedog

D-007
My FTW OC's like garbage..  So I paid more for what exactly? 
Not even 2000.

That's the silicone lottery for you. 

Silicon. Silicone is a chemical compound. Not trying to grammer nazi but it bothers me immensely when people get this wrong.

EDIT: Turns out there's some issues I was having.. Running Display Driver Uninstaller utility in safe mode and fixing some things..
Clocks weren't reading right and was having performance problems.. Things are seeming better.. Will post actual results.

sethleigh

mike406

vidathedog
 
That's the silicone lottery for you. 

Silicon. Silicone is a chemical compound. Not trying to grammer nazi but it bothers me immensely when people get this wrong.

The silicone lottery is what you play when you woo a particularly well endowed woman. 

LOLOLOL

Well, Gerald (a 1080 SC) has so far performed well at stock, and with a generic +150/+100 overclock. I tried +200 just for the heck of it and got a driver crash. I took no special steps to try to make it work. I may or may not put more effort into it. I didn't quite peg Doom at 60 fps, so I may try a little bit more than this so I avoid any tearing. Some of my older games (like Skyrim) pegged 60 fps at 4K res with only like 35% gpu utilization, LOL. The Division is right around 60 fps or thereabouts at 4K rez and High quality settings. I'm pretty happy with it, to say the least!

D-007
Man.. Even worse than I thought.... I can get like +100 (1821).. That's it... For an FTW that I paid 750.00 for and it's garbage.. I'm done with EVGA.. That's it.. Final straw.. I don't even want this anymore.. Should of stayed with my 980..

Removed vulgar acronym

Post GPU-Z screen shots with the sensors tab open.

Not surprised to see you upset. We try to warn everyone that you can't always get the perfect overclocker. The die on a founders edition, an sc, an ftw, and Classified all come out of the same pile. Evga only guarantees the factory overclock, and can never guarantee the end user overclocks.

P.s, the FTW is cheaper than the founder edition. Not to mention, it has RGB, which is what you are essentially paying extra over the SC for.

EVGA GTX 1080 SC w/ EK Waterblock
 

 
Highest I could go and still get 100% stability was a max core clock of 2151MHz, and Memory at 5500MHz.  Voltage set to 120% to get stable at those target frequencies.
 
Really impressed with the temps when using a waterblock. After an hour of running various benchmarks and stress tests, GPU temp never climbed above 40C.
 

2138/5500 perfectly stable here with the 1080 SC. Actually 2151 was stable as well but I backed it down one boost bin. 2164MHz saw a few random driver hickups.
 
Just slapped an EK block and backplate on a few days ago. While it did not raise max clocks, it definetly stabilized some of the throttling. Most aps now stay full time at 2138MHz with a very occasional drop to 2124MHz. The lone exception being 3D Mark benches/stress tests. The throttle remains on that because of the power draw cap.  Perhaps when there is a pascal bios editor out I can tinker with a power draw bios mod.
 
Until then I'm overall pretty happy with this card.

Just wanted to add a few of the benchmarks that I did after overclocking my GPU. The highest I was able to get and be 100% stable on the EVGA GTX 1080 SC, was a core clock of 2151MHz and Memory at 5500MHz.  That’s not overly impressive compared to other GPUs in the past, but apparently the Pascal series cards already come out towards the peak of their frequency threshold. Even then, a 24% core clock increase over reference 1080 cards isn’t too shabby, especially being that my GPU temps have yet to rise above 40C.



Once I had the CPU and GPU OC’d, it was time to throw some benchmarks and games at it.

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0
Setting: Exreme HD
FPS: 120.4
Score: 5038  



Unigine Haven Benchmark 4.0
Setting: Extreme
FPS: 101.8
Score: 2563
 


Ashes of the Singularity
Setting: Crazy, DX11
Average FPS: 65.5



Shadow of Mordor
Setting: Ultra
Average FPS: 174.45



3DMark FireStrike 1.1
Score: 19499
Compare: Better than 982% of all results



3DMark FireStrike Extreme 1.1
Score: 10735
Compare: Better than 92% of all results



3DMark FireStrike Ultra 1.1
Score: 5807
Compare: Better than 78% of all results



3DMark Sky Diver 1.0
Score: 42539
Compare: Better than 99% of all results



For High Resolution versions of all photos from this build log, pleas check out the Album on Flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/24705522@N05/yB94Z9
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i get 0 with all of my none cards

GTX 1080 SC
 
Max stable core clock: 2101 MHz @ 100% voltage
 
If I go up to 2113 MHz, heaven benchmark gets very colorful then crashes. Not the best but I can't complain. Oh, and my card is liquid cooled so that really didn't help, but at least it looks sweet in my loop.

Fau1ty Pr0gram
GTX 1080 SC
 
Max stable core clock: 2101 MHz @ 100% voltage
 
If I go up to 2113 MHz, heaven benchmark gets very colorful then crashes. Not the best but I can't complain. Oh, and my card is liquid cooled so that really didn't help, but at least it looks sweet in my loop.

How does liquid cooling not help? It keeps your GPU from throttling itself to lower clocks. I'm air cooled and I can't get above 2050 Mhz