EpicDonkey
As far as having the fastest OC, its like tuning a car to make it the faster.  Some people just to do it to see how fast they can make it go.  The 1080 can easily play just about anything at 4k with decent frame rates.  You might have to tinker with some settings but more often than not the difference will be negligible.

I'd say a 22-27% improvement in core speed is more than a negligible difference. At 3440x1440 it's taken multiple games from ~50fps on ultimate to completely steady 60 with vsync.

zshadez

EpicDonkey
As far as having the fastest OC, its like tuning a car to make it the faster.  Some people just to do it to see how fast they can make it go.  The 1080 can easily play just about anything at 4k with decent frame rates.  You might have to tinker with some settings but more often than not the difference will be negligible.

I'd say a 22-27% improvement in core speed is more than a negligible difference. At 3440x1440 it's taken multiple games from ~50fps on ultimate to completely steady 60 with vsync.

He is saying, I assume, that the difference between the card's boost clock and max overclock is negligible. Which it is. When the card is running 3D applications it is not at "core" speed. The FTW automatically boosts to 1987 Mhz; max overclock to 2045 Mhz. About 2.9% increase which will net maybe 1 FPS @ 4k.

The_Ether_Bunny
 
He is saying, I assume, that the difference between the card's boost clock and max overclock is negligible. Which it is. When the card is running 3D applications it is not at "core" speed. The FTW automatically boosts to 1987 Mhz; max overclock to 2045 Mhz. About 2.9% increase which will net maybe 1 FPS @ 4k.

 
Results depend on the individual card and can be far from negligible. 1070 FE boost is 1683, 1070 FTW boost 1797, my FE is running at 2100-2150. That's still about 25% over stock and 17-20% over stock FTW. As I've said before, it's the difference between ~50fps and solid synced 60 for me at 3440x1440.

Guys... 2GHz is good and anything higher depends on the silicon lottery!
With cards that have clock speeds close to the 2GHz will of course not offer a huge additional offset.
 
Also please don't make statements like "+150MHz" is good/bad. Evey card depends differently, so the only correct statements are the ones about the achieved clock speeds like 2.1GHz.
 
In the end it comes always to the same conclusion: If you plan to OC your card anyway, get the cheapest card with the best cooler and OC it to 2GHz straight away.

zshadez
 
Results depend on the individual card and can be far from negligible. 1070 FE boost is 1683, 1070 FTW boost 1797, my FE is running at 2100-2150. That's still about 25% over stock and 17-20% over stock FTW. As I've said before, it's the difference between ~50fps and solid synced 60 for me at 3440x1440.

1683 is the advertised boost. The actual boost is 2000. You can overclock it to 2150. Which is an increase of 7.5% which is not scalable with FPS. 1-2 FPS max.

LOL I would never RMA a card cuse it goes to +85 instead of +150.
I run a 1440p monitor and this cards eats everything i throw at it at 1440p with DSR set to x4

My point was not that OCing a card produces a negligible difference, there are so many variables and results may vary lol. What I was saying is the performance increase you get by OCing your card can often be achieved by a small amount of tinkering in settings. For example, antialiasing at 4K can be turned down if not off and the visual difference be negligible but a noticeable performance gain.

My personal experience, I do get a bit smoother gameplay in more demanding games with my OC but I was already getting solid 60 fps with the SC's stock clocks. My 1080 SC with stock clocks has handled everything I've thrown at it as well @1440p and @4k with small adjustments.

I run a 4k monitor and I've been trying for days to get an SC. I'm told that on Friday some SCs were available briefly on Newegg, but I missed them by a few minutes. I did see some EVGA FE in stock, and had one in my cart with my mouse finger hovering over the Place Order button, but I made myself be patient and hold off. I don't want to pay an extra $50 just to have instant gratification.

The longer it takes, in fact, the more I'm thinking of waiting for a stock 1080 GTX (the $609 version from EVGA) that looks like a FE but with a less fancy shroud. For the difference in price I could nearly pay for a EF water block, and then if I choose to do any OCing I'd probably get as good as most cards out there.

Anyhow, still hovering near my computer waiting for nowinstock.net to beep at me, still refreshing Newegg and EVGA's pages from time to time, etc. It'll happen, and I bet it happens soon. I've had to down-rez The Division to 1080p on my 4K monitor to keep it playable, and blowing each pixel up into 4 looks kinda crappy. Oh well, if that's the worse of my problems I live a blessed life.

tubbing
LOL I would never RMA a card cuse it goes to +85 instead of +150.
I run a 1440p monitor and this cards eats everything i throw at it at 1440p with DSR set to x4

x4 DSR on top of 1440? that is 5k. lol you do not even have a clue what you are saying as no way in hell a 1080 can play all games at freaking 5k with decent performance. 

tubbing
During benching it runs at 2025 solid during firestrike stress test. But soon as I move the slider to anything plus 85 it fails regardless how much voltage I throw at it.

2025 Mhz on a GTX 1080 is perfectly acceptable, better than some GTX 1080 cards can overclock to. As a rule of thumb with 1080 cards anything over 2000MHz is a pretty decent overclock for the card to reach