I recently purchased an EVGA 1080 ti FTW3 card. I have been busy working so I haven't had much chance to play with OC. My first attempt I got it to go at 2037 MHz constant using 110% power limit and running at 61C at 80% fan speed. Any higher speed Unigine crashed. I thought most Pascal 1080 ti cards can achieve this speed easily? My last cards, although they were 1080, hit 2088 MHz with 130% power limit at 74C before crashing. Did I only get an average or even a dud? Anyone has a FTW3 card that can achieve higher or lower speed?
 
I do have 4k monitor now but the games that I play are older games and I probably won't get the next gen. I am actually thinking of getting the extended warranty as I plan to keep the card long term, but I think the clock speed is bit underwhelming for a FTW card.
 

Follow my oc guide and see what you can get. 
 
Checkout Slider6996's overclock after following my oc guide... https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2821843

Cool GTX
You are on the "Slave" BIOS ? it is more aggressive

Ah, I didn't realize there is a BIOS switch. Which position is the more aggressive or higher OC one? The one closer to the back of the card or the one closer to the output ports?

Sajin
Follow my oc guide and see what you can get. 
Checkout Slider6996's overclock after following my oc guide... https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2821843

Thanks for the guide. I will definitely check it out when I am back home next week. Is EVGA Precision XOC still broken and I will need to use MSI Afterburner?
 

HeavyHemi

LFaWolf
I recently purchased an EVGA 1080 ti FTW3 card. I have been busy working so I haven't had much chance to play with OC. My first attempt I got it to go at 2037 MHz constant using 110% power limit and running at 61C at 80% fan speed. Any higher speed Unigine crashed. I thought most Pascal 1080 ti cards can achieve this speed easily? My last cards, although they were 1080, hit 2088 MHz with 130% power limit at 74C before crashing. Did I only get an average or even a dud? Anyone has a FTW3 card that can achieve higher or lower speed?
 
I do have 4k monitor now but the games that I play are older games and I probably won't get the next gen. I am actually thinking of getting the extended warranty as I plan to keep the card long term, but I think the clock speed is bit underwhelming for a FTW card.
 

You really can't compare a 1080 to a 1080 Ti as far as clocks. They are an entirely different die.. 2037mhz for a 100% stable over clock is pretty good. A few get higher but from what I've seen that's a bit above average. It is what I set on for my 24/7 overclock (under-volting to 1.0V) even though I've run some benches as high as 2114, it's not 100% stable.  The GPU die on the FTW is the exact same DIE that is on the base FE mode or the KingPin. The differences are in power delivery, and BIOS tweaks. Pascal is really locked down. You might have the best results trying to find best clocks and voltages using the 'voltage curve' method. Anyway, half of the fun is in experimenting. You really cannot buy a better gaming GPU.

Hmm, I always thought GTX 1080 and 1080 ti share the same chip. Okay. Yes half the fun is actually tweaking it. I have more fun doing that than playing the actual games. 
 

Hello!
 
The guaranteed boost clock speed for the 1080 Ti FTW3 is 1683MHz. Anything lower than that, then we would be able to assist with an RMA for. Higher clock speeds (aside from factory base and boost clocks) cannot really be guaranteed due to the nature of minor variances in manufacturing.
 
Personally, I can reach about 2038 MHz on one of my FTW3 cards (the hotter of the two due to the constriction of airflow), and the other is happy to go to about 2060 MHz. Both are on air cooling for now. It's really just up to the silicon lottery, really. I've had to set my cards to 127% power target and 100% fans to really reach those speeds. I'm just going for benchmarking scores while doing this though. For normal day to day use, I just leave them at default  clock speeds. The minor increase in performance isn't worth the extra heat and noise to me.
 
That's just me and my personal experience.
 
-Jacob B.

FTW3 BIOS switch "slave" ---> closer to back of card

bryanwilson437
It might say "Normal" and "OC". Mine did.

Thanks, what clock do you get with your FTW3?

LFaWolf

bryanwilson437
It might say "Normal" and "OC". Mine did.

Thanks, what clock do you get with your FTW3?

I think the most I pushed it to was 2063 in benchmarks, but in games I ran it at 2025 max. Beyond that I'd experience random crashes in the games I played the most, overwatch and pubg, far too often for my liking. Mine was also watercooled.