Dream in innocent white: KFA2 / Galax GTX 1080 Ti Hall Of Fame (HOF) in review

So the appearance of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti HOF (Hall Of Fame) really has nothing to do with kleckern. There is already a really good knock ingonated in the packaging. Speaking of which, a block is also the card itself, because it is not only large,... The board at a glance Now let's look at the board. What is striking is the excess of coils, which are arranged together like a string of pearls. In terms of marketing, one writes about 16 phases for the GPU, which of course un... Benchmarks in 2560 x 1440 pixels We have deliberately dispensed with Full HD (1920 x 1080p) as the Galax/KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti HOF runs into the CPU limit even in the highest settings. In WQHD (2560 x 1440 pixels), on the other hand, the own... Benchmarks in 3840 x 2160 pixels The Galax/KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti HOF is available in this high resolution, depending on the game, between 9 and approx. 11 percent faster than a GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition or TitanX (Pascal). In total, many tit... IN power consumption, KFA2/Galax has chosen a golden middle ground. The set Power Target of 275 watts is of course fully exploited during gaming and stress testing. The increase in the afterburner to the real achievable maximum of approx. 350...Actually achievable clock rates The actual achievable clock is subject to some influences. Even if GPU quality plays a bigger role here - unfortunately it cannot be influenced as the only element. And so it is in the end well möglic... Summary Large, powerful, visually eye-catching, relatively quiet and cool, as well as really fast. The overclocking potential is not only present, but even quite neat. The power supply may please, even if things like the three 8-...

IN power consumption, KFA2/Galax has chosen a golden middle ground. The set Power Target of 275 watts is of course fully exploited during gaming and stress testing. The increase in the afterburner to the real achievable maximum of approx. 350 watts is then more than enough, as long as you haven't completely missed the GPU lottery.

The chip on the test sample is not a top class, but good enough to reach 1.05 V just under 1947 MHz – provided the card stays well below 50°C. Below 65°C you can still get 1936 MHz out-of-the-box with 1.05 V.

More about the gaming loop

Now let's look at the curve for the power consumption separately according to the individual supply rails (rails) in a higher resolution over the period of two minutes. Despite our intelligent low-pass filter, some spikes remain visible, which can then be used up to approx. 330 watts (without overclocking). On average, the map is only approx. 3 watts above the set power target of 275 watts.

For this purpose, the curves of the currents look identically hectic:

Torture test in detail

Since the load is more constant, the power consumption increases again somewhat as an average value, but the peaks are almost completely eliminated. We see very nicely where Boost is already starting to brutally throttle the power consumption and the card lands almost exactly on the Power Target at the average.

Again, analogously, only the view of the flowing currents:

Utilization of the motherboard slot

This point has been repeatedly demanded by readers since the launch of the Radeon RX 480 (also for Nvidia cards), so we will now include this point in every test. With the card tested today, however, the concern is unfounded, because the slot is used very moderately with just over 3 amps and offers any desired overclocking room.