EVGA 1080 FTW 2 vs Gainward 1080 Phoenix GLH

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For some reason, it's unbelievably hard to find benchmarks for Phoenix, but out of those i've found it seems it really is one of the best 1080s out there. At first, i wanted to buy the ftw2, but the Phoenix costs about the same in my country and by benchmarks, it gives about 1 FPS more (whoa, right?).
Anyway, i'll be using my new pc solely for gaming. Can anyone give me a hint as to which direction to go to, please?
 
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Verify that the FTW is one of the post **we fixed it** cards. Those that came off the production line early had a deficient design. EVGA provided various alternatives to address the issue from returning for a replacement to sending out thermal pad kids to address the "my card went on fire" issue. You an check the card status if you know the serial number

https://www.evga.com/thermalmod/

I'm not really in a position to offer much advice other than we have has the EVGA SC series on our "no buy" list since the 5xx series because of component and VRM / memory cooling concerns ... the card is basically a reference card with a better cooler and offers none of the PCB improvements offered by the competition. With the 10xx series, both...
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Verify that the FTW is one of the post **we fixed it** cards. Those that came off the production line early had a deficient design. EVGA provided various alternatives to address the issue from returning for a replacement to sending out thermal pad kids to address the "my card went on fire" issue. You an check the card status if you know the serial number

https://www.evga.com/thermalmod/

I'm not really in a position to offer much advice other than we have has the EVGA SC series on our "no buy" list since the 5xx series because of component and VRM / memory cooling concerns ... the card is basically a reference card with a better cooler and offers none of the PCB improvements offered by the competition. With the 10xx series, both the SC and FTW series were missing thermal cards, tho cards made since November 2016 do have them. Like you said, benchmarks on the Gainward card are hard to find but, more importantly to my view, no tear down articles are available detailing PCB components and cooling. MSI and Gigabyte seem more willing to send their cards out to sites that are going to do complete teardowns and they seem to consistently be at the top of the cards (along with Zotac). So, unlike EVGA, it's not that we have steered away from Gainward, it was just that we haven't been able to conform much. Here's some data ya might find useful

Card - OC Temp - Sound - OC'd fps - Watts

Gigabyte Aurorus Extreme - 73 - 31 - 167.4 - 243
MSI Gaming + - 67 - 29 - 166.4 - 234
Palit Game Rock Premium - 73 - 30 - 161.5 - 224
Asus Strix OC - 68 - 33 - 161.4 - 203
MSI Gaming - 74 - 31 - 159.9 - 217
Gigabyte G1 - 72 - 34 - 155.0 - 216
Reference - 83 - 37 - 154.9 - 184




 
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gainward cards test very well. cool, quiet and pretty fast out of the box. can't go wrong with one of those.

the FTW cards are solid as well but have had issues in the past, though they have been fixed are were not too big of an issue.

personally i'd go for whichever is cheaper and know they are both solid cards.
2 reviews for the gainward card.
http://us.hardware.info/product/351450/gainward-geforce-gtx-1080-phoenix-glh-8gb/testresults
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/gainward_gtx1070_gtx1080_glh_phoenix_review/1
 
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