Nvidia’s Founders Edition card maintained a chilly 72 degrees Celsius under load, but EVGA’s card never topped an absolutely frigid 62 degrees even under extended duress.
It’s less useful (but still cool) if you aren’t into hardcore tinkering.īottom line, though? EVGA’s substantial custom cooling solution rocks when bolted onto the RTX 3070. If you’re overclocking the FTW3 Ultra to its limits in a bid to top competitive leaderboards, the iCX sensors are an invaluable resource. It remains a killer exclusive feature for graphics card nerds. EVGA introduced iCX technology in the GeForce GTX 1080 Superclocked 2 following a (mostly overblown) cooling controversy. The RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra packs not one, not two, but nine additional iCX3 sensors embedded throughout the card, letting you see temperature readings for different parts of your GPU, memory, and voltage regulation systems. Most GPUs only report singular measurements for GPU and maybe VRM temperatures. That fine-grained temperature control is a key selling point for EVGA’s graphics card. The FTW3 Ultra measures 11.8 inches long and 5.4 inches wide, and a chunky three slots thick. Modern Nvidia GPUs get faster when you feed them more power, and like EVGA’s other FTW3 options, the 11-percent power limit increase is probably higher than what you’ll see in most rival custom RTX 30-series GPUs.ĮVGA stuck with a gargantuan triple-slot cooler in its quest for overclocking supremacy.
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Overclockers can crank the power limit up another 11 percent (to 305W) in GPU software like’s EVGA’s stellar Precision X1. This custom card ships from the factory with a higher 275W power limit enabled. The dual-BIOS switch is to the left of the dual 8-pin power connectors.ĮVGA puts the power to good use. (There’s no need to fiddle with ugly 12-pin adapters like you do with Nvidia’s Founders Edition, however.) Brad Chacos/IDG In its quest for overclocking glory, the FTW3 Ultra bumps that up to a pair of 8-pin power connectors and recommends hooking the card up to a sturdier 650W power supply. Stock RTX 3070 cards draw 250 watts over a single 8-pin power connector, coming from a recommended 550W power supply. Just as important to the FTW3 Ultra’s mission is its increased power requirements. If you’re buying this card, though, you’re probably not planning to stick to stock speeds. It’s a small bump, but as you’ll see in our benchmarks section, it’s enough to move past the RTX 2080 Ti pretty much across the board-something that Nvidia’s Founders Edition couldn’t quite manage. That gives it an out-of-the-box boost in gaming frame rates. While the RTX 3070 reference specification hits a 1,725MHz boost clock, EVGA cranked the FTW3 Ultra up to 1,815MHz, a 90Hz increase. Most people will notice the increased clock speeds first. In Battlefield 4 the overclock got us a 13.EVGA changes only two key underlying technical specs with the RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra, with the rest of its rejiggering dedicated to the cooler design and extra features. Not a bad little performance gain that didn’t cost us anything and was done without altering the GPU voltages.
This is a 755 point increase in our overall 3DMark score, which represents a performance gain of 10.7 percent. This overclock meant that we were running at 1567.8 MHz at times thanks to NVIDIA Boost 2.0 on the core, which is one of the highest clocks we have gotten for the GM206 ‘Maxwell’ GPU on any GeForce GTX 950 or GeForce GTX 960 video card!ĮVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC 4GB Overclocked:īy overclocking the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC 4GB video card we were able to take the stock score of 7045 and raise it up to 7800. By using the EVGA Precision X utility to overclock the core of the GPU by 100MHz and memory by 300MHz we were running at 1379 MHz base clock (1442MHz boost) and the memory was at 2053MHz (8212 MHz effective). In case you forgot, the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC 4GB graphics card is already factory overclocked up to 1279 MHz base with a boost clock of 1342MHz and the 4GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1753MHz (7012 MHz effective). EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC 4GB Video Card Overclocking
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