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Top-of-the-line: EVGA GTX 1080Ti 11G FTW3 GAMING iCX Technology
Mainstream: EVGA GTX1060 6G SC ACX 2.0
EVGA is the only American brand in the field of graphics cards, and it is also NVIDIA's top AIC, with materials, scale, workmanship, and frequency that are not inferior to first-tier manufacturers, stronger than many second-tier brands, and can be called quasi-first-tier, the graphics card itself is of good quality, has won 130 awards from the world's major professional media, and has created countless overclocking records.
EVGA graphics card has the largest share in the United States, and it can be called a first-tier brand, but the share and brand attention in the Chinese market are very average, far less than some second- and third-tier brands, the reason is very simple, EVGA did not enter the Chinese market until 2013, and the brand promotion has been relatively weak, wireless agents, only sold online on JD.com, and there is no down-to-earth name for the product in China, and the whole line of products are such as EVGA GTX 1080Ti 11G FTW3 GAMING ICX Technology, which makes it difficult for many old players to distinguish, let alone ordinary users, and it is reasonable that the domestic market share and attention are not high.
EVGA's product naming is not easy to understand, but the series positioning is relatively clear, from high to low, there are flagship-level Classified Kingpin ediTion, sub-flagship Classified/FTW series and mainstream SC series/REF series, but a significant difference between EVGA and other manufacturers is that the separation between series is not obvious, and the series positioning is more like a functional description, so the price gap between products with the same display chip is not large.
Kingpin EdiTion is EVGA's top-of-the-line series, with the best materials, a three-fan all-copper heatsink design, excellent temperature control, and MSI Lightning, ZOTAC GTX 1080Ti AMP Extreme, and Rainbow Nine Segment are known as the "Four Kings" of the graphics card industry. The sub-flagship is the Classified series, which is positioned lower than the Kingpin and slightly higher than the FTW series, and the default frequency is about the same as the FTW series, but the Classified power supply is better and the overclocking performance is better, but these two series are currently out of sale;
FTW is EVGA's non-public version of the graphics card series, through the non-public design and strengthened power supply, overclocking is more guaranteed, can ensure continuous operation at high frequencies, the current higher positioning of the Classified series and Kingpin are no longer for sale, FTW series has become the current series of EVGA with the highest positioning, the number behind FTW represents the product generation, generally the bigger the better; SC series is also more common, the full name is SuperClocked, the original factory overclocking, that is, the BIOS with preset high frequency, SC is generally translated as overclocking version, SC2 means with ICX fan function, positioning and price are higher; The REF series is the public version, the specifications and materials are similar to the public version, and the core frequency of the public graphics card is basically used, and the positioning is the lowest.
In addition to the series, there are a series of suffixes that are further subdivided, such as ICX Technology which indicates that it uses EVGA's latest generation of ICX cooling technology, ACX also represents heat dissipation technology, positioning is lower than ICX, and the larger the number in the back, the better, such as ACX 2.0 is better than ACX, and White LED RGB and the like are also literally easy to understand, indicating white light effects.
The EVGA GTX 1080Ti 11G FTW3 GAMING ICX Technology is the highest-positioned product in the 1080Ti chipset, using ICX cooling technology, 9 temperature sensors are added to the PCB surface, relying on these sensors, three fans can work independently, so it won the highest technology award in the GamersNexus review, and the 10 2-phase power supply is also a high-end level, and the price of 6299 yuan is GTX The 1080Ti is not high in this class, it is on par with the GIGABYTE Eagle and far lower than the MSI Red Dragon and ASUS Raptor series, but the EVGA wireless after-sales point can only be obtained at JD.com, which is relatively troublesome.
The mainstream EVGA GTX1060 6G SC ACX 2.0 is also quite cost-effective, and the price is even lower than that of its own lower-positioned EVGA GTX1060 6G REF ACX 2.0, and the performance is not inferior to the graphics cards of first-tier manufacturers, but the price is 100-700 yuan lower, which is very suitable for users who value cost performance and practicality, but this product is a single fan for heat dissipation, and there is no backplate, giving people a sense of cheapness in appearance.
