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What are the best GTX 1080 cards for a small chassis?

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3 Options Considered

3 Options ConsideredPrice3DMark Score (Firestrike)FPS Total War: Warhammer (2560x1440)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
1937080avg
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0
1797985min, 90avg
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming
1778384min; 89avg
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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Well optimized

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NVIDIA properly optimized the GTX 1080 FE for DirectX. This means that games supporting DirectX 11 will see a slight performance boost, but more-so for the upcoming games using DirectX12.
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Epic 4K performance

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In benchmarks, the GTX 1080 FE (Founder's Edition) is a hair slower than two GTX 980 units in SLI configuration (the difference is 2% in 3DMark 11). In gaming tests, the GTX 1080 FE achieved 61fps average in Need For Speed 2016 on high settings at 4K resolution. For comparison, the AMD Radeon...
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Very power efficient

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While performance is higher than its competitors, the GTX 1080 FE actually uses less power. The maximum amount of power consumption this GPU requires is around 185 watts, which is an improvement of over 35% compared to NVIDIA's previous generation high-end graphical card, the GTX 980 Ti. This a...
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No native support for 3- and 4-way SLI

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SLI - short for Scalable Link Interface - is NVIDIA's technology of combining the power of two or more identical GPU's in order to reach a better performance. In other words, you can use multiple GTX 1080 videocards to further increase performance. Although the GTX 1080 supports 2-way SLI...
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Disappointing performance improvements when using Vulkan

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Vulkan is a graphical API that allows developers to communicate better with the GPU, which in theory should result to performance improvements compared to the more standard DirectX 12 or OpenGL API's. The GTX 1080 doesn't perform particularly better in Vulkan however, and the difference wi...
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EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0

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Compact

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With a length of 267mm and height of 128mm, the GTX 1080 FTW is one of the most compact 1080 cards available.
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Lots of headroom to overclock and tweak

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The FTW ACX 3.0 leaves a lot of room for tweaking. You can overclock for up to +147MHz Core and +176MHz Memory before starting to lose on either core or memory speed.
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Good value for money

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At $649, it's on the cheaper side as far as 1080 graphics cards go. While not really excelling at anything, it has no serious drawbacks either. Making it a good card for people who want a compromise between price and performance.
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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming

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Can easily fit in any chassis

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At roughly 28cm in length, it has a pretty compact body and can fit without any trouble in any decent chassis.
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Can trap heat

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The 1080 G1 Gaming has a metal back-plate which covers the back of the card. However, it does not have any ventilation gaps or holes. This can easily create issues with heat being trapped inside the card.

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