EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING Review: Dialing-In On Performance

Name: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, May 11, 2017, 12:00 PM EDT

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a sequel to the 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, which took protagonist Lara Croft back to her explorative “tomb raiding” roots in a deep origin story. The game, however, was updated and enhanced with new gameplay and combat mechanics. The game engine was updated as well, and offers DirectX 12 support, along with some stunning visuals. The benchmark outputs results from a number of maps; we’re reporting numbers from the “Geothermal Valley” here, along with the average score of all the maps. The game’s “Very High” graphics preset was used, and all graphics-related options were enabled.

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DirectX 12 Benchmarks

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The Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti continued its winning ways in Rise Of The Tomb Raider. It led the pack again here, though the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 hung in there right behind it and with better minimum frame rates.

The overall framerate averages tell the same story at both resolutions. The Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti put up the best scores of the bunch with the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 finishing just behind it.

Tags: Gaming, graphics, GPU, evga, (nasdaq:nvda), geforce gtx 1080 ti, icx

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com