The GeForce GTX 1080 HOF card sports a unique white/silver appearance in order to be fitted inside high-end gaming setups with a transparent side panel. It is equipped with a massive three slot cooling system which does integrate one back plate, one frontal plate, a big heatsink with no less than five heatpipes but also three 90mm silent fans. The back area of the PCB houses a row of blue LEDs which do stay on at all times, while the Hall of Fame logo area does come with RGB LED lighting, which is fully customizable thanks to the Xtreme Tuner Plus utility. Considering the weight of the card, KFA2 have even thought of including a FlexHold adapter, so the card won't bend during transport in order to cause damage to other components.

The card is not called HOF for nothing: it comes with a healthy overclock from the factory for the GPU and to be more exact 1734MHz, while the GDDR5X memory is kept at stock speeds. Cards of this type make you think that they are already functioning at their maximum potential, but with the KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 HOF it is not the case! By carefully overclocking both CPU and RAM, we ended up with a fully stable card at 1804MHz for the core, while the RAM did manifest correct operation till we have reached 1361MHz. Thanks to the new performance levels, the benchmark score has increased quite a bit:

Most of you will ask what is the real function of the button in the back of the card; well, we were told directly by the manufacturer that it is meant to increase the fan speeds at their maximum level but also optimize a bit the card voltages (there are no dual BIOSes involved). The voltage does not unlock in this mode to be raised further and we were not able to climb further in frequency while running this way.

The card runs flawlessly most of the titles at 4K resolution and some gamers won’t even feel the need of purchasing a second HOF 1080 to increase the performance even further.

Again, the card is marketed at as a VR Ready product; actually, this is the first video card we have tested to receive the maximum possible score in the SteamVR Performance Test, so no extra conclusion is needed:

We could remind only of two negative aspects regarding to this product: the sale price which makes it accessible only for the enthusiast, high-end segment but also the HyperBoost button on the I/O which does the installation process inside the chassis a bit difficult.

The card is branded in Europe as KFA2, the USA customers will be able to purchase the same hardware under the GALAX brand:

GALAX at US online store:

http://galaxstore.net/GALAX-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1080-HOF-8GB_p_39.html

KFA2 in Germany:

http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/8GB-KFA2-GeForce-GTX-1080-Hall-Of-Fame-Aktiv-PCIe-3-0-x16--Retail-_1110228.html

KFA2 in France:

http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Composants/Carte-Graphique/Carte-Graphique-NVIDIA/KFA2/4961171-KFA2-GeForce-GTX-1080-HOF-8-Go-DDR5X.htm

KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 HOF 8GB Video Card is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to KFA2 for making this review possible!