I have a 1080 FE and a 1080 Gaming.
The first one (FE) has an unique and small fan, which is *very* noisy when hashcat runs with -w3 during few time : this little fan rotates at bottom to try to refresh the card, looks like an airplane takes off.
The Gaming one a two large fans which don't need to rotates so much to refresh the card.
If you are performance driven and don't care about the noise => FE
If you sleep or work next to your server => Gaming Edition.
And if it helps, benchmarks of both :
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-5762.html
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-5601.html
The first one (FE) has an unique and small fan, which is *very* noisy when hashcat runs with -w3 during few time : this little fan rotates at bottom to try to refresh the card, looks like an airplane takes off.
The Gaming one a two large fans which don't need to rotates so much to refresh the card.
If you are performance driven and don't care about the noise => FE
If you sleep or work next to your server => Gaming Edition.
And if it helps, benchmarks of both :
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-5762.html
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-5601.html