Product Showcase

The STRIX takes advantage of Nvidia's new Pascal GPU based on 16 nm FinFet architecture, and with 7.2 billion transistors, 2,560 shader/stream cores, and 8 GB of GDDR5X, it’s a rather fast product. In Ultra HD it can advance up-to 25 to 40% in performance over the GeForce GTX 980 as we learned. It is a good amount faster compared to the 980 Ti and Titan X as well.

 
The GPU empowering the product is called the GP104-400 GPU, which is Pascal architecture based. It has 2,560 CUDA Cores, while texture filtering is performed by 160 texture units. The reference/founder cards have a base clock frequency of 1,607 MHz where ASUS clocks the base frequency 152 MHz higher at 1,759  MHz.

The card has a 180 Watt rated TDP, 75-150 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot, then 150 Watts through the 6- and 8-pin PEG (PCI Express graphics) power connectors. The GeForce GTX 1080 display engine is capable of supporting the latest high resolution displays, including 4K and 5K screens. And with HDMI 2.0 support, the GeForce GTX 1080 can be used by gamers who want to game on the newest state-of-the-art big screen TVs.  To the right you can see SMT traces for more power connectors, we think this PCB will be used for other model cards as well.

At the rear of the card you can see these pins right ? These actually are two fan headers. You could in theory connect two PWM fans to them, and once the GPU heats up, fan RPM goes up as well as the fans connected to them.