Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 AORUS Xtreme review

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The card takes advantage of Nvidia's 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. GIGABYTE offers a triple slot triple fan 100mm solution, extra plating cools all key components of the graphics card including VRAM and MOSFET zones, to ensure a stable overclock operation and longer life. And just look at it, that's beautiful.


 

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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, this card is set to run a 1759 MHz base clock. The reality is that this card hovers at the 1.95 ~2.00 GHz marker on the boost frequency pretty much all the time. Due to the massive cooling the many Nvidia limiters hardly kick in. 

 

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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. Again this is triple slots, thus you'll need some room on your motherboard.


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The card has a 180 Watt rated TDP, 75-150 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot, then 2x 150 Watts through the 8-pin PEG (PCI Express graphics) power connectors. So yes, you'll have spare for a nice overclock power wise, unfortunately Nvidia limiters will prevent that. And yes, here a bit of a larger photo to show how immensely big this card really is with it's three slot cooling design.

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