Product Showcase
Product Showcase
Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.
The product will start selling soon for roughly 849 euros under the KFA2 branding, and outside the EU under the GALAX label. You should be looking at or just over 799 USD. The card has very nice looks with that white HOF design, LCD screen (customizable btw) and LED lighting. The card is based upon a nice matte white PCB and gets 16 phases + 3 for memory - and uses three (!) power headers (8-pin) for a little more overclocking headroom.
As board partners are allowed to release the 1080 Ti model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions, mostly based on customized PCBs/components and the obviously mandatory different cooling solutions. The HOF Edition has nice clocks and a backplate, all quite impressive as well. The card has default OC mode clock frequency of 1683 MHz (boost) / 1569 (base) MHz with 11 GB GDDR5X / 11,008 MHz effective data-rate on the memory. That is a little more conservative compared to the other big gun brands. Still, any different is easily tweaked of course.
Looking at the rear side you'll see the HOF designed backplate. The backplate does have proper vents, well done KFA2/GALAX. The card itself is triple slot solution. With only 2-way SLI available these days, the size got less important we feel, so we are okay with that. The cooling system is based on a 3x fan system. In low-load situations the fans do not spin. Thus up-to roughly ~60 Degrees C the fans won't even spin. BTW the three power connector are LED activated, and they look brilliant when powered on.
Right, a white card in a white photo studio does not work. Black background it is from here on-wards. The card will offer five display connectors; you'll spot two DisplayPort connectors, two HDMI connector and a DVI connector. That does mean there is little ventilation available as rear exhaust. DisplayPort is 1.2 certified and DP 1.3/1.4 Ready, enabling support for 4K displays at 120Hz, 5K displays at 60Hz, and 8K displays at 60Hz (using two cables). The card includes three DisplayPort connectors, one HDMI 2.0b connector, and one dual-link DVI connector. Up to four display heads can be driven simultaneously from one card. The GTX 1080 Ti display pipeline supports HDR gaming, as well as video encoding and decoding. New to Pascal is HDR Video (4K@60 10/12b HEVC Decode), HDR Record/Stream (4K@60 10b HEVC Encode), and HDR Interface Support (DP 1.4). You can also see a button, that's for heavy duty overclocking, once pressed the fans kick into high RPM.
Here we have Molex to 8-pin power converters, nicely sleeved, these are included in the bundle.
Also included a mount, cards these days are heavy. This puts pressure on the PCI-Express slot. You can fix the card with the bracket, connect it to the graphics card and it will light up with the RGB coloring in sync as well. Simple, yet very nice.
Now, whenever a graphics manufacturer includes a free support bracket, I do get the urge and tendency to measure the actual weight. And yes, this puppy weighs in at 1.7kg.
