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The GTX 1080 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, this card is set to run a 1,633 MHz base clock, which we agree is shy. Zotac would like to clock it higher, but the real problem here is that you connect this card towards your own liquid cooling loop, and Zotac doesn't how how good (or bad) it is, hence they apply a safe clock frequency. The reality is that this card hovers at the 1.90 ~1.95 GHz marker on the boost frequency pretty much all the time. Due to the massive cooling the many Nvidia limiters hardly kick in.

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. 

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.