MSI debuts the world's first GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. The new GeForce GTX 1080 will feature NVIDIA's latest GPU architecture codenamed Pascal boasting a 16nm FinFET fabrication process.
The GeForce GTX 1080 (review here) is based on the GP104 GPU armed with 2560 CUDA cores and will have a base engine clock of 1607 MHz and can boost up 1733 MHz. Complementing it will be 8 GB of GDDR5X video memory running at an effective clock rate of 10 GHz on a 256-bit bus. A product that is to replace the GeForce GTX 980. This is the Founders Edition, the new naming for the reference model. A product that will sell for 699 USD in this Founders Edition guise, board partner designs however will start at 599 USD.