Product Showcase
Product Showcase
We'll start off this review with a photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.
So, the Strix is a more enthusiast class 1080 SKU that ASUS delivers. They completely overhauled the 1080, nothing = reference design as they merely use an official Pascal GPU.
The card has familiar looks and is based upon a nice matte black PCB. The card has two HDMI ports, for optimal HDMI VR support. A product that comes with one very fast graphics processor harbored on a nice matte black PCB, two power headers (one 6 and one 8-pin) for a little more overclocking headroom. Obviously, it's all RGB as well. Once this card powers up, two things will come to mind: great aesthetics and the sheer silence it offers. Very nice.
As board partners are allowed to release the 1080 model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions, mostly based on customized PCB/components and the obviously mandatory different cooling solutions.
- Boost: 1835 MHz / Base: 1696 MHz in Gaming mode
- Memory 1376 MHz = 11.008 MHz / Gbps effective data-rate
The card itself is wide, with a triple-slot heat-pipe based cooling solution. In low-load situations fans are not needed, thus up-to roughly 55~60 Degrees C, the fans won't spin, making this product hybrid in the sense that it cools both actively and passively. The RGB LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with ASUS Aura SYNC software. Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate present, thare are a few ventilation gaps though I'd like to see that improved (more gaps). At the backside you will see a LED activated ROG logo.
At the rear, you'll stumble into two extra fan headers that will spin attached fans at the graphics card's fan RPM.
The card has a power design of roughly 180 Watts, but due to the high clocks and extensive tweaking design please expect some more, we'll check into that with our power measurements. The GeForce GTX 1080 is DisplayPort 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). This model includes two DisplayPort connectors, two HDMI 2.0b connectors, and one dual-link DVI connector. The GTX 1080 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).