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The card has been fitted with a binned (sorted) Nvidia 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. The cooler, with MaxContact technology, seems to be doing a good job in both cooling performance as well as its low noise-levels. The card remains passive, as up-to a GPU temperature of 55 Degrees C the fans do not even spin. The fans used are a new revision and should also offer a bit more airflow whilst protecting them from dust. 

 
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 actually have a base clock frequency of 1,607 MHz, this card is set to run a 1,696 MHz base clock. So this card is a good 89 MHz faster. The reality is that this card hovers at the ~1.925 GHz marker on the boost frequency pretty much all the time. Due to the massive and effective cooling, the many Nvidia limiters do not kick in (under normal conditions). 

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 a triple slot card, thus you'll need some room on your motherboard.
 

The card has a 180 Watt rated TDP, 75-150 Watts is delivered through the PCIe slot, then 1x150 and 1x75 Watts through the PEG (PCI Express Graphics) power connectors. So yes, you'll have spare for a nice overclock power wise, unfortunately, Nvidia limiters will prevent that.