ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Poseidon Review - Product Showcase

 
The 1080 Ti is based upon the GP102 graphics processor from Nvidia, it is a Pascal 16 nm FinFet architecture based GPU, and with 12 billion transistors, 3,584 shader/stream cores, and 11 GB of GDDR5X, it’s an impressive product series. In Ultra HD it can advance up-to becoming a true Ultra HD capable graphics card solution.
 

The GPU powering it all is called the GP102-350-A1 GPU, which is Pascal architecture based. It has a proper 3,584 CUDA cores, while texture filtering is performed by 224 texture units. The reference (Founder Edition) cards have a base clock frequency of 1,480 MHz and perform texture filtering at 332 Gigatexels/sec. This Poseidon clocks in at a default base clock of 1,594 MHz. 

The 1080 Ti has a 250 Watt TDP, 75 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot, but then 150+150 Watts through the 2x 8-pin PEG (PCI Express graphics) power connectors, that means a board power design of 375 Watts. And yes, it is a heavy bloke at well over one Kg. That's plenty spare for a nice tweak but be aware that due to the clocks, the boost frequency actually hovers around the 1,925 GHz marker as it isn't hitting any limiters aside from the power limiter.

At the top side of the PCB next to the power connectors you'll notice some SMT pins, you can monitor or hard volt the card mem/gpu/aux voltages.

At the rear you can connect an RGB LED strip and/or two fans that will spin along with the VGA card fans. This card on liquid cooling remains passive though, so that'll be a paradox to get past.