Product Showcase
The GTX 1080 GameRock Premium Editiontakes 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 where Palit clocks the base frequency 139 MHz higher at 1,746 MHz. There is more going on though, the memory has a substantial tweak and we also noticed the highest boost frequency of all cards, at default it will reach close to 2 GHz.
The founders card has a 180 Watt rated TDP, the GeForce GTX 1080 GameRock Premium Edition is advertised at 200 Watts, we measured I think it was 199 Watts so that was pretty spot on. 75 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot, then 75+150 Watts through the 6- and 8-pin PEG (PCI Express graphics) power connectors. The GeForce GTX 1080 display engine is capable of supporting the latest high resolution displays, including 4K and 5K screens.
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. As you can see it's a rather sizable cooler alright, it shows in noise levels though as this card is downright silent.
We received the Palit GTX 1080 GameRock Premium Edition + G-Panel SKU, so we'll talk a little more about that in a page or two as well. A pretty funky external or internal (5.25") box that can be used to monitor the graphics card.