Palit GeForce GTX 1080 GameRock Premium Edition + G-Panel review

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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.

 

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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.

 

 

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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.
 
 

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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.


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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.

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