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Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium Review - Introduction

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/09/2017 09:16 AM [ 4] 8 comment(s)

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Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium 11 GB
Bigger, better, stronger, faster?

We review yet another flagship graphics card, the turn goes to Palit with their GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium edition. This GTX 1080 Ti comes customized with high-factory clocks, an all new quadruple fan cooler solution and sure, RGB LEDs. Not just that, the card comes with a dual-bios and an all custom 12-phase power design. 

It is among the fastest graphics card your money can get you, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti based on Pascal architecture. Armed with 11 GB of GDDR5X graphics memory and an all new GP102-350 GPU, we are certain we're gonna break some records today. It has been eight months since Nvidia released the first GP102 based product, the Titan X. To date, a hugely impressive graphics card that will resemble what we review today and very similar on a lot of levels. Really, the 1080 Ti is the Titan X, just with one GB of that GDDR5X memory less and the one ROP partition tied to it. So let me break it down swiftly and quickly; the new high-end GTX 1080 Ti features 3584 CUDA Cores, 224 Texture Units, a 352-bit memory controller and 11 GB of faster (11 Gbps) GDDR5X memory. The card has the same "GP102" GPU as the TITAN X Pascal, but the GTX 1080 Ti was slightly reconfigured. Most interesting is the 352-bit wide GDDR5X memory interface, this was not expected. This translates into 11 memory chips on the card which run at 11 GHz (GDDR5X-effective), the memory bandwidth is 484 GB/s. This invokes the change in ROP count to 88 (from 96 on the TITAN X Pascal), and the TMU count of 224. The Pascal based unit is a bit of a beast alright, the GPU die size is 471 sq mm. If you look at the wider product stack, then a GeForce GTX 1080 has 2,560 shader processors, the GeForce GTX 1070 has 1,920 shader processors, the GeForce GTX 1060 has 1,280 of them. The Nvidia GeForce 1080 Ti has 3,584 shader processors active inside that GP102 GPU, I say active here deliberately as it still isn't even a fully enabled GPU. This means it is has 28 SMs active (28 streaming multi-processors x 128 shader cores (2x64). The cards will be equipped with fast GDDR5X memory as well for this 11 GB model. That memory is tied to a 352-bit wide bus locked in at 11 GHz (GDDR5X-effective). The combination of that memory type and clock frequency gives the 1080 Ti an effective memory bandwidth of 484 GB/s. 

Palit is once again is back in the house to offer you a rather sizable card. The Gamerock edition is a three slot design and comes with all new "four fan TurboJet" design. Armed with subtle blue looks you will see a product today that has been overhauled and designed all custom with 12 power phases, that serious cooling system, factory tweaked clock speeds, backplate and sure, configurable RGB LED lit activities up top and at the frontside. This Pascal 102 GPU empowered product keeps that unit at, or just under, the 60 Degrees C marker depending on game load. The GameRock Premium 11 GB has three DP, then one HDMI connector and even a DVI connector. It comes factory overclocked for with pretty spicy clock frequencies. There are three performance modes, OC, Gaming and silent. Palit has the balls to do it, they deliver the card at default in OC mode, that's the fastest out of the box clock they offer.

  • Base clock: 1,595 MHz
  • Turbo clock: 1,709 MHz
  • Memory clock: 11,000 MHz effective data-rate
You will also notice a dual-bios, when powered off you can switch the bios and activate mode 2: a quiet mode BIOS that runs at 1,518 MHz. Still powerful but a notch more silent. The Gamerock will be powered by two 8-pin power connectors. Thanks to an intricate design the DVI port is still there as well, something the reference (FE) cards or cards with blower style coolers do not have. DVI is still in demand by many. If you combine the specs you will get a bit dizzy I guess, but considering we'll be looking at the product from a gaming point of view, I can say this card will run awesome in the Ultra HD domain with titles like GTA-V, Resident Evil 7, Battlefield 1 and many other hip 'n trendy game titles. Anyway, let's get this review started, we have a lot to talk about alright.
  
 
 



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