Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Mini Review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.
  

So, the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Mini is a compact  looking product. You will spot a nice dark PCB, this board has an 8-pin power connector for that little more tweaking headroom. The PCB is, as mentioned, matte black in color and of course the new cooler is being used. These cards will look just terrific in a compact dark themed PC. 

As board partners are allowed to release the 1080 model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions, mostly based on customized PCB/components and the obviously mandatory different cooling solutions. The card uses a 150 Watt 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) connector. Another 75 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot and thus motherboard. The heatsink is cooled by two fans – one 90mm, one 100mm. A bit of a let-down is the fact that these are not semi-passive, and will remain spinning at all times, a bit of a missed opportunity really. 

The card itself is a dual-slot solution but sticks to a very small 17cm PCB length, however the cooler makes this card 21cm in length which is more than I had hoped for considering these cards end up in small builds. The backside has a back-plate applied with plenty of ventilation gaps and meshes.

The GeForce GTX Series 10 (1050, 1060, 1070 and 1080) is DisplayPort 1.2 certified and DP 1.3/1.4 ready, enabling support for 4K displays at 120 Hz, 5K displays at 60 Hz, and 8K displays at 60 Hz (using two cables). HDMI 2.0 is supported so that you can drive Ultra HD monitors at 60 Hz (if compatible).