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. The GPU powering it all is called the GP102-350-A1 GPU, which is Pascal architecture based. It has a proper 3584 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 card clocks in at a default base clock of 1506 MHz and a 1620 MHz boost. 

The 1080 Ti has a 250 Watt TDP, 75 Watts is delivered through 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. That's plenty spare for a nice tweak but be aware that due to the clocks, the boost frequency actually hovers around the 1,9 GHz marker as it isn't hitting any limiters aside from the power limiter.

 
At default settings, overall you are looking at a card that consumes roughly 275 Watts under full load/stress. We'll check that out in more detail later on though. Above you can see, standard fittings are included. The liquid cooling block is doing a terrific job.

The card is not lengthy or thick, almost 8 inches in length which is 20 cm so it should only fit in decent size chassis. A 16 GPU + 2 mem phase power supply is responsible for supplying the GP102 GPU with power. The two additional power phases are dedicated to the board’s GDDR5X memory. 

 
Zotac kept the lighting system on this graphics card are very subtle, however, a bit of a nag is the ginormous Zotac logo, in your face all the time.  other than that, it is just looking fantastic.