thanks for yet another great product review Hilbert 🙂, had fun reading it comparing it AGAIN to my GPU 🤓 as I'm sure all of us must agree with Geryboy, the MSI wit it's 8+6 pins is on bar with the G1 8pins, guess all these power phase control are handicapping the AIB GTX 1080 OC wise. still can't wait for the Asus Strix Gaming Aura test results, hopefully Hilbert going to release those soon 🤓

This was the card I was planning on getting, since the last few G1's rocked. But doesn't seem much different. So I'm leaning towards an AIO (MSI SeaHawk or EVGA version). Hopefully reviews/availability are soon.

Nice review again Hilbert.Awesome looking card from Gigabyte.:)

well I guess it is offical, those power phases and extra pins don't relly do that much, on paar with the msi gaming.

yeah speed is about the same on both cards, but MSI has more efficient cooler. MSI GAMING X = 70C 39dBA Gigabyte G1 GAMING = 72C 41dBA

overclocking is rather poor with all gtx 1080 I guess. Boost 3.0 needs to be eliminated really.

Interesting, the card seems to be a bit hotter and louder than the MSI counterpart. Eager to see the STRIX review. Got any around there Hilbert? 😉

Interesting, the card seems to be a bit hotter and louder than the MSI counterpart. Eager to see the STRIX review. Got any around there Hilbert? 😉

i saw strix review on german website (forgot which one) and it doesn't look promising. it runs hot and loud. MSI is the best so far of all reviewed cards.

Interesting, the card seems to be a bit hotter and louder than the MSI counterpart. Eager to see the STRIX review. Got any around there Hilbert? 😉

Yes the STRIX is next in line. In fact I just seated it on the testbench :0 http://nl.guru3d.com/strix-1080.jpg

Hilbert, could you include max fan RPM either in the Afterburner graph or in the text in the future? It would make comparing stuff easier since % can mean anything. Great review as always!

Yes the STRIX is next in line. In fact I just seated it on the testbench :0

This is what I've been waiting for!

We review the all new Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 GAMING (SKU code: GV-N1080G1 Gaming-8GD). Fitted with a new and stylish RGB LED WindForce 3X cooler this card does not only have the looks to kill, i... Review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 GAMING

Hi, great review, as with the custom 1070 gtx review im missing the official TDP of the card, so we can see if its actually worth to buy the higher binned/priced cards or are all on the same TDP limit. I did see you wrote 108% Power limit on the OC page, but i wonder if more is not possible (on the tdp limit side) I think to know this is very useful with the new Pascal generation. Thanks

Lots of great GTX 1080's coming out but the shortage of these and the reference cards, sorry Founder's Editions, and the higher than expected prices here in the UK means that I am finding easier to resist buying one. Yes, these might be 20-40% faster than a stock GTX 980 Ti but that only means the inevitable 1080 Ti will be even faster and, thus, better value 6-9 months down the line, whenever it is released. At this point I am more excited about what is coming next. Just. Need. To. Hold. On. A bit longer...

Lots of great GTX 1080's coming out but the shortage of these and the reference cards, sorry Founder's Editions, and the higher than expected prices here in the UK means that I am finding easier to resist buying one. Yes, these might be 20-40% faster than a stock GTX 980 Ti but that only means the inevitable 1080 Ti will be even faster and, thus, better value 6-9 months down the line, whenever it is released. At this point I am more excited about what is coming next. Just. Need. To. Hold. On. A bit longer...

If there's one thing I've learned over the last two card gens it's those two things :P. If the Strix or HOF versions of the 1080 don't do better than this on the OC I don't think any variant will do more than slightly edge out the ref. card and have better temps. I wonder if anyone will be able to do much more on water.

Hi, great review, as with the custom 1070 gtx review im missing the official TDP of the card, so we can see if its actually worth to buy the higher binned/priced cards or are all on the same TDP limit. I did see you wrote 108% Power limit on the OC page, but i wonder if more is not possible (on the tdp limit side) I think to know this is very useful with the new Pascal generation. Thanks

You can repeat yourself over and over again, but we report what we measure and thus in fact is the TDP. All manufacturers will follow the Nvidia spec and say it's 180 Watts. But what we measure is in our view the actual TDP as listed in the chart. Overall we see 190'ish Watt under load on the 1080'ies.

Hilbert, could you include max fan RPM either in the Afterburner graph or in the text in the future? It would make comparing stuff easier since % can mean anything. Great review as always!

For the OC or generic ? I'll see if I can fit in the RPM plot into the AB screenshot. Update: done, will include actual RPM values in the upcoming reviews.

I like how this only has that single 8-pin power connector and the rest through PCIe. I'm all for less cables, coming from SLI... 🙂 OC looks good on this one, best out of what Hilbert tested so far. Likely silicon lottery though.

For the OC or generic ? I'll see if I can fit in the RPM plot into the AB screenshot. Update: done, will include actual RPM values in the upcoming reviews.

Thanks from me also Hilbert 🙂 That was the one thing missing from these recent reviews , a lot of people on the web really liked that your reviews were one ones to include the RPM screenshot , the RPM/TEMP connection can tell an awful lot about a card especially to people like me who like quiet and cool systems even when gaming. I personally bought the MSI 780 Gaming on the spot when i read your review and saw that the max RPM was 1132 even when the card was stressed.

well I guess it is offical, those power phases and extra pins don't relly do that much, on paar with the msi gaming.

I don't know , the power delivery and core clock certainly looks more stable on the MSI to me , the extra power and phases must be doing something 🙂 GIGABYTE g1 1080 http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=22615 MSI Gaming X 1080 http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=22289

Hi Hilbert, i have a question regarding the boost? Some sites, and users, are reporting that the the gpu only works (boosts) properly when the card is cold and that after 15 minutes or more, the card starts to trottle heavily and the boost almost disappears, becoming meaningless. Some sites are even starting to warn up cards for 30 minutes and then do the tests to make sure the boost doesn´t influence the results wrongly. And a few are starting to suggest (indirectly) that the boost is only intended to "cheat" on benchmarks, so the cards results are higher than they should. My question is if you have found any evidence that confirms or contradicts this issue??? Thanks!

So if you look at the temp values in the chart above your post you can see that indeed I perform a warm-up cycle. Thus far I have not been able seen active down-throttling on the boost values with long term usage. Typically imho that would/could happen with the founder editions as these cards have a temperature limiter set at roughly 80 degrees C, and it in fact that cooler reaches that number. At that moment the hardware will try and protect itself by lowering clock/voltage value to get closer to that 'safe' 80 degrees C again. The AIB card however all have cooling well below that thermal threshold of 80 degrees C, since these cards run say 10 degrees C lower, they will (should) not run into that issue. That boost clock will only go down if the graphics card measures a valid reason for it. But it is complicated with GPU Boost 3.0, I'll give you that. Nvidia has so many sensors up these days. In short - Thus far I have seen very little boost variation at the end of a two hour benchmark stretch. I am not saying it can't happen. But the chances with properly cooled AIB card pretty much should prohibit that behavior. Also and let me add this, you need to keep things in perspective. If the card did reach a thermal limit and adapts by downclocking 50 MHz on the boost clock ... honestly you are not going to notice it in performance. You need more orders of magnitude for that say 100~150 MHz would result into maybe a 2 FPS lower framerate on a 60 FPS average.