Unfortunately we have not other high-end video cards like the Radeon Fury X or the GeForce GTX 980 Ti on the moment we tested the GTX 1080 to make a direct comparison. The GeForce GTX 1080 supports SLI technology, that combines the processing power of two or more identical video cards.įigure 1 shows the GeForce GTX 1080 FE video card.įigure 1: the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders EditionĪs the GeForce GTX 1080 can be found starting from USD 600, there is no direct competitor from AMD the most high-end video card based on AMD chips, like the Radeon Fury X, cost around USD 400. Just like its less expensive sisters, the GeForce GTX 1080 supports SMP (Simultaneous Multi-Projection) technology, which is useful for Virtual Reality applications, and the Ansel technology, which allows to capture an in-game high-resolution picture with any camera position and even 360 degrees.

Some custom models can, however, bring higher clocks (and prices).

USD 599 MSRP), even if the technical specs are, in theory, the same: 1,607 MHz clock base, 1,733 MHz turbo clock and 8 GiB of GDDR5X VRAM at 10 GHz with 256 bits bus, presenting a bandwidth of 320 GiB/s. Curiously, the “Founders Edition” is more expensive than the custom models (USD 699 vs. Video card manufacturers like ASUS, Gigabyte, Zotac, Galax, EVGA, etc, can offer custom models. We tested the GeForce GTX 1080 “Founders Edition”, which is the reference model offered by NVIDIA itself. This chip works with GDDR5 memory running at 8.0 GHz (on the GTX 1070) or with GDDR5X running at 10 GHz (on the GTX 1080), with 256-bit bus in both the cards. This is the same chip used on the GTX 1070, with the difference that on the GTX 1080 all the 2,560 cores are enabled, while on the GTX 1070 there are only 1,920 enabled cores. The GeForce GTX 1080 is based on the GP104 chip, manufactured under 16 nm technology. Later, they launched the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GiB (which we already tested), the TITAN X (the most high-end of the series), the GTX 1060 3 GiB, and finally the entry models GeForce GTX 1050 e GTX 1050 Ti, also already reviewed at Hardware Secrets. At first, were launched the GeForce GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070. The most recent generation of NVIDIA video cards, based Pascal architecture, was launched in May 2016. With 2,560 processing cores and 8 GiB of 10 GHZ GDDR5X video RAM, the GeForce GTX 1080 is the flagship of the Pascal NVIDIA video cards.

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