[RELEASED] Nvidia Releases their new flagship cards GTX 1080 and GTX 1070

Nvidia launched their latest flagship Graphics card in 1000 series today. As per the leaks of the heat spreaders and the graphics card shroud were, which we covered before, the latest addition to the Green Team are The GTX 1080 and The GTX 1070 based on the new Pascal architecture. A per Nvidia GTX 1080 will be available for public worldwide on May 27th and GTX 1070 would be available on June 10th, that is in a month's time yes !

The new GTX 1080 is based on the FinFET architecture that provides massive increase in transistor density well maintaining the amazing performance per watt power usage.

Watch the official Video here :

Nvidia Announces GTX 1080 for $599 USD

The latest flagship addition and the next-generation Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 is the next chapter in high-end performance gaming graphics cards. Featuring the latest Pascal architecture designed by Nvidia, the GeForce GTX 1080 will allow gamers to play 4K and VR contents at a much improved Graphics Quality and FPS when compared to the current generation graphics cards.

The performance of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 is mindblowing ! Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun mentioned at the announcement that the GeForce GTX 1080 is not only faster than one GTX 980 but it also crushes away two GTX 980s in SLI setup ! 

Also when compared to the GrForce GTX Titan X, which is a 8 billion transistor and 3072 CUDA Cores with 12 GB GDDR5 memory monster, the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 is a whole lot faster ! Which means this new performance monster beats the crap out of GeForce GTX 980Ti and GeForce GTX Titan X at just 180W power consumption.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 features the GP104 GPU (GP104-400-A1) core which comprises of 2560 CUDA cores. NVIDIA’s FinFET architecture allows significant increase in clock frequency increase. The GeForce GTX 1080 was shown clocking in at 2.1 GHz clock speeds on air cooling. The actual clock speed are maintained at 1607 MHz base and 1733 MHz boost but the FinFET architecture allows for extreme overclocking as demoed at the event. The chip features 8 GB of next generation of GDDR5X memory featured across 256-bit bus and clocked at 10 GB/s. This leads to a total bandwidth of 320 GB/s.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 draws just 180W TDP powered by only a single 8-pin power connector, one of the most power efficient GPU architecture ever designed for enthusiast level gaming. The display output ports for the card includes Display Port 1.4, HDMI 2.0b and Duallink DVI which means that it is capable of support to all next-gen displays with new standards.

The GPU cooler was also seen as a symbol of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX products but NVIDIA had been running the same GPU cooler for years. Cards based on Kepler GPUs and even the latest Titan X used a slightly modified version. But after two generations of NVIDIA GeForce cards, NVIDIA has finally built the updated version of the NVTTM design that features a bold and aggressive look. 

Designed with the same magnesium alloy metal used on the original cooler, the GTX 1080 cooler design takes things ahead with better cooling and acoustics. This solution provides 67C temperatures in gaming at an insane clock speed of 2.1 GHz.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 launches on 27th May in both reference variants for $599 US and founders edition for $699 US. Expect custom models to be unveiled at Computex 2016 from various NVIDIA partners.

Author : Anushk Keshri Rastogi