The official GeForce GTX 1080 of NVIDIA is faster than ever and if you are yearning for a third-party card that takes advantage of the premium graphics chipset, it appears that your long wait has just come to an end. Excitingly, the new roadmap gives a strong, nearly unofficially confirmed hint about the existence of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, which will be the third Pascal card from the company.
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Those now running GTX 980 Ti might not worry and should wait for the rumored GTX 1080 Ti, but those coming from GTX 970 will certainly feel the performance difference.
Powerful Custom GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 solutions shown off by NVIDIA partners at Computex. The card will be available later at a very high price compared to the Founders Edition.
We somehow failed to get a picture of it, but EVGA will be releasing a variety of case models in its DG based on a prototype it previewed at CES earlier this year as the DG series of enclosures. The Thermal Design Power of the card entails the use of only 150 watts of power required by the GTX 1070.
While hardware availability won’t be till June 10th, today the wrapper comes off all the evaluation of performance we are able to provide you on GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition.
“Featuring Aura RGB Lighting on both the shroud and backplate, ROG Strix graphics cards are capable of displaying millions of colors and six different effects for a personalized gaming system”, says Asus.
In any event, the GTX 1070 is technically close to the GTX 1080. The only downside really to GDDR5 versus GDDR5X is going to be potential for high frequencies like 10-11+GHz.
On the topic of memory bandwidth it should also be remembered that Pascal GPUs have had memory compression improved from Maxwell GPUs.
According to a report in Tech Times by Sumit Passary, “Nvidia unveiled the GeForce GTX 1080 gaming GPU in May and it has been applauded in the market”. The design is exactly the same as the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition. In the base of this heatsink are three copper heatpipes that carry away the heat.
Speed is not the only aspect of the graphics card that ASUS is upgrading.
You’ll also find the same single HDMI 2.0b connection, a single dual-link DVI-D connector, and three full-sized DisplayPorts that are DP 1.2 certified, but ready for DP 1.3 and 1.4. Underneath the cooler is a reference PCB which is powered by a single 8-Pin connector. Recommended power supply is 500 watts.
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As for the GeForce GGTX 1080, the standard edition now retails on NVIDIA’s online store for $699.
