Introduction

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Aorus Xtreme 8G
The GTX 1080 in a new style

We have a new GeForce GTX 1080 review ready, and not your usual one. Meet the all custom, cooled and tweaked Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 AORUS Xtreme Edition. We'll heck out the new 8 GB beast fitted with a massive and impressive three slot cooler, extra RGB LED functionality and sexy clock frequencies.

Last year the full range of Pascal based processors was released. Among them the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080. Both models honestly are equally impressive in its product positioning, though I do feel the 1070 will be the more attractive product due to its price level, but the 1080 cards really is what everybody want (but perhaps can't afford). The good news though is that the board partner cards offer SKUs for less opposed to the Nvidia reference / Founder edition cards. Obviously the higher-end all customized SKUs will likely level with that founders edition card price level again, but I am pretty certain you'd rather spend your money on a fully customized AIB card that is already factory tweaked a bit opposed the the reference one. 

So here is where Gigabyte kicks in, they launched a GTX 1080 under Aorus branding. You can look at AORUS as Gigabyte’s new premium brand much to what ROG is for ASUS. A product that has been totally revamped and designed all custom with a massive cooler, higher clock speeds and a backplate with a configurable RGB LED lit logo. Next to that Gigabyte now also invokes a 4 year warranty program if you register the product on their Aorus website, that is something really special to see these days. Interesting though is that this card has three DP, then three HDMI connectors and then one DVI connector, yet that's seven monitor connectors! Two of the HDMI connectors are located at the backside of the card vor VR related matters. The board is fed by two 8-pin power connectors. The GPU is clocked at an impressive 1.759 MHz with a 1.898 MHz boost at default clocks. The cooler, well lets just state that Gigabyte focused on that big-time. The GDDR5X memory has been tweaked as well as it is running 10.208 MHz (effective data-rate). The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Aorus Xtreme has a triple-slot design with triple-fan cooling solution! Embedded as well is some funky LED lighting system, everything about this product states premium really. And yeah, we have enough to talk about and to show!

But first let me allow you a sneek peek at da new mighty mo, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Aorus Xtreme 8G.