Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course. Above packaging. 
  

The card is available at roughly 849 Euro/USD under the ArcticStorm branding. The card has very nice compact looks albeit having a rather too big logo on the front side (in my opinion). The card is based upon a nice matte dark PCB and uses two power headers (8-pin) for a little more overclocking headroom. We'll disassemble the card and look into the power stages in a few pages though.

As board partners are allowed to release the 1080 Ti model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions, mostly based on customized PCBs/components and the obviously mandatory different cooling solutions. The card has nice clocks and a backplate, all quite impressive as well. The card has default clock frequency of  1620 MHz (boost) / 1509 (base) MHz with 11 GB GDDR5X / 11,010 MHz effective data-rate on the memory.  That is only  a small notch more and a bit conservative compared to the other big gun brands. Still, any different is easily tweaked of course with liquid cooling, throttling and power-limiters hardly kick in bringing you some extra perf.

 
Looking at the rear side you'll see the smooth and meshed designed backplate. The backplate has proper vents, but with liquid cooling honestly, that is no big deal either way. The card itself is dual slot solution, but could easily be single slot with a 1-slot faceplate. On liquid cooling this card obviously is 100% passive and thus is in-audible with temps in the 35~50 Degrees C. The card is ~20cm in length. 

At top and front side you will see the standard size fittings for tubing. The card will offer five display connectors; you'll spot three DisplayPort connectors, one HDMI connector and a DVI connector.  DisplayPort is 1.2 certified and DP 1.3/1.4 Ready, enabling support for 4K displays at 120Hz, 5K displays at 60Hz, and 8K displays at 60Hz (using two cables). The GTX 1080 Ti display pipeline supports HDR gaming, as well as video encoding and decoding. New to Pascal is HDR Video (4K@60 10/12b HEVC Decode), HDR Record/Stream (4K@60 10b HEVC Encode), and HDR Interface Support (DP 1.4). 
 

We'll be connecting the card to a Zalman Reserator XT unit. It will provide more than enough cooling and will allow temperatures to hover in the ~40 Degrees C range with the GPU under flat-out stress/utilization.