Published: March 2, 2017 | Source: ASUS | Author: Mark Campbell

ASUS announce their GTX 1080Ti Strix OC and Turbo series GPUs

ASUS has announced their new GTX 1080Ti Strix OC and Turbo series GPUs, both of which are set to replace the companies existing GTX 1080 GPU models to become ASUS’ flagship GPU models.

These two GPU will offer the full performance of Nvidia’s GTX 1080Ti, with the Strix OC model coming with an undisclosed factory overclock. Right now Nvidia states that the GTX 1080Ti offers 35% more performance than their GTX 1080, making these GPUs a significant upgrade, especially when gaming at 4K.

Both of these GPUs will come with 11GB of GDDR5X memory, operating at 11000MHz, giving these GPUs a total of 484GBPS of memory bandwidth, which is more than Nvidia’s Titan X Pascal. Below are the specification of Nvidia’s reference GTX 1080 Ti.

	GTX Titan X	GTX 1080 Ti	GTX 1080	GTX 1070	GTX 1060
GPU Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Process node	16nm	16nm	16nm	16nm	16nm
SM Units	56	56	40	30	20
Cores per SM	64	64	64	64	64
CUDA Core Count	3584	3584	2560	1920	1280
ROPs	96	88	64	64	32
VRAM Type	GDDR5X	GDDR5X	GDDR5X	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Clock	10008MHz	11008MHz	10008MHz	8008MHz	8008MHz
VRAM Cappacity	12GB	11GB	8GB	8GB	6GB
Memory Bus Size	384-bit	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	480 GB/s	484 GB/s	320 GB/s	256 GB/s	192 GB/s
Base clock speed	1417MHz	–	1607MHz	1506Mhz	1506MHz
Boost clock speed	1531MHz	1582MHz	1733MHz	1683MHz	1708MHz
TDP	250W	250W	180W	150W	120W
Power Connection	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin	1×8-pin	6-pin
PCI Express	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0

Looking at the available information on the GTX 1080 Ti Strix we can see that ASUS are opting for a larger/thicker cooler design, with the GPU having a 2.5-slot width rather than a 2-slot width like the GTX 1080 Strix, this should give the GPU a lot more surface area for heat dissipation, which should hopefully allow this GPU to remain cool and quiet under load.

The GTX 1080 Turbo will come with a reference-style cooler design that is similar to the GTX 1080Ti, likely coming with identical cooling potential and fan profiles.

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