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Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo OC 8G is a Founders Edition card dressed up in fancy clothes

By Koh Wanzi - on 6 Oct 2016, 10:54am

Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo OC 8G is a Founders Edition card dressed up in fancy clothes

Image Source: Gigabyte

When it comes to custom cards, the operative word is choice. This means offering a particular card in every conceivable flavor to cater to as wide a range of preferences as possible. To that end, Gigabyte has announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo OC 8G, its latest GP104-based card that features a blower-style cooler similar to that on NVIDIA’s Founders Edition model.

The Gigabyte card is also clocked slightly higher than the Founders Edition model and can go up to a 1,657MHz base clock and 1,797MHz boost clock in OC mode. The new card supports one-click overclocking via Gigabyte’s Xtreme engine utility as well, allowing you to quickly ramp up to OC mode when needed.

That said, the card’s cooler is its strongest differentiating point. The blower-style fan sucks air into the card and exhausts it out of the back, which means hot air will not get dumped back into the case as on open-air coolers. This helps keep ambient temperatures in the chassis down, an especially important point in more compact cases.

The three 6mm copper heatpipes are also of the direct contact variety, which supposedly helps channel heat away more effectively. In addition, a separate aluminum plate helps draw heat from the memory and VRM components.

Another thing to note is that the card runs with just one 8-pin PCIe connector, instead of the one 8-pin and one 6-pin configuration that many other cards have gone with.

Overall, the GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo OC 8G looks primed to be a relatively affordable and quiet proposition. Gigabyte hasn’t offered any details on price or availability yet, but we wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be its cheapest GeForce GTX 1080 to date.

Source: Gigabyte

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